Category: Existence
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Reality like Dreams…
A computer can decode the stuff of dreams. By comparing brain activity during sleep with activity patterns collected while study participants looked at certain objects, a computer learned to identify some contents of people’s unconscious reveries. [1] “It’s striking work” says cognitive psychologist Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who was not involved in…
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Elusive information, ReDigi, Universe…
Α US judge has ruled that ReDigi, a company which allowed customers to resell their digital music “second hand”, breached copyright. ReDigi billed itself as the first legal way to resell music bought online – but soon provoked the ire of record labels. It was sued by Capitol Records in January 2012, and on Monday…
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Cellular grids, tetractys, geo-locating, identifying…
Scientists say it is remarkably easy to identify a mobile phone user from just a few pieces of location information. Whenever a phone is switched on, its connection to the network means its position and movement can be plotted. This data is given anonymously to third parties, both to drive services for the user and…
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Learning, DSB, DNA…
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered that a certain type of DNA damage long thought to be particularly detrimental to brain cells can actually be part of a regular, non-harmful process. [1] Scientists have long known that DNA damage occurs in every cell, accumulating as we age. But a particular type of DNA damage,…
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Gravity waves, Universe, Poetry…
According to Einstein, we should expect to find this radiation everywhere in space. Gravity affects the shape of space and time. Paths of light and massive bodies curve under its influence. When something churns space-time with enough energy – say a supernova explosion or two black holes in orbit around each other – the distortion spreads out…
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