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Sunday, 25 September 2016

Forget Software—Hackers Are Exploiting Physics

Dumb humans are discovering these exquisite exploits in the machines we have made.
I wonder how long it will take for our machines to find the exploits in their makers...

http://buff.ly/2bXklC8

The Wikipedia has more:
http://buff.ly/2bXjW2t

(And by the way, Row Hammer would be an awesome name for a rock band!!)


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Friday, 23 September 2016

My #top100 #scifi Num:57 Atlas Shrugged

Amazon: http://amzn.to/2cCwqOE 




Calling this Science Fiction is perhaps provocative. However, there is ample fictional science -- which should be enough. More significant is its expression of the genre's philosophical inclinations in the examination of Mankind and her societies -- and this is where the book gets interesting...

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Tiny Killer Drones


This is somewhat chilling:


Thank goodness for shitty batteries!

(image: HamzaLippisch)

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Tuesday, 13 September 2016

So Long and Thanks for All The Fish

Dolphins talk to each other in complete sentences.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/09/11/dolphins-recorded-having-a-conversation-for-first-time/


One of the key 'Science Fiction' themes in my Singularity's Children series, is that animals are much smarter than we generally assume. 

Teach a parrot to talk and it has surprisingly clever things to say. 

It seems unfair that an animal has to first learn our language before sitting its IQ test.
I am convinced that animals will sound smarter in their own languages, just as my kids tell me I come across as a dimwit when I speak in German.


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Friday, 2 September 2016

Culture Glanding a'la Iain M Banks

This is an incredible combination of technologies and techniques.
Conscious control of adrenaline, MDMA or Ritalin make for some very SciFi scenarios.



https://www.newscientist.com/article/2102463-mind-controlled-nanobots-could-release-drugs-inside-your-brain/

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