Technology
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A System To Reproduce Different Animal Locomotion Skills In Robots | Ingrid Fadelli
Credit: Google May 1, 2020 (Tech Xplore) -- Researchers at Google Research and the University of California, Berkeley, have recently developed an imitation learning system that could enable a ...
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Facebook algorithm changes suppressed journalism and meddled with democracy | Jennifer Grygiel
July 24, 2019 (The Conversation) -- As the 2020 election approaches, there is much public concern that what was dubbed “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential election could happen again. But ...
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The Twilight of the Monofuture | John Michael Greer
July 31, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’m pleased to say that my post here two weeks ago, on the way that belief in progress depends on a certain kind of historical amnesia, got a lively and mostly ...
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Progress and Amnesia | John Michael Greer
Giant laser walrus. Source: worldwidewalrusweb.comJuly 17, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to launch straight into a discussion of peak oil this week, and talk about how the ongoing attempt to ...
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Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors | Louise Lerner
Credit: Petr Kratochvil/public domain July 4, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Every type of atom in the universe has a unique fingerprint: It only absorbs or emits light at the particular energies that match the ...
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Libra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control | Ellen Brown
June 27, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies. This has now been demonstrated -- not in the United States but in China. Unlike in ...
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On-demand, photonic entanglement synthesizer | Thamarasee Jeewandara
Various types of entanglement. (A) Types of entanglement that can be generated by our entanglement synthesizer. (B) Types of entanglement that are actually generated and verified in this experiment. ...
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Hubble and Gaia accurately weigh the Milky Way | ESA/Hubble Information Center
This artist's impression shows a computer-generated model of the Milky Way and the accurate positions of the globular clusters used in this study surrounding it. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Calçada ...
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Securing the 'internet of things' in the quantum age | Rob Matheson
MIT researchers have developed a novel chip that can compute complex quantum-proof encryption schemes efficiently enough to protect low-power “internet of things” (IoT) devices. Credit: ...
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From An 8 Percent Jewish Guy | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2018 This writer recently had a DNA ancestry done. In addition to my ancestry being overwhelmingly Italian, I found out two ...
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America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress | John Michael Greer
Credit: Dawid MichalczykOct. 17, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Two weeks ago, in the first part of this sequence of posts, we explored the way that Oswald Spengler’s insights into the cycles of history ...
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