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Feb 14, 2018

World’s Largest Plane Could Give Elon Musk The Space Race He’s Craving

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space, sustainability, transportation

Image: Stratolaunch Billionaires are taking to space the way wistful young men take to the sea in 19th Century novels. Last week, Elon Musk launched his Tesla Roadster at the astroid belt using the world’s most powerful rocket currently in operation. Not to be outdone, Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen also has a big plan (and a big plane) for going to space. In December of last year, the Stratolaunch performed its first taxi at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, CA. While that doesn’t seem terribly exciting, it’s the first step to getting the Stratolaunch, the world’s largest plane eve…

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Feb 14, 2018

TVs are about to get bigger. Way bigger

Posted by in category: electronics

Images and screen sizes are increasing in size every year. Here’s what that looks like.

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Feb 14, 2018

Super Sensitive Sensor Sees What You Can’t

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics

Engineers at Dartmouth College have developed a computer chip that can detect a single particle of light. Cameras with the chip would have visual abilities even a superhero would envy.

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Feb 14, 2018

Future of Intelligence (Ray Kurzweil)

Posted by in categories: engineering, neuroscience, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI

MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence class takes an engineering approach to exploring possible research paths toward building human-level intelligence. The lectures introduce our current understanding of computational intelligence and ways in which strong AI could possibly be achieved, with insights from deep learning, reinforcement learning, computational neuroscience, robotics, cognitive modeling, psychology, and more.

Lex Fridman

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Feb 14, 2018

Trump’s Science Advisor, Age 31, Has a Political Science Degree

Posted by in categories: policy, science

The dumbing down of society starts.


Because Trump has not nominated someone to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael Kratsios is the de facto leader.

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Feb 14, 2018

Crypto Cash: The 4 Best Bitcoin Wallets for New Traders

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies

New to the wide world of cryptocurrency? Keep your coins safe and access your private keys the smart way with these Bitcoin wallets.

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Feb 14, 2018

India’s commitment to science begins to pay off

Posted by in categories: government, science

To achieve this, the government is hoping to find more scientists like Koul, who sees his role as an “opportunity to address bigger social as well as scientific challenges”.

This is a tall order, and there’s an elephant in the room. Government funding for Indian research and development has stagnated at around 0.85% of gross domestic product for more than a decade, compared with at least 3% invested by technologically advanced nations such as Denmark, Japan and Sweden.


A push to reverse its brain drain is providing the expertise to tackle its domestic problems.

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Feb 14, 2018

Virgin Galactic partners with Microsoft Edge to create an immersive web experience for aspiring astronauts

Posted by in categories: business, space travel

Divya Kumar is on the Microsoft Edge team; Tom Westray is on the Virgin Galactic team.

We’ve all stared into the depths of the night sky, identified far off planets, and the Milky Way; but only fewer than 600 people have traveled above and beyond Earth’s atmosphere and into space. At Virgin Galactic, our rocket scientists, engineers and designers from around the world are united in creating something new and lasting that could change that – the world’s first commercial spaceflights for private astronauts and science research. We’re on the edge of a golden age of space exploration, which has the potential to transform our business and personal lives in ways we can only yet imagine.

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Feb 13, 2018

Decentralized Digital Identities and Blockchain – The Future as We See It

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, food, neuroscience, security

Howdy folks.

I hope you’ll find today’s post as interesting as I do. It’s a bit of brain candy and outlines an exciting vision for the future of digital identities.

Over the last 12 months we’ve invested in incubating a set of ideas for using Blockchain (and other distributed ledger technologies) to create new types of digital identities, identities designed from the ground up to enhance personal privacy, security and control. We’re pretty excited by what we’ve learned and by the new partnerships we’ve formed in the process. Today we’re taking the opportunity to share our thinking and direction with you. This blog is part of a series and follows on Peggy Johnson’s blog post announcing that Microsoft has joined the ID2020 initiative. If you haven’t already Peggy’s post, I would recommend reading it first.

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Feb 13, 2018

Yellowstone ERUPTION: Supervolcano under ‘STRAIN’ — experts find magma chamber pressure

Posted by in category: futurism

YELLOWSTONE is “under strain” according to a group of seismologists who are monitoring the potentially catastrophic volcano, prompting fears an eruption is imminent.

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