Thursday, August 29, 2024

"The fabric of space-time is a conceptual model combining the three dimensions of space with the fourth dimension of time. According to the best of current physical theories, space-time explains the unusual relativistic effects that arise from traveling near the speed of light as well as the motion of massive objects in the universe." https://www.livescience.com/space-time.html

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Space-time_as_an_elastic_fabric

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/08/11/ask-ethan-is-spacetime-really-a-fabric

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=113711

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/is-the-fabric-of-spacetime-a-physical-object.5732/

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=the+fabric+of+reality

Friday, July 19, 2024

Hugh Everett III

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Everett_III

https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett/everett.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Worlds,_Parallel_Lives

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Film Producer Joel Silver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Silver#Life_and_career

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Pictures

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Times that The Simpsons predicted the future

https://ew.com/simpsons-predictions-that-came-true-8662708

There are several books, movies & TV productions that seem to depict certain events before they have happened.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/simpsons-future-predictions-accurate-1140775

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simpsons+Predictions

What are Dyson spheres, and how do we look for them?

Dyson spheres are hypothetical artificial megastructures built around a star to collect all of its radiant energy. https://www.space.com/dyson-sphere.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

https://theconversation.com/dyson-spheres-astronomers-report-potential-candidates-for-alien-megastructures-heres-what-to-make-of-it-230364

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

The Nothing CMF Phone 1

CMF Phone 1: Fun Modular Budget Phone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q45HmRIM08

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/nothings-cmf-brand-launches-new-phone-watch-buds-and-im-baffled

Why the Nothing CMF Phone 1 is a Game Changer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ki4bS4V2gQ

https://www.gsmarena.com/nothing_cmf_phone_1-13122.php

https://www.pcmag.com/news/nothing-appeals-to-budget-shoppers-with-199-cmf-phone-1

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/8/24191666/nothing-cmf-phone-1-cases-accessories-lanyard-wallet

https://www.wired.com/story/cmf-phone-1-cmf-watch-pro-2-cmf-buds-pro-2/

https://cmf.tech

No one seems to have a reassembling Transformers like phone yet. https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cell_phone

https://michaelbaystransformers.fandom.com/wiki/Cell_Phone

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Physicists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_physicists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicist#United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_physicists

My dream died, and now I'm here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

Embarrassed to be German? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZZ-Yni8Fg , https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder/videos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40900109 Every country has their strengths, flaws & weaknesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(Western_Europe)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany-United_Kingdom_relations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France-Germany_relations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany-Italy_relations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_three

Friday, July 5, 2024

Could AI prove that reality doesn’t exist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVGI46MZ33A

Reality, data and information exist above & at the quantum level.

Computational Complexity And The Nature Of Reality https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26783

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space , https://philpapers.org/archive/ZUSRR.pdf

Seems like there is a tremendous amount of nonexistent data to be processed.

https://medium.com/@rohanroberts/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-the-search-for-a-source-code-8c859a77d9e1

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Greene Confront the Edge of our Understanding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L6hinhDXQE

Monday, July 1, 2024

Why This New CD Could Change Storage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKY1EzNqLDY

How Dream Chaser Reinvented The Space Shuttle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVIXI09-AYw

Friday, June 28, 2024

Elon Musk's Question to AI: What's Outside The Simulation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK0q812bAK0

The Brain_in_a_vat is a fascinating thought experiment.

https://iep.utm.edu/brain-in-a-vat-argument

https://fusionanomaly.net/simulationtheory.html

Elon Musk

Elon_Musk has certainly set out a unique life path for himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Business_career

https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk

https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Elon+Musk

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Elon+Musk

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Starship just before launch with Elon Musk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InJOlT6WdHc

A Look Inside SpaceX's Starfactory with Elon Musk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFqjoCbZ4ik

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2436859-smiling-robot-face-is-made-from-living-human-skin-cells

Could this lead to something like a Replicant in Blade+Runner?

It's one thing if some people want to create artificial humans to do various tasks that are too dangerous for humans. However, what might artificial life fused with A.I. might want to do? Especially, if it wants to do things that standard biological humans can't or don't want to do.

https://screensense.wordpress.com/blade-runner/themes-philosophy/viewing-replicants-in-blade-runner/

https://www.thewrap.com/blade-runner-2049-how-replicants-work/

https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/blade-runner-2049-movie-review

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/159113/why-arent-replicants-created-with-some-distinctive-feature-in-blade-runner

What if someday some people would like to create AI human replicas with the intent to replace humanity? AI entities doing dangerous jobs and tasks are one thing, but to totally replace humans would have very dangerous implications.

https://3brothersfilm.com/blog/2012/06/more-human-than-human-ridley-scotts-blade-runner

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/blade-runner-replicant-a7992556.html

https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/Living_tissue

https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/Model_(living_tissue)

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22360/why-was-the-first-terminator-rotting

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2390848-terminator-model-has-living-skin-made-from-fungus/

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

"Turing and Zuse had many similar ideas. But they did not know each other, they were isolated. It was not until the end of World War II that they heard about their respective achievements. And in late summer 1947 there was a mysterious meeting in Göttingen. British scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (Teddington, London) interrogated German researchers. Participants included Arthur Porter, Alan Turing and John Womersley (England) as well as Heinz Billing, Helmut Schreyer, Alwin Walther and Konrad Zuse. This reunion is described by the memoir of the German computer pioneer Billing from the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich). However, In the memoirs published by Porter and Zuse the colloquium at Göttingen is not mentioned. As all the actors have died, it is difficult to verify the story. At the moment, we are still looking for further evidence." https://web.archive.org/web/20130521211106/http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/Turing_Zuse.pdf

"In 1967, Zuse suggested that the universe itself is running on a cellular automaton or similar computational structure (digital physics); in 1969, he published the book Rechnender Raum (translated into English as Calculating Space).^[15]^[16]^[17]"Ahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse#1945-1995

Simulacron-3 was published in 1964 & written by, Daniel_F._Galouye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor#Plot

Echoes of Other Worlds: Sound in Virtual Reality: Past, Present and Future

By Tom A. Garner

https://books.google.ca/books?id=dbszDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA141&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://philpapers.org/rec/GAREOO-2

https://ap2hyc.com/2021/04/tumbling-down-the-rabbit-hole-alice-allusions-in-the-matrix/

https://www.massive-cinema.com/storyboard/follow-the-rabbit-the-matrix-meaning

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Konrad+Zuse

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Did Scientists Discover Alien Mega-Structures?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSnA2FdDYfk , https://www.youtube.com/@StarTalk/videos

The Dyson_sphere is quite a fascinating concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Search_for_megastructures

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/science/dyson-spheres-alien-life-evidence-scn/index.html

https://www.livescience.com/space/extraterrestrial-life/7-potential-alien-megastructures-spotted-in-our-galaxy-are-not-what-they-seem

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/alien-dyson-sphere-megastructures-could-surround-at-least-7-stars-in-our-galaxy-new-studies-suggest

https://kardashev.fandom.com/wiki/Dyson_sphere

Perhaps such tech could be used for various things. Perhaps even something like a Phantom Zone to contain a very hostile ALIEN species.

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Neil-deGrasse-Tyson

Synthetic biology and intelligence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_intelligence

https://klu.ai/glossary/synthetic-intelligence

Synthetic_biology and artificial life could lead into exciting and dangerous territory. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg1637

https://formaspace.com/articles/tech-lab/how-researchers-create-synthetic-biological-intelligence-in-the-laboratory/

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/57378/intersection-between-the-biological-and-digital-synthetic-biological-intelligence-and-organoid-intelligence

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37558186/

https://news.mit.edu/2023/ai-models-astrocytes-role-brain-0815

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/experts-weigh-ai-vs-human-brain/

The Sci-Tech Portal is part of The Rabbit Portal

TS-T Portal is all one interconnected mess of referencing data and information that is TRP. An intersection or a portal in between technology & mythology, science & fiction.

As a reference blog observing The Nature Of Reality (TNOR), The-Rabbit-Portal continues to link to almost anything. Why? Because TRP is about seeking various perspectives from several sources.

https://nuscimagazine.com/down-a-holographic-rabbit-hole-black-holes-wormholes-and-holes-in-physics-theories/

https://williamgillett.com/my-chat-with-chatgpt-on-rabbit-holes-wormholes

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/from-rabbit-holes-to-wormholes-kidlit-memories/

https://www.christopherwardforum.com/offtopic/rabbit-or-worm-t59918.html

https://processpeace.com/2019/12/20/rabbit-holes-and-wormholes/

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The-Rabbit-Portal (TRP)

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The-Lion-Portal

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Digital-Rabbit-Holes

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The-Digital-Portal

String Theory Unravels New Pi Formula

Researchers found a new series representation for pi while exploring string theory and particle interactions. https://scitechdaily.com/string-theory-unravels-new-pi-formula-a-quantum-leap-in-mathematics/

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPh0LOCWT5A , https://www.youtube.com/@StarTalk/videos

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Neil-deGrasse-Tyson

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Scientists Forge the World’s Thinnest Metallic Wire From Copper and Carbon Atoms

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-forge-the-worlds-thinnest-metallic-wire-from-copper-and-carbon-atoms/

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/04/24/nanowire-networks-learn-and-remember-like-a-human-brain.html

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-nanowire-networks-human-brain.html

https://www.nature.com/subjects/nanowires

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S102691852300077X

https://www.technologynetworks.com/informatics/news/nanowire-neural-network-learns-just-like-the-human-brain-380521

https://scitechdaily.com/neural-nanotechnology-nanowire-networks-learn-and-remember-like-a-human-brain/

https://theconversation.com/we-built-a-brain-from-tiny-silver-wires-it-learns-in-real-time-more-efficiently-than-computer-based-ai-216730

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-future-brain/202311/brain-inspired-nanowire-network-may-revolutionize-ai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_brain

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-05-05-artificial-neurons-mimic-complex-brain-abilities-next-generation-ai-computing

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ai-system-self-organises-to-develop-features-of-brains-of-complex-organisms

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/experts-weigh-ai-vs-human-brain/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRCygdW--c

https://www.herox.com/blog/333-theres-plenty-of-room-at-the-bottom-the-foresight

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/1976/

https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/yang/RFeynman_plentySpace.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/nnano.2009.356

Friday, June 14, 2024

Computer scientist Konrad Zuse

https://quantumzeitgeist.com/konrad-zuse

https://informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/zuse

Could the Universe be a giant quantum computer?

Computational rules might describe the evolution of the cosmos better than the dynamical equations of physics — but only if they are given a quantum twist. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02646-x

https://medium.com/@rohanroberts/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-the-search-for-a-source-code-8c859a77d9e1

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Konrad+Zuse

Thursday, June 13, 2024

The Observer Effect in Quantum Physics

https://www.larrygottlieb.com/blog/the-observer-effect

https://fs.blog/observer-effect

https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/observer-effect-quantum-mechanics.html

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/is-mathematics-an-invention-or-a-discovery.html

Is Inception like a Matrix Prequel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIxVjiRmnus

What Happened to Neo before Matrix 4? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHiEtNaeJU8

Sunday, June 9, 2024

Lockheed Martin Achieves Tactical AI Milestone in Aircraft Maneuvering

https://elblog.pl/2024/06/08/lockheed-martin-achieves-tactical-ai-milestone-in-aircraft-maneuvering/

https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/lockheed-martin-tests-ai-in-demonstration-combat-flights/

https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2024-06-05-Skunk-Works-R-Demonstrates-AI-for-Air-to-Air-Tactical-Intercepts

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2024/AI-Driven-Autonomy-Revolutionizing-Aircraft-Inspections.html

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2022/four-cool-artificial-intelligence-technologies.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin

"Merger talks between Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta began in March 1994, with the companies announcing their $10 billion planned merger on August 30, 1994." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin#1990s

Long before the merger of Lockheed Martin there was an actor who played GORT, which was part of an ET-AI interplanetary unit. His name was Lock Martin.

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Lock+Martin

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=GORT

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=AI

Lock Martin as GORT

Lock_Martin as the AI GORT-bot in The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gort_(The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still)#1951_depiction

Earth is getting very close to allowing AI to manage almost everything, even people.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning.html

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2023/artificial-intelligence-and-aegis-the-future-is-here.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_to_the_Master#Plot_summary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still#Plot

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Lock+Martin

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=GORT

https://data--stream.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Day+The+Earth+Stood+Still

Saturday, June 1, 2024

stargate-sg-1-creator-reveals-star-wars-tech-that-couldve-made-all-the-difference

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/stargate-sg-1-creator-reveals-star-wars-tech-that-couldve-made-all-the-difference

Thursday, May 30, 2024

FinalSparks-bioprocessor-is-a-computer-made-of-brain-organoids

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/finalsparks-bioprocessor-is-a-computer-made-of-brain-organoids

https://www.syfy.com/future-computers-could-be-built-from-artificial-brain-cells

Monday, May 27, 2024

Is VR Finally Going Mainstream?

https://techytwist.com/is-vr-finally-going-mainstream/

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

COLOSSUS The Forbin Project - AI Predictions from 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVG7dcPOLZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgUoszWScE

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Colossus

Monday, May 20, 2024

Scarlett Johansson says a ChatGPT voice is 'eerily similar' to hers and OpenAI is halting its use

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/openai-pauses-chatgpt-voice-after-sounds-scarlett-johansson-110408633

Of course a person should be able to retain the right of their voice & likeness...

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/scarlett-johansson-reacts-openai-similar-voice-org-pauses/story?id=110420930

Either someone would have to pay or respect the person wishes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/scarlett-johansson-says-openai-chatbot-voice-eerily-similar-hers-2024-05-21/

Unfortunately, AI might not give a damn as to how ChatGPT+voice technology is used.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-voice-rcna153180

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/scarlett-johansson-responds-shocked-angered-openai-chatgpt-her-1236011135/

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/scarlett-johansson-says-chatgpt-voice-similar-to-hers-/7620952.html

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+voice+cloning

Anton Zeilinger and Physics

Anton_Zeilinger has discovered several fascinating things about the nature of reality.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/zeilinger/facts/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger#Honours_and_awards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger#Quantum_teleportation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Concept

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Non-locality_and_entanglement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposition_principle#Quantum_superposition

https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/quantum-science-explained/quantum-superposition

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics shared between Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkk6s-7-cNw

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking work in Quantum Entanglement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_0QM_UA4I

Why Quantum Computers Will Break Reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-MG8a0J0bk

https://anonyome.com/2024/04/will-quantum-computers-break-the-internet-4-things-to-know/

https://ig.ft.com/quantum-computing/

https://physicsworld.com/a/when-will-quantum-computers-finally-break-into-the-market/

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-computers-break-internet-save

https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2023/09/when-a-quantum-computer-is-able-to-break-our-encryption.html

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-quantum-computing-so-hard-to-explain-20210608/

https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-skeptics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38745970

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Ed Dwight was the first Black man to train to be a NASA astronaut in the 1960s

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13433329/ed-dwight-nasa-astronaut-training-space-blue-origin.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Dwight

"In 2024, Dwight was selected for a suborbital spacefight mission and flew on Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-25, sponsored by Space For Humanity on May 19, 2024. He became the oldest person to fly in space at 90 years 8 months and 10 days, surpassing William Shatner." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Dwight#Suborbital_spaceflight_on_New_Shepard

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/19/ed-dwight-blue-origin-first-black-astronaut-candidate

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ed-dwight-first-african-american-space-until-wasnt-180974215/

https://www.oldest.org/people/astronauts

https://www.nasa.gov/former-astronaut-john-h-glenn

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=William+Shatner

Friday, May 17, 2024

Neuralink KNEW its brain implant was likely to malfunction in its first human patient - but went ahead with the surgery anyway

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13429339/Elon-Musk-Neuralink-brain-implant-malfunction.html

Monday, May 13, 2024

Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone

https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/business/illness-took-away-her-voice-ai-created-a-replica-she-carries-in-her-phone-7358381 As with almost any tool or device, there is a good side, but there is also a potential bad side.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/31/openai-deems-its-voice-cloning-tool-too-risky-for-general-release Unfortunatly, there is always the potential for a deep fake image & voice of someone.

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/new-voice-cloning-technology-allows-scammers-to-impersonate-anyone-1.6318260

https://ipwatchdog.com/2023/08/09/ai-voice-cloning-misuse-opened-pandoras-box-legal-issues-heres-know/id=163859/

https://apnews.com/article/openai-voice-engine-aigenerated-clone-chatgpt-87da88d979ea5c75e98c75914740bd85

https://cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications/voice-cloning-scale

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/04/01/openai-unveils-ai-voice-cloning-tech-that-only-needs-a-15-second-sample-to-work

https://imusician.pro/en/resources/blog/the-rise-of-ai-voice-cloning

https://bottalk.io/learn-with-bottalk/ai-voice-cloning-what-it-is-and-how-it-works/

https://fortune.com/2024/03/29/openai-tech-clone-someones-voice-safety-concerns

https://www.telecomreview.com/articles/reports-and-coverage/7263-caution-ahead-exploring-the-benefits-and-dangers-of-ai-voice-cloning

https://www.hackerone.com/ai/voice-cloning-qa

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/worried-about-ai-voice-clone-scams-create-family-password

https://www.atb.com/personal/good-advice/banking-and-security-tips/the-growing-threat-of-ai-voice-cloning-scams/

https://time.com/6275794/ai-voice-cloning-scams-music

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=ChatGPT+voice

Monday, April 29, 2024

TTP

TTP is still generally about referencing technology and some urban issues.

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Worlds-best-cities-for-tech-workers

https://www.thetravel.com/technological-cities-to-visit-around-the-world/

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/biggest-tech-talent-hubs-in-us-canada/

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=TTP

Some Cutting-Edge Technologies

https://cmcglobal.com.vn/digtal-transformation/top-10-cutting-edge-technologies-to-explode-in-2024/

https://blog.internxt.com/cutting-edge-technologies/

https://www.unosquare.com/blog/the-pros-and-cons-of-using-cutting-edge-technology-in-software-development/

Saturday, April 27, 2024

The Las Vegas Sphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSuSN_qfB0I

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Via West57 in NYC

https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/skyscraper/via-west57-bjarke-ingels-group-big

It's an interesting shape.

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

silica-and sand-in-the-electronics-industry

https://www.geoterradominicana.com/en/articles/silica-sand-in-the-electronics-industry-boosting-themodern-technology/

Monday, April 22, 2024

Countries That Have the Most Technological Expertise

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/technological-expertise

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-technologically-advanced-countries

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/13-most-advanced-countries-computer-124816926.html

Friday, April 12, 2024

digital ghosts

https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/digital-ghosts With or without DNA?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/datafication-and-digital-reanimation

https://shows.acast.com/theintelligencepodcast/episodes/the-weekend-intelligence-digital-ghosts

https://unherd.com/newsroom/digital-ghosts-the-eerie-next-step-in-your-customised-world

https://medium.com/swlh/growing-up-online-digital-ghosts-105113dc51a3

https://medium.com/@screwthenews.site/digital-ghosts-ai-phantoms-haunt-the-paranormal-industry-27cb61c8640e

Why is it that long before there was digital technology or cinematography, some people had descriptions of what seemed to be glosts on some kind of a time loop. Would such sightings be indicative that this world might be part of a cosmic simulation?

Saturday, April 6, 2024

Aftershocks rattle NYC and the Northeast after rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/us/earthquake-nyc-nj-northeast/index.html

Fortunately, this part of the world doesn't have the same frequency of earthquakes as Japan and California.

https://abc7ny.com/new-jersey-earthquake-residents-across-tri-state-report-feeling-shaking-as-48-quake-rocks-region/14622009/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/magnitude-55-earthquake-strikes-new-york-new-jersey-emsc-2024-04-05/

NYC earthquake MTA subway-bridges-tunnels-closures-delays

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-trains-earthquake-mta-subway-bridges-tunnels-closures-delays/

Of course it takes time to assess if there was any significant earthquake damage.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/earthquake-new-york-city-aging-buildings

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-10-most-earthquake-prone-countries.html

https://www.worldatlas.com/natural-disasters/the-12-most-earthquake-vulnerable-cities-in-the-world.html

Urban earthquakes can be the most dangerous & disruptive, simply because of the concentration of people & infrastructure.

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/which-country-has-most-earthquakes

Statue of Liberty heavy shaking during NYC earthquake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITwm3PVq620

Of course NYC, Boston & Chicago aren't as earthquake prepared as LA, SF & Seattle.

https://www.ksbw.com/article/monterey-county-sheriffs-statue-liberty-earthquake-shakes-new-york-california-4-8/60412551

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/earthquake-videos-new-york-city-area/60411727

Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15499-y

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abl3564

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26276/new-challenges-for-seismic-risk-mitigation-in-urban-areas/magazine

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-10-most-earthquake-prone-countries.html

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/24/13165

https://www.worldatlas.com/natural-disasters/the-12-most-earthquake-vulnerable-cities-in-the-world.html

Of course the ability to predict earthquakes would be so beneficial.

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/which-country-has-most-earthquakes

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

The Baltimore bridge collapse investigation continues

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/investigation-into-baltimore-bridge-collapse-picks-up-speed-as-divers-search-for-missing-workers/3374336/

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

How safe are bridges at Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach?

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/how-safe-bridges-at-ports-of-los-angeles-and-long-beach/3373516/

Baltimore bridge collapse shares eerie similarities with the Tampa Bay’s Skyway disaster

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2024/03/26/florida-sunshine-skyway-bridge-disaster-collapse/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Summit_Venture#1980_Skyway_incident Collisions between ships and bridges are never a good situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#1980_collapse

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13239929/bridge-collapses-florida-great-yarmouth-baltimore.html

The Tampa+Bay+Sunshine+Skyway+Bridge or crossing, has been greatly improved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#Replacement_bridge

Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_collapse

Fortunately, most times ships don't crash into bridges.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-deadliest-bridge-collapse-in-modern-history

https://libguides.lindahall.org/bridges/failures/collapses

https://www.history.com/news/deadly-bridge-collapses

http://www.historyofbridges.com/facts-about-bridges/bridge-failures/

http://www.bridgesdb.com/bridge-history-facts/famous-bridge-collapses/

Francis+Scott+Key+Bridge+in+Baltimore+collapses+after+being+struck+by+cargo+ship

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Is Neuralink The Worst Thing Ever Made?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi_NVIbYGCk Like any tool or device, it can be used in a good way or a malevolent way.

https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-neuralinks-first-human-patient-plays-chess-with-his-mind-150031220.html

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/man-with-elon-musks-neuralink-brain-chip-posts-tweet-on-x-just-by-thinking-5300011

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4083073-elon-musk-celebrates-neuralink-patient-tweets

https://futurism.com/neoscope/elon-musk-neuralink-blind-monkeys-see-again

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68622781

https://www.businessinsider.com/neuralink-elon-musk-microchips-brains-ai-2021-2

https://twitter.com/neuralink?lang=en

The Matrix Awakens

The_Matrix_Awakens was released into the market in December 2021, so a lot of people have had an opportunity to try it since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Awakens#Background

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-matrix-awakens-unreal-engine-5-demo-might-make-you-wonder-whats-real/1100-6498843

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16385248/

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Matrix

Friday, March 22, 2024

Is Apple's spatial computing headset worth the price?

Well, that might depend upon how virtually crazy one wants to become.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-vision-pro-faq-price-features-hands-on-insights-and-everything-you-need-to-know

https://www.theverge.com/23689334/apple-mixed-reality-headset-augmented-virtual-reality-ar-vr-rumors-specs-features , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdwaWxY11jQ

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-vision-pro/

https://www.vox.com/technology/2024/2/1/24057024/apple-vision-pro-headset-virtual-mixed-reality-meta-oculus-spatial-computing

https://www.theverge.com/24054862/apple-vision-pro-review-vr-ar-headset-features-price

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/hands-on-with-apple-vision-pro-this-is-not-a-vr-headset/

Using Apple Vision Pro: What It’s Actually Like! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtp6b76pMak

The Apple Vision Pro is NOT what you think it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REo1ugX5GSI

Thursday, March 21, 2024

How is technology changing our way to experience cities?

https://parametric-architecture.com/walking-internet-and-the-cyberflaneur-how-is-technology-changing-our-way-to-experience-cities

Urban technology can be a great thing, as long as it doesn't become used to facilitate a totalitarian nightmare. Thus, human visualization must be never replace by total AI. Unless one wants to have a Borg like world.

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=AI

Architecture-in-video-game-design-for-creating-new-realms

https://parametric-architecture.com/parametric-architecture-in-video-game-design-for-creating-new-realms

https://parametric-architecture.com/architectural-visualization-by-using-game-engines/

The Capitol Records Building

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records_Building Its certainly a modern classic structure.

https://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-worlds-most-amazing-circular-buildings/20110720.htm

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/most-beautiful-skyscrapers-world

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1bht59s/sam_altman_openai_gpt5_sora_board_saga_elon_musk/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lexfridman/comments/1bbr7z9/questions_for_sam_altman_post_from_lex/

Grok AI vs. ChatGPT

https://www.pcguide.com/ai/chatgpt-vs-grok-ai

Is it just a matter of preference?

https://em360tech.com/tech-article/grok-vs-chatgpt-which-is-better

https://cointelegraph.com/learn/chatgpt-vs-grok-ai-differences

https://textcortex.com/post/grok-ai-vs-chatgpt

https://cloudfoundation.com/blog/grok-vs-chatgpt/

https://neuroflash.com/blog/chatbot-for-companies-grok-ai-vs-chatgpt-in-comparison

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=AI

Monday, March 18, 2024

Futuristic skylines and totalitarian control areas

https://blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com/en/futuristic-skylines-exploring-the-worlds-most-innovative-urban-projects

A city can allow for the freedom of movement, or it can be a contact-tracing totalitarian nightmare.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/jan/29/future-cities-in-film

https://gizmodo.com/dark-city-cool-art-awesome-neo-noir-and-urban-fantasy-5803812

https://www.intjournal.com/thinkpieces/alphaville-is-50-after-modernism-lost-it-meaning-it-still-had-its-looks An enduring example of a totalitarin smartcity from a 1960s perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)

https://medium.com/hope-lies-at-24-frames-per-second/on-jean-luc-godards-alphaville-a-film-about-the-theft-of-talent-9bef162d4070

https://ivypanda.com/essays/representations-of-the-distopian-city

http://www.visionsofthecity.com/alphaville.htm

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Metropolis-film-1927

https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2016/feature-articles/alienation-alphaville-playtime/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/dark-city-cool-art-awesome-neonoir-and-urban-fantasy-cityscapes--451837775098168088/

The story of the song "Virtual Insanity" is weirder than you thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-LT6L1T6Is

Some songs and videos can hint or suggest what might gradually unfold in the tech world, indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Insanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm6DS3BeTdM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Insanity#In_popular_culture

High-density housing vs. better amenities

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/real-estate-news/vancouver-neighbourhood-divided-high-density-housing-vs-better-amenities-8453134

Vancouver has impose decades of severe building restrictions that the BC government finally had to implement higher housing standards, but it still might not be enough. Edmonton, Calgary & Seattle all have allowed a taller residential tower than what is permitted in strict Vancouver. If more affordable housing was included on the lower floors, then the high cost upper floors can offset the overall building costs.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

17 Ave. S.E. Bus Rapid Transit, Cushing Bridge, Calgary

https://www.calgary.ca/council/ward-9/h-17-av-se-bus-rapid-transit.html Of course Calgary would get around to doing this type of crossing, long before Vancouver would. The BRT bridge next to the Cushing+Bridge

The 4 lane Cushing+Bridge could have easily remained as a Vancouver type bottleneck or chokepoint, but building a bus-bridge next to it, makes all the difference. The Greater Vancouver area has so many narrow streets & bridges. Its as if there is a different set of physics in BC than in Alberta. Fortunately unlike slow moving Vancouver, Calgary was able to get the 17_Avenue_Transitway mostly completed, years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_Transit#Bus_rapid_transit_and_future

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX_(Calgary)#BRT_routes

Of course Calgary seems to have a better system of bike bridges than Vancouver as well.

https://www.visitcalgary.com/things-to-do/stories-from-calgary/10-epic-bike-pathways-in-calgary

https://outandacross.com/5-best-bike-paths-calgary/

https://www.calgary.ca/bike-walk-roll/pathways.html