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A Comet Impact With Earth Could Wipe Out The Entire Human Race
What if I told you that within the next 20 years, Earth will face an enemy that will be 1,000 times more catastrophic than the detonation of every nuclear weapon on the planet? World-renowned author Graham Hancock believes this could be our fate, and has warned the public that sometime over the next 20 years, Earth may collide with the … Continue reading
Facebook Working on Technology that Would Allow You to TYPE with Your BRAIN
In its latest ambitious project, the social media giant says that it wants to build a “brain-computer speech-to-text interface” which can essentially type the words you think. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the new project “one day will let you communicate using only your mind” and is being developed by Building 8 – Facebook’s consumer hardware lab. Mr Zuckerberg, who … Continue reading
Bringing the Dead Back to Life – Cryogenically Frozen Brains to Be Transplanted to Donor Bodies Within Three Years
People who have had their brains cryogenically frozen could be ‘woken up’ within three years, a pioneering Italian surgeon has claimed. Professor Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, is aiming to carry out the first human head transplant within 10 months and then wants to begin trials on brain transplants. If the procedures are successful, he believes … Continue reading
Cassini Survives Saturn Plunge Returns Spectacular Images
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured a series of impressive new photos during its death-defying dive. The risky manoeuver, which saw the probe fly through the 1,500-mile-wide gap between Saturn and its innermost ring, was undertaken last week as part of the mission’s “grand finale”. The signal indicating that Cassini had survived was picked up by NASA’s Deep Space Network Goldstone … Continue reading
Elon Musk Lays Out Plans to Merge Human Mind With Computers
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday confirmed plans for his newest company, called Neuralink Corp., revealing he will be the chief executive of a startup that aims to merge computers with brains so humans could one day engage in “consensual telepathy.” Speaking to writer Tim Urban on the explainer website Wait But Why, Mr. Musk confirmed a Wall Street Journal … Continue reading
There’s a Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence: No One Really Understands How it Works
Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn’t look different from other autonomous cars, but it was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors, and it showed the rising power of artificial intelligence. The car didn’t follow … Continue reading
Brain Hardwired to Respond to Others’ Itching
Itching is a highly contagious behavior. When we see someone scratch, we’re likely to scratch, too. New research from the Washington University Center for the Study of Itch shows contagious itching is hardwired in the brain. Some behaviors — yawning and scratching, for example — are socially contagious, meaning if one person does it, others are likely to follow suit. … Continue reading
Strange Cold Helium Atoms Behave the Same Way as Black Holes
A team of scientists has discovered that a law controlling the bizarre behavior of black holes out in space—is also true for cold helium atoms that can be studied in laboratories. “It’s called an entanglement area law,” says Adrian Del Maestro, a physicist at the University of Vermont who co-led the research. That this law appears at both the vast … Continue reading
Just like Humans, Artificial Intelligence Can Learn Racism Too
When Microsoft released an artificially intelligent chatbot named Tay on Twitter last March, things took a predictably disastrous turn. Within 24 hours, the bot was spewing racist, neo-Nazi rants, much of which it picked up by incorporating the language of Twitter users who interacted with it. Unfortunately, new research finds that Twitter trolls aren’t the only way that AI devices … Continue reading
Strange Anomalies Detected by Large Hadron Collider Could REWRITE the Laws of Physics
The Standard Model is a theory in physics that dictates how all of the particles in the universe interact, and the Higgs Boson, also known as the God Particle, was deemed necessary to give mass to other particles and essentially proved the Standard Model to be true. The discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012 validated generations’ worth of physicists … Continue reading
