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Virgin Galactic uses space tech to create new supersonic jet
The space tourism company Virgin Galactic teams up with Rolls Royce to create a new Mach 3 supersonic aircraft.
04 August, 2020
New supersonic aircraft from Virgin Galactic.
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- Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic announces a partnership with Rolls Royce.
- The space tourism company will create a new supersonic jet for super-fast travel on Earth.
- The aircraft will travel at Mach 3 – three times the speed of sound.
<p>Virgin Galactic made the hearts of all speed enthusiasts beat faster by announcing a new agreement with Rolls-Royce to create a supersonic passenger jet.</p><p>The space tourism company founded by billionaire <strong>Richard Branson</strong> revealed an enticing look at the aircraft's design, which would not be taking people to the edge of space but between points on Earth. The move allows the company to leverage its space technology for super-fast travel across the planet. Crucially, the craft would utilize sustainable, next-generation fuel.</p><p>The concept for the supersonic jet, which can potentially disrupt commercial airline travel, has undergone a NASA review. Next, the company is planning to work with the FAA to create a framework for certifying the new aircraft for flight. </p>
<p>Virgin's Galactic's partner in this venture, the British company Rolls-Royce, is, of course, no stranger to supersonic aircraft-making, having built engines for the famous Concordes.</p><p>The first aircraft built will be targeted the speed of M<strong>ach 3,</strong> which is three times the speed of sound. In other words – a blazing <strong>2300</strong> mph. The plane will be able to carry from 9 to 19 people, cruising at an altitude of over 60,000 feet.</p><p>Virgin Galactic's chief space officer <strong>George Whitesides</strong> was bullish on the company's achievement:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"We have made great progress so far, and we look forward to opening up a new frontier in high speed travel," he said in a statement.</p>
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<p>The company has also made great strides in the development of its spacecraft. Check out the recently-released interior of its SpaceShipTwo Unity cabin:</p>
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Malcolm Gladwell live! | Strangers, Storytelling, and Psychology
Join the legend of non-fiction in conversation with best-selling author and poker pro Maria Konnikova.
02 August, 2020
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In this Big Think Live session, <strong>Malcolm Gladwell</strong> and host <strong>Maria Konnikova</strong> will explore the quirks of the human mind, the ins and outs of writing about psychology, and the nature of storytelling through the framework of Gladwell's podcast series <a href="http://revisionisthistory.com/seasons" target="_blank">Revisionist History</a> and his latest book <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316478520?tag=bigthink00-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1" target="_blank">Talking to Strangers</a></em>. <br>
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<strong>Malcolm Gladwell</strong> is the author of five <em>New York Times</em> bestsellers: <em>The Tipping Point</em>, <em>Blink</em>, <em>Outliers</em>, <em>What the Dog Saw</em>, and <em>David and Goliath</em>. His newest book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316478520?tag=bigthink00-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1" target="_blank"><em>Talking to Strangers</em></a> (2019), is a darker-than-usual look at the miscommunications and assumptions that occur when we interact with people we don't know, told through historical case studies like Sandra Bland, Bernie Madoff, and Adolf Hitler. Gladwell is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts <a href="http://revisionisthistory.com/seasons" target="_blank">Revisionist History</a>, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and <a href="https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/" target="_blank">Broken Record</a>, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy's Top Global Thinkers.
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<strong>Maria Konnikova</strong> is the author of two <em>New York Times</em> bestsellers: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143109871?tag=bigthink00-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1" target="_blank"><em>The Confidence Game</em></a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/014312434X?tag=bigthink00-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1" target="_blank"><em>Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes</em></a>. Her new book is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/052552262X?tag=bigthink00-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1" target="_blank"><em>The Biggest Bluff</em></a> (June 2020). While researching <em>The Biggest Bluff</em>, journalist Konnikova became an international poker champion and the winner of over $300,000 in tournament earnings—and inadvertently turned into a professional poker player. She is a regular contributing writer for <em>The New Yorker</em>, and her writing has been featured in Best American Science and Nature Writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. Maria also hosts the podcast <a href="http://thegriftpodcast.com/" target="_blank">The Grift</a> from Panoply Media, a show that explores con artists and the lives they ruin, and is currently a visiting fellow at NYU's School of Journalism. She graduated from Harvard University and received her PhD in psychology from Columbia University.
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All the storage you'll ever need to back up your data for under $100
Degoo's secure backups are available at a great price.
01 August, 2020
- 140,000 hard drives crash in America every week.
- 93 percent of businesses that suffer data loss for over 10 days file for bankruptcy within 12 months.
- Four million data records are stolen or lost every single day.
<script async="true" src="https://widgets.stackcommerce.com/js-deal-feed/0.1/widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script><p>Data loss is an expensive problem. The enormous amount of data that is lost due to hard drive crashes creates financial headaches as well as emotional pain. There's nothing worse than losing years of photos, videos, or music because you forgot to back up your data. But sadly, it happens more often than you think, with 140,000 hard drives crashing in America weekly and four million data records stolen or lost daily.<br></p><p>Degoo offers a world-class cloud storage service to ensure your precious data is always backed up and secure. Founded in Sweden in 2012, Degoo is built with Swedish engineering and entrepreneurship with a global team. Right now, a <strong><a href="https://shop.bigthink.com/sales/degoo-premium-lifetime-backup-plans-10tb?utm_source=bigthink.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=degoo-premium-lifetime-backup-plans-10tb&utm_term=scsf-414966&utm_content=a0x1P000004slpLQAQ&scsonar=1" target="_blank">lifetime 10TB backup plan</a></strong> is on sale for only $99.99.</p><p>Degoo allows for high-speed transfers from a database that offers more backup space than Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive combined. Plus, all your data is protected with ultra-secure 256-bit AES encryption. </p><p>Degoo's automatic file change detection AI means you don't have to worry about updating your connection every time you change a word in a document. And unlike many data storage plans, Degoo backs up all of your devices.</p><p>You can also share uploaded photos in real-time with friends and family. Even better, Degoo's u<span style="font-size: calc(0.875rem + 0.0625 * ((100vw - 30rem) / 45));">nlimited file size guarantees no quality reduction. The average user uploads their first file within three minutes of signing up.</span></p><p>Degoo averages a 4.5 out of 5-star rating based on over 100 reviews. As one fan writes, "Degoo Cloud gives me the freedom to access my data anywhere, which is essential to me. I use it mainly for storing data that I need occasionally. I believe it is more useful than external hard drives, especially when traveling."</p><p><a href="https://shop.bigthink.com/sales/degoo-premium-lifetime-backup-plans-10tb?utm_source=bigthink.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=degoo-premium-lifetime-backup-plans-10tb&utm_term=scsf-414966&utm_content=a0x1P000004slpLQAQ&scsonar=1" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>Degoo Premium: Lifetime 10TB Backup Plan</strong></a> is on sale now for just $99.99, a 97% discount from the original price. 1 TB ($49.99), 2 TB ($59.99), and 3 TB ($69.99) plans are also available.</p><p><em>Price subject to change.</em></p><script type="text/javascript"> (function (s,o,n,a,r,i,z,e){s['StackSonarObject']=r;s[r]=s[r]||function(){
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Inside the genius of Albert Einstein
What was so great about Einstein anyway? A group of experts weigh in.
31 July, 2020
- The word genius is often used to describe Albert Einstein, but what exactly earned the German-born theoretical physicist that descriptor? We have his ideas to thank for many facets of the modern world, but it turns out not everyone thought he was that brilliant.
- "Everybody knows who Einstein is and people understand that he was a very famous scientist," says NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller. "But I think that people often don't grasp the true depth and the profound nature of the things that Einstein introduced to us."
- In this video, Thaller, futurist and business advisor David Bodanis, fellow theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, and others explain why Einstein's best-known contributions (the special theory of relativity and E=mc2) are so important. They also discuss his academic journey, the resistance and criticism he faced from his peers and the public, and his lasting influence on science.
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These are the 10 most discussed tech topics during COVID-19
Here's how the world's technology conversations are changing.
28 July, 2020
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COVID is changing the world and our technology conversations are changing with it.
<p>As part of <a href="https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/critical-frontier-leveraging-technology-to-combat-covid-19" target="_blank">work identifying promising technology use cases to combat COVID</a>, The Boston Consulting Group recently used contextual AI to analyze more than 150 million English language media articles from 30 countries published between December 2019 to May 2020. While the research reflects media coverage and not technology development, the analysis still reveals a range of shifting interests. These shifts can give a sense for how the world has refocused itself to tackle the crisis in the short term. The findings also show the crisis could be leaving some key risks or solutions under-discussed or under-explored, potentially creating new vulnerabilities.</p><h3>Tech talk after COVID</h3><p>As can be seen in the below figure, only half of the top tech/telco topics pre-COVID remain in the top ten during COVID. This speaks to a fundamental change in core interests and principal concerns.</p>
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<p>The first priority during this pandemic has been the protection of individuals, and rightly so. As a result, topics such as biotech/medtech have gained prominence as researchers seek out new treatments and a potential vaccine. This shift has fueled a new interest in telemedicine as well. This technology was slow in adoption for outpatient care pre-COVID, but has seen enormous growth in the past 6 months, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/coronavirus-how-covid-19-accelerated-the-rise-of-telemedicine.html" target="_blank">as lockdowns and the virus forced patients and doctors to seek new solutions for care.</a></p><p>The coronavirus has also brought new uncertainties. With this, data analytics has risen 35% from pre-COVID levels, as individuals and companies use emerging data from medical research and emerging habits to forecast everything from the path of the pandemic to potential supply chain disruptions.</p><p>Talk regarding delivery drones has increased by 57% in topic share, thanks in part to new uses of drones to deliver much-needed supplies such as groceries and PPE in areas hard to reach after COVID-19 lockdowns.<br></p><p>COVID-19 boosted the number of articles written about 5G, though the context for these conversations has shifted. Articles pre-COVID focused on potential capabilities from a 5G rollout. As the virus spread, however, fear sparked by conspiracy theorists linked 5G technology to misinformation campaigns.</p><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzUxNTcwMC9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyNzk3OTI0Mn0.KLABPkt_uDAU0svcl0st6oQRJ8zXbDNA8BFUi_CCgeA/img.png?width=980" id="aa51b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7814261de2e31f053ec33fe154b20e63" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Top COVID tech conversations in India, China, the European Union and the US" />
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<p>As part of this research, analysis dug into top discussion topics in 4 of the world's key regions: India, China, the European Union and the US. Here contextual AI studied more than 2,500 publications between January and May 2020. To be sure, a number of factors determine the types of media coverage that emerges in different regions. Still, this exercise is another window into how technology conversations differed across contexts as countries faced the virus in different ways, leveraging different tools and resources.</p><h3>Left unsaid or under-discussed</h3><p>As the pandemic spread, "business as usual" gave way to crisis management. As it did, traditionally-popular tech topics such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, internet of things, blockchain, robotics, and cybersecurity have been discussed less often than usual during the pandemic. In some cases they have fallen off the map entirely.</p><p>This trend reflects the need tackle the immediate health needs of the crisis while ignoring the key role that other technologies or risks will play in more long-term solutions.</p><p>Blockchain, for instance, will be key for more resilient supply chains and <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/blockchain-role-in-distributing-covid-19-vaccine-could-make-history/" target="_blank">integral to the equitable deployment</a> of the vaccine once it is available.</p><p>AI and machine learning have fallen in rank but have shown to be integral to a range of efforts, including helping researchers <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/covid-19-study-6-strains-severity-kings-college-london/" target="_blank">sort through massive amounts of data</a> quickly to process the real-time information being processed about the disease.</p><p>Cybersecurity has fallen off the list of top ten tech topics entirely and that fact belies the growing risk that cyber security poses to a range of sectors, including the newly remote workforce. Additionally, the medical field is particularly vulnerable to cyber threats and the past months have seen a <a href="https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/92575-increase-in-reports-of-ransomware-attacks-on-health-care-entities" target="_blank">75% increase in ransomware</a> attacks against health professionals (Some attacks have even targeted researchers <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53214783" target="_blank">seeking a cure for COVID.</a>) The World Health Organization reported a <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/23-04-2020-who-reports-fivefold-increase-in-cyber-attacks-urges-vigilance#:~:text=Since%20the%20start%20of%20the,targeting%20the%20public%20at%20large.&text=The%20number%20of%20cyber%20attacks%20is%20now%20more%20than%20five,the%20same%20period%20last%20year." target="_blank">five-fold increase</a> in cyberattacks between this year and last.</p><h3>Looking ahead</h3><p>The global pandemic is forcing us to re-think the way we work and how we do business. As our attentions focus on the most immediate threats, we must remember to consider the longer term. Looking past just the crisis before us can give us a fuller picture of the risks we face - as well as the opportunities we might not be exploring and the solutions we can put into place.</p><p>Reprinted with permission of the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/" target="_blank">World Economic Forum</a>. Read the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/10-top-tech-topics-during-covid-19-india-china-us-eu/" target="_blank">original article</a>.</p>
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AI feat helps machines learn at speed of light without supervision
Researchers discover how to use light instead of electricity to advance artificial intelligence.
25 July, 2020
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<p>A breakthrough in artificial intelligence promises to take machine learning to the next level. Researchers figured out how to use light rather than electricity to carry out computations.</p><p>This new method, devised by researchers from George Washington University, can lead to substantial advancements in the speed and efficiency of the neural networks involved in machine learning. The approach also allows the AI to teach itself independently, without supervision. When a neural network becomes trained, it can use inference to figure out classifications for objects and patterns, finding signatures in the data.</p>
<p>The main advantage of this method is that normally cranking large amounts of data requires a tremendous amount of power for the processors. There are also limitations on transmission rates for the data flowing from the processor to the memory.</p><p>The scientists found a way to get around such issues by utilizing photons in <strong>neural network (tensor) processing units </strong>(TPUs), leading to efficient and powerful AI. The photon TPU they built outperformed an electric TPU by 2-3 orders of magnitude. </p>
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<p>What good is all this speed? Possible applications of the technology include super-fast processors for 5G and 6G networks and huge data centers, where <span style="background-color: initial;">"photonic specialised processors can save a tremendous amount of energy, improve response time and reduce data centre traffic," shared Dr. Miscuglio.</span></p><p>Check out the new paper by him and co-author Volker Sorger in <a href="https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0001942" target="_blank"><em>Applied Physics Reviews.</em></a></p>
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Can universal basic income fix a crisis that's already begun?
COVID-19 may strengthen the case for universal basic income, or an idea like it.
24 July, 2020
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- The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown millions of Americans into unemployment, highlighting the impracticality of living paycheck to paycheck, which a shocking number of Americans must do. Yet pandemic unemployment is just a glimpse of the fallout the US can expect in a future where more and more jobs are automated.
- Is universal basic income the answer? In this video, a range of experts from economists to entrepreneurs and historians explore different facets of basic income, like why we need it, how it's different to welfare, and how we'll pay for it.
- Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former Minister of Finance, explains why he's not in favor of a UBI tax, but rather the creation of a public equity fund: "[T]hese days capital is socially produced ... Take for instance ... the capital stock of Google. To a large extent it is produced by all of us. Every time we search something on the Google search engine, we are adding to the capital stock of Google. This is not just a consumer transaction. So, if capital is socially produced why are the returns to capital privatized? On what basis?"
What's your favorite argument for (or against) UBI? Let us know in the comments!
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