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Aug 14, 2019
The HumanCar — The Gadget Show #FuelFriday
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: futurism, transportation
Polly takes a trip to Oregon USA to meet up with Charles Greenwood and take a spin in his human powered car.
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Aug 14, 2019
Breakthrough in understanding of magnetic monopoles could signal new technologies
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
A breakthrough in understanding how the quasi-particles known as magnetic monopoles behave could lead to the development of new technologies to replace electric charges.
Researchers at the University of Kent applied a combination of quantum and classic physics to investigate how magnetic atoms interact with each other to form composite objects known as ‘magnetic monopoles’.
Basing the study on materials known as Spin Ices, the team showed how the ‘hop’ of a monopole from one site in the crystal lattice of Spin Ice to the next can be achieved by flipping the direction of a single magnetic atom.
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Aug 14, 2019
Using Genetic Genealogy To Identify Unknown Crime Victims, Sometimes Decades Later
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
DNA combined with the study of family history has been used to solve high-profile cold cases such as the Golden State Killer. Now, volunteers are using the technique to identify crime victims.
Aug 14, 2019
Amazon’s facial recognition software can now spot fear
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
Amazon’s controversial facial recognition technology, called Rekognition, has a new skill. It can now spot fear. The company says it recently launched updates to Rekognition’s facial analysis features, including improved age estimation and the addition of fear to its emotion detection.
“We have improved accuracy for emotion detection (for all 7 emotions: ‘Happy,’ ‘Sad,’ ‘Angry,’ ‘Surprised,’ ‘Disgusted,’ ‘Calm’ and ‘Confused’) and added a new emotion: ‘Fear,’” according to an update from Amazon on Monday. “Lastly, we have improved age range estimation accuracy; you also get narrower age ranges across most age groups.”
Aug 14, 2019
A machine-learning revolution
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI
The groundwork for machine learning was laid down in the middle of last century. But increasingly powerful computers – harnessed to algorithms refined over the past decade – are driving an explosion of applications in everything from medical physics to materials, as Marric Stephens discovers.
Aug 14, 2019
Future Bioweapons Could Kill People With Specific DNA
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks, genetics, robotics/AI
In the future, we may have to deal with biological weapons that target specific groups of people, passing over everyone else.
That’s according to a new report out of Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk reviewed by The Telegraph. In it, the Cambridge researchers argue that world governments have failed to prepare for futuristic weapons based on advanced technology like artificial intelligence and genetic manipulation — or even a killer pathogen designed to kill only people of a particular race.
Aug 14, 2019
Light can scatter from light, CERN physicists confirm
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: innovation, physics
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has spotted multiple surges of methane in Mars’ air over the past few years — most recently in June, when levels of the gas inside the Red Planet’s Gale Crater spiked to 21 parts per billion per unit volume (ppbv).