Tilera has the World’s Highest-Performance and Highest-Efficiency Manycore Processor

Tilera, the leader in 64-bit manycore general-purpose processors today announced the TILE-Gx72™processor with 72 power-efficient cores coupled with massive I/O and four high-performance DDR3 memory controllers to drive the next-generation of network, multimedia and cloud infrastructure. In less than a year from the launch of its market-leading TILE-Gx36™processor, Tilera is doubling the compute performance, doubling …

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Strong case that childhood lead leads to a lot more youthful adult violent crime, teen pregnancies and IQ loss

In 2007, Nextbigfuture covered a report that linked Childhood lead exposure to crime. I have an article with a medical study of lead levels in the blood of babies and the tracking them through adulthood. They found that for their cohort, the risk ratio was 1.34. However, the sample size was small enough that the …

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Accurate genetic test for TB a step to eliminating killer disease

Technology Review – GeneXpert resembles a high-end espresso maker. The device is simple to use. A technician squirts a sputum ­sample from a patient into what looks like a printer cartridge and then clicks that into the machine, which performs a reaction that amplifies specific bits of M. tuberculosis DNA if they are present. Fluorescent …

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Singularity summit – how good at we at predicting AGI #SS12

stewart armstrong talked about how we are predicting AGI (he worked with Kaj Sotala) Bottom line – we are bad at predicting AGI. (artificial general intelligence) He just says we should expand error bars. instead of 2040 say 2017 to 2113. I think we need to work better at defining what we mean by AGI. …

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National Ignition Facility Funding is at Risk

NY Times – the National Ignition Facility, uses 192 lasers to fire light beams at tiny targets, smaller than peppercorns, filled with hydrogen atoms. After spending more than $5 billion to build and operate a giant laser installation the size of a football stadium, the Energy Department has not achieved its goal of igniting a …

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Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Raising Another Investment Round

Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. (LPP) is a research and development corporation whose primary goal is the scientific demonstration and commercialization of a compact nuclear fusion generator that will provide cheap, clean, safe and abundant energy for the world. The LPP approach uses a device called a dense plasma focus (DPF) to burn aneutronic fusion fuels …

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UK Reactor Update – China likely to build and not France

Guardian UK – China is poised to make a dramatic intervention in Britain’s energy future by offering to invest billions of pounds in building a series of new nuclear power stations. Greenpeace complains that Chinese nuclear players have state backing, which could help solve the issue of financing colossally expensive new nuclear power stations in …

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Cella Energy Researching Commercially Viable Microbeads for Revolutionary Hydrogen Storage

Hydrogen storage start-up Cella Energy’s US subsidiary has signed a contract with NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for the further research, development and potential production of its micro-bead, polymer-encapsulated chemical hydride technology. Although suitable for proof-of-concept work and potentially for initial demonstrator projects, the current microbeads are not commercially viable, Cella says. They are expensive …

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Virgin Galactic will Launch Small Satellites including Planetary Resources Telescopes

Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, announced today an agreement with Virgin Galactic, LLC that will enable multiple launch opportunities for its series of spacecraft, including the Arkyd-100 low-Earth orbit (LEO) space telescopes. Continuous, low-cost launch services for small spacecraft to LEO assists in accelerating Planetary Resources’ vision to make valuable space resources from …

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