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Is ended Bitcoin gold cycle ?
04
Aug
A year ago the bit had announced a sudden control of all your transactions, had suspended withdrawals on the grounds that it was necessary to correct a flaw that, among other possibilities, allowing someone with advanced knowledge change transfers completed to see covered in these as open causing values for the same transaction to be sent several times.
The suspension of withdrawals would be soon, but
was followed for months on end, so that even last year there was a most unexpected event yet, Mark Karpeles, CEO of MtGox, main operator of Bitcoin, announced the departure of the board of Bitcoin Foundation but without giving details.
For some the news was a positive sign: leaving the board, perhaps Karpeles could focus on solving the problems of MtGox, but after a year the case now get to go to justice according to The Japan Times. Karpeles is with the arrest warrant decreed since yesterday, to have manipulated and diverted to their own tens of millions of dollars, much more than the $ 1 million that his arrest warrant, according to police sources said on Monday (03/08).
For the closing of the company MtGox affect as little as possible the Bitcoin ecosystem, CEOs of exchange services Bitstamp, Blockchain, BTC China, Circle, Kraken and Coinbase issued a statement together where they explain that the market continues to be reliable and which closing of MtGox is exclusively due to their mismanagement, the shares on show slight recovery.
Big networking that is not digital
28
Jul
You can imagine that there is nothing more complex than a computer network, or
even the global network which controls stock and currency exchange rates, plus a plethora of products that go up and down in price every day, but that’s not true, and some would say that we can’t get to build bigger.
There are very complex networks that you have no idea around. One of them was shown on The Verge, which are ships carrying door-containers all over the world, in a global supply chain that transports from tablets to phones, food clothing, toys and souvenirs, etc. And is a country that does not produce any of this, just carries: Maersk of Denmark.
See in the picture (original BBC) a ship Maersk a mega-port in Korea, for this we need a big engineering solution, unprecedented a logistics problem truly create astronomical this network all over the world, delivering products from different sources, validity and natures and do all this work.
The company your in 125 countries, has 25,000 employees, 345 offices and more than 600 active ships, with more than 2 million containers moved per year, and she alone is responsible for 20% of the GDP of Denmark.
The climate and urgent changes
20
Jul
The Paris conference the end of the year should move
towards a new civilization level, and many social forces are mobilized for this, we are indicating a serious striking reports in recent studies on climate issues.
A shocking report was that of Health and Climate Change: Policy responses to protect public health” by a group of European academics and Chinese who were registered to a 2009 report in The Lancet, showing the public health impacts of expected changes climate (see the vídeo).
The study points to the vector-borne diseases, as well as the challenges of malnutrition, reaching to affect mental health.
The authors discuss how that countries are moving away from energy-intensive carbon technologies can improve public health today by reducing other types of air pollution, including particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NO x).
The core of the discussion lies, the stronger is the use of energy technologies that produce greenhouse gases also often produce these other air pollutants simultaneously, cases of vehicles with diesel and gasoline, the use of coal plants, biomass (eg, wood and coal) used in industrial processes (e.g., mining, smelting and cement manufacturing) all produce as much carbon dioxide and particulate material.
The study also shows the economic figures, which are sometimes the only sensitive to many governments and financial agents.
We can limit the intelligence Artificial
02
Jul
Now is serious discussion, proximity to situations where machines can go beyond human capacity were openly discussed in Washington DC, an event sponsored by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), and was discussed whether surpassing human intelligence, machines place in check point the human.
The matter was reported in the Computer World and is philosophical concern
of philosophers such as Peter Sloterdijk, Hannah Arendt and Heidegger Ernest, but it is also curiously expected as singularity point,
The researcher Stuart Russel, professor of Electrical Enginnering and Comptuer Sciences at U.C. Berkerley said:. “We’re all working on pieces of it…. If we succeed, we’ll drive the human race off the cliff, but we kind of hope we’ll run out of gas before we get to the cliff. That doesn’t seem like a very good plan…. Maybe we need to steer in a different direction.”
Russell was one of the five speakers on the panel today that took on questions about A.I. and fears that the technology could one day become smarter than humans and run amok.
Also the physicist Hawking, who wrote A Brief History of Time, said in May that robots with artificial intelligence could outpace humans within the next 100 years. Late last year, he was even more blunt: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
Apple launched the music streaming in Brazil
01
Jul
It was officially launched yesterday (30/06) Apple’s music streaming service in Brazil, according to Ian Rogers, director of the Apple Music. , The first transmission however was scheduled for Tuesday the 13 hs.
The program was directed by DJ Zane Lowe, who just interviewed ENINEM rapper, but Pharrell Williams, Elton John, Drake and other musicians were present at fast online Apple Music.
According to Apple’s senior vice president, iTunes Match users can use the application from the Apple Music, this means that libraries have made are not lost.
Initially the Apple Music will be free during the first three months of use, won the trial period, the monthly payment shall rotate at $ 9.99 but it seems to be half Brazilian $ 4.99 to be the price of the service.
Nothing against or in favor of PAID music service from Apple, just that there is a change.
The climate issue heats up
19
Jun
The various mobilizations around the world meeting on
climate issues in Paris at the end of the year, now had the official entry of Pope Francisco with a specific encyclical touching the water problem.
Tomás Insua, one of the co-founders of MCGC (Global Catholic Movement for Climate) of Argentina said on receiving the encyclical the hands of the Pope “to Francisco joked that we are competing with his encyclical. The endorsement of it to our work is very important to encourage awareness in Catholic circles globally as well as in order to get more signatures. ”
The climate conference has endorsement of respected UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), and the path that is going through and the disclosure that has been going on, will be the largest climate summit with official participation from Copenhagen in 2009.
One of the goals of organizers and entities organizers in Ecology defense is to limit the rise of global warming by up to 2 ° C, ie, pre-industrial levels, as many scientists warning that current levels are problematic.
The realization of the Climate Conference will be between November 30 and December 11, 2015 and promises
Algorithm to paint creative
15
Jun
The paints can be considered depending on the creative influence of currents performers or artists
prior to define creative paints or which are only derived from a determined current, researchers Ahmed and ElGamal Babak Salek Rutger University developed a vision algorithm cyber sorting images.
They used concepts that can be called classemes (classemes) developed in 2559 a list of different types with a vector (a list of parameters) that classifies, which is described in the recent article by MIT Technology Review, USA.
The algorithm consulting a spleen of the art data containing images and notes on about 62,000 works of art and can be seen approaching the ranks of art history, but also showing how contemporary paintings use old features.
The history of the paintings have a large number of similar form of examples that already has previous traces of great influence on those who followed, for example, Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna of 1469 and a child with a pomegranate, Goya 1780, even Monet or crucified Christ, 1865 and so on.
Others paintings are more derived, showing many similarities with those who came before and are therefore considered less creative.
Infernal dichotomies and technology
29
May
Modern thought lives under the aegis of the infernal dichotomies (subjective vs objective,
nature vs culture), a term coined by Bruno Latour to explain the thought and the sciences of today, nothing more conducive.
The whole theory of the modern state, as Thomas Hobbes, who said that man is a homine lupus (wolf to man) through the empiricist John Locke, until you reach Jean Jacques Rousseau, who said that man by nature is good, the noble savage, which He inspired the French Revolution, but what followed it was one bloodthirsty killing and then there were two restorations of the monarchy.
Nothing more propitious time we designed the objects, our modern fetishes and time designed the subject, our passions and everyday affairs, but the question of being, that is, the essence of our existence remains unnoticed.
Of course the fetish of all fetishes is money for some so it can provide, but for most people just get pay day to day bills, and the pile of benefits that swelled in recent years, called by some of middle-class forward, it seems that the fetish disbanded.
Here are questions the technological fetishes, to what extent part of a contemporary need, to what extent are mere fetishes, is questionable communicate is necessary, but the iPhone last type is at hand often critical of “consumerism”.
As always beyond subject and object, to forget the existential Being, there is confusion between culture and nature, it is natural to man to communicate and it is cultural to use device that facilitates this communication, said the contemporary philosopher Heidegger man makes himself the language .
We must have a contemporary language or are we talking about for the past century.
5 technologies that will change the world
27
May
The World Economic Forum experts brought together 18 experts and 10 innovations listed, highlight 
five and comment other five concern.
Powered hydrogen cars was a promise, experts now warn “only now the technology seems to have reached the point where manufacturers plan to incorporate it into releases for consumers.”
Only present in plants and simple tasks (how to collect dust), now the thousands of better and cheaper sensors will allow “robots are able to understand and respond to the environment around it. Their ‘bodies’ are becoming more adaptable and flexible, “said the experts.
Plastic “thermoset” make recycling undergoing a process once, which gives both durability and ease of recycling, their use in mobile phones, computers and aircraft, will change its recycling.
The artificial intelligence with smartphones recognizing the voice of its owner, cars that drive themselves or drones are already present, though experts had who are “stepping forward with machines able to learn independently assimilate large volumes of information” , inform the experts.
The idea of decentralized manufacturing grew, you can now think of “smaller factories and locations receive instructions for making parts that can be assembled by the consumer or workshops own,” explains the forum.
The five possible forecasts more questionable is the “new techniques allow ‘edit’ the genetic code of plants to make them more nutritious or resistant to climate change,” the 3D additive manufacturing where “manufactured thus can be highly customized for each user, unlike products made with mass manufacturing processes, “the neuromorphic technology that could make a” transfer data between a memory and a central processor is that it uses large amounts of energy and generate a lot of heat “and intelligent autonomous drones.
Each of these last 5 has an outstanding period is the social disarray.
Gartner curve and technologies
26
May
Gartner research foundation published his Hypo Cycle in 2014, and among its forecasts
(taken debatable of course, for example, HTML5 is already a reality) seems that within two years we will have assistants to usable voice, 3D scanners in fast movement, reality in virtual layers in the “valley of disappointment”, the NFC is still stuck in the valley, which reminds me that we will see the iPhone 6 rise with a machine translation of voice, while still very slow, but at the end of maturity curve (speech recognition) and the beginning of the productivity curve.
The Internet of Things is at the peak of expectations, but then enters the valley of disappointment, and autonomous vehicles are already getting a little behind this peak, while gamification and augmented reality (virtual glasses are part of it) are in full diving in the valley the disappointment, but then they must take the ramp maturity.
Among the high expectations of the future, one highlight is the volumetric display holograms, quantum computing and the three-dimensional bioprinting able to create organic compounds and maybe even woven into three dimensional format, while only prostheses and three-dimensional molds.
On the other hand, three-dimensional scanners and printers on an industrial scale are already in the maturation curve and should achieve major market groups in the very near future.
They must be mature in the next two years the computing cloud and the proximity communication devices (Near Field Communication), while in the next five years will be in the market Communication Machine-to-machine and monitoring of health from a distance, of course this in part is already done, but still lack maturity.
Of course are only predictions, there are other search the curve
