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Oldest water on Earth found deep underground
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on May 17, 2013
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‘Lost City of Gold’ found deep in Honduras rain forest?
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on May 15, 2013
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Wolfram Alpha Drills Deep Into Facebook Data
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on April 27, 2013
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Nerval’s Lobster writes “Back in January, when Wolfram Alpha launched an updated version of its Personal Analytics for Facebook module, the self-billed ‘computational knowledge engine’ asked users to contribute their detailed Facebook data for research purposes. The researchers at Wolfram Alpha, having crunched all that information, are now offering some data on how users interact with Facebook. For starters, the median number of ‘friends’ is 342, with the average number of friends peaking for those in their late teens before declining at a steady rate. Younger people also have a tendency to largely add Facebook friends around their own age — for example, someone who’s 20 might have lots of friends in the twenty-something range, and comparatively few in other decades of life—while middle-aged people tend to have friends across the age spectrum. Beyond that, the Wolfram Alpha blog offers up some interesting information about friend counts (and ‘friend of friend’ counts), how friends’ networks tend to ‘cluster’ around life events such as school and sports teams, and even how peoples’ postings tend to evolve as they get older — as people age, for example, they tend to talk less about video games and more about politics. ‘It feels like we’re starting to be able to train a serious “computational telescope” on the “social universe,”‘ the blog concluded. ‘And it’s letting us discover all sorts of phenomena.’”
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Deep Learning
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on April 26, 2013
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With massive amounts of computational power, machines can now recognize objects and translate speech in real time. Artificial intelligence is finally getting smart.
When Ray Kurzweil met with Google CEO Larry Page last July, he wasn’t looking for a job. A respected inventor who’s become a machine-intelligence futurist, Kurzweil wanted to discuss his upcoming book How to Create a Mind. He told Page, who had read an early draft, that he wanted to start a company to develop his ideas about how to build a truly intelligent computer: one that could understand language and then make inferences and decisions on its own.
Cleanweb or Deep Tech: Diverging Paths for Energy Startups
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on April 10, 2013
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ESRI Takes Its Deep Mapping Software Online To Help Developers Become More Like Geographers
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on March 18, 2013
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Out beyond the edge of SXSW last week, the ESRI team camped out in an old brick firehouse with the veneer of an old boot factory and the interior of an Italian palace. It felt like the home of an eccentric Texas aristocrat, alone in his mansion, dripping with rich fabrics, chandeliers and the odd sense of a New York loft.
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Tour of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab
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on January 22, 2013
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lukej writes “Over eleven years ago, the possibility of using the retired Homestake Mine as an underground science laboratory was first proposed. Today the local newspaper gives a science-filled tour of that facility, along with a short photo tour, and decent descriptions of some of the experiments it hosts (Majorana, LUX, Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment). Some fairly interesting deep, dirty, and real physical science!”
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Visualized: On Mars, rivers are deep, mountains remain high
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on January 20, 2013
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Mars Express‘ mooch around the red planet has yielded another set of snaps it felt worthy of adding to its Facebook wall. It’s spent some time looking at the Reull Valliss, a dry river that runs for the better part of 932 miles (1,500km) through the Promethei Terra highlands — and in some places is over 4.3 miles (7km) wide and nearly 1,000 feet (300m deep). Scientists think that at some point, there was plenty of water in the area, as the landscape shows signs of glaciation. Fancy a short game of amateur topographer? Check out the gallery we’ve got for you.
[Image Credit: ESA/DLR/FU, G. Neukum]
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James Cameron Spills the Details From His Deep Dive
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on December 5, 2012
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gbrumfiel writes “James Cameron has released the first batch of scientific results from his historic dive in March to bottom of the Mariana trench and an earlier series of test dives in the New Britain Trench. The Mariana Trench dive was the deepest by a human since 1960. Some of the most interesting results came from trips to the seafloor made by robotic vehicles built by Cameron’s team. At the bottom of the trench, one of those robots found bizarre carpets of microbes coating rocks, that scientists say may have implications for the origins of life on Earth and other planets.”
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A.I. Advances Through Deep Learning
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on November 25, 2012
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An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from the NY Times: “Advances in an artificial intelligence technology that can recognize patterns offer the possibility of machines that perform human activities like seeing, listening and thinking. … But what is new in recent months is the growing speed and accuracy of deep-learning programs, often called artificial neural networks or just ‘neural nets’ for their resemblance to the neural connections in the brain. ‘There has been a number of stunning new results with deep-learning methods,’ said Yann LeCun, a computer scientist at New York University who did pioneering research in handwriting recognition at Bell Laboratories. ‘The kind of jump we are seeing in the accuracy of these systems is very rare indeed.’ Artificial intelligence researchers are acutely aware of the dangers of being overly optimistic. … But recent achievements have impressed a wide spectrum of computer experts. In October, for example, a team of graduate students studying with the University of Toronto computer scientist Geoffrey E. Hinton won the top prize in a contest sponsored by Merck to design software to help find molecules that might lead to new drugs. From a data set describing the chemical structure of 15 different molecules, they used deep-learning software to determine which molecule was most likely to be an effective drug agent.”
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Weird-looking, meat-eating sponge found in deep sea
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on November 12, 2012
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Scientists Link Deep Wells To Deadly Spanish Quake
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on October 22, 2012
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Meshach writes “Research has suggested that human activity triggered an earthquake in Span that killed nine and injured over three hundred. Drilling deeper and deeper wells to water crops over the past 50 years were identified as the culprit by scientist who examined satellite images of the area. It was noted that even without the strain caused by water extraction, a quake would likely have occurred at some point in the area but the extra stress of pumping vast amounts of water from a nearby aquifer may have been enough to trigger a quake at that particular time and place.”
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Stress-Testing Software For Deep Space
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on October 11, 2012
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kenekaplan writes “NASA has used VxWorks for several deep space missions, including Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. When the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) needs to run stress tests or simulations for upgrades and fixes to the OS, Wind River’s Mike Deliman gets the call. In a recent interview, Deliman, a senior member of the technical staff at Wind River, which is owned by Intel, gave a peek at the legacy technology under Curiosity’s hood and recalled the emergency call he got when an earlier Mars mission hit a software snag after liftoff.”
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GigaOm’s Structure Europe Conference Will Dive Deep Into The Cloud
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on October 2, 2012
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We don’t often try to get the word out about conferences put on by other blogs here at TechCrunch, but we’re about to. Because reasons. Namely: 1) We, as TechCrunch, will probably never ever ever, ever ever host a European cloud-computing conference and someone sure as heck needs to. 2) The folks at Gigaom are our friends, particularly founder, thought leader and king of the kind of industry analysis that I personally wish I could do more of, Om Malik.
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Intel Servers Take a Deep Dive to Cool Off
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on September 11, 2012
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Intel Servers Take Deep Dive to Cool Off
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on September 10, 2012
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Steaming deep fryer talks turkey
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on August 10, 2012
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The Waring Pro TF200 Rotisserie Turkey Fryer/Steamer can deep fry turkey on a spit. The device can also be used as a healthy steamer for veggie or seafood feasts.
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Total Recall Colin Farrell interview yields deep meaning for the sci-fi thriller
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on August 4, 2012
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This past week Colin Farrell stepped up to the press bench with a deep explanation for what the 2012 version of Total Recall could mean for the audience. Total Recall is set to explode upon the entirety of the United States this weekend, and Farrell was certainly not shy about taking us deep into the
Microsoft digs deep into Windows 8′s hardware graphics boost, says fast just isn’t slick enough
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on July 24, 2012
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While Microsoft has been exploring the sensory experiences that will go into Windows 8, like sight and touch, there’s only one thing that many enthusiasts care about: speed. To their delight, Redmond has just devoted one of its pre-release blog posts to showing just how much faster its hardware graphics acceleration will be in a Metro-focused universe. The goal is a hiccup-free 60Hz frame rate, and virtually everything in Windows 8 centers on that ambition. Baked-in transition effects, optimized geometry and even improved font rendering give modern computers a huge jump in performance versus Windows 7. Microsoft is just as keen to expose that power, as well: Direct3D 11.1 is now the root of all video acceleration in the pipeline, making it both easier and faster to mix 2D and 3D. All told, Windows 8 promises to get responsiveness freaks and benchmark lovers all hot and bothered. If either label describes you, the source link might satiate your lust until October 26th.
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Copyrights To Reach Deep Space
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on July 5, 2012
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bs0d3 writes “Voyager 1 is expected to reach interstellar space soon. It will be the first made made object to cross the heliosphere, which is the final stop in our solar system. Voyager 1, famously contained a gold phonographic record. The record was filled with iconic sights, images, and sounds from earth, and the prevailing message, “we come in peace”. The disc was comprised by a man named Carl Sagan, and it contained many pieces of art, songs, and images, that are all copy-written. According to NASA, ‘Most of the material they used was copyrighted by the creators/owners and Sagan had to get copyright releases in order to assemble the original record. Subsequently, Warner Multimedia was able to obtain copyright releases for the 1992 version of “Murmurs of Earth” .. Unfortunately, the book and CDROM are no longer being published and are hard to find as a set.’”
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Ancient Mars water existed deep underground
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on July 3, 2012
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Tonino Lamborghini launches ‘Luxury’ phones for low-spec loving Russians with deep pockets
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on June 10, 2012
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Much like Porsche Design before it, this isn’t strictly the auto-maker (in this case it’s the son of the famous sports car mogul) releasing a phone. However, these are devices (three phones and a tablet) which bear the family name. Russian site Hi-Tech Mail got a good look at two feature phones (which look remarkably familiar,) the TL688 and TL820, sporting 2- and 2.4-inch displays, along with 3- and 5-megapixel cameras and 4GB and 1GB (expandable) storage respectively. Their main selling point evidently being the hand made gold plate and leather finish. There is a TL700 smartphone, too, which runs on not-so-sporty Android Gingerbread, with an unspecified Qualcomm processor, 3.7-inch 800 x 480 display and 5-megapixel shooter. This one ups the flash-factor some, boasting diamond processed metal and “elements” of crocodile skin.
The tablet is known as the Lamborghini L2800 and has a 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 resolution screen, 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB onboard storage (expandable). How much does all this sense-defying technology cost? Well, the feature phones start at 60,000 rubles, (about $ 1,829) or you can snap up the Android for 30,000 more (about $ 2,743) and treat yourself to the L2800 tablet for a reasonable 75,000 rubles (about $ 2,286). Of course, you’ll have to drive to Russia to get your hands on them, sometime in late August, but we’re guessing if you’re in the market for one of these, that’ll barely dent the plastic anyway.
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Subwoofer deep bass from a small speaker?
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on April 22, 2012
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The Clue — that’s the name of the speaker — will shake your room with gusto!
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Voyager and the Coming Great Hiatus In Deep Space
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on April 14, 2012
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MatthewVD writes “Some time in the next decade, the Voyager probes will run out of juice and finally go silent after almost a half century of exploration. John Rennie writes that the lack of any meaningful effort to follow up with a mission to interstellar space shows the “fragile, inconsistent state of space exploration.” It’s particularly frustrating since the Voyagers have tantalized astronomers with a glimpse into about how the sun’s magnetic field protects us from (or exposes us to) cosmic rays. Have we gone as far as we’re willing to go in space?”
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Was Cameron’s Deep Dive as Useless as Manned Space Flight?
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on March 26, 2012
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If excitement is the real product, Cameron should be hunting giant squid.
Ninety-nine percent of what we know about the solar system came to us from unmanned probes. There can be no argument about comparative value of sending humans to other worlds, at least from a scientific perspective, because our relatively cheap, versatile, expendable robot spawn will win every time.
Exploring the deep: Director James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge
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on March 26, 2012
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The director of “Titanic,” “Avatar” and other films used a specially designed submarine to dive nearly seven miles to the deepest point on Earth, completing his journey a little before 8 a.m. local time on Monday, March 26. Read more
Mammoth “Metal Moles” Tunnel Deep Beneath London
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on March 18, 2012
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Hugh Pickens writes “BBC reports that the first of eight highly specialized Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM), each weighing nearly 1,000 tonnes, is being positioned at Royal Oak in west London where it will begin its slow journey east, carving out a new east-west underground link that will eventually run 73 miles from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west, to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. Described as ‘voracious worms nibbling their way under London,’ the 150-meter long machines will operate 24 hours a day and move through the earth at a rate of about 100m per week taking three years to build a network of tunnels beneath the city’s streets. Behind a 6.2-meter cutter head is a hydraulic arm. Massive chunks of earth are fed via a narrow-gauge railway along the interior of the machine, which is itself on wheels as the machines are monitored from a surface control room which tracks their positions using GPS while hydraulic rams at the front keep them within millimeters of their designated routes. ‘It’s not so much a machine as a mobile factory,’ says Roy Slocombe adding that the machine is staffed by a 20-strong ‘tunnel gang’ and comes with its own kitchen and toilet. Meanwhile critics complain that the project is a peculiarly British example of how not to get big infrastructure schemes off the ground, because almost 30 years will have elapsed from its political conception in 1989 to its current projected completion date of 2018.”
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NASA assessing viability of deep space outpost near the moon
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on February 13, 2012
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NASA has announced that is investigating the possibility of placing a deep-space outpost near the far side of the moon. This location is being looked at because it is a location of the liberation point, which is a point in space at which the gravitational pull between the moon and the earth is roughly equal. [...]
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Virtual Reality Helmet Designed For Deep Space Surgery
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on February 8, 2012
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pigrabbitbear writes in with a link about a virtual reality helmet designed to help people deal with medical emergencies in space. “Humans are pretty fragile. A bad break in your hip can mean surgery and months of rehab. That’s pretty bad, but what if you fall and break your hip on the Moon, or even Mars? You’d be hundreds of thousands or millions of miles from a fully stocked hospital and a surgeon with steady hands. There’s the option of doctor-assisted surgery from Earth — a fellow astronaut performing the surgery with remote assistance from a doctor via video link. But the lengthy communications delay make this a poor option anywhere further than the Moon. Luckily for our Mars-bound descendants, the European Space Agency has a solution: an information-loaded assisted reality helmet that will let anyone identify and perform minor surgery to repair injuries.”
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Terrifying giant crustaceans found in deep sea
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on February 4, 2012
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NASA’s Next Mission: Deep Space
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on November 26, 2011
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gManZboy writes “NASA’s Mars Science Lab and Curiosity rover are the next steps in a long-term plan to travel farther and faster into space. Check out the future spacecrafts and tools that will get them there — including NASA’s big bet, a spacecraft that combines the Orion multipurpose crew vehicle with the Space Launch System, designed to take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit for the first time since the Apollo 17 Moon mission in 1972. NASA will need 10 years to prepare astronauts to take Orion and SLS for a test flight.”
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