Over the next couple of generations, one of the biggest challenges we may face as a species is what to do with ourselves. When artificial intelligence and robots can do most of the work for us, what will we do? Over the next couple of generations, one of the biggest challenges we may face as a species is what to do with ourselves.
Category: Science
Workplace takeover: Report claims almost half of U.S. jobs at risk from AI
Over the next couple of generations, one of the biggest challenges we may face as a species is what to do with ourselves. When artificial intelligence and robots can do most of the work for us, what will we do? Over the next couple of generations, one of the biggest challenges we may face as a species is what to do with ourselves.
Data Center Security Market to Reach $17.84 Billion With 13.4% CAGR Forecast to 2022
PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, December 23, 2016 / EINPresswire.com / — Data Center Security Industry Description According to Stratistics MRC, the Global Data Center Security market is expected to grow from $7.38 billion in 2015 to reach $17.84 billion by 2022 with a CAGR of 13.4%.Growing acceptance of virtualization and cloud computing, raising global cyber attacks, and increasing data traffic are the major factors fueling the market growth. In addition, technological advancements in data security is the key factor contributing the market growth.
Sighthound Unveils Sighthound Video 4.0
Sighthound, Inc. today announced the release of Sighthound Video 4.0, the latest version of its state-of-the-art security software for homes and businesses. Sighthound Video is artificial intelligence software which allows a computer to monitor a home or business and look for people.
Cloud Infrastructure Manage Tools Market Set to Grow Exponentially by 2024
Cloud infrastructure manage tools includes software and technologies designed for operating and monitoring applications, data and services offered through the cloud. Cloud infrastructure manage tools assist cloud computing service providers to check cloud computing based resources are working efficiently and smoothly, interacting with users and other services.
Enterprise Network Managed Service Market to Register a Strong Growth by 2024
Managed services are essentials part of most of the enterprises. Managed services have many classification such as HR-activities and maintenance and support of entire IT infrastructure of a particular business organization.
Economics of Big Software: What you need to know
While the cost to deploy OpenStack is relatively low, the ongoing investment in maintenance, labour, and operations can be high. However, today’s IT director is facing significant business disruption from very real concepts including Software as a Service, big data, cloud, scale-out, artificial intelligence, containers, OpenStack and microservices.
The Smart & Connected to the Cloud World: 2016 and Beyond
The global robotics and AI market is estimated to grow to $153 billion by 2020, which includes $83 billion for robotics and $70 billion for AI-based analytics. In 2016, people have witnessed the digital and physical worlds continuing to merge as everyday objects, commercial and industrial equipment, and entire cities become smart and connected to the cloud.
Te Manawa keeping the kids busy during the summer
Dinosaurs are set to remain all the rage at Te Manawa over the summer, with programmes designed to teach children about the extinct creatures taking place during the holidays. Children spent Friday in the museum’s courtyard playing with a snow machine, bringing a bit of white Christmas to sunny Palmerston North.
Leading Service Providers Are Succeeding With Nutanix
Nutanix , a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced ongoing success of service providers globally with its Enterprise Cloud Platform. Nutanix solutions align with service providers’ business model including fast performance and linear scaling, 1-click operational simplicity and predictive analytics, and flexible purchasing options.
How Do We Colonize Saturn’s Moons?
Welcome back to our series on Colonizing the Solar System! Today, we take a look at the largest of Saturn’s Moons – Titan, Rhea, Iapetus, Dione, Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas. From the 17th century onward, astronomers made some profound discoveries around the planet Saturn, which they believed was the most distant planet of the Solar System at the time.
Leading Service Providers Are Succeeding With Nutanix
Nutanix solutions align with service providers’ business model including fast performance and linear scaling, 1-click operational simplicity and predictive analytics, and flexible purchasing options. Service providers play an important role in delivering IT services in an increasingly competitive and dynamic market.
Stem cells give Stanford scientists a new window into the biology of a rare disease
Today, Stanford pediatric cardiologist Marlene Rabinovitch , MD, and her team published new research that advances their quest to understand a serious – and very puzzling – lung disease. They’re studying pulmonary arterial hypertension , which frequently leads to heart failure.
Kate Becker: Cosmic gifts, no purchase required
It’s Gift Guide time, when I get to window-shop the internet for astronomy-themed doodads to delight the star-lovers on your list. But this year, something feels different, and the doodads all feel a little less delightful than usual.
Drinking heavy water
Deuterium is a hydrogen atom with a neutron in it. Heavy water is made from molecules of two deuterium atoms and one oxygen atom.
Spiders Growing on the Surface of Mars Right Before Our Eyes
For years, scientists have understood that in Mars’ polar regions, frozen carbon dioxide covers much of the surface during the winter. During the spring, this ice sublimates in places, causing the ice to crack and jets of COA2 to spew forth.
Festive nebulae light up Milky Way Galaxy satellite
This glowing nebula, named NGC 248, is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and about 200 000 light-years from Earth. The nebula was observed with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in Sept.
VLA, ALMA team up to give first look at birthplaces of most current stars
Radio/Optical combination images of distant galaxies as seen with NSF’s Very Large Array and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Their distances from Earth are indicated in the top set of images.
Google open-sources test suite to find crypto bugs
Working with cryptographic libraries is hard, and a single implementation mistake can result in serious security problems . To help developers check their code for implementation errors and find weaknesses in cryptographic software libraries, Google has released a test suite as part of Project Wycheproof .
Four short links: 20 December 2016
Ingestible Origami Robot — The researchers tested about a dozen different possibilities for the structural material before settling on the type of dried pig intestine used in sausage casings. “We spent a lot of time at Asian markets and the Chinatown market looking for materials.”
Four short links: 20 December 2016
Ingestible Origami Robot — The researchers tested about a dozen different possibilities for the structural material before settling on the type of dried pig intestine used in sausage casings. “We spent a lot of time at Asian markets and the Chinatown market looking for materials.”
NASA’s far-flung space robots keep findings signs of water
Robotic explorers have found signs of long-lost water on Mars and extensive ice still present on the dwarf planet Ceres – evidence that water truly is almost everywhere we look. The results were announced last week at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union – the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists.
Pan-STARRS Releases Largest Digital Sky Survey to the World
The Pan-STARRS project at the University of Hawai’i Institute for Astronomy is publicly releasing the world’s largest digital sky survey today from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is among the partners who contributed to the Pan-STARRS1 Surveys.
Rating, ranking and recommending: Three R’s for the internet age
This holiday season, when we Google for the most trending gifts, compare different items on Amazon or take a break to watch a holiday movie on Netflix, we are making use of what might be called “the three R’s” of the Internet Age: rating, ranking and recommending. Much like the traditional “three R’s” of education “reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic” no modern education is complete without understanding how websites’ algorithms combine, process and synthesize information before presenting it to us.
PathVar: analysis of gene and protein expression variance in cellular pathways using microarray data
To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. Finding significant differences between the expression levels of genes or proteins across diverse biological conditions is one of the primary goals in the analysis of functional genomics data.
NASA plans to search for ‘Star Wars’ planets
Some of the planets discovered around stars in our own galaxy may be very similar to the ‘Star Wars’ exoplanets like arid Tatooine, watery Scarif and even frozen Hoth, according to NASA scientists. Sifting through data on the more than 3,400 confirmed alien worlds, scientists applied sophisticated computer modelling techniques to tease out the colours, light, sunrise and sunsets we might encounter if we could pay them a visit.
Nigeria can become Africa’s outsourcing headquarters for data…
A Nigerian newspaper and Online version of the Vanguard, a daily publication in Nigeria covering Niger delta, general national news, politics, business, energy, sports, entertainment, fashion,lifestyle human interest stories, etc He got a global recognition at the INSNA conference in California after concluding his PhD sabbatical which took him across three nations – London, India and America. Bayo Adekanmbi, C-Level Executive, MTN, recently completed a globally acclaimed book titled “The Future is Shared”.
Nigeria can become Africa’s outsourcing headquarters for data…
A Nigerian newspaper and Online version of the Vanguard, a daily publication in Nigeria covering Niger delta, general national news, politics, business, energy, sports, entertainment, fashion,lifestyle human interest stories, etc He got a global recognition at the INSNA conference in California after concluding his PhD sabbatical which took him across three nations – London, India and America. Bayo Adekanmbi, C-Level Executive, MTN, recently completed a globally acclaimed book titled “The Future is Shared”.
Able Were We Before We Became Abel:
OUR AUTOMATED FUTURE : How long will it be before you lose your job to a robot? Economic history suggests that this basic pattern will continue, and that the jobs eliminated by Watson and his ilk will be balanced by those created in enterprises yet to be imagined–but not without a good deal of suffering. If nearly half the occupations in the U.S. are “potentially automatable,” and if this could play out within “a decade or two,” then we are looking at economic disruption on an unparalleled scale.
Quantum Satellites Are a Big Step toward the Unhackable Internet
Perfectly secure cryptography requires no technology more exotic than pencil and paper: Choose a random string of letters and numbers to serve as the key for an enciphered message. Write the key down on a piece of paper, use it once and then burn the paper.
3 Reasons AMD Stock Could Fall After Gaining 280% in 2016
The company is still unprofitable, but investors are betting that AMD is on the verge of a historic turnaround. Polaris, AMD’s mainstream-oriented GPU, launched earlier this year, producing growth in the company’s core business after a long streak of disappointing results.
MicroRNA Differences Across the Course of Aging Correlate with Life Span
Become a SENS Patron by pledging a monthly donation to the SENS Research Foundation in support of rejuvenation research programs. Pledge before the end of the 2016 and we will match the next year of your gifts.
EnWave Reports 2016 Annual Financial Results
E4U ) today reported its annual results for the year ended September 30, 2016. These annual consolidated financial statements and MD&A are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on our website at www.EnWave.net .
Ohio universities receive $8.5 million for high tech research
Public and private universities in Ohio, including Case Western Reserve University, received $8.5 million from the Ohio Federal Research Network to lead high tech research for the defense and aerospace industries. The statewide initiative supports university Centers of Excellence , which highlight strong research areas.
[Working Life] Following my lucky star
About 30 years ago, while lunching with science faculty members during a campus visit, I was asked to what I attributed my success. My spur of the moment reply, “The ability to write and speak easily and well,” surprised them.