The Dominican Republic was home to the first black people in the Americas. So why has Europe’s oldest permanent settlement in the Americas turned its back on its African past?
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Nov 18, 2020
How SpaceX Starlink broadband will envelop Earth and transform the sky
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites
Elon Musk wants to connect all corners of the planet via space, but his thousands of orbiting routers may pose a risk to satellites and to science.
Nov 18, 2020
Physicists discover the ‘Kings and Queens of Quantumness’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: mathematics, quantum physics
Extreme quantum states.
A new mathematical framework helps physicists define the degree of quantumness of a system.
Nov 18, 2020
Majority of APAC firms pay up in ransomware attacks
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cybercrime/malcode
Despite expert advice against paying up, most victims of ransomware attacks in the region, including 88% in Australia and 78% in Singapore, have paid the ransom in full or in part, and the number of such attacks is only going to keep climbing amidst accelerated digital transformation efforts and remote work.
Nov 18, 2020
IBM is Giving Out $800 Worth of Data Science and AI Courses For Free
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, science
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” — Benjamin Franklin
On November 24th, IBM is running a free, online Data & AI Conference for India and the Asia Pacific region, covering four tracks:
Nov 18, 2020
Expect the Unexpected: Frontiers of Mathematics, Computation, Systems and Design
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: government, mathematics, robotics/AI, security, surveillance
AI designed to be aware of it’s own competence.
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Jiangying Zhou, DARPA program manager in the Defense Sciences Office, USA.
Nov 17, 2020
Robotic dogs to start patrolling Florida military base
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI, surveillance
Fido, meet F1d0.
Newly developed robotic K9s will soon be prowling Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida, to enhance security and surveillance patrolling, WMBB-TV reported Monday.
The 325th Security Forces Squadron, which handles security for the base, said the robo-dogs are weatherproof, four-legged, unmanned patrolling drones that have two-way communication abilities and high-tech sensors that cost about $100,000 a pop, the outlet reported.
Nov 17, 2020
Iconic Boston Dynamics Robots Seek Stable Employment
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Boston Dynamics getting dumped again. The dog robot was ideal as a replacement for guard dogs, someone else is already filling that void. The Atlas robot no where near ready for market. Probably down hill from here.
A sale to Hyundai could hasten the company’s shift from research to commercialization.
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Nov 17, 2020
Quantum tunneling pushes the limits of self-powered sensors
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: energy, quantum physics
Shantanu Chakrabartty’s laboratory has been working to create sensors that can run on the least amount of energy. His lab has been so successful at building smaller and more efficient sensors, that they’ve run into a roadblock in the form of a fundamental law of physics.
Sometimes, however, when you hit what appears to be an impenetrable roadblock, you just have to turn to quantum physics and tunnel through it. That’s what Chakrabartty and other researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis did.
The development of these self-powered quantum sensors from the lab of Chakrabartty, the Clifford W. Murphy Professor in the Preston M. Green Department of Systems & Electrical Engineering, was published online Oct. 28 in the journal Nature Communications.
Nov 17, 2020
With 11 Million Cases in the U.S., the Coronavirus Has Gotten Personal for Most People
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, health
What was once a health crisis that Americans feared has evolved into one virtually everyone has experienced up close. That will affect behavior, but in many different ways.
