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Feb 24, 2019

NASA greenlights SpaceX crew capsule test to ISS

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

NASA on Friday gave SpaceX the green light to test a new crew capsule by first sending an unmanned craft with a life-sized mannequin to the International Space Station.

“We’re go for launch, we’re go for docking,” said William Gerstenmaier, the associate administrator with NASA Human Exploration and Operations.

A Falcon 9 rocket from the private US-based SpaceX is scheduled to lift off, weather permitting, on March 2 to take the Crew Dragon test capsule to the ISS.

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Feb 24, 2019

A quantum magnet with a topological twist

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Taking their name from an intricate Japanese basket pattern, kagome magnets are thought to have electronic properties that could be valuable for future quantum devices and applications. Theories predict that some electrons in these materials have exotic, so-called topological behaviors and others behave somewhat like graphene, another material prized for its potential for new types of electronics.

Now, an international team led by researchers at Princeton University has observed that some of the in these magnets behave collectively, like an almost infinitely massive electron that is strangely magnetic, rather than like individual particles. The study was published in the journal Nature Physics this week.

The team also showed that placing the kagome magnet in a causes the direction of magnetism to reverse. This “negative magnetism” is akin to having a compass that points south instead of north, or a refrigerator magnet that suddenly refuses to stick.

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Feb 24, 2019

Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone is a thinner 5G rival to the Galaxy Fold

Posted by in categories: internet, mobile phones, space

A foldable that folds without a gap.

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Feb 24, 2019

Anti-vaxx propaganda has gone viral on Facebook. Pinterest has a cure

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

Since my previous post about Youtube and anti-vaccination was such a hit, here’s now Pinterest handles it. They broke their own search engine to keep these things from getting passed around. They also blocked the ability to pin links or images from any number of pseudoscience websites such as Mercola, Natural News, GreedMedInfo, and HealthNutNews.

They also did this to their hash-tag library to keep people from finding workarounds.


O n Wednesday morning, Adam Schiff, the powerful chair of the House intelligence committee, joined journalists around the world in a nascent Twitter meme: he searched “vaccine” on Facebook and posted a screenshot of the results.

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Feb 24, 2019

Click and share your thoughts!

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

How will AI finish the unfinished work of Schubert’s famous Symphony No. 8?

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Feb 24, 2019

Maryland Transhumanist Party

Posted by in categories: geopolitics, transhumanism

“A staging ground for planning the Maryland Transhumanist Party.

.” ~ Dan Elton


Email Forms.

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Feb 24, 2019

Doubling Our DNA Building Blocks Could Lead to New Life Forms

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

That’s why Ellington sees a more immediate use for the technology in the up-and-coming field of DNA data storage. Large tech firms and startups alike are evaluating whether nucleotides can beat out silicon when it comes to long-term, archival information storage. DNA is notoriously data-dense, and the arrival of hachimoji just doubled its information-carrying capacity.


But first, chemists hope to improve DNA data storage and churn out new medical compounds.

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Feb 23, 2019

Family hosts stem cell donor drive at Surrey gurdwara for relative’s second time battling cancer

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Focus of the drive is to increase number of South Asian donors.

The senior girls team will be heading to the provincials for the first time in the school’s history.

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Feb 23, 2019

Should Robots Have License to Kill

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence experts, ethicists and diplomats debated autonomous weapons. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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Think killer robots. What comes to mind? Maybe…this guy?

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Feb 23, 2019

Meet WFIRST, The Space Telescope with the Power of 100 Hubbles

Posted by in category: space

WFIRST ain’t your grandma’s space telescope. Despite having the same size mirror as the surprisingly reliable Hubble Space Telescope, clocking in at 2.4 meters across, this puppy will pack a punch with a gigantic 300 megapixel camera, enabling it to snap a single image with an area a hundred times greater than the Hubble.

With that fantastic camera and the addition of one of the most sensitive coronagraphs ever made – letting it block out distant starlight on a star-by-star basis – this next-generation telescope will uncover some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos.

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