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Feb 10, 2018

Job One for Quantum Computers: Boost Artificial Intelligence

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI

The fusion of quantum computing and machine learning has become a booming research area. Can it possibly live up to its high expectations?

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Feb 10, 2018

Astrophysicists settle cosmic debate on magnetism of planets and stars

Posted by in category: space

The universe is highly magnetic, with everything from stars to planets to galaxies producing their own magnetic fields. Astrophysicists have long puzzled over these surprisingly strong and long-lived fields, with theories and simulations seeking a mechanism that explains their generation.

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Feb 10, 2018

TAE Technologies Gen 5 reactor targets tripling confinement with 10 times the power by 2020

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, sustainability

TAE Technologies, Inc. (formerly Tri Alpha Energy), the world’s largest and most advanced private fusion company, has announced that its proprietary beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma generator, “Norman,” surpassed a new technical milestone, bringing the company closer to the reality of commercial fusion power. This latest achievement marks a significant step in the company’s mission to create a global energy revolution with clean, safe, sustainable fusion energy.

Norman, the $100MM National Laboratory-scale device named for company founder Dr. Norman Rostoker, was unveiled in May 2017 and quickly reached first plasma in June 2017. After over 4,000 experiments to date, Norman has now exceeded the capabilities and performance of the company’s previous FRC plasma generator, C-2U, and sets a new company record for plasma temperature.

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Feb 10, 2018

This electronic skin can heal itself — and then make more skin

Posted by in category: futurism

No-waste e-skin.

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Feb 10, 2018

TAE Technologies pushes plasma machine to a new high on the nuclear fusion frontier

Posted by in categories: climatology, nuclear energy, sustainability

TAE Technologies, the California-based fusion company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, said its latest and greatest plasma generator has exceeded the headline-grabbing performance of its previous machine.

“This announcement is an important milestone on our quest to deliver world-changing, clean fusion energy to help combat climate change and improve the quality of life for people globally,” Michl Binderbauer, the company’s president and chief technology officer, said in a news release. “This achievement further validates the robustness of TAE’s underlying science and unique pathway.”

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Feb 10, 2018

Sound waves may be able to trigger earlier tsunami warnings

Posted by in category: futurism

When an earthquake sets off a tsunami, it releases speedy sound waves that could give us early warning. But they still can’t predict the size of the tsunami.

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Feb 10, 2018

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, ethics

The creation of monkey clones is a big breakthrough, but making a copy of an adult is still not possible and the ethics of cloning remain unchanged.

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Feb 10, 2018

How Artificial Intelligence can Bring on a Second Industrial Revolution

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Over the next 20 years, he says, our penchant for making things smarter and smarter will have a profound impact on nearly everything we do. Kelly explores three trends in artificial intelligence we need to understand in order to embrace it and steer its development. “The most popular AI product 20 years from now that everyone uses has not been invented yet,” Kelly says. “That means that you’re not late.”

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Feb 10, 2018

The world in 2384: Is it possible to achieve immortality?

Posted by in category: life extension

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9mcCs3dhE

Netflix’s new original series Altered Carbon explores a world where, in just a few centuries, humans can live forever. WIRED asks the experts if that’s true, then how do we get there?

In partnership with NETFLIX

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Feb 10, 2018

Is Anti-Aging Technology Creating A Life Worth Living?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education, life extension, philosophy

Eliminating disease is an admirable ambition but it seems it’s the lack of education, environment and lifestyle that is really holding people back and causing them to lose interest in life.


Is anti-aging technology and increasing the human mortality rates helping to create a more fulfilled, life worth living. Let’s look at this question…

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