Tuesday, January 31, 2017

The entire universe could be a hologram

This is way too light on details (how would such a hologram occur, how can we perceive depth through multiple senses, not to mention motion, etc.?), but the idea has always been fascinating:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2017/01/30/universe-hologram-illusion/97249856/

Monday, January 9, 2017

A Novel Liquid Battery Could Hold Potential For Unlimited Energy Storage

With so many options in the works, one of them is bound to pay off soon:

http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/01/09/vanadium-liquid-energy-storage

The Navy’s New Robot Boats Swarm the Enemy on Their Own

I can see a nice nightmare Terminator scenario here:

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/navys-new-robot-boats-swarm-enemy/

Alphabet’s Waymo Said to Expand Self-Driving Chrysler Fleet

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-08/alphabet-s-waymo-said-to-expand-self-driving-chrysler-van-fleet

Infinite Solar Power Technology Could Completely Change Our Future

https://futurism.com/infinite-solar-power-technology-could-completely-change-our-future/

Franka: A Robot Arm That’s Safe, Low Cost, and Can Replicate Itself

Self-replication, even on the macro scale, is a powerful ability:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/franka-a-robot-arm-thats-safe-low-cost-and-can-replicate-itself

Taking a ride in Nvidia’s self-driving car

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/01/nvidia-audi-bb8-self-driving-car/

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Faraday Future finally fills us in on the 1,050-horsepower FF 91

Electric cars have come a long way:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/faraday-future-ff91-at-ces-2017/

New AI To Take On World’s Best Poker Players

Next domino to fall:

https://futurism.com/the-ai-taking-on-worlds-best-poker-players-could-grow-up-to-battle-cancer/

Expert Claims Automakers “Not Even Close” To Fully Autonomous Cars

Way too pessimistic, I think:

https://futurism.com/expert-claims-automakers-not-even-close-to-fully-autonomous-cars/

China Makes Major Investment In Renewable Power Generation

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-renewable-power_us_586e114de4b0c8575a77453d

We Survive Because Reality May Be Nothing Like We Think It Is

Just to keep us humble...

http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/we-survive-because-reality-may-be-nothing-like-we-think-it-is

How to form the world’s smallest self-assembling nanowires — just 3 atoms wide

http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-form-the-worlds-smallest-self-assembling-nanowires-just-3-atoms-wide

Is Virtual Reality the Surprising Solution to the Fermi Paradox?

https://singularityhub.com/2017/01/01/is-virtual-reality-the-surprising-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox/

MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster

Better and better… https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/mit-has-just-worked-out-how-to-make-the-most-popular-ai-im...