Manchester United signs 5-year-old kid. $1.6 million just bought the world’s most expensive dog. 5 Bizarre Killing Sprees that Never Got Solved. Nanowire battery can hold 10 times the charge of existing lithium-ion battery. Stanford Report, December 18, 2007 Courtesy Nature Nanotechnology Photos taken by a scanning electron microscope of silicon nanowires before (left) and after (right) absorbing lithium.
Both photos were taken at the same magnification. The work is described in “High-performance lithium battery anodes using silicon nanowires,” published online Dec. 16 in Nature Nanotechnology. Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. The new technology, developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces 10 times the amount of electricity of existing lithium-ion, known as Li-ion, batteries. Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to the iPhone, And It's Going to Change Everything.
Let me start off by saying this: Your phone is not suddenly going to gain sentience and become Skynet.
However, your phone is about to become a whole lot smarter, thanks to Apple and its new artificial intelligence Assistant. The hype surrounding Tuesday's Apple iPhone event is at an all-time high. But most of the hype is focused on the hardware that Apple will announce. What will the iPhone 5 look like? Will there be an iPhone 4S? The real star of Tuesday's show will not be the hardware, though. Assistant is the successor to Siri, the iPhone app that helped users with their daily tasks with natural language voice commands. Ipswich tattooist charged over 40cm penis tattoo on man's back.
Villagers In Philippines Capture Giant One-Ton Crocodile. The world’s fastest supercomputer. The world’s fastest supercomputer August 30th, 2011 allfromweb. Hulu up for sale, Google bidding big against Amazon, Yahoo, Dish Network. September 07, 2011, 10:35 AM — How much is Hulu worth, now that they have over a million Hulu Plus subscribers?
Reports range from $500 million to $2 billion. Half-male, half-female butterfly emerges from cocoon at museum exhibit. The Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the London Natural History Museum is usually an opportunity for experts to wow museum-goers about colorful butterflies from around the world.
But at this year's exhibition, one unusual great Mormon butterfly surprised even the experts. The butterfly is an extremely rare half-male, half-female bilateral Gynandromorph, which means that it appears to be male on one side but female on the other, according to the Guardian. Dual-sex animals are a rare occurrence in nature, but it's especially rare for such a creature to be so uniformly bilateral. This butterfly appears perfectly split down the middle, with smoky black colors on its male side, but with visible flecks of blue, red and tortoiseshell on its female side.
It also has one antenna longer than the other, a single male clasp on its abdomen, and its genitalia are also cut half and half — the male and female reproductive organs are fused right down the middle. Video: New Atomic Clock Reaches A 100 Quadrillionth Of A Second Accuracy. A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has developed a new type of optical atomic clock that boasts a 100 quadrillionth of a second accuracy (one quadrillion has 15 zeros).
The optical lattice clock is the brain child of Professor Katori who says his device observes a million atoms simultaneously whereas conventional atomic clocks measure time by using single atoms. The Professor explains: The Human Marvels. Eyeborg filmmaker fires up eye-cam to document cutting edge prosthetics... Dead Bodies On Mount Everest: Pics, Videos, Links, News. 02002-02029 (27 years): By 2029 no computer - or "machine intelligence" - will have passed the Turing Test. - Long Bets. The Significance of the Turing Test.
The implicit, and in my view brilliant, insight in Turing's eponymous test is the ability of written human language to represent human-level thinking. The basis of the Turing test is that if the human Turing test judge is competent, then an entity requires human-level intelligence in order to pass the test. The human judge is free to probe each candidate with regard to their understanding of basic human knowledge, current events, aspects of the candidate's personal history and experiences, as well as their subjective experiences, all expressed through written language.
10 Of The Strangest Unclaimed Airline Baggage Items Ever Found. Computer derives natural laws. Lindsay France/University Photography Professor Hod Lipson and graduate student Michael Schmidt adjust a double pendulum.
Utah's Liquor Laws: Still Crazy, but Less So (I Think) Two years ago, in what may have been his single greatest achievement as governor of Utah, Jon Huntsman signed legislation that eliminated the state's "private club" rule for serving alcohol.
Guatemalan woman finds huge sinkhole under bed. You may sometimes wish the ground would swallow you up, but for some the danger of disappearing down a deep hole is all too real.
The people of Guatemala City are increasingly unable to trust what's beneath their feet because of treacherous sinkholes. The latest person to get a shock was 65-year-old Inocenta Hernandez. "When we heard the loud boom we thought a gas canister from a neighbouring home had exploded, or there had been a crash on the street. "We rushed out to look and saw nothing. A gentleman told me that the noise came from my house, and we searched until we found it under my bed. " InformationWeekAdobe Adds Flash Privacy Controls - security Blog. Flash Player and Google Chrome get patches against attacks currently seen in the wild.
Recommended Reading: -- Adobe Flash Attacks Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerability -- Online Privacy Battles Advertising Profits Adobe is aiming to make Flash safer for users, in part by blocking questionable website-tracking practices. The company on Thursday released Flash Player version 10.3, which now enables users to wipe the data stored by Flash from within the browser. That capability is designed to help people block the use of persistent Flash cookies--also known as Local Shared Objects (LSOs)--which some advertisers use to surreptitiously track every website that a user visits, regardless of their cookie or cache settings.