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Jan 13, 2018

App uses DNA to tell you what to eat

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

Jump to media player A UK start-up plans to offer DNA tests in shops to help people eat more healthily.

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Jan 13, 2018

At CES, Netflix Shows Off … Lab-Grown Bodies?

Posted by 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.

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Jan 13, 2018

The Industrial Void of Metal

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Jan 13, 2018

Proof That Everything is a Simulation – A Theory of Everything

Posted by 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 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 .

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Jan 13, 2018

Meet the robo-MANTIS unveiled for the first time at CES

Posted by 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.

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Jan 12, 2018

Citizen science bags five-planet haul

Posted by in categories: science, space

Astronomy enthusiasts help to confirm the existence of a five-planet system orbiting a far-off star.

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Jan 12, 2018

NASA X-Ray Navigation System Aims to Be a Galactic GPS for Space Exploration

Posted by 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.

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Jan 12, 2018

GM Drops the Steering Wheel and Gives Robot Driver Control

Posted by 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.

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Jan 12, 2018

Intel, Nervana Shed Light on Deep Learning Chip Architecture

Posted by 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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