Google’s Waymo should have 20,000 self-driving cars giving rides by 2023. Those self-driving cars could be driving a billion miles every year. Currently Waymo passed 5 million self-driving miles in February, 2018. For Deep learning artificial intelligence, the key to better performance is getting to a billion or more examples. Waymo is already in the …
Following three years of extensive research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) physicist Dr. Uriel Levy and his team have created technology that will enable our computers—and all optic communication devices—to run 100 times faster through terahertz microchips. Until now, two major challenges stood in the way of creating the terahertz microchip: overheating and scalability. However, …
The Foresight Institute and the Internet Archive will have an event on April 8 in San Francisco on the topic of Artificial General Intelligences and Corporations. Peter Scheyer will be presenting on whether corporations qualify as AGIs and what, if any, implications such a qualification should have on their treatment. The event is Sunday, April …
A. Wohlers Associates has published its series of annual reports on AM for 23 consecutive years. * an estimated 1,768 metal AM systems were sold in 2017, compared to 983 systems in 2016, an increase of nearly 80%. Wohlers Associates found that 135 companies around the world produced and sold industrial AM systems in 2017, …
NVIDIA launched NVIDIA DGX-2, the first single server capable of delivering two petaflops of computational power.A DGX-2 has the deep learning processing power of 300 servers occupying 15 racks of datacenter space, while being 60x smaller and 18x more power efficient. NVIDIA DGX-2 is a server rack with 16 Volta GPUs and Dual Xeon Platinums …
A leading GP (general practioner – primary care doctor) estimated that up to 80% of his patients had conditions linked to lifestyle and diet but medical students say they currently learn almost nothing about the way diet and lifestyle affect health. Lifestyle and diet conditions include obesity, type 2 diabetes and depression. Looking at the …
There is a 49-page report that has updated analysis on sending a small probe towards the Alpha Centauri system in a 50 year total mission time traveling at an average cruise velocity of 10% of light speed. The Andromeda Study: A FemtoSpacecraft Mission to Alpha Centauri Andreas M. Hein, Kelvin F. Long, Dan Fries, Nikolaos …
The Climb Rob 125 is like a large version of a Roomba vacuum robot. It magnetically moves on the side of large ships and uses water jets to clean off the sides. The 60-kilogram Climb Rob 125 grabs hold of the surface with magnetic power and is also able to clean or to remove layers …
Les Johnson of the NASA Marshall Space Center provides a 37-page presentation on solar sails covering the technical details, past projects and future projects. Near-term work is with various cubesats and solar sails. Near Earth Asteroid Scout The Near Earth Asteroid Scout Will • Image/characterize a NEA during a slow flyby • Demonstrate a low-cost …
Centauri Dreams has a published paper by Gregory Matloff who has written extensively on Interstellar Travel and solar sails. Gregory new work looks at applying the SpaceX Falcon Heavy and a 700 meter by 700 meter square solar sail. Above – A SpaceX Dragon V2 and a larger Bigelow 330 module. 330 cubic meters versus …
Raytheon has a High Energy Laser (HEL) mounted a dune buggy which can be charged from a 220 volt outlet then scan for enemy drones for four hours and fire up to thirty shots. The system is standalone, with a footprint of roughly 30 square feet. On a single charge from a standard 220v outlet, …