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Jan 13, 2018
At CES, Netflix Shows Off … Lab-Grown Bodies?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
The Psychasec booth on the CES show floor is an elaborate marketing stunt for Netflix’s new show, Altered Carbon, and some people are falling for it.
Jan 13, 2018
Proof That Everything is a Simulation – A Theory of Everything
Posted by Dave Holt in category: futurism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=97FhauH1J58
Ready for some mind blowing information…
“The past and the future exist together simultaneously in one geometric object.”
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Jan 13, 2018
God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: life extension, transhumanism
After losing her faith, a former evangelical Christian felt adrift in the world. She then found solace in a radical technological philosophy – but its promises of immortality and spiritual transcendence soon seemed unsettlingly familiar by Meghan O’Gieblyn.
Jan 13, 2018
Meet the robo-MANTIS unveiled for the first time at CES
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, space
MotivRobotics, which is also responsible for creating the robotic arms for NASA’s next Mars rover, debuted the robot for the first time at CES in Las Vegas. The mantis is semi-autonomous.
Jan 12, 2018
Citizen science bags five-planet haul
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: science, space
Astronomy enthusiasts help to confirm the existence of a five-planet system orbiting a far-off star.
Jan 12, 2018
NASA X-Ray Navigation System Aims to Be a Galactic GPS for Space Exploration
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
The navigation system uses x-ray light emitted from pulsars the same way global positioning systems use atomic clocks, which could eliminate the need for costly ground-based guidance systems.
Jan 12, 2018
GM Drops the Steering Wheel and Gives Robot Driver Control
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Next year, General Motors Co. will no longer need an engineer in the front seat babysitting the robot brain that controls its self-driving Chevrolet Bolt. The steering wheel and pedals will be gone, giving total control to the machine.
Jan 12, 2018
Intel, Nervana Shed Light on Deep Learning Chip Architecture
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in category: robotics/AI
Almost two years after the acquisition by Intel, the deep learning chip architecture from startup Nervana Systems will finally be moving from its codenamed “Lake Crest” status to an actual product.
In that time, Nvidia, which owns the deep learning training market by a long shot, has had time to firm up its commitment to this expanding (if not overhyped in terms of overall industry dollar figures) market with new deep learning-tuned GPUs and appliances on the horizon as well as software tweaks to make training at scale more robust. In other words, even with solid technology at a reasonable price point, for Intel to bring Nervana to the fore of the training marke t–and push its other products for inference at scale along with that current, it will take a herculean effort–one that Intel seems willing to invest in given its aggressive roadmap for the Nervana-based lineup.
The difference now is that at least we have some insight into how (and by how much) this architecture differs from GPUs–and where it might carve out a performance advantage and more certainly, a power efficiency one.
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