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Oct 22, 2020
Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: neuroscience, singularity
Circa 2013
A far-flung team is trying to build the first digital lifeform to work out the basic principles of the brain.
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Oct 22, 2020
Million-core neuromorphic supercomputer could simulate an entire mouse brain
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing
Circa 2018
After 12 years of work, researchers at the University of Manchester in England have completed construction of a “SpiNNaker” (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) supercomputer. It can simulate the internal workings of up to a billion neurons through a whopping one million processing units.
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Creating believable characters using high-quality character shader techniques, data scans of Actors, and improved geometry workflow.
Oct 22, 2020
Thin-film battery breaks energy storage record
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
Careful manufacturing yields a lithium-ion battery for compact medical devices by.
Katherine Bourzac
Oct 22, 2020
How to Measure the Speed of Light With a Bar of Chocolate and Your Microwave
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: food
Sometimes science is super simple—and super tasty. A classic science experiment demonstrating how to use your microwave and a bar of chocolate to measure the speed of light is making the rounds, with easy-to-follow instructions for replicating the test at home.
🔬 You love badass science experiments. So do we. Let’s play around together.
Oct 22, 2020
FDA approves Gilead’s remdesivir as coronavirus treatment
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, has previously said the drug would set “a new standard of care” for Covid-19 patients.
Oct 22, 2020
New MIT algorithm automatically deciphers lost languages
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: information science, robotics/AI
An MIT CSAIL AI system that can automatically decipher extinct languages offers hope of preserving a wealth of historical heritage.
Oct 22, 2020
AL_A reveals plans for world’s first magnetised fusion power plant
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: nuclear energy
Amanda Levete’s firm AL_A is partnering with Canadian energy company General Fusion to design a pioneering power plant that will use nuclear fusion.
The prototype plant will act as a demonstration facility for the technology, which uses hydrogen as fuel, with onsite facilities for experts and the general public to visit.
“General Fusion wants to transform how the world is energised by replicating the process that powers the sun and the stars,” said AL_A.
Oct 22, 2020
Frozen humans brought back to life | 60 Minutes Australia
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, cryonics, life extension
Though its a bit old, and sometimes innacurate or snarky in narration, it’s still the most detailed depiction of the cryonics process — the procedure itself on a real person, the person preserved before dying and her family as they decide to do this, deal with her death, and reflect on it after she’s preserved. It’s quite emotional and sometimes graphic, but well worth watching. Will it work? Maybe. But if you are NOT preserved there is NO chance at all. From your perspective it’d be like waking up right after dying in some distant future without feeling like any time passed at all.
That sounds a hell of a lot more appealing and likely than a bearded man on a fluffy cloud winking at me after I die.
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