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Sep 22, 2019

With Food Security Becoming One Of Our Biggest Challenges For Humankind’s Survival, What’s On The Menu For The 9 Billion People Inhabiting The World By 2050?

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biological, climatology, security

Food security is one of the biggest challenges we’re facing as we move further into this century. Changing climate, pests, stress on water and land are all limiting our ability to produce sufficient amounts of food. making food production an issue.

Synthetic biology offers ways to help produce and supply enough safe and nutritious food sustainably for the estimated 9 billion people that will inhabit the planet by 2050.

Here are a few ways how.

Sep 22, 2019

Would you recognise a gradual-onset heart attack?

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

We think of an attack as a ‘big bang’, but the symptoms can build over hours or days – and even doctors can misinterpret them.

Sep 22, 2019

The Rise Of Solar Power

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Solar power is on the rise. You can see the evidence on rooftops and in the desert, where utility-scale solar plants are popping up. The picture is not all rosy, but if the recent past is any indication, solar power is going to help lead the transition to a carbon-free future, and it might do it faster than we all expected.

Elon Musk and Tesla promised solar roof tiles in 2016, but the industry might not need an upgrade as its grown significantly with the solar panels currently available. You can see the evidence both on individual rooftops and in the utility-scale solar plants increasingly popping up in deserts across the country. In the United States, of all about 30% of the new power capacity added to the grid in 2018 was from solar.

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Sep 22, 2019

Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

Posted by in categories: government, solar power, sustainability

(Bloomberg) — For years, wind and solar power were derided as boondoggles. They were too expensive, the argument went, to build without government handouts.

Today, renewable energy is so cheap that the handouts they once needed are disappearing.

On sun-drenched fields across Spain and Italy, developers are building solar farms without subsidies or tax-breaks, betting they can profit without them. In China, the government plans to stop financially supporting new wind farms. And in the U.S., developers are signing shorter sales contracts, opting to depend on competitive markets for revenue once the agreements expire.

Sep 22, 2019

New AI program better at detecting depressive language in social media

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A new technology using artificial intelligence detects depressive language in social media posts more accurately than current systems and uses less data to do it.

The technology, which was presented during the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, is the first of its kind to show that, to more accurately detect depressive language, small, high-quality data sets can be applied to deep learning, a commonly used AI approach that is typically data intensive.

Previous psycholinguistic research has shown that the words we use in interaction with others on a daily basis are a good indicator of our mental and emotional state.

Sep 22, 2019

Lagging in semiconductors, China sees a chance to overtake the US with AI chips as 5G ushers in new era

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI

This is the final part in a series of in-depth articles examining China’s efforts to build a stronger domestic semiconductor industry amid rising trade tensions.


Some in China see custom AI chips, which can offer superior performance to conventional integrated circuits even when manufactured using older processes, as helping the country loosen its dependence on the US in core technology.

Sep 22, 2019

Details of the Pentagon New Space Architecture Revealed

Posted by in category: futurism

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Sep 22, 2019

Google Claims ‘Quantum Supremacy,’ Marking a Major Milestone in Computing

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

In a new scientific paper, Google researchers claim for the first time to have demonstrated “quantum supremacy,” where a quantum computer outperforms a traditional one.

Sep 21, 2019

Full body deepfakes are the next step in AI-based human mimicry

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

This developing branch of synthetic media technology has commercial applications—but also has the potential to disrupt elections and spread disinformation.

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Sep 21, 2019

Everything we know about Neom, a ‘mega-city’ project in Saudi Arabia with plans for flying cars and robot dinosaurs

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Saudi Arabia has called its giga-project Neom, a new city 33 times the size of New York City, “the world’s most ambitious project” — and it sounds it.