1. Physics Review Letters – Self-Connected 3D Architecture of Microwires A defect or disclination line, prepared at a designed place in a nematic liquid crystal, is used as a template for realizing a microwire directly connected to the electrodes with an accuracy of a few μm. The line attracts and traps silica particles, until self-assembling …
J Storrs Hall discusses roadmaps to nanotech and AGI. Conical example of worldchanging tech that was poo-pood prior to success is airplanes. But is necessary to understand why airplanes succeeded in detail. We observer heavier than air birds Study them and understand Similarly for nanotech we have the molecular mechanisms in the cell that make …
Foresight 2010 Conference speaker Hod Lipson of Cornell University – Adaptive and Self Reflective Systems Talk about adaptation shape and behavior (AI and manufacturing) Adaptive Behavior – Self reflection and learning simulators Adaptive Morphology – Self assembly and programmable matter Most of work initiated in robotics and expanded beyond it. Industrial robots are super human …
Discovery news reports that diamond oceans possible on Uranus and Neptune Ultrahigh pressures, the kind of pressures found in huge gas giants like Neptune and Uranus are some of the places where ultrahigh temperatures and ultrahigh pressures exist. Eggert and his colleagues placed a small, natural, clear diamond, about a tenth of a carat by …
Avatar has grossed $1.42 billion worldwide and this total does not have all of last weekends totals for all foreign markets and no counts past Sunday for any foreign market. Avatar added $15 million domestically since Monday through Wednesday and should have added $45+ million overseas. Another $5 million today and $15 million overseas. Avatar …
Dwave Systems is trying to build a quantum computer company.There is controversy about whether Dwave has sufficient quantumness in their qubits. Most of Dwave System insights into making a company based on groundbreaking technology still applies regardless of whether Dwave technology succeeds. These insights would apply to molecular nanotechnology and artificial general intelligence. Phase I …
The 3D version of Titanic will be released later in 2010. Bobby Jaffe, the chairman Legend Films (3D movie conversion company) – 3D conversion mostly suits action films, such as Top Gun or The Matrix, but Avatar proved it’s best to use the technology to immerse the audience in the story rather than throw things …
1. Being a TV couch potato will shorten your life * A study found that every hour spent in front of the television per day brings with it an 11 percent greater risk of premature death from all causes, and an 18 percent greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. * The findings apply to …
Carnival of Space 136 is up at Simotronomy This site contributed an article on ultradense deuterium and the T Pyxidis White Dwarf supernova risk Centauri Dreams looks at the interstellar Cycler configuration proposed by science fiction writer Karl Schroeder. Here is Karl’s writeup on interstellar Cyclers To me, the idea that you should expend billions …
One week ago (Jan 3, 2010) Avatar had a domestic box office total: $352.1 million. and Foreign total: $670.2 million for a $1.02 billion world total This week (Jan 10, 2009) Avatar has over $300 million more worldwide at $1.33 billion with $430.8 domestic and $902.1 (67.7%) foreign There was only a 29% drop in …
Green Touch is a consortium of leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, academic and non-governmental research experts dedicated to fundamentally transforming communications and data networks, including the Internet, and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of ICT devices, platforms and networks. By 2015, our goal is to deliver the architecture, specifications and roadmap — and …