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DWave Systems CTO talks about quantum computing solving problems beyond...
Geordie Rose is the CTO and Founder of D-Wave Computing, a Canadian company that is currently selling a 512 qubit superconducting quantum annealing system. They plan to have a 2048 qubit system within...
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Mobileeye moves to have hands free driving system before 2016
1. Earlier this month, Mobileye, the Israeli and Dutch maker of advanced driver assistance technologies, claimed that self-driving cars “could be on the road by 2016.” Rather than Google cars’ array of...
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Rise of the global middle class and extreme poverty reduction
The rise of a global middle class with an average of $12,000 GDP per capita and halving of world extreme poverty are some of the biggest changes that effect the most people. I have projected how that...
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The Global Bottom 10%
There are between 824 million and 1.1 billion people living in extreme poverty now (less than $1.25 per day in 2005 PPP GDP which is $1 per day in 1996 PPP GDP).About 80% of the extremely poor are in...
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China taking some much needed stronger steps against air pollution but needs...
China has a large air pollution problem that would get a lot worse without strong measures. Five big proposals from the Deutsch Bank report on China's air pollutiojn , summarized: 1) Reduce the annual...
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Russian $1.3 billion Proton rocket explosion caused by critical sensor being...
A Proton-M rocket carrying three satellites for the GLONASS navigation constellation (Russia's GPS system) launched on July 2, 2013. The rocket went sideways and then crashed.Russian Space Web - By...
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Nanostructured quartz glass could lead to unlimited lifetime data storage
Using nanostructured glass, scientists at the University of Southampton have, for the first time, experimentally demonstrated the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional digital data by...
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World will be producing about 100 million to 110 million light cars and...
IHS has an Automotive Industry Outlook to 2020 Over 30 million will be sold in China.Read more »
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US All liquids oil production at 11.99 million barrels per day and crude oil...
Here is the EIA weekly oil statistics. US all liquids production is up about 700,000 bpd from December 2012. US Crude oil production is up 1.4 million bpd from the same time last year.Read more »
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Race for Cholesterol drugs that mimic mutation. Clinical trials show they...
A 32 year old woman has astoundingly low cholesterol. Her low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, the form that promotes heart disease, was 14, a level unheard-of in healthy adults, whose normal level is over...
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Quantum Canada
Vern Brownell had spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs (GS) as the New York bank’s chief technology officer. He had grown cynical from startups pitching for a sliver of the billion dollars a year Goldman...
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202 Story Broad Group Sky City to Start Construction August, 2013 and 1000...
China 202 story Sky City will soar to 838 metres to dominate the skyline in Changsha, China, by March 2014. Work will start at the end of August 2013 as reported by the Pars Herald. China Broad Group...
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Monkey head transplant video and spinal repair in dogs and spinal repair in...
We recently covered a new proposal for the first head transplant in humans. They would use a minimally traumatic cut of the spinal cord using an ultra-sharp blade (very different from what occurs in...
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Clinical trials and FDA approval problems - Why do 92% of spinal cord...
There is a high failure rate and high cost for clinical trials and FDA approvals. Here is a video that goes through the problem. 80% cannot recruit enough patients for clinical trials. 50% do not have...
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Spinal Cord injury therapies and medical situation in China
China will probably have 1 million people with spinal cord injury in 2020 (80,000 per year). One third of the spinal cord injury people in the world. The US has about 10,000 spinal cord injury patients...
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The End is Near - Another Spreadsheet says we are doomed - Author suggests...
In the grand tradition of Malthus, Limits to Growth, Chicken Little and the Boy who cried wolf we have another spreadsheet and book that says we and the Earth are doomed. Oxford Computer Science...
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ATLAS the DARPA humanoid robot
ATLAS is one of the most advanced humanoid robots ever built, but is essentially a physical shell for the software brains and nerves that the teams will continue to develop and refine. That software,...
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For doomers the answer is always to kill people or prevent people from being...
Steven Emmott thinks we are all doomed and tries to confuse others with weird metrics that are not in context. Steve talks about water usage. He does not talk about getting twice as efficient with...
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China will double down on investing in solar power while Germany winds down...
China has raised its 2015 target for solar-electricity capacity, giving a shot in the arm to its solar companies, many of which are struggling due to industry overcapacity, slow global demand and...
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Ben Goertzel is on a mission to build an "AI Toddler"
Ben Goertzel has been pondering questions of artificial intelligence since he was a teenager. During the past two decades, Goertzel has been developing and perfecting the OpenCOG AI software system....
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