(Natural News) With threats by North Korea to drop a nuke on the U.S., and hopefully this is just saber rattling, plus escalating tensions with Russia over the Syria missile strike, it may now be an appropriate time for some advance planning about ba

Europe has a five year project to scale up molecular biocomputers which could outperform quantum computers

Modern electronic biomedical devices are enabling a wide range of sophisticated health interventions, from seizure detection and Parkinson's disease therapy to functional artificial limbs, cochlear implants and smart contact lenses.

Transhumans believe they will escape the laws of sin and death, ultimately merging with machines and computers to live forever. Musk's plan is an attempt to co-opt Artificial Intelligence by merging with it and to avoid being destroyed by it. ? T

This information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Viet Nam War .

Bill Kochevar just scooped a forkful of mashed potatoes into his own mouth. No cause for celebration, you say? Well, it is when you consider that Kochevar is a quadriplegic, paralyzed below his shoulders in a cycling accident eight years ago. He hasn

Elon Musk has launched a company dedicated to linking human brains with computers, The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler reported Monday.

Thanks to the superposition principle, a quantum machine has the potential to become an exponentially more powerful computer. If that makes little sense to you, here's quantum computing explained.

IBM Q is an industry-first initiative to build a commercially available universal quantum computers for business and science

I'm not sure how I feel about the upcoming launch of Montreal-based Lyrebird's new service.

What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more -- all by th

Cash is king, until it's not. Part of the emerging generation of fintech startups, the new digital-only banks--colloquially known as the challenger banks by the financial technology "in" crowd--appear to be approaching consumer banking very differ

An antivirus service used by tens of thousands of businesses and millions of home users shut down an untold number of computers around the world Monday after it mistakenly identified core parts of Microsoft Windows as threats, the company confirmed.

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Government agencies still want to restrict or control research into cryptographic security

Fifty years from now, today's humans will be obsolete, historian Yuval Harari says

Intellectual property 'rights' trace their origins back to copyright in literature, from which they have since expanded. With this in mind, it is fruitful to examine how authors can be compensated in the absence of copyright.

Scientists at publicly-funded universities are racing to create human-like artificial intelligence that will displace the humans who funded them in the first place. Ethical and moral debate is entirely missing in this field. ? TN Editor

A powerful new array of radio telescopes is being deployed for the first time this week, as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile joins a global network of antennas poised to make some of the highest resolution images that

(Natural News) Can robots write our news? Researchers from the Media Management and Transformation Center (MMTC) at Jönköping International Business School mean to answer this question by launching a news site project that is entirely facilitated,

Elon Musk has plans to launch V-band low-Earth orbit (VLEO) constellation that would consist of 7,518 satellites which will follow the earlier proposed 4,425 satellites that would function in Ka- and Ku-bands. This global gigabit per second low la

One day, not too soon -- but still sooner than you think -- the smartphone will all but vanish, the way beepers and fax machines did before it.

DARPA has announced its Molecular Informatics program, which seeks a new paradigm for data storage, retrieval, and processing.

Amazon, which currently charges a $99 annual fee for two-day deliveries under its "Prime" service, will eventually offer two-tier pricing for delivery services, Jindel said.

At a conference near Washington, D.C., in February, the commander of all Navy special operations units made an unusual request to industry: Develop and demonstrate technologies that offer "cognitive enhancement" capabilities to boost his elite forces

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When diverse AI programs develop their own languages to communicate with each other, humans may or may not be able to translate, especially if the AI learns how to build its own encryption to 'hide' from humans. ? TN Editor

Lip-reading is an inexact science, with motoring mouths making it hard to attribute sounds to each individual movement.

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor) disclosed plans for an enhanced 7nm FinFET node using extreme ultraviolet lithography, a 12nm upgrade of its 16nm process and a 22nm planar technology -- its answer to fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI).

Last year Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payments company Braintree, starting making news when he threw $100 million behind Kernel, a startup he founded to enhance human intelligence by developing brain implants capable of linking people's th

Igor Mordatch is working to build machines that can carry on a conversation.

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I would encourage everyone to listen to this discussion/debate, as I believe it does really encapsulate most of the discussion and talking points that happens around the net. Also, there's a debate on the second half with someone named Jake, a bitcoi

5G should be 10 to 20 times faster than today's cell-phone networks. 5G will operate in a high-frequency portion of the radio spectrum, known as millimeter wave. It has a lot of available bandwidth and should make it possible for wireless

NEW YORK CITY, Times Square Ad - One of the researchers -2JOHNNYT- on George Webb's youtube channel (George Webb), created a youtube ad to bring attention to the ongoing citizen investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The investigation started

In the quest to shrink data storage down into tinier and tinier forms, scientists have scored a very, very small triumph.

For artificial general intelligence (AGI) it would be efficient if multiple users trained the same giant neural network, permitting parameter reuse, without catastrophic forgetting. PathNet is a first step in this direction.

The Wi-Fi icon -- a dot with radio waves radiating outward -- glows on nearly every internet-connected device, from the iPhone to thermostats to TVs. But it's starting to fade from the limelight.

Blackphone is the world's first smartphone built from the ground up to be private by design. Now with a faster processor, more RAM and a larger display.

Machine learning is a fascinating and exciting field within computer science. Recently, this excitement has been transferred to the quantum information realm.

The pace the drone industry moves at is terrifying.

Huge inflatable descended from 11 miles in the sky, above remote town in Brazil Project Loon comes from X, a lab under Google's parent company Alphabet The firm has since apologised for 'surprising' locals in the Autazes area

Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown that it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that "grows as it computes".

Ground-breaking research led by Prof Stefano Sanvito, Director of the CRANN Institute at Trinity College Dublin and Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland funded centre AMBER, .....

Early last year, Jeff Raymond was hit with an epiphany. Despite enjoying the benefits of agricultural developments, he and his wife came to realize they weren't doing anything to contribute to sustainable agriculture themselves.

Arxiv - Semihierarchical quantum repeaters based on moderate lifetime quantum memories

SoftBank Group Corp.'s Masayoshi Son his belief that computers will exceed humans in intelligence in three decades, and that within this period he expects one computer chip to have the equivalent of a 10,000 IQ.

A new organic artificial synapse made by Stanford researchers could support computers that better recreate the way the human brain processes information. It could also lead to improvements in brain-machine technologies.

live in the world of blockchain and smart contracts. I hear people using terms that remind me of when we were building the Web back in the 1990s: they are talking, but they aren't understanding each other because they don't have a common understa