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Jan 6, 2020

The Surprising Possibility That There are Still Active Volcanoes on Venus

Posted by in category: space

Despite the similarities our world has with Venus, there is still much don’t know about Earth’s “Sister planet” and how it came to be. Thanks to its super-dense and hazy atmosphere, there are still unresolved questions about the planet’s geological history. For example, despite the fact that Venus’ surface is dominated by volcanic features, scientists have remained uncertain whether or not the planet is still volcanically active today.

While the planet is known to have been volcanically active as recent as 2.5 million years ago, no concrete evidence has been found that there are still volcanic eruptions on Venus’ surface. However, new research led by the USRA’s Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) has shown that Venus may still have active volcanoes, making it the only other planet in the Solar System (other than Earth) that is still volcanically active today.

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Jan 6, 2020

Firefly Aerospace Preps for Debut Flight of Its Alpha Rocket in April

Posted by in category: space travel

The first launch of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket has pushed to April 2020 as the company prepares for a very busy year.

Jan 6, 2020

Ten tech predictions for the decade ahead

Posted by in category: mobile phones

The last 10 years have seen a lot change in the world of technology — but what will the next decade bring us?

A decade ago the hottest smartphone on the market was the iPhone 3GS — a phone with a miniscule 3.5” display and a far cry from the 6.5” screen available on the iPhone XS today.

Speakers have got bigger too, now coming packed with integrated circuits allowing us to do our shopping from our living rooms just by talking.

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.