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Nov 1, 2018

Researchers Created an ‘AI Physicist’ That Can Derive the Laws of Physics in Imaginary Universes

Posted by in categories: physics, robotics/AI

Teaching AI how to combine smaller models to understand complex situations has been a major stumbling block for machine learning research.

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Nov 1, 2018

Elon Musk said Tesla owners will be able to drive their cars with their phones in around 6 weeks

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, mobile phones, sustainability, transportation

Tesla owners will soon be able to drive their cars with their phones, Elon Musk said.


Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday via Twitter that an upcoming software update will allow Tesla owners to drive their cars with their phones in some situations.

“Car will drive to your phone location & follow you like a pet if you hold down summon button on Tesla app,” Musk said.

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Nov 1, 2018

Unseen photos of NASA’s Apollo space missions

Posted by in category: space

Early astronauts of the Apollo missions are often hailed as explorers, scientists and heroes, but they were also some of the most noteworthy photographers in history.


It includes a special foreword by Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham, and breathtaking photos taken by Apollo astronauts, many of which were previously unpublished.

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Nov 1, 2018

JUST IN: It’s #DuskForDawn

Posted by in category: futurism

Another farewell…

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Nov 1, 2018

Graphene Computing & 3D Integrated Circuits

Posted by in categories: computing, materials

This video is the fourth in a multi-part series discussing computing. In this video, weíll be discussing computing performance and efficiency as well as how the computer industry plans on maximizing them.

[0:25–1:55] Starting off we’ll look at, how computing performance is measured and its rate of increase since the mid-1900s.

[1:55–8:05] Following that we’ll discuss, new classical computing paradigms that will push the computer industry forward past 2020. These paradigm shifts are 3D integrated circuits and the use of new materials such as graphene.

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Nov 1, 2018

‘Ask a Spaceman’ Seeks Out the Elusive Quark Star in Finale

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

After guiding us across the universe, astrophysicist and Space.com columnist Paul Sutter closes his basic astronomy series this week by looking at the arguments for and against the existence of quark stars.

In Episode 12 of the Facebook Watch series “Ask a Spaceman,” Sutter continues to explore the topic of these stars, finishing a miniseries that began with Episode 10 and Episode 11. Scientists haven’t observed quark stars yet, but the objects may exist. Such a star would be a leftover remnant of a star that exploded and would be packed even more densely than a neutron star; the quark star would have such strong gravity that fundamental particles in the core, such as protons and neutrons, would break down into their constituent parts, called quarks.

“Is there any astrophysical scenario at all that enables them [quark stars] to appear in our universe?” Sutter asks in the new episode. At first, he suggests there might be some things we categorized a dwarf stars that are more dense and massive than what physics would suggest. So, maybe we have seen quark stars, but we can’t tell the difference between a quark star and a neutron star — they look too much alike, Sutter says. [Supernova Fail: Giant Dying Star Collapses Straight into Black Hole].

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Nov 1, 2018

New Image Confirms a Black Hole is Swallowing Our Galaxy

Posted by in category: cosmology

Don’t worry, it’s only devouring our galaxy slowly.


The image is beautiful.

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Nov 1, 2018

Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, transportation

GPS can be hacked, so airplanes and ships need a backup system. These quantum physicists think they have an answer.

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Nov 1, 2018

Rejuvenation Roundup October 2018

Posted by in category: life extension

The October 2018 Rejuvenation Roundup is out!


Longevity Month is behind us, and the holiday season lies ahead; to set the mood, what could be better than sitting down comfortably with your favorite hot drink and reading the latest updates from the world of rejuvenation? Let’s get started.

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Nov 1, 2018

Danish physicists claim to cast doubt on detection of gravitational waves

Posted by in categories: physics, space

“The first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced on February 11, 2016, spawned headlines around the world, snagged the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, and officially launched a new era of so-called “multi-messenger” astronomy. But a team of physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, is calling that detection into question…”


“Andrew Jackson and his group have been saying for the past few years that LIGO’s detections are not real,” says LIGO Executive Director David Reitze of Caltech. “Their analysis has been looked at by many people who have all concluded there is absolutely no validity to their claims.” Reitze characterized the New Scientist article as “very biased and sensational.”

“Nothing they’ve done gives us any reason to doubt our results.”

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