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Jan 6, 2020

What will happen to cryptocurrency in the 2020s?

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies

Crypto in the 2020s: scalable and private blockchains, barbell adoption, crypto as a core part of tech, and adoption by institutions and governments.

Jan 6, 2020

The U.S Space Force will support a SpaceX mission for the first time

Posted by in category: satellites

Image Source: SpaceX

SpaceX’s first mission of 2020 will deploy Starlink satellites on Monday, January 6 –It will mark the first official launch supported by the new United States Space Force. A Falcon 9 rocket will lift off at 9:20 p.m. EST from Pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX conducted a static-fire test yesterday to prepare the rocket for the Starlink-2 mission.

Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched a Starlink mission, the Iridium-8 mission, and the Telstar 18 VANTAGE mission pic.twitter.com/QdailzdG4o— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 4, 2020

Jan 6, 2020

[1911.06378] Information Theoretic Bounds on Cosmic String Detection in CMB Maps with Noise

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

We use a convolutional neural network (CNN) to study cosmic string detection in cosmic microwave background (CMB) flat sky maps with Nambu-Goto strings. On noiseless maps we can measure string tensions down to order $10^{-9}$, however when noise is included we are unable to measure string tensions below.

$10^{-7}$. Motivated by this impasse, we derive an information theoretic bound on the detection of the cosmic string tension $Gμ$ from CMB maps. In particular we bound the information entropy of the posterior distribution of.

$Gμ$ in terms of the resolution, noise level and total survey area of the CMB.

Jan 6, 2020

Google and Amazon are now in the oil business

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are teaming up with Big Oil to squeeze more oil and gas out of the ground using machine learning technology.

Sources:
Brian Merchant (Gizmodo) https://gizmodo.com/how-google-microsoft-and-big-tech-are-au…1832790799
Christopher M. Matthews (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-courts-a-wary-oil-patch-1532424600
Matt Novak (Gizmodo) https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/article-from-1975-the-world-…1732903871
Kasia Tokarska
Daniel Civitarese
Ghassan AlRegib — https://ghassanalregib.info/

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Jan 5, 2020

Nearly 500,000,000 animals have been killed in Australia’s wildfires

Posted by in category: futurism

Experts believe entire species may have been wiped out in the bushfires that have been raging since September.

Jan 5, 2020

Mysterious Respiratory Virus Strikes 44 People in China

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

People have speculated that the viral infection may be a highly contagious disease called SARS.

Jan 5, 2020

New Particle Accelerator Fits on a Silicon Chip

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics

The device uses lasers to accelerate electrons along an etched channel.

Jan 5, 2020

Israeli treatment could delay deadly effects of ALS – new study

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Specifically, AstroRx is a cell therapy product containing functional healthy astrocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells that aim to protect diseased motor neurons. The cells are injected in the patient through the spinal canal.

The company initiated its first ALS clinical trials in March 2018.

Prof. Michel Revel, founder and CEO of the company and winner of both the EMET Prize and the Israel Prize, said that the clinical trial results “provide the confidence needed to move forward” with cohorts B and C, which he said both “hold the potential for a prolonged response.”

Jan 5, 2020

This Robot’s Journey to an Icy Alien Moon Starts Beneath Antarctica

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

NASA scientists completed field tests in November of a floating rover they hope will one day travel to Europa, the frozen ocean moon of Jupiter.

Jan 5, 2020

Why Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Is The A.I. Of The Future

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

At the start of a new decade, one of IBM’s top researchers thinks artificial intelligence needs to change. Welcome to the world of neuro-symbolic A.I., a fresh approach that could keep advances coming for long into the 2020s. Here’s how it works — and why it could be so important.