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anzha writes:
Researchers at the University of Washington have successfully demonstrated the first brain to brain interface. One college successfully controlled another's movements. The implications of the demonstration of the technology is pretty profound, even if its in a very early and ideal form. Beginning of Star Trek's Borg? Or David Gerrold's Teep Corps?
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anzha writes:
On the heels of warning supercomputers are about to hit a wall, the Chinese unveiled Tianhe-2. This machine can do 55 to 53 petaflops peak performance and 27 to 29 petaflops on linpack. This number has been confirmed by three sources with people on site. In other news, Titan feels roshamboed.
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anzha writes:
Horst Simon, Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has stood up at conferences of late and said the unthinkable: supercomputing is hitting a wall and will not build an exaflop HPC system by 2020. This is defined as one that passes linpack with a performance of one exaflop sustained or better. He's even placed money on it. You can read the original presentation here.
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anzha writes:
Team Phoenicia and Techshop are cosponsoring a seminar on NASA's Nanosatellite Launcher Challenge on November 6th, 2010 at 1 PM. The Nanosat Launcher Challenge is a competition to redo Sputnik with a single kilogram payload by private entities within the US. Presenting at the seminar will be NASA and its allied organization, FAA, California Space Authority, Spaceport America, Friends of Amateur Rocketry, Vog Rockets, and Team Phoenicia. The seminar is meant to be a combination of challenge promotion, networking, scoping the difficulty and requirements, and options for help for those teams. The draft rules will be presented for feedback at the seminar by the allied organization. The seminar is open to the public.
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anzha writes:
Do you remember being a kid and told we'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were? For at least some, that's no longer true. Scientists working in the UK and China have closely examined the fossils of multiple theropods and actually found the colors and patterns that were present in the fossilized proto-feathers. So far, the answer is orange, black and white in banded and other patterns. The work also thoroughly thrashes the idea that fossils might not be feathers, but collagen fibers instead. If this holds up, Birds Are Dinosaurs. Period. And colorful!