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Astronomy - Measuring Distance, Size, and Luminosity (26 of 30) Type 1A Supernova Hubble Constant
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StarDude Astronomy - Blood Moon Time Lapse - April 14-15, 2014 Lunar Eclipse
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) Astronomy buffs have yet another reason to stare up at the night sky this week with the annual Lyrid meteor shower.
In the overnight and predawn hours, skywatchers will be able to see meteors streak across the sky. The best opportunity to see them is when the moon dips low in the southwest.
Cosmic experts at Astronomy.com say the best way to see the meteors is to find a place to stand where a building or natural object blocks the light of the moon.
"To tell a Lyrid from a sporadic meteor, trace the streak of light back to its origin. Lyrids appear to come from the constellation Lyra the Harp," Astronomy.com's Richard Talcott wrote.
From now until the end of the month, the meteor shower will be visible, but it will peak on April 22.
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Image Caption: People's Choice award winner: Eric Cardoso, Setbal, Portugal, "Comet ISON." Credit: Eric Cardoso
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Seven photographers from around the globe received awards for their stunning images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) at the Northeast Astronomy Forum held at Rockland Community College today.
The National Science Foundations (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, Astronomy magazine and Discover magazine co-sponsored the photo contest with three categories for entry: 1) Cameras and tripods without the use of tracking or telescopes; 2) Piggyback cameras riding atop a telescope or motorized mount; 3) Through-the-scope images where the telescope acts as the cameras lens.
Winners are as follows:
Cameras and tripods
1st placeAtish Aman, Delhi, India, Comet ISON over Pokhara City, Nepal
2nd placeBarry Burgess, Nova Scotia, Canada, Comet ISON, Port Medway, Nova Scotia.
Piggyback cameras
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BARRINGTON Over two dozen participants were treated to a spring astronomy program at Citizens for Conservation April 5 as part of the youth education class offerings.
Families listened as amateur astronomer Edith Auchter discussed phases of the Moon, exploration of the Moon, its surface features, and its rotation about its own axis and the Earth.
During the presentation, participants made lunar flip books so they could see the progression of the phases as well as lunar rotation around the Earth that results in those phases. Now, those participants can understand why only 59 percent of the Moon is visible on Earth.
However, even after 100 lunar missions, much is still a mystery such as the difference in features seen on the near and far sides. The next astronomy activity involved everyone making a pocket scale model of our solar system.
Darkness came and it was very clear not too cold and not windy.
With binoculars and telescopes, provided by Auchter and another five members of the Northwest Suburban Astronomers, participants observed the Moon, Jupiter and its Galilean moons, Mars, the Pleiades, Orion Nebula (where new stars are born), the Double Cluster in Perseus, and other galaxies.
The group learned that there will be a total lunar eclipse on Oct. 8.
Visit http://www.citizensforconservation.org for youth program information.
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Boston Bombing Anniversary: Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Crimes?
April 15 (Bloomberg) -- It #39;s been one year since the Boston Marathon bombings, and in the aftermath the city beefed up its security with an artificial intell...
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this is my first artificial intelligence project.name: LITTLE BUDDY this app will follow your command and answer your question. its a simple demo of this app. t.
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Anki is releasing two new race tracks. The course pictured, "Crossroads," offers an intersection.
FORTUNE -- Anki Drive's toy-sized ecosystem just got bigger.
The San Francisco-based startup, which released its artificial intelligence-driven cars last October, unveiled two new tracks and two new cars Wednesday -- the first new hardware of any kind since launch.
Available for $100 starting May 6, Anki's new tracks offer new challenges for racers: "Crossroads" throws in a twist, adding an intersection that players must navigate and avoid crashing into opponents. The other track, dubbed "Bottleneck," features a narrow section that players must squeeze through at high speeds. Meanwhile, two new cars -- a battle aggressive vehicle called Corax and the speed-focused car called Hadion -- will each retail for $70 and are available now.
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Anki's new hardware is supported behind the scenes by a free mobile app update that syncs up the cars and a mobile device. "The thing we've always said from the beginning is so much of what we're doing is driven by the software," emphasized Mark Palatucci, Anki's co-founder and the company's chief product officer.
Anki's app, which players use to steer the cars, uses highly sophisticated artificial intelligence developed in-house. It gives each toy car distinct characteristics in terms of speed, steering, and weapons. While the A.I. is smart enough to allow the cars to automatically weave around corners and change competitive racing strategies all on their own, it's really intended to create an accessible experience for human players. (Steering controls are basically boiled down to accelerating and decelerating, steering left and right, and firing weapons.) So a newbie can still go toe-to-toe with more experienced players, or a solo player can still enjoy a race with cars controlled by A.I.
Anki first caught public attention when Tim Cook introduced CEO Boris Sofman and the Anki racing game on stage at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference in June 2013.
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With $50 million in venture-backed funding from such luminaries as Andreessen Horowitz and Two Sigma Ventures, co-founders Sofman,Palatucci, and Hans Tappeiner have been developing ways to refine their A.I. and expand Anki's ecosystem beyond their first product launch last fall, potentially moving beyond games.
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Apple-endorsed racing game Anki Drive revs up with new cars, tracks
You can race with Anki Drive on two new tracks and with two new cars. Photo: Anki
Anki Drive, the artificial intelligence-assisted toy car game that debuted last fall, is back with new cars, new tracks, and new ways to play.
The game first gained recognition at Apples Worldwide Developer Conference last year and launched with a handful of AI-controlled toy race cars and a single track. Its a bit like slot cars, but smarter. Each car has a distinct personality and racing capabilities that differ from the others. Paired with the accompanying Anki Drive iOS app, you can battle friends who are also controlling a car through the app, or opponents who navigate the course using artificial intelligence algorithms. As you play and get more experience, your vehicle evolves, gaining valuable weapons and abilities you can use to beat other players.
Theres this notion in consumer products and toys that you buy something and thats what youll have forever, Anki co-founder Hanns Tappeiner said. But that doesnt have to be true if you can use software to redefine what a product is and how it works.
Starting today, the Anki Drive app is getting a new type of play: race mode. Before, your option with other players was Battle mode, in which the goal was to shoot other cars off the track with virtual weapons. Now, you can set a number of laps (15, 30, or 45), and the first to cross the finish line wins the game. In my demo of the game, 15 laps went by in a snap, equating to less than 5 minutes of gameplay. Of course, theres more than just racing strategy involved, as you and the other cars on the course still have weapons like a rail gun or tractor beam you can use to foil competitors.
The addition of two new tracks also complicates the racing strategy. The first, Crossroads, features an intersection in the course where cars could crash if they dont time the crossing correctly. The AI cars may shoot you off the road or hit you on purpose to get you off the road. Its fun chaos, Tappeiner says.
The second, Bottleneck, requires you to strategically position yourself to get ahead on narrower portions of the track. Tappeiner says figuring out where to be on the road becomes the most challenging aspect of this course.
The new courses are joined by two new cars as well: Corax, an offensive tank of a car (which can operate two weapons at one time instead of just one), and Hadion, the fastest of Ankis six available cars.
The new cars retail at $69 and are available today through Ankis website, while the new tracks run $99 and will ship May 6.
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Entertainment movies Peter Mountain 2013 Alcon Entertainment
Your late, loving husband Will Castor (Johnny Depp), now a disembodied computer brain, has wired himself into another mans body, taken over his mind and voice and reaches out, saying, I can touch you now. If youre his/its wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), you might be touched at least literally. Anyone else among the characters or the audience of Transcendence is likely to be pretty seriously creeped out.
A love story between a human and a computer: we got one for Christmas, and it was called Her. Joaquin Phoenix fell hard for the voice of Scarlett Johansson who wouldnt? But in Transcendence, the provocative but ponderous science-fiction thriller written by Jack Paglem and directed by Wally Pfister, the dating game is an endgame. Will, a leading light in the study of artificial intelligence, and Evelyn, his devoted research assistant, are bound in love and work. To keep her love alive, she will enable his existence as a sentient being whose implications she may not have quite thought through.
(READ: Corlisss review of Spike Jonzes Her)
Smart machines that may serve or dominate mankind are as old as Samuel Butlers 1872 novel Erewhon and Karel Capeks 1920 play R.U.R. and as recent as this weeks episode of The Simpsons, in which Dr. Frink revives the dead Homer as a chatty screen saver. Next year, Marvels Avengers will reunite to battle a brilliant computer (and Oedipal wreck) in Age of Ultron. AI parables usually assume a Doomsday tone, preaching fear of the devices that keep the modern world running including the computers whose magic makes todays action-movie effects so very effective. A movie like Transcendence may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ. Just dont tell the techies who masterminded the cool CGI stuff.
In the not too distant future, the world is without the Internet. Streetlights dont work; a cell phone is discarded; a computer keyboard is used for a doorstop. Flash back to five years earlier, when Will and his friend and colleague Max Waters (Paul Bettany) speak at a Silicon Valley conference. Max hopes to cure cancer and Alzheimers, but Will wants to create an AI greater than the combined brainpower of all humans who have ever lived on Earth. He has devised a Physically Independent Neural Network (PINN) that could build on the work of another scientist, who has managed to upload the brain of a rhesus monkey. Will PINN be the next step in technological and possibly human evolution?
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That notion is toxic to blond Bree (Kate Mara) and her cohorts in a radical, back-to-basics group called RIFT (Revolutionary Independence From Technology). Theyre sort of the 21st century Amish, except that in a 9/11-ish neo-Luddite attack, they kill computer programmers with exploding slices of birthday cake. One of the RIFTers shoots Will with a bullet that gives him radiation poisoning. Weeks away from certain death, he determines to upload his intelligence, his very soul and essence, into a computer. When he dies, a half hour into the movie, Evelyn and Max unplug PINN and in a lovely little frisson the last thing we see among the tumult of digits on the computer screen is the blink of a message: ANYONE THERE?
With some misgivings but much love, Evelyn keeps the system functioning and growing. Under cyber-Wills instructions, she buys up a desolate, depressed town called Brightwood and builds an enormous facility, whose screens show Wills omniscient visage and whose machines can perform miracle surgery, like giving sight to a man blind from birth. Crystalline particles rise from the ground and catch the wind (as in the 1956 sci-fi essential Invasion of the Body Snatchers) to spread the new gospel across the earth. Is this a Good Word or a triumph of Will?
(FIND: Invasion of the Body Snatchers among TIMEs Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies of the 1950s)
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A brilliant innovator in the field of Artificial Intelligence becomes the bridge in the gap between man and machine in this sci-fi thriller starring Johnny Depp. His entire career, Dr. Will Caster (Depp) has been working toward one goal -- to create a machine possessing the entire spectrum of human emotions, and the collective intelligence of every person who has ever lived. But while Dr. Caster's unorthodox experiments have made him famous in scientific circles, a radical anti-tech group known as Rift is determined to stop him at all costs. In the midst of an attack on A.I. labs across the United States, one Rift agent manages to shoot Dr. Caster with a radioactive bullet, ensuring his death. Little did Rift realize that their efforts to destroy Dr. Caster would only make him stronger than they ever could have imagined, because before he dies, his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max (Paul Bettany) successfully transfer Dr. Caster's consciousness into a computer, where his hunger for knowledge and power transforms him into an unstoppable force of sentient energy inhabiting every computer and electrical system on the planet. Morgan Freeman co-stars. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Google to buy Titan Aerospace
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UNSW - Aerospace Structures - Thin walled Structure Idealisation
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