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Apr 20, 2018

A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, military, robotics/AI

That raises significant issues for universities and governments. They also need A.I. expertise, both to teach the next generation of researchers and to put these technologies into practice in everything from the military to drug discovery. But they could never match the salaries being paid in the private sector.


Tax forms filed by OpenAI provide insight into the enormous salaries and bonuses paid to artificial intelligence specialists across the world.

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Apr 20, 2018

Weekend Asteroid Flyby Confirms We’re Worrying About the Wrong Space Rocks

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

This asteroid flyby was so close it was about halfway between the Earth and Moon. How’d we miss THAT? #SCINow


An asteroid approximately the size of a football field flew close by Earth only a day after it was first spotted this weekend. This near miss is a perfect example of an argument I’ve been making for some time: These are the asteroids we should worry about, not the so-called potentially hazardous rocks being tracked by NASA and periodically hyped by panicked headlines.

NASA scientists first observed the asteroid, now called 2018 GE3, on April 14, according to a database. It ventured as close as halfway the distance between Earth and the Moon, and was estimated to be between 47 meter and 100 meters in diameter (~150 and 330 feet). This is smaller than the asteroids governed by the NASA goal, which is to track 90 percent of near-Earth objects larger than 150 meters (~460 feet) in diameter. Nevertheless, it still could have caused a lot of damage if it had hit Earth.

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Apr 19, 2018

PERFECT Official Trailer (2018) Abbie Cornish Sci-Fi Movie HD

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics

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A young man with a violent past enters a mysterious clinic where the patients wildly transform their bodies and minds using genetic engineering.

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Apr 19, 2018

The US Military Will Award $10 million to the Company That Can Launch Satellites on Short Notice

Posted by in categories: military, satellites

I guess the anti satellite missiles and lasers are a real threat now.


The Air Force is desperate to replace larger satellites that are vulnerable to attack, and fast.

US military leaders are bullish about small satellites as tools to spy on adversaries and provide secure communications, but there’s just one problem: There isn’t a good way to get them into space, on demand.

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Apr 19, 2018

Flexible Ultrasound Patch Could Make it Easier to Inspect Damage in Odd-Shaped Structures

Posted by in category: futurism

Flexible devices are definitely coming of age.


Flexible devices are coming of age and this flexible ultrasound patch could just prove to be extremely useful for damage inspection at odd places.

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Apr 19, 2018

The First Black Hole Close-Up

Posted by in category: cosmology

An Earth-sized telescope will capture the unseeable.

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Apr 19, 2018

This amateur mathematician just made an enormous “lucky” breakthrough in solving the 60-year-old Hadwiger-Nelson problem

Posted by in category: innovation

The breakthrough is the first time the problem’s answer has been narrowed down since last century.

Science.

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Apr 19, 2018

Health Pod Gives You a Check Up Without a Doctor

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

This health pod could replace your yearly check up.

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Apr 19, 2018

UK satellite makes HD movies of Earth

Posted by in categories: entertainment, space travel

The Carbonite-2 spacecraft can resolve moving cars, lorries, boats and planes from a height of 505km.

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Apr 19, 2018

Bolt Threads Debuts New ‘Leather’ Made From Mushroom Roots

Posted by in categories: innovation, materials

The materials innovation startup known for its synthetic spider sillk is rolling out a second bio-material, a leather made from mycelium that can be grown in a small space with a much lower environmental impact than raising cattle.

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