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Some videos on Xerox Alto from 1972:
Seminal Xerox Alto arrives for restoration (video)

Alto restoration in text.

Quick specification:
CPU: TTL-based, 4x 74181 ALU chips. User programmable microcode (1-3 kB), big-endian. @ 5.88 MHz.
RAM: 96-512 kB
Graphics: 606×808 pixels
Storage: 2.5 MB one-platter cartridge

Some predictions from "the father of deep learning", Jürgen Schmidhuber:

He predicts trillions of AI in the 2050s will mine and develop [asteroids].

He has a long list of “truths” that many disagree with.

1. Many think that intelligence is this awesome, infinitely complex thing. Juergen think it is just the product of a few principles that will be considered very simple in hindsight, so simple that even kids will be able to understand and build intelligent, continually learning, more and more general problem solvers.
Partial justification of this belief:
(a) there already exist blueprints of universal problem solvers developed in my lab, in the new millennium, which are theoretically optimal in some abstract sense although they consist of just a few formulas (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/unilearn.html, http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html).

(b) The principles of our less universal, but still rather general, very practical, program-learning recurrent neural networks can also be described by just a few lines of pseudo-code, e.g., http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/rnn.html, http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/compressednetworksearch.html

2. General purpose quantum computation won’t work (Juergen’s prediction of 15 years ago is still standing). Related: The universe is deterministic, and the most efficient program that computes its entire history is short and fast, which means there is little room for true randomness, which is very expensive to compute. What looks random must be pseudorandom, like the decimal expansion of Pi, which is computable by a short program. Many physicists disagree, but Einstein was right: no dice. There is no physical evidence to the contrary http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/randomness.html. For example, Bell’s theorem does not contradict this. And any efficient search in program space for the solution to a sufficiently complex problem will create many deterministic universes like ours as a by-product. Think about this. More here http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/computeruniverse.html and here http://www.kurzweilai.net/in-the-beginning-was-the-code

[...] Juergen won’t be surprised if Moore’s Law holds for another century. If so, computers will approach the Bremermann limit of 10^51 ops/s per kg of matter in the mid 2100s

Femtocomputing, please.

Interesting Wikipedia talk page.

This is from last month but there's no newer article about AV1:

Google’s Royalty-Free Answer to HEVC: A Look at AV1 and the Future of Video Codecs

AOMedia Video 1:

AV1 can be used together with the audio format Opus in a future version of the WebM format for HTML5 web video and WebRTC.

What kind of features are you looking for in AV1 (other than the obvious: better compression efficiency than H.265/HEVC)?

Apple is adding HEVC support to its products.

Samsung computer phones used to have a stock app called S Suggest. Then Samsung didn't renew the domain that control it. And made it possible for villains to register the domain and malware infest millions of computer phone users had they spotted the opportunity.

On parity in severity with CVE-2015-2865 from 2015-06-17 which will not crypto sign computer code sent in clear text.

That is unless the phone goes into mission impossible flight mode of self destruction as in 2016-09-08.

Germany is planning a new law giving authorities the right to look at private messages and fingerprint children as young as 6, the interior minister said on Wednesday after the last government gathering before a national election in September 2017. Ministers from central government and federal states said encrypted messaging services, such as WhatsApp and Signal, allow militants and criminals to evade traditional surveillance. "We can't allow there to be areas that are practically outside the law," interior minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters in the eastern town of Dresden.

It's not even sure that messages will be obvious to be.. well anything like they don't want to. A quick look how this can be done is "The Saint" from 1997 where the contractor gets jobs that way. The hard quote is "where authorities install software on phones to relay messages before they are encrypted" suppose the phone knows nothing. Not even the destination because another unit tells it via junk voice modulated with actual bits what to do. This is so incredible stupid technology wise and dangerous design of society. The last time themes like this were current. Neighbors told people in uniform that so and so did bad things. So they could snatch their belongings like a house for themselves. And the whole society went down the drain. Oh wait, actually it was repeated after the mustache times with the sickle times. Both failed. This also shows why bootloader locked phones is detrimental to real security.

Another way to do it is like this:
"is planning new law planning giving"
Lexicon:
r - law
s - is
t - giving
e - planning
c - new
It would be trivial to get the encoded meaning. But now suppose something like base64 etc is added on top with input data being something true binary etc.

For some mysterious reason Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech, Slovakia, and Hungary almost all of them seem to have been spared the latest string of violent attacks. How can that be, Nobel prize awaits! ;)

China plans to send a 3 kg miniature ecosystem biosphere to the surface of the moon by using Chang’e 4 mission, incorporating a robotic lander and rover. When it departs in 2018.

The container will send potatoes, arabidopsis seeds and silkworm eggs to the surface of the moon. The eggs will hatch into silkworms, which can produce carbon dioxide, while the potatoes and seeds emit oxygen through photosynthesis. Together, they can establish a simple ecosystem on the Moon, says Zhang Yuanxun, chief designer of the container. The whole event with the development of plants and insects on lunar surface will be live-streamed to the world, says the project’s chief designer Xie Gengxin.

Suitable temperature for plants and insects to survive and thrive is between +1 .. +30 ⁰C. But the moon’s surface temperature ranges between -170 ⁰C at night to +120 ⁰C in the day. To get around this problem, the container will be equipped with a insulation layer and light pipes to ensure the growth of the plants and insects inside. Specially designed batteries will be used to provide a consistent energy supply.

Meanwhile researchers at the International potato center (CIP) and UTEC, Peru technical university in Lima, investigates if it's possible to grow potato on the planet Mars.

In the future all you base are owned by China?

Trump's Name Will Be Bleeped Out In The Next "Broad City" Season

Would I have seen this important news if I hadn't accidentally opened BuzzFeed? I'm not so sure.

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  But those are the breaks. It is just that Soylentils should know the breaks, and who is being broken. Remember, bad posts drive out good posts, and banning posts that call out bad posts will allow bad posts to drive out good posts. You should listen to Socrates:

And now, O men who have condemned me, I would fain prophesy to you; for I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power. And I prophesy to you who are my murderers, that immediately after my death punishment far heavier than you have inflicted on me will surely await you. Me you have killed because you wanted to escape the accuser, and not to give an account of your lives. But that will not be as you suppose: far otherwise. For I say that there will be more accusers of you than there are now; accusers whom hitherto I have restrained: and as they are younger they will be more severe with you, and you will be more offended at them. For if you think that by killing men you can avoid the accuser censuring your lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honorable; the easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. This is the prophecy which I utter before my departure, to the judges who have condemned me.

Of course, in the case of Soylent News, the result will be further insignificance. Soylent News is not growing to the extent it should be, it has a reputation as a right-wing den of iniquity and a part of the Dark Web, or the Dark Enlightenment. So it will fade away. I will not leave, however, because I am an advocate of free speech. So who among the admins is responsible for these actions? Do they not dare to even reveal their pseudonyms? Soylent News, hypocrisy is thy name.

Russia protests: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny sentenced

Russia protests: Kremlin critic Navalny jailed, hundreds arrested

Will Navalny make it into the Kremlin or get shot in the night?