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China targets eliminating extreme poverty within China by 2020
The Chinese government will enact more support policies to lift the country's 70 million poor people above the poverty line by 2020, President Xi Jinping pledged on Friday ahead of the 23rd...
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Simplified dangers around energy
I wrote an answer on Quora about the dangers of energy to the environment.I have written several articles that have looked at deaths per terawatt hour. Nuclear energy compares very favorably against...
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Wi-fi trick for Indoor Location Fixes accurate to 40 centimeters
The Wi-Fi equipment serving offices, airports, and other large buildings could be easily upgraded to allow mobile devices to get indoor location fixes to an accuracy of less than half a meter, Stanford...
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More of the real spirit of Star Wars than in 3 Prequels in one new Star Wars...
Episode VII in the Star Wars Saga, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, opens in cinemas December 17, 2015.More of the real spirit of Star Wars than in 3 PrequelsRead more »
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Laser produced blackhole interstellar drive
PBS space time reviews interstellar travel options.They reviewed* the Orion pulsed nuclear drive.* Nuclear fusion drives* antimatter (pion drives)* laser light sails* blackhole drive (schwarzschild...
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Full scale or miniature prototypes of the long range strike bomber may have...
Prototypes of new US long range strike bombers may already have been built and tested after it was revealed that spending on the project has jumped to $1 billion in 2015.The U.S. Air Force is moving...
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Canada likely to drop purchase of 65 F-35 jets and save C$56-126 billion
Canada's Prime Minister Elect Justin Trudeau vowed in September during the election campaign to open a fresh competition to replace Canada's aging fighter jets, rather than continuing with the F-35...
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Action at a distance is confirmed to be real and allows for better secure...
Researchers working at Delft University in The Netherlands, have succeeded in closing the two loopholes that have prevented proving that local realism does not hold at the quantum level.The experiment...
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An extra-muscular beagle has been created through myostatin inhibited genome...
Scientists in China say they are the first to use gene editing to produce customized dogs. They created a beagle with double the amount of muscle mass by deleting a gene called myostatin.The dogs have...
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Update on Google Deep Mind Artificial Intelligence
Demis Hassabis gave a talk about his Google Deep Mind project In January 2014 DeepMind was acquired by Google for a reported £400 million (approximately $625 million), where Hassabis is now Vice...
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View of the US Air Force in 2035
The Air Force Future Operating Concept is the Air Force’s overarching force development concept. It describes how future Air Force (AF) forces will provide responsive and effective Global...
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Robotic cargo drone for under $1 million and 120 mile range
The Air Force needs a low-cost, expendable, autonomous cargo drone to carry out resupply in contested airspace. Though the 3-ton payload Lockheed/Kaman K-MAX autonomous cargo helicopter is too...
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Predictive AI outperforms most humans
A new paper, to be presented at next week's IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, details the evolution of the university's Data Science Machine – a sort-of AI system...
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Researchers Making Leukemia Cells Kill Each Other
AScientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a way to change leukemia cells into leukemia-killing immune cells. The surprise finding could lead to a powerful new therapy for leukemia...
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92% of earth-like worlds have yet to be born
Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study, when our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight percent of the potentially habitable...
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Asteroid Mining Company Planetary Resources has raised $12 million
Planetary Resources of Redmond has raised $12 million in new capital for its quest to mine rare metals and water on asteroids.The money raised this month from 16 investors is part of a targeted $20...
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Google Alphabet will spend billions on its moonshot technologies like self...
Alphabet, the parent company recently created to keep Google’s core business separate from wilder enterprises such as self-driving cars, is preparing to ramp up spending on its most far-out...
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Anti-aging rapamycin is being tested in 20 dogs
Scientists who study aging are currently riveted by a group of 20 dogs in Seattle. The dogs, all house pets older than six years old, are early test subjects in a trial of a drug called rapamycin. The...
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Harvard demos insect sized flying submarine robot
Researchers at the Harvard Paulson School have demonstrated a flying, swimming, insectlike robot, easing the way to create future aerial-aquatic robotic vehicles. The research was presented recently in...
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Thermal energy harvesting antennas by more than 10,000 to 100,000 times with...
Current rectenna designs work best at lower frequencies. Yet waste heat from hot objects can push into the 100 THz (100 trillion cycles per second) range. Park and his colleagues found a way to enhance...
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