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Jan 25, 2018

Noumena’s Robotic Habitats Questions The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

Posted by in categories: habitats, mapping, robotics/AI, space

for the 2017 tallinn architecture biennale, noumena has presented its installation based on the future of robots and its adaptability with the environment. deep learning has paved the way for machines to expand beyond narrow capabilities to soon achieving human-level performance on intellectual tasks. however, as artificial intelligence — A.I. — establishes its place within humans, society will need to develop a framework for both to thrive. a new form of artificial life will emerge, finding space at the peripheries of humanity in order to not compete for human-dominated resources. A.I. will attempt to improve its operating surroundings to not just survive but be self-sustaining, forming the basis of a civilization constrained at the intersection of nature and technology.


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barcelonian based practice noumena has developed a framework to build this narrative based on the cross disciplinary intersection of computational design, mechanical and electronic design, rapid prototyping interaction and mapping. nowadays, computing tools as well as rapid prototyping machines allow to have a quick practical feedback on design solutions and to iterate experimenting different possibility at the same time giving the chance to choose and custom a functional part.

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Jan 25, 2018

DARPA Wants to Build an Image Search Engine out of DNA

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

And your photos could end up in its database.

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Jan 25, 2018

Behind the simulations imagining the nuclear apocalypse

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, finance

Security experts say more of these hands-on demonstrations are needed to get an industry traditionally focused on physical protection to think more creatively about growing cyber threats. The extent to which their advice is heeded will determine how prepared nuclear facilities are for the next attack.

“Unless we start to think more creatively, more inclusively, and have cross-functional thinking going into this, we’re going to stay with a very old-fashioned [security] model which I think is potentially vulnerable,” said Roger Howsley, executive director of the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS).

The stakes are high for this multibillion-dollar sector: a cyberattack combined with a physical one could, in theory, lead to the release of radiation or the theft of fissile material. However remote the possibility, the nuclear industry doesn’t have the luxury of banking on probabilities. And even a minor attack on a plant’s IT systems could further erode public confidence in nuclear power. It is this cruelly small room for error that motivates some in the industry to imagine what, until fairly recently, was unimaginable.

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Jan 25, 2018

Solowheel

Posted by in category: futurism

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Jan 25, 2018

E-ink display dress

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Jan 24, 2018

Scientists Just Cloned Monkeys. Humans Could Be Next

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Since the birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996, scientists across the globe have used the same technique to clone nearly two dozen other animal species, including cats, dogs, rats, and cattle. Primates, however, had proven resistant to the process — until now.

In a new study published in Cell, a team of Chinese researchers led by Qiang Sun at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai reveal that they’ve found a way to tweak the Dolly cloning technique to make it work in primates. Their efforts have resulted in the birth of two cloned female macaques: Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.

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Jan 24, 2018

IBand+: This device lets you control your dreams

Posted by in category: futurism

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Jan 24, 2018

Self-driving delivery robot carries packages

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Now you can have items delivered to you wherever you are.

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Jan 24, 2018

Finland is designing the perfect school

Posted by in category: education

These lessons have no boundaries.

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Jan 24, 2018

GM Plans To Release Cars With No Steering Wheel In 2019

Posted by in category: transportation

This new car model has no steering wheel or pedals.

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