Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 680
May 8, 2019
How Earth’s continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Giant forces slowly move continents across a viscous layer of the Earth, like biscuits gliding over a warm toffee ocean. This stresses the continents, and twists and contorts the crust.
May 8, 2019
Denver first in U.S. to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Denver is set to become the first city in the nation to effectively decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms after final ballot-counting flipped Initiative 301’s margin in favor of narrow passage.
May 8, 2019
Face it: a farmed animal is someone, not something
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Farmed animals have personalities, smarts, even a sense of agency. Why then do we saddle them with lives of utter despair?
May 8, 2019
Unhackable: New chip stops attacks before they start
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: cybercrime/malcode, futurism
ANN ARBOR—A new computer processor architecture developed at the University of Michigan could usher in a future where computers proactively defend against threats, rendering the current electronic security model of bugs and patches obsolete.
Called MORPHEUS, the chip blocks potential attacks by encrypting and randomly reshuffling key bits of its own code and data 20 times per second—infinitely faster than a human hacker can work and thousands of times faster than even the fastest electronic hacking techniques.
“Today’s approach of eliminating security bugs one by one is a losing game,” said Todd Austin, U-M professor of computer science and engineering and a developer of the system. “People are constantly writing code, and as long as there is new code, there will be new bugs and security vulnerabilities.
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May 8, 2019
Wasps are smarter than we thought, new study shows
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Summer is approaching in the northern hemisphere, heralding the return of that great scourge of al fresco diners everywhere: the wasp.
Now, a new study out of the University of Michigan reveals that the striped critters aren’t just pesky — they’re smart.
The research found that wasps can use a form of logical reasoning to infer unknown relationships from known relationships, according to a press release.
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May 8, 2019
There’s a Global Crackdown on the Dark Web Happening Right Now
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
May 8, 2019
Scientists figure out new way to remove salt from water
Posted by Jacob Anderson in category: futurism
Huge.
The solvent-based method could be much cheaper to use than reverse osmosis or distillation based on water evaporating.
May 8, 2019
A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself
Posted by Marco Monfils in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Working strategy, by starting at the desired end destination and then looking back, by connecting the dots as they are presented chronologically (in our present) towards the future, a strategic level of thinking now available to machines.
Unlike chess moves, changes to a Rubik’s Cube are hard to evaluate, which is why deep-learning machines haven’t been able to solve the puzzle on their own. Until now.
Is developing the first-ever storage technology designed and built from the media up, for the cloud. We are leveraging recent discoveries in ultrafast laser optics to store data in quartz glass by using femtosecond lasers, and building a completely new storage system designed from scratch around this technology. This opens up an incredibly exciting opportunity to challenge and completely re-think traditional storage system design, and to co-design the future hardware and software infrastructure for the cloud.
We are hiring for this and related projects: Post-Doc Researchers in Storage Software and Optical Systems, and internships in Software, FPGA, Electronics and Optics.
This project is a collaboration with the University of Southampton Optoelectonics Research Centre, and was featured in a Microsoft Ignite 2017 keynote on future storage technologies.