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Aug 22, 2019

Amazon, Microsoft, ‘putting world at risk of killer AI’: study

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI

Washington (AFP) — Amazon, Microsoft and Intel are among leading tech companies putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to a report that surveyed major players from the sector about their stance on lethal autonomous weapons.

Dutch NGO Pax ranked 50 companies by three criteria: whether they were developing technology that could be relevant to deadly AI, whether they were working on related military projects, and if they had committed to abstaining from contributing in the future.

“Why are companies like Microsoft and Amazon not denying that they’re currently developing these highly controversial weapons, which could decide to kill people without direct human involvement?” said Frank Slijper, lead author of the report published this week.

Aug 22, 2019

Quantum computers to become portable

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, transportation

Together with the University of Innsbruck, the ETH Zurich and Interactive Fully Electrical Vehicles SRL, Infineon Austria is researching specific questions on the commercial use of quantum computers. With new innovations in design and manufacturing, the partners from universities and industry want to develop affordable components for quantum computers.

Aug 22, 2019

New Research Could Lead to Smartwatches with Holographic Displays

Posted by in category: holograms

Hologram messaging is a sci-fi staple that has captured people’s collective imaginations for years.


The new finding could lead to technology straight out of sci-fi.

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Aug 22, 2019

China Has Unveiled an AI Judge that Will ‘Help’ With Court Proceedings

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Judges are far from being infallible. For example, in psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking Fast and Slow, it was shown that there is a correlation between the leniency of a judge in court, and how recently they had eaten lunch.

Is there a way to get around this problem? According to China and Estonia, AI should be the judge — literally.

RELATED: A NEW AI TOOL CAN HELP US FIGHT AI-WRITTEN FAKE NEWS AND REVIEWS

Aug 22, 2019

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Photo

Posted by in category: futurism

⏪🕰 2009 – Using a new modeling program, Lab researchers predict the collision between the defunct Russian Cosmos 2251 and privately-owned American Iridium 33 satellite months before it happened.


Learn more 🛰→ https://str.llnl.gov/content/pages/past-issues-pdfs/2009.07.pdf

Aug 22, 2019

Sea Machines Robotics to demonstrate autonomous spill response

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

BOSTON — Sea Machines Robotics Inc. this week said it has entered into a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration to demonstrate the ability of its autonomous technology in increasing the safety, response time and productivity of marine oil-spill response operations.

Sea Machines was founded in 2015 and claimed to be “the leader in pioneering autonomous control and advanced perception systems for the marine industries.” The company builds software and systems to increase the safety, efficiency, and performance of ships, workboats, and commercial vessels worldwide.

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Aug 22, 2019

Frontiers eBooks published in July 2019

Posted by in categories: life extension, neuroscience

Fronteirs offers open access. If you want to read full publications this is the place to do so. #enjoy


Download this month’s new releases including the latest research collections on Tinnitus, Brain Aging, Arboviral Infections, and many more! All eBooks are free to download, share and distribute.

Shape the future of your field — and publish your own eBook — by editing an article collection around your research area. Learn more about Research Topics or submit your suggestion to [email protected]

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Aug 22, 2019

Forget About Electrons And Protons; The Unstable Muon Could Be The Future Of Particle Physics

Posted by in categories: futurism, particle physics

The particle tracks emanating from a high energy collision at the LHC in 2014 show the creation of many new particles. It’s only because of the high-energy nature of this collision that new masses can be created.

Aug 22, 2019

Revealing the molecular engine that drives pancreatic cancer provides ways to turn it off

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, materials

Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have decoded a chain of molecules that are critical for the growth and survival of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)—the most common and also the most lethal form of pancreatic cancer.

They say their findings, published in Developmental Cell, suggest that inhibiting this “Yap” biological network may effectively regress early stage PDAC and could be paired with other drugs to halt more advanced stage tumors. Yap inhibitors have been developed and are moving into .

Their study builds upon Georgetown Lombardi research that previously identified Yap as an oncogene central to the initiation of PDAC as well as a variety of other cancers. In the current study employing advanced animal models, they have managed to switch off Yap in pre-established PDAC tumors, and discovered that suppressing Yap blocks the metabolic pathways that provide the fuel and building materials for maintaining the growth of the cancer.

Aug 22, 2019

Living Smart: The City of the Future

Posted by in category: futurism

In the coming decades, the planet’s most heavily concentrated populations may occupy city environments where a digital blanket of sensors, devices, and cloud connected data are orchestrated to enhance humanity’s living experience. A variety of smart concepts are forming key elements of what enable city ecosystems to function effectively – from traffic control and environmental protection to the management of energy, sanitation, healthcare, security, and buildings. In this article, we reflect on the potential personal impacts of the smart city, and its technologies, on the individuals residing there.

Eyes on the Prize

In the race to attract ideas, business, talent and money, the world’s premier cities are competing to build highly interconnected smart environments where people, government, and business operate in symbiosis with spectacular, exponentially improving technologies. These include big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, hyperconnectivity, artificial intelligence (AI), robots, drones, autonomous green vehicles, 3D/4D printing, and renewable energy. The trick will be to ensure that this array of technological goodies is harnessed in service of the humans that make cities what they are.

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