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Feb 11, 2020

Engineers Just Built an Impressively Stable Quantum Silicon Chip From Artificial Atoms

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Newly created artificial atoms on a silicon chip could become the new basis for quantum computing.

Engineers in Australia have found a way to make these artificial atoms more stable, which in turn could produce more consistent quantum bits, or qubits — the basic units of information in a quantum system.

The research builds on previous work by the team, wherein they produced the very first qubits on a silicon chip, which could process information with over 99 percent accuracy. Now, they have found a way to minimise the error rate caused by imperfections in the silicon.

Feb 11, 2020

lIllI Humanoid

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Our first Humanoid on! 🙌🏼

Thanks to @personalroboticsEU, lIllI (said leelee) is an open-source, fully mobile and freely programmable robot framework. The best thing is that you can develop this project with your computer, Arduino, Raspberry Pi or any of the countless mini computers on the market.

Feb 11, 2020

Via Virtual Reality, Mother Encounters Deceased Daughter: Science Fiction in the News

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transhumanism, virtual reality

Via Virtual Reality, Mother Encounters Deceased Daughter ‘But that barrier was going to melt away someday soon. The transhumanists had promised…’ — Stephen Baxter, 2008.

BabyX AI Real Enough For You ‘…what’s to keep me from showing face, Man? I’m showing a voice this instant… I can show a face the same way.’ — Robert Heinlein, 1966.

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Feb 11, 2020

The greatest long-term threats facing humanity

Posted by in categories: alien life, futurism

This approach can be described as “physical eschatology” – a term coined by the astronomer Martin Rees for using astrophysics to model where the Universe is going. Rees took a cue from theology, in which “eschatology” is the study of ultimate things such as the end of the world. And the classic paper on the topic is Freeman Dyson’s 1979 paper on life in open universes, which outlined likely or possible existential catastrophes that could threaten life far into the future, from the death of the Sun to the detachment of stars from galaxies.


How long can civilisation survive? To thrive for billions of years, there will be a few troublesome problems to solve – from the death of the Sun to the decay of matter.

Feb 10, 2020

Call of Duty Black Ops 5 release update as Modern Warfare steals 2020 limelight

Posted by in category: military

THE Call of Duty Black Ops 5 release date is expected to be announced in the coming months by Activision, but it doesn’t appear that it will be stealing the limelight from Modern Warfare.

Feb 10, 2020

Cruise Ship’s Coronavirus Outbreak Leaves Crew Nowhere to Hide

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

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Cases of the new virus on the quarantined Diamond Princess reached 135 Monday, including 20 Americans. Conditions below decks could risk further spread.

Feb 10, 2020

Voyager 2 Engineers Working to Restore Normal Operations

Posted by in category: futurism

The spacecraft’s science instruments were turned off by a fault protection routine, which allows the spacecraft to automatically take actions to protect itself.

Feb 10, 2020

US Air Force Scraps Major Hypersonic Weapon Program Amid Budget Squeeze

Posted by in category: military

The Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) program has been killed by the US Air Force as the service looks to make budget cuts in the area of hypersonic prototyping in the coming year.

Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek revealed Monday that budget pressure, rather than performance, influenced the service’s decision to abandon its HCSW program and continue its development of the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) — its other hypersonic weapon program.

“We will continue to work collaboratively with our sister services to see how we can most effectively leverage each other’s capabilities, ensuring the most prudent use of taxpayer dollars,” she said in a statement emailed to Defense News on February 10.

Feb 10, 2020

Halo Infinite’s New Game Engine Lays The Groundwork For Future Halo

Posted by in categories: entertainment, futurism

Halo Infinite is coming this year as a launch title for Xbox Series X.

Feb 10, 2020

Researchers use models and experiments to guide and harness transition waves in multi-stable mechanical structures

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

If you’ve ever opened an umbrella or set up a folding chair, you’ve used a deployable structure—an object that can transition from a compact state to an expanded one. You’ve probably noticed that such structures usually require rather complicated locking mechanisms to hold them in place. And, if you’ve ever tried to open an umbrella in the wind or fold a particularly persnickety folding chair, you know that today’s deployable structures aren’t always reliable or autonomous.

Now, a team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have harnessed the to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.

The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).