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Life, the Grand Simulation?
i just finished watching Mission to Mars for the zillionth time. btw, this essay is dedicated to Kristin, Richard, and Alicia. There are many unrealistic scenarios in MtM such as the meteor shower just before they reach Mars or reducing their velocity wrt Mars (this is just... ACOMA = A COnscious MAchine design
This essay revisits my design for a conscious machine - designed from the systems approach and 'minimal functionalist' perspectives. It tries to answer the question: what is the minimal physical system (what... Machine washes Muslims & recites Koran
A Malaysian company - AACE Technologies - has invented a machine it said would help Muslims purify themselves before prayers without excessively wasting water. The ornate machine comes with automatic sensors and basins to curb water usage during "wudu", an Arabic word... Rotating house follows the sun
An Australian couple, the Evringhams, have built a house that rotates to follow the sun. The whole house is turned by a motor not much bigger than that in a washing machine and enables the house to make the...
created by Paul Conneally | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
1043 views | 40 recommendations | 3 comments
1043 views | 40 recommendations | 3 comments
Oh crumbs! Hadron Collider breaks down
Of course the conspiracy theorist will now be saying stupid things...Some physicists have said that time-travelling particles from the future could be damaging the machine in an attempt to thwart any experiments.... No such thing as "deleted" on the Internet
Yeah, there is no such thing as "deleted" on the internet. Shocked? So was I when I read the following article on Yahoo Tech. The research has been done by researchers at Cambridge University who have found that... A vending machine that makes hot pizza upon request
Would you buy 'fresh' pizza from a vending machine? Well a man who was successful selling pasta in California, now wants to return to Italy and start up a vending machine business that will cook pizza with all fresh... Robotic suit augments farmer strength
" The suit, unveiled on Friday by researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, is a prototype wearable assistance machine equipped with eight motors and 16 sensors. The 55-pound device is designed... Musicians Complain About Their Songs Being Used for Torture
Prominent rock bands have joined forces with a legal charity to campaign against the use of music as an instrument of torture by US military interrogators. According to British organization Reprieve, the...
created by Mary Richard | 3 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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711 views | 8 recommendations | 4 comments
3D Printing: The future is NOW!
Yes, you can! Okay, maybe you and i can't afford it but I can see it, in ten years, mattel introduces the "print your own toys" all-in-one household object printer! "Easy software anyone can use with... Diebold faces GPL infringement lawsuit over voting machines
"Artifex Software, the company behind the open source Ghostscript PDF processing software, has filed a lawsuit against voting machine vendor Diebold and its subsidiary Premier Election Solutions. Artifex says that Diebold violated the GPL by incorporating Ghostscript into...West Virginia: Vote Flipping Caught on Tape
Jackson Co. West Virginia clerk inadvertently gives a demonstration of the unreliability of electronic voting machines. The machine was flipping the votes right on camera- even after he recalibrated it. Nearly 360,000 views in 2 days; your vote may not get counted, but you...
created by Erik Larson | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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194 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Brainy Robots to Put Us Out of Work, on Vacation and in School?
There's the saying, "No machine can do my job, until it learns to drink", but according to author Marshall Brain, computers are eventually going to take over the world and eliminate meaningless, humiliating work... 270 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
Vote Flips 5 Times From Dem to Rep for Voter in Yet Another WV County
More votes being flipped from Dem to Republican; can Obamania and the flood of newly registered voters beat the Republican-controlled computer vote-counting?Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Finally a report of a McCain vote being flipped to Obama; as Bradblog notes, does this mean we'll be...
created by Erik Larson | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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109 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Turing Test Contest Proves Artificial Intelligence is Making Gains
The Loebner Prize contest was held in England this past weekend, where artificial intelligence machines were put to the test to see if they could convince judges that they were intelligent humans. Based on...
created by Terri Potratz | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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547 views | 14 recommendations | 5 comments
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