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Nov 14, 2018

There is a weird new state of matter that can’t be stirred or pushed

Posted by in category: futurism

By Leah Crane

There’s a new state of matter — and it’s weird. It’s made from light and is somewhere between a solid and a superfluid. It can’t be stirred, rotated, or even pushed.

“If you have some water in a pipe and you start pushing it, it will flow a little faster,” says Marzena Szymańska at University College London. “Whereas this fluid is so rigid that even pushing it will not change its velocity.”

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Nov 14, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg And Elon Musk On Artificial Intelligence

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

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Nov 14, 2018

Drone’s high-tech bike theft attempt caught on camera

Posted by in categories: drones, electronics

Nov. 12 (UPI) — A group of shocked cyclists captured video of the moment a drone operator nearly pulled off a high-tech bike theft.

The video, recorded in Hustopece, Moravia, Czech Republic, shows the cyclists climbing a local landmark known as Lookout Tower and taking video of a drone flying nearby.

The cyclists start scrambling down the tower when the drone lowers down to the ground and picks up one of the bicycles.

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Nov 14, 2018

New cholesterol guidelines for heart health: What you need to know

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S.

The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, who have medical experts from around the nation on the writing committee, have released updated guidelines on managing cholesterol to minimize the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death. The new guidelines advocate for more aggressive treatment with statin therapy and getting LDL cholesterol counts, commonly referred to as “bad cholesterol” to your target level –- in general, less than 100mg/dL; for those with risk factors, less than 70mg/dL.

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Nov 14, 2018

Terrifying footage shows Southern California fires nipping at a highway

Posted by in category: transportation

Fires creeping in on daily life are becoming the new terrifying norm.

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Nov 14, 2018

Bosch Boosts IOTA With New Device Connectivity For IoT Data Collection

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, engineering, internet

Multinational engineering and electronics giant Bosch recently highlighted a new device connectivity method which will work with the Iota marketplace, among other things, for real-time IoT (Internet of Things) data collection and sales.

Data Collection for the IOTA Marketplace

In a recent blog post the firm opened with a quote from 1999 from Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman extolling the virtues of anonymously transferring funds on the internet, way before cryptocurrencies were even conceived. It continued to elaborate on the Iota ecosystem, its advantages over Bitcoin, and why it has been chosen as a partner.

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Nov 14, 2018

Jeff Bezos has confirmed the HQ2 decision and it’s the embodiment of Amazon’s emotionless practicality

Posted by in category: futurism

Duh.

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Nov 14, 2018

Hoverbikes are finally here, but don’t expect to fly cheap

Posted by in category: drones

California firm’s long-anticipated flying motorcycle will set you back $150,000.

This drone-like flying motorcycle can be yours for $150,000. Hoversurf Official via YouTube.

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Nov 14, 2018

Has a Piece of the World’s Oldest Computer Been Found?

Posted by in category: computing

A lost piece of the world’s oldest analog computer (the Antikythera mechanism an ancient Greek device designed to calculate astronomical position) may have been discovered.

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Nov 14, 2018

Google went down after traffic was routed through China and Russia

Posted by in category: government

Google’s services went down for an hour yesterday after its IP addresses were routed way from normal paths to Nigeria, China and Russia. Google told Ars Technica it doubted the leak was malicious, despite the fact that government-owned China Telecom was recently caught routing Western carrier traffic through mainland China. Some of Google’s most sensitive data, including its corporate WAN infrastructure and VPN, were reportedly redirected.

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