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Sep 26, 2017
Dyson to make electric cars by 2020
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: sustainability, transportation
James Dyson announced Tuesday he was investing £2.0 billion ($2.7 billion, 2.3 billion euro) into developing an electric car by 2020, a new venture for the British inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner.
The 70-year-old British entrepreneur said work began two and a half years ago on a project which he hopes will help tackle the scourge of air pollution.
“Dyson has begun work on a battery electric vehicle, due to be launched by 2020,” he said in an email to employees, referring to his eponymous company.
Sep 26, 2017
The Future the US Military is Constructing: a Giant, Armed Nervous System
Posted by Patrick Tucker in categories: futurism, military
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5rufkVCxjdY
The military wants to “network everything to everything,” which sounds a bit like the setup for the Terminator franchise.
Service chiefs are converging on a single strategy for military dominance: connect everything to everything.
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Sep 26, 2017
Researchers Claim They Just Invented The “Ultimate” Method for Quantum Computing
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: computing, quantum physics
Sep 26, 2017
Humanity will be lost
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, computing, geopolitics, internet, mobile phones, transhumanism
I did a new interview on #transhumanism for some journalism students at Germany’s Technical University of Dortmund. It’s in English:
Mechanical bodyparts are very common nowadays – a lot of humans have a hip replacement or a pacemaker. Technology helps saving our lives rather often. Some people want to take this a lot further – a philosophical and scientific movement called Transhumanism. Zoltan Istvan Gyurko is one of the most famous Transhumanists, he even ran for president in 2016. In this interview, he talks about his first experiences with Transhumanism, immortality and the future of humanity.
By Marie-Louise Timcke und Paul Klur
Sep 26, 2017
Forget ‘live fast, die young’ – do the opposite instead
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension, neuroscience
So far, the only intervention that is known to increase lifespan in multiple species is caloric restriction (CR). Caloric restriction is known to increase lifespan in the majority of mouse strains tested[1]. The effects of CR have even been shown to influence how primates age and reduce the incidence of diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and brain atrophy[2].
Science has known about the effects of CR since the 1930s, when rat experiments first showed researchers this phenomenon[3]. However, despite the various health benefits of CR, how it delays aging has remained a mystery. A new study suggests that epigenetic drift may be the answer.
Sep 26, 2017
Maker of graphics cards to supply Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent with chips that run AI five times faster
Posted by Derick Lee in category: robotics/AI
The new Nvidia Volta GPU computing platform is designed to accelerate AI for a broad range of enterprise and consumer applications, and will be adopted by Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, and Tencent in their data centres and cloud-service infrastructures, Nvidia said on Tuesday.
The new chip is claimed to be up to five times more powerful than the current Pascal-based chips deployed by the Chinese firms.
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 26 September, 2017, 2:04pm.
Sep 25, 2017
New type of supercomputer could be based on ‘magic dust’ combination of light and matter
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: supercomputing
Sep 25, 2017
DARPA funds Reaction Engines hypersonic precooler tests
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, government
Reaction Engines Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Reaction Engines, today announced that it has received a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct high-temperature airflow testing in the United States of a Reaction Engines precooler test article called HTX. The precooler heat exchanger is a key component of the company’s revolutionary SABRE air-breathing rocket engine and has the potential to enable other precooled propulsion systems. The primary HTX test objective is to validate precooler performance under the high-temperature airflow conditions expected during high-speed flights up to Mach 5.
“We have been greatly encouraged by the increasing interest in our technology’s potential and are thrilled to embark on our first U.S. government contract with DARPA for HTX,” said Dr. Adam Dissel, President of Reaction Engines Inc. “Full-temperature testing of the precooler will provide the most compelling near-term proof of the technology’s potential to accelerate the future for high-speed air-breathing systems.”
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Sep 25, 2017
A Japanese doctor who studied longevity — and lived to 105 — reveals the key to living a long life
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
On July 18, 2017 Japan lost a national treasure. He was the 105-year-old Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara.
Dr. Hinohara made a lion’s contribution to healthcare in Japan, both as a practicing medical doctor and as a physician. He headed five foundations in addition to being the president of St Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo. He was responsible for introducing Japan’s system of comprehensive annual medical check-ups, which have been credited with greatly contributing to the country’s longevity, reports the BBC.
Those are laudable achievements, but it is his longevity and the fact that he saw patients until a few months before his death that defies everything we have come to expect of old age.
