Easy to use videoconferencing is the head-turning feature of the latest iPhone and the FaceTime application may pressure wireless carriers to provide more bandwidth…
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The World Technology Network (WTN) in association with TIME magazine has announced the New York premiere screening of “The Singularity is Near: A True Story About the Future”…
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On the floor of the exhibit hall at the Society for Information Display conference in Seattle this week were many amazing technologies. One of the things that impressed me the most was E Ink’s latest prototypes…
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A computer algorithm modeled after the human brain has learned how to recognize different galaxy types ranging from spiral to elliptical, and can now help flesh-and-blood stargazers with the daunting task of classifying billions of galaxies.
The machine-learning codes have proven reliable enough to agree with human classifications of galaxies 90 percent of the time, according to scientists at University College London and the University of Cambridge in the UK.
That should help astronomers keep up with a deluge of galaxy imagery from observational projects such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Galaxy Zoo. The billions of galaxies in the known universe include a wide range of shapes such as spiral, elliptical, barred and irregular. more>>>
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, May 06, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Evolution Solar (PinkSheets:EVSO) applauded the news that Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have successfully coated paper with a solar cell, part of a suite of research projects aimed at energy breakthroughs. The paper solar cells are one of many avenues being pursued around nanoscale materials at the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This breakthrough could lead to layers of these materials essentially being sprayed using different manufacturing techniques to make a thin-film solar cell on a plastic, paper, or metal foils. This technology has the potential to revolutionize the solar industry and result in drastic solar cost reductions. more>>>
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Scientists in Europe say they have likely solved the case of the missing neutrinos, one of the enduring mysteries in the subatomic universe of particle physics.
If confirmed in subsequent experiments, the findings challenge core precepts of the so-called Standard Model of physics, and could have major implications for our understanding of matter in the universe, the researchers say.
For decades physicists had observed that fewer neutrinos – electrically neutral particles that travel close to the speed of light – arrived at Earth from the Sun than solar models predicted.
That meant one of two things: either the models were wrong, or something was happening to the neutrinos along the way.
At least one variety called a muon-neutrino was actually seen to disappear, lending credence to a Nobel-winning 1969 hypothesis that the miniscule particles were shape-shifting into a new and unseen form.
Now scientists at Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics have for the first time observed – with 98% certainty – what they change into during a process called neutrino oscillation: another type of particle known as tau.
“This will be the long-awaited proof of this process. It was a missing piece of the puzzle,” says Professor Antonio Ereditato, a researcher at the Institute and spokesman for the OPERA group that carried out the study.
“If true, it means that new physics will be required to explain this fact,” he says. more>>>
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It’s that time of the year again — the Singularity Summit 2010 is scheduled for August 14-15 at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. See you there! Here is our press release…
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