“All of the structures that we use to run the world today— our civics, our politics, our legal systems, healthcare, education— are all structured for a world 100 or 200 years ago, not for the world of today. So we think we’re in for a lot of disruption,” says Salim Ismail, founding director of Singularity …
Fuel cell maker Bloom Energy has raised $130 million in new venture capital funding in May 2013 Bloom now has raised more than $1.1 billion in venture capital funding, including past investments from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates, Advanced Equities, DAG Ventures and Goldman Sachs. The company had become gross margin positive …
Bernanke told a college graduating class Saturday that the long-range practical consequences of innovations such as faster computers and the Internet are hard to predict. But he said inventors have only scratched the surface of the commercial applications that can be obtained in such fields as medicine (personal genomics, life extension) and clean energy. He …
Golden Spike, the first company planning to undertake human lunar expeditions for countries and corporations around the world, announced today that legendary astronaut and Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell has joined its Board of Advisors. Capt. Lovell, a former Naval aviator and test pilot, is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and …
Danny Lidar has said that he does not believe D-Wave Adiabatic quantum computer approach is scalable without error correction. He believes that the incorporation of error correction is a necessary condition in order to ever achieve a speedup with D-Wave’s machines. He does not believe D-Wave’s machines are any different from other types of quantum …
In 2008 (and before and after) Scott Aaronson was an outspoken critic of Dwave Systems. Scott has again picked up the mantle of Dwave critic. From New Scientist today, Aaronson disagrees. “I don’t think this is going to be directly used for anything relevant to Google’s business,” he says. “Google is a very wealthy company …
Dwave’s 512 qubit system can speedup the solution of Google’s machine learning algorithms by 50,000 times in 25% of the problem cases. This could make it the fastest system for solving Google’s problems. Google and Dwave have been working on sparse coding, deep learning and unattended machine learning with Dwave’s quantum computer helping to get …
The density of the fusion-producing plasmoid is the key factor that must be increased for LPP to demonstrate the scientific feasibility of net energy production from Focus Fusion—net energy meaning more energy out than is lost in making that energy. In the past month’s experiments, LPP’s research team has demonstrated the near tripling of ion …
Researchers have found that the beam of a scanning electron microscope can turn a thin coating that occurs naturally on the larvae of some insects into a sort of miniature spacesuit that can keep the animals alive in a vacuum for up to an hour. The researchers made their discovery while testing how long various …
IEA Medium term forecasts North American supply to grow by 3.9 million barrels per day (mb/d) from 2012 to 2018, or nearly two-thirds of total forecast non-OPEC supply growth of 6 mb/d. World liquid production capacity is expected to grow by 8.4 mb/d – significantly faster than demand – which is projected to expand by …
Building on the success of Bristol-Myers’ Yervoy drug for melanoma that reached the market in 2011, drugmakers are devising more potent immune therapies or combining treatments for maximum effectiveness. They are also testing the new medicines in more types of cancers, including lung and breast. If the new generation of immune therapies lives up to …