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Jan 13, 2018

Light-Based Computers May Soon Become a Reality

Posted by in category: computing

Optical computers would be extremely fast, more energy efficient, and could store far more information than electronic ones.

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Jan 13, 2018

Developing a secure, un-hackable net

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, quantum physics

A method of securely communicating between multiple quantum devices has been developed by a UCL-led team of scientists, bringing forward the reality of a large-scale, un- hackable quantum network.

To date, communicating via has only been possible between two devices of known provenance that have been built securely.

With the EU and UK committing €1 billion and £270 million respectively into funding quantum technology research, a race is on to develop the first truly secure, large-scale between cities that works for any quantum device.

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Jan 13, 2018

Boeing’s prototype cargo drone can haul 500-pound loads

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI

In the future, autonomy won’t just mean you can relax in the passenger seat on your drive home from work. Driverless vehicles of all kinds are set to revolutionize the cargo industry, too, from delivering a pizza or dropping off an Amazon package, to hauling much larger shipments across continents and the high seas. Naturally, Boeing is one of many companies investing in cargo planes of tomorrow, and is keen to show off some of its early work in the form of a huge octocopter capable of carrying loads of up to 500 pounds (over 250kg). In less than three months, engineers at Boeing built and carried out successful test flights of the all-electric prototype, possibly (but unofficially) breaking a Guinness world record in the process.

The rough-and-ready concoction of metal and batteries measures 15 feet long, 18 feet wide and 4 feet tall, weighing in at 747 pounds (nearly 339kg). In other words, it dwarfs the consumer DJI drone you got for Christmas. Obviously Boeing’s prototype is far from a commercial product, but the firm says it’ll be used “as a flying test bed to mature the building blocks of autonomous technology for future applications.”

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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

Posted by in category: futurism

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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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