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Sep 1, 2016
AI100 study says artificial intelligence will change our lives but won’t kill us
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: robotics/AI
Sep 1, 2016
Is the black hole at our galaxy’s centre a quantum computer?
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: computing, cosmology, quantum physics
Might nature’s bottomless pits actually be ultra-efficient quantum computers? That could explain why data never dies.
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Sep 1, 2016
How NASA is working to take us deeper into space
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: space
Sep 1, 2016
One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)
Posted by Elmar Arunov in category: robotics/AI
Sep 1, 2016
Explosion rocks SpaceX launch site in Florida during test
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
Whoops.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An explosion rocked a SpaceX launch site Thursday during a routine rocket test.
SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred shortly after 9 a.m., according to NASA. The test was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which is next to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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Sep 1, 2016
Carbon nanotube nonvolatile NRAM memory 1000 times faster than Flash will be commercially released by the end of 2018 by Nantero and Fujitsu
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, nanotechnology
Nantero, Fujitsu Semiconductor and Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor today announced an agreement for Fujitsu and Mie Fujtisu to license that Nantero’s technology for NRAM, non-volatile RAM using carbon nanotubes, and to conduct joint development towards releasing a product based on 55-nm process technology.
Three companies are aiming to develop a product using NRAM non-volatile RAM that achieves several 1000 times faster rewrites and many thousands of times more rewrite cycles than embedded flash memory, making it potentially capable of replacing DRAM with non-volatile memory.
Fujitsu Semiconductor plans to develop an NRAM-embedded custom LSI product by the end of 2018, with the goal of expanding the product line-up into stand-alone NRAM product after that. Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor, which is a pure-play foundry, plans to offer NRAM-based technology to its foundry customers.
Sep 1, 2016
It’s Getting Closer Every Day: Quantum Computing Explained
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, quantum physics
Sep 1, 2016
Watch: How Self Driving Cars Could End Traffic Jams
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, transportation
Sep 1, 2016
There’s a Startup That’s Building the AI From ‘Her’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: evolution, robotics/AI
A pocket-sized AI that sees everything you see, learns who you are, and anticipates your needs? Meet Asteria, the future of artificial intelligence.
To date, the promises of AI have largely remained unfulfilled. 2016’s cast of artificial characters—Siri, Cortana, Alexa—are still glorified chatbots, summoned only when we remember to check the weather, or when we need a gimmick at a house party.
Real artificial intelligence—the kind that thinks; the kind that feels; the kind that observes; the kind you might fall in love with if you’re not careful—is still a developer’s daydream. Meanwhile, the AI we do have seem trapped in the same cycle of incremental evolution as the devices they inhabit.
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