Researchers Created Holograms You Can Feel and Hear: Researchers have created animated 3D holograms that can not only be seen from any angle, they can also be touched. Instead of lasers, ultrasonic transducers generate soundwaves to float and control a lightweight polystyrene bead…
November 16, 2019
Facial recognition protesters scanned 13,000 Washington, DC, inhabitants using Amazon Rekognition…
November 16, 2019
Protesters who oppose facial recognition donned white hazmat suits and cameras to collect face scans of more than 13,000 people. Activists from Fight for the Future mounted the protest in Washington, DC, on Thursday... The protesters were making the point that facial recognition remained unregulated in the US. Private companies and the US government are increasingly adopting the technology, prompting fears of surveillance creep... The protesters focused on the halls of Congress as well as busy metro stops, and they were looking in particular for members of Congress, journalists, and Amazon lobbyists, according to a press release.
Can't tell if this was a stunt, or an actual operation. Something tells us it's the latter. Who really believes they were protesting the exact thing they were doing? Who is "Fight for the Future"? Who funds them? We haven't looked into them yet, but this doesn't seem like a smart idea as what’s probably going to happen is that the data collected will wind up in bad hands.
Researchers generate terahertz laser with laughing gas…
November 16, 2019
...researchers from MIT, Harvard University, and the U.S. Army have built a compact device, the size of a shoebox, that works at room temperature to produce a terahertz laser whose frequency they can tune over a wide range. The device is built from commercial, off-the-shelf parts and is designed to generate terahertz waves by spinning up the energy of molecules in nitrous oxide, or, as it’s more commonly known, laughing gas...
Tardigrade DNA Added to Human Cells Could Help Us Survive on Mars, Scientist Says…
November 16, 2019
This wild concept was explored in a 2016 paper, and Mason and his team aim to build upon that research to see if, by using the DNA of ultra-resilient tardigrades, they could protect astronauts from the harmful effects of spaceflight...
GitHub will store all of its public open source code in an Arctic vault. It should be safe for 1,000 years…
Microsoft Is Also Hiding Source Code In An Apocalypse-Proof Cave...
November 16, 2019
Elon Musk updates the ending of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. The famed rocket man is working to create options for humanity that the late writer and scientist only dreamed of…
November 16, 2019
In a new episode of Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence podcast, the MIT researcher asks Musk to read a famous passage from Carl Sagan's famous 1994 book Pale Blue Dot. The CEO obliges... But before reading the words, Musk offers his own preface... Musk then goes on to read Sagan, which you can see in the video above. Sagan's words end with: "The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate..."
At this point, Musk cuts off Sagan's last few lines and interjects...
Chinese facial recognition coming to a few Canadian stores…
November 16, 2019
Anyone who doesn't think the West has a massive hard-on for Chinas social credit score is childishly naive. The West is stunningly jealous of the Chinese system (at least the governments and corporations are).
The gut microbiome may alter ageing process, suggests a new study, which could lead to food-based treatment to slow it down. Scientists transplanted gut microbes from old mice into young, germ-free mice, leading to increased intestinal growth and neurogenesis, production of neurons in the brain…
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November 16, 2019
According to a shocking report by NASA scientists, blood flow can stop and even reverse in the upper bodies of astronauts…
November 16, 2019
The results were alarming: blood flow had either stagnated or reversed in the left internal jugular vein, a major blood vessel on the side of the neck, in seven crew members. The tests also found a clot and a partial clot in two of the crew members after their return to Earth.
A paper of the study was published in the journal JAMA Network Open on Wednesday...
In a new paper in the journal Science Advances, an international team of quantum physicists argue that thanks to the unusual rules of quantum mechanics, facts themselves could depend on who’s looking at them. In other words, reality could be twisted by observation…
November 16, 2019
“The insight we gained is that quantum observers may indeed be entitled to their own facts,” wrote Fedrizzi in a September statement. That brings up the question: do the rules of quantum mechanics apply to much larger objects? Or are the rules different for single atoms or photons?...