Superintelligent AI in space could explain the Fermi Paradox

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is continuing to have a disruptive impact on ever more parts of humanity. But what does it mean in the long run? A new paper, available in pre-print on arXiv from Austrian researcher Sergey Ivliev , extrapolates what the wide scale adoption of AI means for the future of humanity in spaceContinue Reading

NASA celebrates America’s 250th birthday with red, white and blue snaps of the cosmos — Space photo of the week

Four Chandra X-ray Observatory images showing (from top left to bottom right) a supernova remnant, a nebula, a galaxy cluster, and a spiral galaxy. (Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Brian Brennan and Remi Lacasse; Optical/IR/UV: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AURA; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Optical and dark matter: NASA/ESA/M.J. Jee; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand) quick facts What itContinue Reading

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This Week in 2016 Copyright Office Pushing Dangerous And Ridiculous Plan To Strip Websites Of DMCA Safe Harbors Judge Calls Out Malibu Media For Its Attempt To Cut And Run When Faced With Challenge To Its Infringement Claims Hillary Clinton’s Tech Policy Plan Includes Some Empty Broadband Promises And AContinue Reading

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AerynOS has dropped its latest project update. This February release brings a wave of refinements to the Linux distribution, sharpening its edges for smoother daily use. AerynOS is a modern, independent Linux operating system built from scratch – not based on Ubuntu, Fedora, or any other distro. It focuses onContinue Reading

Meet the Geely Galaxy Electric Vehicles: Tim Motors Unveils the Lineup in Nigeria

Nigeria’s automotive industry reached another important milestone. TIM Motors officially launched the premium new-energy vehicle brand Geely Galaxy of the Geely Auto Group at an exclusive unveiling event in Lagos, themed “Powering the Future”. The launch marked the official introduction of the Geely Galaxy brand into the Nigerian market with three new-energy vehicles: the GeelyContinue Reading

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 217 — America in Space

America in Space – 250 Years of Bold Firsts & Our Favorite Missions! – YouTube Watch On On Episode 217 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the progression of American space efforts. Since 1958, the United States has been part of the spaceflight adventure, and since the mid-1960s has ledContinue Reading

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The 1970s saw the birth of thewidebody, a radical new aircraft design in which airliners featured two aisles to accommodate more seats per row. The first was the Boeing 747, an iconic double-decker that would go on to become one of the most successful twin-aisle planes of all time, andContinue Reading