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Apr 1, 2018
Your Brain is Lying to You: Here’s How to Force it to Tell the Truth
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
Everyone suffers from unconscious bias, but here’s an easy way to check yourself.
By Suzanne Lucas
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Apr 1, 2018
Lockheed Martin Receives Patent For ‘World Changing’ Fusion Reactor
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: nuclear energy, transportation
CBS Local — Lockheed Martin has reportedly been working on a revolutionary new type of reactor that can power anything from cities to aircraft carriers.
The Maryland-based defense contractor recently received a patent for the compact fusion reactor (CFR) after filing plans for the device in 2014. According to reports, one generator would be as small as a shipping container but produce the energy to power 80,000 homes or one of the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class carriers.
Lockheed’s advanced projects division, Skunk Works, has reportedly been working on the futuristic power source since 2014 and claimed at the time that a CFR could be ready for production by 2019.
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Apr 1, 2018
How does science fiction influence the real world?
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: computing, Elon Musk, space travel, virtual reality
The tech-industry is led by sci-fi nerds who want to create the things they read about, or saw on screen.
We all stand to benefit, provided that is, they can avoid the ethical pitfalls depicted in science fiction.
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Mar 31, 2018
5th day of water shortages in Greece’s second-largest city
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Mar 31, 2018
Excitement Mounts As The Large Hadron Collider Is Switched On Again And Begins A New Year Of Experiments
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, particle physics
This marks the seventh year that the particle accelerator has been in operation.
At 12:17 p.m. on Friday, March 30, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was switched on once again, making 2018 the seventh year that the world’s largest particle accelerator has been in operation. It is also excitingly the fourth year running now that the LHC will have achieved 13 TeV collision energy.
Over the past four months, much maintenance has been conducted on the LHC, but with the work now completed the ATLAS experiment has begun a glorious new year as the Large Hadron Collider is now back in the business of circulating proton beams, as ATLAS report.
NASA’s latest Mars probe has a couple of very special hitchhikers.
- By Caleb A. Scharf on March 31, 2018
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Mar 31, 2018
No-limits China sets its sights on AI top spot
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, government, mobile phones, robotics/AI, surveillance
O n the outskirts of Beijing, a policeman peers over his glasses at a driver stopped at a motorway checkpoint. As he looks at the man’s face, a tiny camera in one of the lenses of his glasses records his features and checks them with a national database.
The artificial intelligence-powered glasses are what Chinese citizens refer to as “black tech”, because they spot delinquents on the country’s “blacklist”. Other examples include robots for crowd control, drones that hover over the country’s borders, and intelligent systems to track behaviour online. Some reports claim the government has installed scanners that can forcibly read information from smartphones.
In the last two weeks, Facebook has been mired in a privacy storm in the UK and US over potential misuse of personal data. But such an event might baffle many in China, where the country’s surveillance culture eclipses anything Facebook has done.
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Mar 31, 2018
Whisper From the First Stars Sets Off Loud Dark Matter Debate
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
Mar 31, 2018
Your WhatsApp buddies might be spying on you with this invasive new app (Update)
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
If you rely on WhatsApp to message friends and family, it’s important to know that the service lets your contacts know about when you’re available to chat, and whether you’ve read their texts.
That’s not all: Lifehacker has spotted Chatwatch, a new iOS app that uses WhatsApp’s public online/offline status feature to tell users how often their friends check the app, and estimate when they go to bed each day; it can even correlate data on two contacts you choose to guess if they’ve been talking to each other.
Yeah, there’s no need to give anyone that sort of ammo. I prefer to maintain a low profile on messaging services so I can chat and respond on my own terms, so it’s rather alarming to know that my contacts can keep tabs on me this way.
