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Dec 5, 2019
Ransomware attack hits major US data center provider
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: cybercrime/malcode
Dec 5, 2019
BREAKING: Bomb Squad Investigating Report of a Possible Small Nuclear Reactor Inside a Garage in Columbus, Ohio
Posted by Tracy R. Atkins in categories: nuclear energy, quantum physics
Ok… which one of y’all is this?
UPDATE 3: The man reportedly told bomb squad that he sustained “radio frequency burns” while working on a “quantum physics generator” in his garage, according to Battalion Chief Steve Martin, the Columbus Division of Fire spokesman, speaking to the Columbus Dispatch.
“We have no reason to believe that he was trying to make anything that would do anyone any harm,” Martin added.
Dec 5, 2019
Fusion: Nuclear physics usually involves high energies, as illustrated by experiments to master controlled nuclear fusion
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: nuclear energy, particle physics
One of the problems is how to overcome the strong electrical repulsion between atomic nuclei which requires high energies to make them fuse. But fusion could be initiated at lower energies with electromagnetic fields that are generated, for example, by state-of-the-art free electron lasers emitting X-ray light. Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) describe how this could be done in the journal Physical Review C.
During nuclear fusion two atomic nuclei fuse into one new nucleus. In the lab this can be done by particle accelerators, when researchers use fusion reactions to create fast free neutrons for other experiments. On a much larger scale, the idea is to implement controlled fusion of light nuclei to generate power—with the sun acting as the model: its energy is the product of a series of fusion reactions that take place in its interior.
For many years, scientists have been working on strategies for generating power from fusion energy. “On the one hand we are looking at a practically limitless source of power. On the other hand, there are all the many technological hurdles that we want to help surmount through our work,” says Professor Ralf Schützhold, Director of the Department of Theoretical Physics at HZDR, describing the motivation for his research.
Dec 5, 2019
Exercise makes you happier than money, Yale and Oxford research says
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: health, neuroscience
Yale and Oxford researchers say exercise is more important to your mental health than your economic status.
Dec 5, 2019
The Future of GPS Is Taking Shape Inside These Locked Rooms
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: military, mobile phones, satellites
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. — It’s not easy to get into the GPS room. A security cocoon typical of U.S. military installations protects Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado, but the windowless home of the 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2SOPS) lies within the base’s “restricted access area.” A gatehouse, extra vehicle barriers, armed guards, monitored communication channels, and a total ban on smartphones stand between the outside world and the place where the U.S. Air Force operates the GPS satellite constellation.
Inside you’ll find a hallway lined with keypad-controlled doors. Behind each is a room with 10-person teams who fly satellites. The rooms are staffed around the clock. The 2SOP squadron not only runs the constellation that provides global navigation and precise time data to civilian and military users.
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Dec 5, 2019
DeepMind co-founder moves to Google as the AI lab positions itself for the future
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: law, policy, robotics/AI
The personnel changes at Alphabet continue, this time with Mustafa Suleyman — one of the three co-founders of the company’s influential AI lab DeepMind — moving to Google.
Suleyman announced the news on Twitter, saying that after a “wonderful decade” at DeepMind, he would be joining Google to work with the company’s head of AI Jeff Dean and its chief legal officer Kent Walker. The exact details of Suleyman’s new role are unclear but a representative for the company told The Verge it would involve work on AI policy.
The move is notable, though, as it was reported earlier this year that Suleyman had been placed on leave from DeepMind. (DeepMind disputed these reports, saying it was a mutual decision intended to give Suleyman “time out … after 10 hectic years.”) Some speculated that Suleyman’s move was the fallout of reported tensions between DeepMind and Google, as the former struggled to commercialize its technology.
Dec 5, 2019
Does Natural Law Need Elegant Mathematics?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Dec 5, 2019
Developing Deep Aging Biomarkers Using Artificial Intelligence
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, robotics/AI
A type of artificial intelligence technique is now being used to develop new drugs and therapies and could perhaps even help to solve aging.
An urgent need for aging biomarkers
There has long been an urgent need in our field to develop increasingly accurate biomarkers of aging so that the efficacy of interventions can be gauged. Deep learning is one of the more recent techniques being applied in the search for aging biomarkers.
Dec 5, 2019
Is 70 the new 65? Studies show aging has changed
Posted by Paul Battista in category: life extension
Life expectancy rose, and so did the number of years we spend without serious health problems, researchers say.