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NASA PubSpace – A free repository of (some) peer-reviewed papers from NASA

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15 Oct, 2016

NASA has announced PubSpace – a repository to give the public a free and open access to all the peer-reviewed research papers that are funded by NASA.

How Dangerous Is Artificial Intelligence?

Computing

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8 Oct, 2016

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Even the current weak artificial intelligence is dangerous. Without proper regulations for the data that are used to model the next generation of general strong artificial intelligence, the system will always be dangerous than humans.

Smallest Transistor Built with 1-Nanometre Carbon Nanotube Gate

Engineering

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7 Oct, 2016

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A team of researchers from Berkeley labs has finally broken the scaling limit of 5 nm gate lengths. This breakthrough has set the first foundation stones for the upcoming processors in the future, keeping Moore’s law alive for a little longer.

Deep-Sea Organisms Are Affected by Plastics Too

Nature

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1 Oct, 2016

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Plastics are contaminating almost every ecosystem in this world. Following the findings of plastics around Antarctica, experiments from a study now have confirmed that microplastics are transferred into deep-sea organisms through their feeding methods. The...