The Latest Casualty of Mass Extinction Events? Giraffes
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Bump it!These gentle giants are undergoing a silent extinction.
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IBM Aims to Build the First Commercial Quantum Computer in ‘the Next Few Years’
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Bump it!IBM has announced IBM Q, an initiative to build the first commercially available universal quantum computers with the help of others interested in the field. IBM hopes to develop 50 qubit computer systems in the next few years, which would be dramatically faster and more powerful than today's computer systems.
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What Would an “AI Doomsday” Actually Look Like?
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Bump it!Some of the finest minds in the artificial intelligence got together to hypothesize about the worst possible things that could happen when AI becomes a prevalent part of society. While it was fairly easy to come up with situations where AI could be misused, coming up with solutions and ways to prevent misuse proved to be far more of a challenge.
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This Home Was 3D Printed in Only 24 Hours and for Just $10,000
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Bump it!A 38-square-meter (406-square-foot) house was 3D printed in 24 hours for a total cost of $10,000. Apis Cor., the Russian company that constructed the house, says that a simpler house could cost only $223 per square meter ($68 per square foot).
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Proof of a New Geological Epoch: Over 200 Minerals Have Been Created by Humans
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Bump it!Researchers have noted that humanity is responsible for the creation of 208 new minerals on Earth, most found in places like mine shafts or at the site of underwater shipwrecks. This marks the most rapid spike in new mineral varieties in Earth's history and supports the claim that we have entered a new, human-influenced geological epoch.
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NASA Has Plans to Give Mars a “Magnetic Shield” to Enable Human Colonization
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Bump it!Since Mars lacks a protective atmosphere, it isn't habitable to humans. But in the interest of terraforming the Red Planet, scientists are looking at magnets. Using a magnetic shield, scientists theorize they could recreate Mars' atmosphere and make conditions more hospitable for human life.
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