There is a cost benefit analysis of embryo selection for intelligence based upon 2016 state of the art. The case of human intelligence using SNP-based genetic prediction, finding: a meta-analysis of GCTA results indicates that SNPs can explain and over 33% of variance in current intelligence scores, and over 44% with better-quality phenotype testing this …
Australia will soon have direct mind to machine interfaces that require minimal surgery working in humans. Beyond usefulness in medicine, the ability for a device to transmit electrical signals from the motor system could change everything. One possible use is vehicle control. Plugging the brain directly into a vehicle effectively removes the time delay and …
The US Navy will be taking its futuristic Railgun out of the lab where it has been tested for to past eight years. Over the next two years, railguns will be tested in open firing ranges and eventually at sea, where the futuristic electromagnetic gun will be able to demonstrate its full capacity to fire …
A method to produce significant amounts of semiconducting nanoparticles for light-emitting displays, sensors, solar panels and biomedical applications has gained momentum with a demonstration by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. While zinc sulfide nanoparticles – a type of quantum dot that is a semiconductor – have many potential applications, high …
supercapacitors can store several times more charge in a given volume or mass than traditional capacitors, have faster charge and discharge rates, and are very stable. Over the past few years, researchers have begun working on making supercapacitors that are transparent and flexible due to their potential use in a wide variety of applications. “Potential …
Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center (ATC) in Pittsburgh will begin testing a self driving car. The car, a hybrid Ford Fusion, will be collecting mapping data as well as testing its self-driving capabilities. When it’s in self-driving mode, a trained driver will be in the driver’s seat monitoring operations. The Uber ATC car comes outfitted with …
DARPA researchers have a way for soldiers to know exactly what they are getting into before they go in. Known as VirtualEye, a soldier armed with a laptop or tablet can throw a couple of cameras into a building and get a three-dimensional view of what’s inside, moving around the space with a controller to …
Google began a stealth project several years ago to see what they could accomplish with their own custom accelerators for machine learning applications. The result is called a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), a custom ASIC they built specifically for machine learning — and tailored for TensorFlow. They have been running TPUs inside their data centers …
Google I / O 2016 (Google’s annual developer conference) had its keynote this morning. Google assistant The Google assistant is conversational—an ongoing two-way dialogue between you and Google that understands your world and helps you get things done. It makes it easy to buy movie tickets while on the go, to find that perfect restaurant …
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has some knowledge of Quantum computing Trudeau was announcing a new $50 million infusion of federal funding for STEM programs. He took the microphone when one reporter posed a facetious challenge to Trudeau’s computing know-how, joking, “I was gonna ask you to explain quantum computing, but…” before launching into his …
In 2012, the US Navy initiated the SSL Technology Maturation (SSL-TM) program, in which industry teams led by BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, among others, competed to develop a shipboard laser with a beam power of 100 kW to 150 kW by 2016. Boosting beam power further—to something like 200 kW or 300 kW—could …