Pentagon report predicts collapse of us military within 20 years
By: Futurism Oct 24, 2019 Faced with the challenges of global climate change as well as the refugee crisis and armed conflicts it will create, the U.S. military may very well collapse. That’s the dire conclusion of a Pentagon-commissioned report about the future of the military, first published online in August with little fanfare and recently surfaced by Motherboard. The […]
Google Claims To Achieve Quantum Supremacy — IBM Pushes Back Facebook Twitter Flipboard
By: Paolo Zialcita October 23, 2019 Google says it has built a computer that is capable of solving problems that classical computers practically cannot. According to a report published in the scientific journal Nature, Google’s processor, Sycamore, performed a truly random-number generation in 200 seconds. That same task would take about 10,000 years for a […]
CubeSats Are Small Yet Mighty Important In Space Exploration
By: Joe Palca October 23, 2019 Tiny satellites are taking on a big-time role in space exploration. CubeSats are small, only about twice the size of a Rubik’s Cube. As the name suggests, they’re cube-shaped, 4 inches on each side, and weigh in at about 3 pounds. But with the miniaturization of electronics, it’s become […]
Robots aren’t taking warehouse employees’ jobs, they’re making their work harder
By: Shirin Ghaffary October 22, 2019 In the past few years, some have wildly speculated about how automation will eliminate wide swathes of the US job market, leaving masses of unemployed, frustrated workers. It’s an issue that’s raised enough concern that 2020 Democratic presidential candidates spent a good amount of time arguing about it in […]
What happens if your mind lives for ever on the internet?
By: Michael Graziano October 22, 2019 I magine that a person’s brain could be scanned in great detail and recreated in a computer simulation. The person’s mind and memories, emotions and personality would be duplicated. In effect, a new and equally valid version of that person would now exist, in a potentially immortal, digital form. […]
The race to build a flying electric taxi
By: BBC October 22, 2019 For any commuter the prospect of being whisked to and from work in a fraction of the time it usually takes is pretty irresistible. No traffic jams, no train delays and no cold platforms – what’s not to love? This is the promise of more than a hundred companies developing […]
Scientists ‘may have crossed ethical line’ in growing human brains
By: Ian Sample October 21, 2019 Neuroscientists may have crossed an “ethical rubicon” by growing lumps of human brain in the lab, and in some cases transplanting the tissue into animals, researchers warn. The creation of mini-brains or brain “organoids” has become one of the hottest fields in modern neuroscience. The blobs of tissue are […]
A Soccer Team In Denmark Is Using Facial Recognition To Stop Unruly Fans
By: National Public Radio October 21, 2019 On a cold, sunny October day on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, a group of men dressed in black gathers outside Brondby Stadium to shoot off a couple of rockets, raise their fists and shout about how the home team will soon beat — and beat up — […]
Drone Delivery Is One Step Closer To Reality
By: David Schaper October 18, 2019 Sounding like a huge swarm of angry bees or maybe a hedge trimmer on steroids, a small quadcopter lifts up off of a landing pad in front of the main hospital building on the WakeMed campus in Raleigh, N.C. Underneath it is a metal box — smaller than a […]