Last Saturday, a telescope in a remote area of West Virginia picked up those 15 bright radio burst signals from a distant corner of the universe, and yesterday, a group of astronomers and astrophysicists shared preliminary results on their observations. They detected 15 bursts above our detection threshold of 10 sigma in the first two …
Nextbigfuture interviewed Iain Kerr at the Singularity University Global Summit. Iain Kerr is with the Ocean Alliance. Ocean Alliance has been pioneering methods of studying and learning about the lives of these amazing mammals noninvasively, without injuring or disturbing them. Ocean Alliance’s latest innovation is the use of drones to observe whales and collect data …
Bitcoin briefly surged past $5,000 on the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index but then sold off. The total value of all publicly traded cryptocurrencies was $166 billion. The total values was down more than 7 percent from a high of nearly $180 billion last night. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular …
Several of the world’s largest banks have today revealed a series of steps to advance a project aimed at making it easier for central banks to issue currencies on a blockchain. Called Utility Settlement Coin (USC), the project is designed to help prepare the way for central bank cryptocurrencies by making it easier for global …
In 2016, A satellite image showing peculiar hexagonal clouds over the ocean area known as the Bermuda Triangle is prompting speculation about whether they may represent a recurring phenomenon responsible for decades of unexplained disappearances in the region. Seen from above, the clouds appeared to form six-sided outlines, like honeycombs, with hard edges. They range …
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks – a form of artificial intelligence – can accurately analyze the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods. “Analyses that typically take weeks to months …