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Sep 29, 2016

Elon Musk unveils plan to colonise Mars (2016.9.27)

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, government, space travel, transportation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFA6DLT1jBA

Elon Musk unveils SpaceX’s future Mars vehicle and discusses the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars. The presentation focuses on potential architectures for sustaining humans on the Red Planet that industry, government and the scientific community can collaborate on in the years ahead.

Overview:
00:00. Why Mars and become a multi-planetary civilisation.

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Sep 29, 2016

Volkswagen just unveiled its ‘revolutionary’ electric concept car — and it’s hitting roads in 2020

Posted by in category: transportation

Volkswagen finally unveiled the electric concept car it’s been teasing ahead of the Paris Motor Show, and the automaker is promising a mean range.

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Sep 29, 2016

Google unleashes deep learning tech on language with Neural Machine Translation

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Translating from one language to another is hard, and creating a system that does it automatically is a major challenge, partly because there are just so many words, phrases and rules to deal with. Fortunately, neural networks eat big, complicated data sets for breakfast. Google has been working on a machine learning translation technique for years, and today is its official debut.

The Google Neural Machine Translation system, deployed today for Chinese-English queries, is a step up in complexity from existing methods. Here’s how things have evolved (in a nutshell).

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Sep 28, 2016

Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft come together to create historic Partnership on AI

Posted by in categories: finance, governance, robotics/AI

The world’s largest technology companies hold the keys to some of the largest databases on our planet. Much like goods and coins before it, data is becoming an important currency for the modern world. The data’s value is rooted in its applications to artificial intelligence. Whichever company owns the data, effectively owns AI. Right now that means companies like Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, IBM and Microsoft have a ton of power.

In an act of self-governance, these five companies came together today to announce the launch the new Partnership on AI. The group is tasked with conducting research and promoting best practices. Practically, this means that the group of tech companies will come together frequently to discuss advancements in artificial intelligence. The group also opens up a formal structure for communication across company lines. It’s important to remember that on a day-to-day basis, these teams are in constant competition with each other to develop the best products and services powered by machine intelligence.

Financial support will be coming from the initial tech companies that are members of the group, but in the future, membership and involvement is expected to increase. User activists, nonprofits, ethicists and other stakeholders will be joining the discussion in the coming weeks.

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Sep 28, 2016

Stephen Hawking Should Chill Out With His Fear of Aliens Destroying Us

Posted by in categories: alien life, innovation

The world-renowned physicist’s alarmist warnings about extraterrestrials is illogical.

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Sep 28, 2016

Amazon looking to abandon UPS, FedEx in favor of its own delivery service

Posted by in category: futurism

Ship and deliver —

Amazon looking to abandon UPS, FedEx in favor of its own delivery service.

The online retailer could save billions by holding onto packages through delivery.

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Sep 28, 2016

Life Without Shimon Peres? In Many Ways, His Israel Faded Long Ago — By Isabel Kershner | The New York Times

Posted by in category: government

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“The world awoke on Wednesday to an actuality it had never known before: a modern state of Israel without Shimon Peres. But in many respects Mr. Peres’s Israel began to disappear long ago.”

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Sep 28, 2016

‘Uber for yoga’ app brings instructors to you | Fox News

Posted by in category: fun

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“A new mobile app being dubbed as “Uber for yoga” allows users to request a yoga teacher at their whim, hailing one who will come to their home or office whenever they want to practice.”

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Sep 28, 2016

Neuroscience and psychology have rendered it basically unnecessary to have a soul — By George Paxinos | Quartz

Posted by in category: neuroscience

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“But as a neuroscientist and psychologist, I have no use for the soul. On the contrary, all functions attributable to this kind of soul can be explained by the workings of the brain.”

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Sep 28, 2016

Soon, Tesla Cars Could Power the Grid (and Our Homes)

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, engineering, sustainability, transportation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RnbcgU4ECPc

In Brief.

Tesla and SolarCity are working on making their cars capable of powering a household, and even the entire grid. Using vehicle-to-grid technology, Tesla may be on to something here, and its more than just saving on your electric bills.

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