Researchers Just Broke A World Record in Superfast 5G Technology

In the time to come, Information users are expected to transfer much more information over the spectrum. However, with its short supply, there is a need to find a way to transfer all this new data more efficiently without causing delays for everyone using the available spectrum.

In response to this insufficiency, many researchers have been conducting experiments using a form of 5G technology called Massive MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) which would allow for the simultaneous transfer of data with the use of multiple transmitters and receivers.

Recently, Steffen Malkowsky, together with his research colleagues from Lund University, Sweden, and the University of Bristol, UK,  has set a new world record for spectrum efficiency that overwhelms today’s existing 4G technology, 22-fold!

Achieving rates of 145.6 (bits/s)/Hz for 22 users, each modulated with 256-QAM, on a shared 20 MHz radio channel at 3.51 GHz with an 128-antenna massive MIMO array, this event presents an important step towards a new type of wireless communication. “Setting a new world record was a significant event as it demonstrated that it is possible to transmit 22 times more data compared to current wireless systems. Although the goal is for 5G to increase the total transmission capacity by a factor of 1,000, this is still a big step”, says Malkowsky. 

These results, however, are still on the developmental stages and practically not in use for now. The users were stationary while in reality, people and their phones are often in motion. Also, being in a highly controlled environment with no interference from other cellular signals, the tech’s performance may decline when applied in a real word setting.

So to test how well the technology works when the connected units are mobile, the researchers from Bristol will visit Lund at the end of August.  “This is more realistic, as people using their mobile phones don’t exactly sit still”, as Malkowsky pointed out.

Russia to build 6th-Generation Fighter Jet which features Swarms of Protector Drones To fly with it

Russia is set to build a sixth-generation fighter jet will operate in conjunction with drone swarms armed with electromagnetic cannons, an official said.


Though It may still be 10 years from today before Russia’s sixth-generation fighter jet will be ready but officials say that the aircraft will have its own swarm of drones flying beside it.

Vladimir Mikheev, an adviser to the deputy head of Radioelectronic Technologies Concern — part of the Moscow-based state corporation Rostec — said the fighter jet will be unveiled in 2025.

With a supersonic speed of about 4-5 Mach, the unmanned aircraft will be able to enter near space and reenter the atmosphere in a designated spot, hundreds of kilometers away from the place of the original entry.

The real fact is that Pilots will be assigned a drone to command depending on their rank. “Depending on the status, he [the pilot] is given several subordinate drones,” Mikheev says. “They, in their turn, understand –– they must protect, for example, lieutenant Petrov. But if colonel Ivanov is in the cockpit, the number of subordinate drones should be more, and so forth.”

The drone aircraft will also be equipped with high-frequency electromagnetic cannons — too powerful for manned aircraft to operate without hurting pilots — designed to knock out enemy radio signals from a distance of about six miles.



And meanwhile The U.S., , is also working on sixth-generation fighter designs after the introduction of the Lockheed Martin Corp.-made F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fifth-generation aircraft, the latter of which is still in development.

But rather than create a single sixth-gen platform capable of overcoming today’s threats — cyber, electronic attack, anti-satellite, surface-to-air — the Air Force has signaled an interest in trying to develop new weapons such as directed energy and hypersonic missiles that can be installed on updated aircraft.

Here comes the World’s First 3D Printing Restaurant to Open in London

Food Ink, the world's first 3D printing restaurant will open in London at the end of July to serve 3D printed meals, in 3D style – but only for three days.

"Food Ink" which is the name of the restaurant promises a food revolution on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of July with a pop-up restaurant serving 3D printed culinary creations. The restaurant promises the evening to be a “one-of-a-kind gourmet experience…where fine cuisine meets art, philosophy and tomorrow’s technologies.”

The 3D dining experience will set you back £250 or about $330 for nine courses. The whole experience will be live streamed online so people at home can watch diners chow down on 3D printed dishes.

Not only will the food all be 3D printed but the cutlery, tables, and chairs will be similarly created.


Top chefs Antony Dobrzensky and Marcio Barradas from the famous La Boscana restaurant will be in charge of the creating the menu, and they hinted that the first course is said to be paired with virtual reality headsets to provide “an immersive and thrilling glimpse of the future.”

Convinced you have to take part of this futuristic dining experience? Well, you have to hurry. There will only be 10 tickets each evening and they will become available on Friday 15 July.

The pop-up restaurant will at 8 Dray Walk, E1 6NJ. Dinner will be served from 7:30pm each evening.

An Artificial Intelligence Watched 600 Hours of TV and Started to Accurately Predict What Happens Next.

An AI Watched 600 Hours of TV and Started to Accurately Predict What Happens Next.


MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory developed an algorithm that uses deep learning, which enables artificial intelligence (AI) to use patterns of human interaction to predict what will happen next. Researchers fed the program with videos featuring human social interactions and tested it to see if it “learned” well enough to be able to predict them.

The researchers’ weapons of choice? 600 hours of Youtube videos and sitcoms, including The Office, Desperate Housewives, and Scrubs. While this lineup may seem questionable, MIT doctoral candidate and project researcher Carl Vondrick reasons out that accessibility and realism were part of the criteria.

“We just wanted to use random videos from YouTube,” Vondrick said. “The reason for television is that it’s easy for us to get access to that data, and it’s somewhat realistic in terms of describing everyday situations.”Said Carl

They (the scientists) showed the computer videos of people who are one second away from doing one of these four Human emotional actions like hugging, kissing, high-fiving and handshaking. The AI was able to guess correctly 43% of the time compared to humans, who were right 71% of the time.


Giving AI the ability to understand visuals the way humans can could be an indicator to what would be efficient home assistants, as well as intelligent security cameras that could call an ambulance or the police ahead of time.

While this isn’t the first attempt at video prediction, it is the most accurate thus far. The reason is that, first, the new algorithm deviates from previous attempts at video predicting, wherein pixel-by-pixel representations were a priority. It predicts using abstract representation and focuses on the important signs: it learns on its own and uses “visual representations” to discriminate between visual cues that are important in social interactions from those that are not. It’s something that comes naturally to humans, but is far more complicated in AI.

“It’s not hugely different from some other things that people have done, but they’ve gotten substantially better results out of it than people have in this area before,” says Pedro Domingos, a machine learning expert and professor at the University of Washington.

Rats to become Super Sniffers as Scientists mutates their genes for that purpose.

Scientists are trying to create a new generation of rodents that can sniff out drugs or explosives which means that K-9 dogs might soon have some competition. U.S. scientists have mutated mice so that they are “super sniffers” for drugs and explosives.

This new generation of rodents was genetically altered to track down certain scents, according to a report at scientific journal Cell Reports.
“What we think we can do is make ‘super sniffers’ for particular odors,” said co-researcher Dr.Paul Feinstein. “We trick the animals to want to pay attention to one odor over many others.”
The mutated mice were exposed to two known odors – a chemical that has a sweet smell similar to jasmine and another that smells like peppermint. It turns out they can detect lower doses of these odors than non-mutated mice.
Scientists say the next step is to apply this research to detecting drugs or explosives.
“We want to create an explosive-detecting rat or mouse – and we could also do this for narcotics such as cocaine, for example,” said lead researcher Dr.Charlotte D’Hulst. “If we can find the receptor that is activated by cocaine, we could create ‘super-sniffing’ cocaine rodents.”

Researchers said they see the application of their study in a number of areas.

It could be used in military and defense, where the mutated rats could sniffing out TNT, the main explosive component of landmines.

The fragrance and flavour industry can also benefit from mice that are bred with human receptors for smelling particular odours by utilizing the same method for unique super rodents!

The mutated rodents could also be implanted with some sort of “bio-reactor” made up of nerve cells to sniff out human diseases from the chemical signatures they give off in blood or sweat.

As with any groundbreaking study, it will still take time before scientists could come out and give humans the mutated rat that they need. One could only remain hopeful.

137 Million Southeast Asian Workers Could Lose Their Jobs to Automation in the Next 20 Years.

137 million workers from five Southeast Asian countries are in danger of being replaced by automated systems in the next 20 years. The International Labour Organisation says that laborers working in the manufacturing industry, the garment industry most of all, are at the highest risk.
A study conducted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that in the next 20 years, more than half of the workers in five Southeast Asian countries are highly likely to lose their jobs to automation—most specifically in the garment industry.

The countries on the danger list are Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, where 137 million workers are at high risk of being laid off in favor of technology. This number constitutes 56% of these countries’ salaried labor force, with workers in textiles, clothing, and footwear sectors being at the highest risk of being replaced by automated machines.

Sadly, as automation starts to become dominant, certain skills become obsolete, even when their costs were supposedly low enough. “Countries that compete on low-wage labour need to reposition themselves—price advantage is no longer enough,” said Deborah France-Massin, director for the ILO’s bureau for employers’ activities.

“Robots are becoming better at assembly, cheaper and increasingly able to collaborate with people,” the ILO said.

DNA on the verge on becoming the most trusted mode of Data Storage

DNA storage is moving forward in the race for data storage in a world that is moving to files that consistently grow larger. Microsoft has announced that it has successfully packed 200MB of data into DNA all at once—a first in history.


DNA STORAGE GETTING CLOSER

As reported earlier, Microsoft has been looking to biological resources for potential data storage solutions, and they bought ten million strands of synthetic DNA from Twist Bioscience because they believe that DNA is a high-capacity, highly efficient, long-term storage option that can safely store 1,000,000,000 TB per gram.

And now, it looks like DNA is moving forward as one of the top contenders in the battle for data storage. Microsoft has announced that they have successfully packed 200 MB of data into DNA all at once—a feat that no one has done before.


THE INCOMING FLOOD OF DATA

The cost is the greatest challenge for DNA storage. “For people to really pick it up, you need to store something cheaper than on tape, and that’s going to be hard,” says UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher Reinhard Heckel.

While the current process is expensive (how expensive remains undisclosed) and delicate, they believe that developments in the biotech industry will eventually drive these costs down and help them cultivate an easier process, making DNA an eligible replacement to the current magnetic tape storage standard which they deem insufficient and stagnant.

“If you look at current projections, we can’t store all the information we want with devices at the cost that they are,” says Karin Strauss, Microsoft’s lead researcher on the project.

A flood of data is predicted to reach 16 trillion gigabytes by next year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC). That is equal to 100 giant data centers, a necessity of enterprise-proportions. The research aims to find an alternative that could match this necessity when the time comes.

“The company is interested in learning whether we can create an end-to-end system that can store information, that’s automated, and can be used for enterprise storage, based on DNA,” says Strauss.

Strauss approximates that a shoebox of DNA could hold all the 16 trillion gigabytes of data flawlessly.

Food Scientists Have Discovered a Way to Turn Off Junk Food Cravings

A new supplement has been developed that can reportedly switch off cravings for high-calorie foods and leave the healthy appetite alone.


CRAVING LESS

Obesity is a growing global disease, and some are coming up with pretty unique ways to beat it using tech. Elsewhere, hope is being pinned on internal medical science, where nutritionists are trying to find substances that make people eat less.

UK scientists may have found a food supplement that selectively switches off cravings, removing the desire for high-calorie fatty foods while leaving the healthy appetite unaffected. The supplement is inulin-propionate ester, developed by researchers at Imperial College London. In a test with 20 volunteers, the researchers found that the supplement results in both less cravings for junk food, and eating smaller portions.


This test involved volunteers drinking either a milkshake containing 10 grams of inulin propionate ester, or inulin on its own, which acted as the control. Participants were then strapped to an MRI machine, and shown various pictures of low or high calorie foods. The scans show that those who had the supplement had less activity in the reward regions of their brain—but only when looking at high-calorie foods. They also found that the pictures looked less appealing. The volunteers were then given a bowl of pasta with tomato sauce and told to eat as much as they liked. The supplement group ate 10% less than the control.

FOOLING THE BRAIN

The supplement is based on the molecule propionate produced by gut bacteria that tells the brain when you’ve eaten enough. It originated from earlier findings that the fiber inulin can increase the production of propionate in the intestine. Therefore, by modifying inulin to contain propionate, gut bacteria is triggered to produce as much as 2.5 times more propionate. The molecule works by decreasing activity in brain areas associated with food reward.

The study was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.w

Google and NHS develops an Artificial Intelligence named "DeepMind" that can scan a Million Eyes to Fight Blindness.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO CURE EYE CONDITIONS

Google DeepMind and the NHS are developing a machine learning system with Moorfields Eye Hospital that can recognize sight-threatening conditions from just a digital scan of the eye.

Mustafa Suleyman, Deepmind’s co-founder, says this is the company’s first foray into a purely medical research. In this new collaboration with Moorfields, an algorithm will be trained using one million anonymized eye scans to train to identify early signs of degenerative eye conditions such as wet age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

“If you have diabetes you’re 25 times more likely to go blind. If we can detect this, and get in there as early as possible, then 98% of the most severe visual loss might be prevented,” says Suleyman.

By training a neural network to do the assessment of eye scans, it could greatly increase both the speed and accuracy of diagnosis, which can potentially save the sight of thousands of people.


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NO PRIVACY BREACH

Since the Moorfields collaboration involves anonymized information, Google has been given permission for access through a research collaboration agreement with the hospital, and has published a research protocol, as is standard practice for medical trials.

The scans can show details down to the cellular level, which is extremely useful. But if there are a million of these scans, it may take some time for doctors to process them manually, which is where Deepmind comes in.

It will probably take some time before any real results could be released, but if the research becomes successful, it could potentially help millions worldwide who are at risk of degenerative eye conditions.

Scientists Claim They’ve Developed Aspirin that Crosses the Blood-Brain Barrier

TRULY SOLUBLE

Scientists claim that have developed a truly soluble liquid aspirin that can reach the brain and kill glioblastoma cells—one of the most aggressive types of brain tumor— without causing any damage to healthy brain cells. Well, in the laboratory at least.


The study is not published and peer-reviewed yet, but it has been presented in the Brain Tumors 2016 conference in Poland by researchers from the Brain Tumour Research Centre at the Univerity of Portsmouth in the UK.

The blood-brain barrier keeps pathogens from invading the brain’s blood supply. It only allows water and some substances to pass through. It is a great shield from substances that may harm the brain but it is also a big hindrance for the success of operations where doctors need to deliver drugs directly to the brain. This mechanism is actually a reason why brain tumors cause high mortality rates.

Last year, scientists announced that they were able to get chemotherapy drugs to cross the blood-brain barrier for the first time by utilizing ultrasound to part the barrier effectively. And now, the team from UK claims to have created aspirin that can travel directly into the brain.

GOODBYE BRAIN TUMOR?

The aspirin was created by reformulating aspirin with two more ingredients, that are not revealed yet, into soluble form. The final product is called  ‘IP1867B’. It showed promising results when different formulations of the drug were tested with glioblastoma cells extracted from patients with brain tumors.

Regardless of how the ingredients were combined, it is still more effective when compared to treatments available at the present. It is also important to note that the drug did not affect normal brain cells. The drug is soon to be tested on experimental models.

Do you want Your Steak to Taste Better? Cloning Cattle Might be the Answer

Still drooling over the best steak you’ve ever had? Researchers from Texas are working to make high-quality beef more accessible with the use of cloning technology. Their aim is to use this technology to improve the yield and quality of beef cattle.

Dr.Ty Lawrence, director of the University Meat Laboratory at the West Texas A&M University, discussed the study he conducted regarding cloning in an interview with Texas Standard. Lawrence teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the university which focus on the science of meat. They conclude that combining cloning technology with breeding could help farmers improve beef yield and quality per steer.



High-quality meat served in high-end restaurants are usually low-yielding. These meat products are usually accompanied by fats that just go to waste. Coveted Japanese beef such as Kobe or Waygu requires a strict set of rules and procedures to produce. According to Lawrence, the cloning process will improve the taste fat (“marbling“), without the wasteful trim fat.

The team starts the process with the carcass of a desirable steer. “We’ve used cloning to recapture that carcass into a live animal, and then we’ve crossbred those live animals to get those calves, to see if we’re successful or not, thus far,” said Lawrence.  After an evaluation of the first seven steer produced from their technique, the cloned cattle are worth on average $140 more per animal than the natural-grown cattle.

Lawrence also made it clear that although the genetic original of the animal is cloned, the beef that arrives at grocery stores are not. “The meat that would arrive at a grocery store is not cloned,” he says. “The genetic original from that animal may have been cloned, but that’s the case already.”