Here’s the full video of the D11 interview of Tesla CEO Elon Musk by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, where he made some news about Tesla crosscountry superchargers and forecast the feasibility of reusable rockets. Elon Musk touched on another pet project: Hyperloop. The rapid transit system would connect downtown Los Angeles with San Francisco, …
DARPA’s Adaptable Sensor System (ADAPT) program aims to transform how unattended sensors are developed for the military by using an original design manufacturer (ODM) process similar to that of the commercial smartphone industry. The goal is to develop low-cost, rapidly updatable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors in less than a year, a marked improvement …
There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and the total continues to grow apace. Mobile usage is expanding rapidly, while the mobile advertising opportunity remains largely untapped. The report reviews the shifting online landscape, which has become more social and content rich, with expanded use of photos, video and audio. Looking ahead, …
Eric Weinstein proposes a Geometric Unity theory. It is presented to argue that the seemingly baroque features of the standard model of particle physics are in fact inexorable and geometrically natural when generalizations of the Yang-Mills and Dirac theories are unified with one of general relativity. Attempting to reconcile Einstein’s Field Equations with the Yang-Mills …
Star Trek is the most important piece of fiction ever because it has inspired or foreshadowed the development of more major technology than any other work of fiction. Star Trek Technology Real World Communicator Cellphone Universal Translator Google Translate, Microsoft Translator Warp Drive NASA Eagleworks space warping experiment led by Harold White Isolinear AI computer …
The Star Trek Enterprise still had two more years left in its five year mission when the series was originally cancelled. Now there is a new webseries – Star Trek Continues This new series is being brought to you in partnership with Farragut Films and DracoGen Investments – creators of the award-winning web series, Starship …
Better Place, the electric vehicle battery swap innovators from Israel that were once regarded as pioneers of an exciting new concept, has filed for liquidation. Founded in 2007, Better Place was valued at $2.25 billion in 2011 and had secured solid investment until it began struggling when its founder Shai Agassi resigned towards the end …
General Electric has successfully demonstrated laser enrichment of uranium and expects to make a decision by year end on construction of a Castle Hayne facility to produce the nuclear fuel component. Silex developed the laser enrichment process which could be two to fifteen times more efficient than centrifuges for uranium enrichment. GE licensed the technology …
Eliezer Yudkowsky has looked at the returns on investment (91 pages, Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics) for a sufficiently advance machine intelligence could build a smarter version of itself, which could in turn build an even smarter version of machine intelligence. Eliezer identifies the key issue as returns on cognitive reinvestment—the ability to invest more computing power, …
The ARKYD is a technologically advanced, orbiting space telescope that will be controlled by the public The Planetary Resources kickstarter has been open for less than five seven thirty one hours and has already raised over $100,000 $142,000 $470,000 (or 10% 14% nearly 50% of the goal). The one million goal will likely be reached …
Vanu is deploying the lowest-power consumption outdoor base stations in the world in Zambia. In the future, this and other base stations could be made even more efficient with coming advances in super-efficient amplifiers—the gadgets that change electrical signals into radio waves. These gadgets are, by far, the largest users of electricity in all base …