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Feb 11, 2016
Collaborative Minds Bringing Sounds to Brain Data in Yearlong Project
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, life extension, neuroscience
Very huge step forward for brain sensory mapping.
Data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have provided eye-popping pictures of the way the brain is wired, and allowed neuroscientists and laypeople alike to view intricate anatomical and functional connections between regions of the brain. But what if a new tool could be applied to MRI and other data, to listen to the way the brain works and how it is forged with connections?
An emerging effort to “sonify” imaging data is taking root at UT Dallas’ Center for Vital Longevity, in the lab of Dr. Gagan Wig. The approach, now funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), allows data to be represented by sounds from which a trained listener might be able to discern patterns of brain connectivity not readily seen in available visualization strategies.
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Not good at all.
Puts all 10nm eggs in TSMC’s basket
Fruity cargo cult Apple has turned on its partner Samsung and given the contract to produce 10-nano application processors (AP) to TSMC.
Feb 11, 2016
Photon-Based Heat Transport May Advance Quantum Computing
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics
More advancement in Quantum Computing — researchers in Finland have found a way to keep the processor chip cooled without causing disrupting computer operations which has been a big challenge for Quantum Chips.
AALTO, Finland, Feb. 11, 2016 — A thermal-transport method that uses photons as carriers has been demonstrated over 1-m distances. The fundamental advance in heat conduction could drive the development of quantum computers.
A thermal-transport method that uses photons as carriers has been demonstrated over 1-m distances. The fundamental advance in heat conduction could drive the development of quantum computers.Feb 11, 2016
Tech Ethics (And Where They’re Lacking)
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, ethics, habitats, robotics/AI
The late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said, “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more and more advanced, can the same statement apply to computers?
According to many technology moguls and policymakers, the answer is this: We’re not quite there yet.
Feb 11, 2016
How to Build a Quantum Computer
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics
Quantum Entanglement “Fluffy Bunny Style”.
UVM physicist wins NSF CAREER grant to study entanglement 02-08-2016 By Joshua E. Brown Two different ways in which atoms can be quantum entangled. Left: spatial entanglement where atoms in two separated regions share quantum information. Right: particle entanglement for identical atoms (colored here for clarity) due to quantum statistics and interactions.
Feb 10, 2016
A world where anything is possible, including immortality, has mental onboard computers, nanotechnology can do all reality
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, life extension, nanotechnology, neuroscience, singularity
Post-Human
Radically often it seems like something out of science fiction. But every day that passes we get closer to the technological singularity.
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Feb 10, 2016
Black Holes Could Be Gateways After All
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: computing, cosmology, physics
Physicists can now simulate the interiors of black holes using high-powered computers–and it looks like science fiction authors were right: black holes could be portals for space travel.
Feb 10, 2016
Inside SU’s First Salon: Lab-Grown Organs, Cybersecurity, and AI Music Apps
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, cyborgs, food, media & arts, quantum physics, robotics/AI, singularity, transhumanism
“We will find new things everywhere we look.” –Hunter S. Thompson
At the rate of 21st century technological innovation, each year brings new breakthroughs across industries. Advances in quantum computers, human genome sequencing for under $1,000, lab-grown meat, harnessing our body’s microbes as drugs, and bionic eye implants that give vision to the blind —the list is long.
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Feb 10, 2016
Wirelessly supplying power to brain
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, electronics, engineering, neuroscience
Human and animal movements generate slight neural signals from their brain cells. These signals obtained using a neural interface are essential for realizing brain-machine interfaces (BMI). Such neural recording systems using wires to connect the implanted device to an external device can cause infections through the opening in the skull. One method of solving this issue is to develop a wireless neural interface that is fully implantable on the brain.
However, the neural interface implanted on the brain surface should be of small size and minimally invasive. Furthermore, it requires the integration of a power source, antenna for wireless communication, and many functional circuits.
Now, a research team at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a wafer-level packaging technique to integrate a silicon large-scale integration (LSI) chip in a very thin film of a thickness 10 µm (Sensors, “Co-design method and wafer-level packaging technique of thin-film flexible antenna and silicon CMOS rectifier chips for wireless-powered neural interface systems”).
