Lie Spotting Facial Recognition Tech Might Become an Airport Security Tool
Facial recognition software that spots when someone is lying has arrived and it could soon be utilized to detect terrorists and other non-do-gooders trying to get past security measures at airports, say researchers. Computer scientists at New York’s University of Rochester released a statement Tuesday describing how researchers were able to use data science and an online crowdsourcing framework known … Continue reading
Humanoid AI Robot Can Chase After You
Terminator is slowing coming true :O via Unexplained-Mysteries: Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot Atlas is now able to run and jump outside without being tethered to anything. It may have taken three years to accomplish, but now the eerily human-like creation has been given free reign to go wherever it pleases and can even jump over obstacles in its path. In … Continue reading
Breakthrough Listen Program Launched in an Unprecedented Effort to Find Aliens
Breakthrough Listen is a program designed to comb the stars for evidence of alien life across the Milky Way and beyond. The program began in January of 2016 and is now gearing up for a new phase of work — a huge survey of the plane of our galaxy, with millions of stars surveyed over the next two months. The … Continue reading
Genome Project Aims to Build Human Cells That Are Impervious to Viruses
One serious thing to consider with this plan is that nature seems to use things like viruses to regulate population and even improve immune systems naturally, which in turn promotes the health of a species as would be evident over time when the species procreates. It would seem this would counter act those checks and balances, this could be a … Continue reading
Idea Proposed to Use Asteroids as Starships
Rather clever idea, modifying asteroids to enable their use as a ‘vehicle’ for traveling in space. via unexplained-mysteries: Researchers have put forward the idea of hollowing out an asteroid and using it to travel between the stars. It might sound like something out of an Arthur C. Clarke novel, but the idea of using asteroids as frameworks for multi-generational interstellar … Continue reading
Europe to Create First Genetically Modified Humans Ever
Once again another idea from science fiction is slowly coming to fruition, exciting but just imagine when this gets out of control. via March Against Monsanto: The acceleration of human progress and knowledge about health has reached a breakneck pace, and it appears as though there are two distinct camps emerging: people who believe natural health is the answer to … Continue reading
New Dream Control Device Developed by MIT Scientists
From Inception to the anime classic Paprika, science-fiction is filled with devices that let people manipulate dreams. Though researchers have started work on machines that can read your mind and translate thoughts into text, the realm of sleep has remained relatively unexplored…until now. Scientists at MIT are working on the third generation of a device called Dormio, which is already … Continue reading
Russia to Open First Sex Robot Brothel in Moscow
From Russia with Love? Wait till you read the details..personally found some of it weird and creepy.. not judging, just saying. via Sputniknews: Nightlife in the Russian capital may soon take on a new variety with the upcoming opening of the first legal sexbot brothel in the country. The first Dolls Hotel adult entertainment center featuring sex robots is scheduled … Continue reading
NASA’s Alcubierre Drive Initiative, Faster Than the Speed of Light
Before we jump into this, you should know that a number of scientists are currently researching the feasibility of warp drive (and EMdrive and a number of other modes of faster than light travel); however, most think that such forms of space travel simply aren’t viable, thanks to the fundamental physics of our universe. So although part of this article is … Continue reading
Human Pro Fighter Pilot Shot Down by AI in Dogfight Simulations for the First Time
It’s creeping up on us, AI is starting to achieve some remarkable feats. Perhaps the late great professor Hawkins and others that warned of the dangers of AI have it right. via Outer Places: Artificial intelligence has beaten humans at chess, Go, and even complex MOBA games like DoTA, but now they’re moving up to real wargames-specifically, combat flight simulators … Continue reading