Earlier this month, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez split the 2020 physics Nobel Prize for decades of work on black holes. Click here to learn more about their monumental achievement and about the history of our understanding of these exotic objects in space. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/nobel-prize-3-astrophysicists-black-holess-penrose-genzel-ghez…
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Measuring the spin of a black hole
A black hole, at least in our current understanding, is characterized by having “no hair,” that is, it is so simple that it can be completely described by just three parameters, its mass, its spin and its electric charge. Even though it may have formed out of a complex mix of matter and energy, all other details are lost when the…
The Future of Xbox Isn’t Just a Console
With the Xbox Series X on the horizon, Microsoft’s head of videogame hardware sees a future where consoles may no longer be front and center. Wired reports: Despite its massive push for the Xbox Series X, Microsoft is hedging its bets that a decade from now more and more gamers will be taking a “no gods, no masters” approach to where…
Silicon Valley’s Singularity University Is Cutting Staff, CEO Exits
Singularity University, a Silicon Valley institute offering education on futurism, is reckoning with its own uncertain future. The chief executive officer is stepping down, and the organization plans to eliminate staff. From a report: The changes were outlined in an email Tuesday reviewed by Bloomberg that was sent to faculty by Erik Anderson, the executive chairman. They mark an extended decline…
Putting the ‘bang’ in Big Bang
Physicists have pondered how the cold, uniform matter of the inflationary early universe became the ultrahot, complex mixture of matter, space and time that led to the universe we know. New work simulates a bridge between cosmic inflation and … everything else. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/big-bang-simulation-inflation-reheating-period…
100-Year-Old James Lovelock Predicts Humans Will Be Replaced by Self-Aware AI
A new book by futurist James Lovelock argues “Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end. The understanders of the future will not be humans but what I choose to call ‘cyborgs’ that will have designed and built themselves.” An anonymous reader quotes NBC News’ Mach blog:
Lovelock describes cyborgs as the self-sufficient, self-aware descendants of…
Movie Companies Sue ‘YTS’ and ‘YIFY’ Site Operators in US Court
The companies behind the movies “Singularity,” “Once Upon a Time in
Venice,” “Mechanic: Resurrection,” “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” “I Feel Pretty,” “Boyka: Undisputed” and “Hunter Killer,” accuse the alleged operators of YIFYMovies.is and YTS.am of inducing and contributing to massive piracy. From a report: “Plaintiffs bring this action to stop the massive piracy of their motion pictures brought on by websites under the…
True AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines
Stories abound of machines that are writing, painting and making music. Are we about to enter the creative singularity, asks Marcus du Sautoy Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232292-000-true-ai-creativity-is-coming-and-will-reveal-the-minds-of-machines/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Why it Feels Like Time is Speeding Up
Melissa Dykes – Entire generations being born now are raised to be dependent on technology. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/30/why-it-feels-like-time-is-speeding-up/…