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Oculus rift went from a 2012 Kickstarter to a $2 billion Facebook buyout
Facebook acquired Oculus VR—creator of the forthcoming Oculus Rift virtual reality headset—for approximately $2 billion.Following the demonstration of the Oculus Rift prototype at E3 in June 2012, on 1...
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Human trials of rapid cooling suspended animation to provide doctors and...
New Scientist reports that doctors will try to save the lives of 10 patients with knife or gunshot wounds by placing them in suspended animation, buying time to fix their injuries.Knife-wound or...
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China completing several nuclear reactors in 2014
A number of new nuclear power reactors in China are approaching start-up. The first unit at Yangjiang has completed full-power trial operation while hot tests have concluded at Fuqing 1. Two other...
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Shapeways provides a low risk and low barrier model for 3d printing of...
Shapeways, a 3-D printing service and online marketplace, has been described as the Amazon of 3-D printing for its on-demand model, if not its outsize volume: The machines spit out about 120,000...
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Smaller and simpler lens-free cameras could have cameras smaller than a...
Lens-free camera are being made that are 200 micrometers across which is smaller than a pencil point. When you take a picture of a painting on a wall with a regular digital camera, a lens focuses each...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 201
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 201 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome (Mar 23rd entry)ANS Nuclear Café – Persistent Prejudice Against Nuclear—Can Anything Be Done? Part 3Jim Hopf explores the prospects for...
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Scientists have synthesized first artificial yeast chromosome
Technology Review reports that scientists have synthesized an entire yeast chromosome, the first artificial chromosome for the kingdom of life that includes humans, plants, and fungi. Yeast with the...
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Bitcoin mining with ASIC mining chips and Raspberry Pi with custom software
Carlson and his company MegaBigPower has to keep expanding and upgrading his Bitcoin processing power to remain at seven to 10 percent of the world's Bitcoin mining. Global hashing power is estimated...
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Future economy: Jobs likely to be lost to computerization
USA Today - workers wanting secure employment in coming decades will need skills that complement software applications, rather than compete with them.Those who don't possess such skills face a...
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World Health Organization increased estimate of air pollution deaths to 7...
In new estimates, WHO (World Health Organization) reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died - one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than...
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China development compared to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
The Economist magazine looks a tChina’s accumulated more capital per worker versus other fast-growing countries had at a similar stage of development. But it also has many stages of development ahead...
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Quantum computing and new approaches to Artificial Intelligence could get the...
Ramez Naam made a case against a technological Singularity will take longer.Ramez gives examples and problems to achieving an intelligence explosion* the complexity of important problems like...
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Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements like quantum...
Inspired by natural materials such as bone — a matrix of minerals and other substances, including living cells — MIT engineers have coaxed bacterial cells to produce biofilms that can incorporate...
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Quantum Computer Capabilities will be critical to cracking Machine Learning...
Google believes quantum computing may help solve some of the most challenging computer science problems, particularly in machine learning. Machine learning is all about building better models of the...
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Climate estimates and taking action against air pollution
Previously nextbigfuture had noted the World Health Organizations increased estimate of deaths caused by air pollution.Regular commenter Goatguy looks at the future projection of warming and provides...
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Taiwan has hundreds of thousands protesting China trade pact
Hundreds of thousands of student-led protesters dressed in black gathered along Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office in a protest over President Ma Ying-jeou and the Cross-Strait...
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Carnival of Space 347
The Carnival of Space 347 is up at CosmoquestUniverse Today - Rings are a tough phenomenon to spot. As late as 1977, astronomers thought that the only thing in the solar system with rings was the...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 202
1. ANS Nuclear Cafe: What Did We Learn From Three Mile Island?Rod Adams on the 35th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station -- lessons learned and lessons still...
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Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion is an Inertial Confinement Fusion...
Human hopes of reaching stars other than the Sun are currently limited by the maturity of advanced propulsion technologies. One of the few candidate propulsion systems for providing interstellar flight...
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Plasma Jet Magneto Inertial Fusion ARPA-E and Los Alamos National Lab Plans...
PJMIF involves converging plasma jets that are launched from symmetrically distributed plasma rail-guns (or plasma guns), so as jets come in, they merge and form a plasma liner that compresses the...
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