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Dec 16, 2018
Bitcoin Miners Dying, Another Sign Of The Crypto-Currency Crash
Posted by Michael Dodd in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, finance
It is an eye opening video. In the financial climate we are now I am not shocked that these Miners are losing based on costs.
I wrote an article on the Wave Chronicle regarding the Crypto-Currency Crash and some of the changes that could be made to make this particular market effective for those who actually want to use Crypto-Currency as a vehicle for purchasing.
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Dec 16, 2018
DARPA head on AI dangers: ‘It’s not one of those things that keeps me up at night’
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: military, robotics/AI
“At least in the Defense Department today, we don’t see machines doing anything by themselves,” he said, noting that agency researchers are intensely focused on building “human-machine” partnerships. “I think we’re a long way off from a generalized AI, even in the third wave in what we’re pursuing.”
Artificial intelligence does not yet pose a serious threat to humans, according to the head of the Defense Advanced Research Agency. Though the military is rushing to improve its AI capabilities, DARPA Director Dr. Steven H. Walker said AI remains “a very fragile capability.”
Dec 15, 2018
Scientists crack the CRISPR code for precise human genome editing
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: biotech/medical
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered a set of simple rules that determine the precision of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in human cells. These rules, published in Molecular Cell, could help to improve the efficiency and safety of genome editing in both the lab and the clinic.
Despite the wide use of the CRISPR system, rational application of the technology has been hindered by the assumption that the outcome of genome editing is unpredictable, resulting in random deletions or insertions of DNA regions at the target site.
Before CRISPR can be safely applied in the clinic, scientists need to make sure that they can reliably predict precisely how DNA will be modified.
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Dec 15, 2018
MIT Figured out a Way to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: nanotechnology
Dec 15, 2018
Asteroid Bennu Had Water! NASA Probe Makes Tantalizing Find
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe, which just arrived at the asteroid Bennu last week, has already found lots of hydrated minerals on the space rock, mission team members announced today (Dec. 10).
Dec 15, 2018
Scientists are developing a breakthrough test that uses gold to detect all types of cancer in 10 minutes
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
- Scientists at the University of Brisbane may have found a simple way of detecting the early stages of cancer.
- The method is inexpensive, takes 10 minutes, and can work for all types of cancer.
- The test uses gold particles to detect cancerous DNA.
According to Nature, researchers at the University of Brisbane may have developed a simple test that’s able to detect the early stages of cancer.
Not only that but the method is inexpensive, takes a mere 10 minutes, and works for all types of cancer — and the central component used for identifying cancer cells is gold particles.
Dec 15, 2018
If energy can’t be created, where did it come from in the first place?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cosmology, education, quantum physics
We’re taught at school that energy can’t be created, merely converted from one form to another. But at the birth of the Universe – that is, everything – the energy needed for the Big Bang must have come from somewhere. Many cosmologists think its origin lies in so-called quantum uncertainty, which is known to allow energy to emerge literally from nowhere. What isn’t clear, however, is why this cosmic energy persisted long enough to drive the Big Bang.
Dec 15, 2018
Author Vernor Vinge: Proposing a singular view of technology’s future
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: robotics/AI, singularity
When the Technological Singularity arrives, you can’t even imagine what the future will hold afterwards. Just ask author Vernor Vinge.
A five-time Hugo Award-winning author (among various other awards and accolades), Vernor Vinge has been writing and speculating about AI and intelligence amplification for over half a century. As part of his storied career, an interesting anecdote concerns a rejection letter he received from legendary science fiction editor and publisher John W. Campbell, Jr.
Early in his career, Vinge had proposed a story about a human being with amplified intelligence and (as Vinge relates in his short story collection) Campbell wrote him back with the comment, “Sorry — you can’t write this story. Neither can anyone else.” Jump forward a few decades, and Vinge delivered a paper to NASA entitled The Coming Technological Singularity in which he foresaw a moment when artificial intelligence will develop exponentially until it reached a point that surpasses humanity’s ability to comprehend. It is intelligence so far superior that we can’t even imagine what it would be like. And then what?
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Dec 15, 2018
Mind-reading machine allows completely paralyzed patients to say if they want to live
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience
Some patients were even able to indicate that they were happy.
A brain-computer interface records “yes” and “no” answers in patients who lack any voluntary muscle movement.