Month: August 2015

3D printed 120 micron long microfish with microject engines could be efficient bloodstream robots

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California, San Diego used an innovative 3D printing technology they developed to manufacture multipurpose fish-shaped microrobots — called microfish — that swim around efficiently in liquids, are chemically powered by hydrogen peroxide and magnetically controlled. These proof-of-concept synthetic microfish will inspire a new generation of “smart” microrobots that have diverse capabilities such as detoxification, sensing …

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IBM collaborates with GENCI on exascale computing

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IBM and GENCI, the high performance computing agency in France, today announced a collaboration aimed at speeding up the path to exascale computing – the ability of a computing system to perform at least one exaflop, or a billion billion calculations, in one second. Currently the fastest systems in the world perform between ten and …

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Accelerating Future e-book covers introduction to Singularity, AGI, Superintelligence and Nanotechnology

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Michael Anissimov (who used to blog Accelerating Future) has written an e-book. Michael’s brand new book Our Accelerating Future: How Superintelligence, Nanotechnology, and Transhumanism Will Transform the Planet is now released! Get the epub/mobi/pdf package for $3.99. In this collection of short articles, Singularity Summit co-founder and former Singularity Institute futurist Michael Anissimov describes the …

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LPP Fusion closes last of $2 million stock offering and slogs away on Tungsten electrode work

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LPP Fusion again worked on the details of getting inpurities from the firing of the Tungsten electrode for their dense plasma focus nuclear fusion project. They have cleaned the Tungsten. There was a lot of non-trivial engineering needed. LPP fusion is working out theoretically ways to transfer more of the energy from the electron beam …

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Pakistan reported to be building 20 nuclear missiles each year, which will likely trigger nuclear arms race with India and China

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A new report by two American think tanks asserts that Pakistan may be building 20 nuclear warheads annually and could have the world’s third-largest nuclear stockpile within a decade. Pakistan could have at least 350 nuclear weapons within five to 10 years, the report concludes. Pakistan then would probably possess more nuclear weapons than any …

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US B-3 stealth bomber planned for 2025 will try to get through pickets of large anti-stealth radar drones

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A new US bomber, likely called the B-3 (aka Long Range Strike Bomber – LRS-B), will replace all or most of the current fleets of B-52 and B-1 bombers, while complementing the B-2 bombers built by Northrop that have been flying since the 1990s. These will be stealthy, adaptable aircraft that will initially incorporate existing …

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China saving Terminator movie Sequels

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Terminator Genisys had a disappointing box office ($89 million) in North America, but the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi sequel opened with a whopping $27.4 million on its first day in China. That is the fourth-biggest opening day in that territory ever, behind Transformers: Age of Extinction ($30m), Avengers: Age of Ultron ($33m), and Furious 7 ($63m). …

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Quantum Cognition: The possibility of processing with nuclear spins in the brain

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The possibility that quantum processing with nuclear spins might be operative in the brain is proposed and then explored. Phosphorus is identified as the unique biological element with a nuclear spin that can serve as a qubit for such putative quantum processing – a neural qubit – while the phosphate ion is the only possible …

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A stable narrow band atomic x-ray laser is near

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An atomic laser operating at the shortest wavelength yet achieved has been created by bombarding a copper foil with two X-ray pulses tuned to slightly different energies. The results may lead to ultrastable X-ray laser. The technology is not yet ready for primetime, Young, notes, the laser did not achieve saturation and some tests, such …

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Theory explaining Electromagnetic energy without radiation could be important physics breakthrough

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Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash The theory could have broad ranging applications from explaining dark matter to combating energy losses in future technologies. However, it appears to contradict a fundamental tenet of electrodynamics, that accelerated …

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Rossi has an US Patent for his Energy Catalyzer but Ahern notes that it does not reveal anything replicatable

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Andre Rossi is known for his controversial cold fusion (LENR) energy catalyzer. He has received a US Patent for it. There is supposed to be some kind of standard where a Patent should allow a competent practitioner to follow the patent and repeat what was done. This is not the cast with this patent. Someone …

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