On July 24th 2017, a technology company called Three Square Market, in River Falls, Wisconsin, announced that it will soon begin offering its employees the option of having chips implanted beneath their skin. The company's CEO, Todd Westby says that the chips will allow his employees to buy snack food items from the break room without using cash, coins, or credit cards. The chips will also be able to open doors and unlock computers.
Three Square Market, is a company that makes software that is used in vending machines, and is also known as 32M. On August 1st 2017 it will allow 50 of its employees to voluntarily have the new chips implanted. The chip uses a technology called RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification. Each participating employee will have a chip implanted between their thumb and fore finger by means of injection. Each implant is roughly the size and length of a grain of rice.
The chips are the product of a company called Biohax International which is based in Sweden. The price tag is $300 each, with Three Market Square picking up the fee. All participating employees have been assured that the chips are not GPS capable.... yet.
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
China Has Teleported An Object Into Space
On July 11th 2017, scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China announced that they have successfully teleported an object from earth into space. In a paper posted to the Cornell University Library, the leader of the team, Professor Chao-Yang Lu said, "Space-scale teleportation can be realized and is expected to play a key role in the future distributed quantum internet."
The experiment involved the phenomenon known as quantum entanglement. In quantum entanglement, when two or more particles interact with one another they become part of a system where the state of one particle can be instantaneously known by the other, even if they are separated by extreme distances. The Chinese researchers were able to establish an ultra long distance up link to an orbiting satellite.
The researchers used a brand new satellite that was launched in 2016 using a Long March Rocket.
The photons in question were beamed from a ground station in Ngari Tibet, up to China's Micius satellite, which was orbiting the earth at a distance of 311 miles. The satellite's sensitive photon receiver detected the states of many single photons, which were part of entangled pairs, that were fired from the ground. The researchers were successful in 900 cases.
The experiment involved the phenomenon known as quantum entanglement. In quantum entanglement, when two or more particles interact with one another they become part of a system where the state of one particle can be instantaneously known by the other, even if they are separated by extreme distances. The Chinese researchers were able to establish an ultra long distance up link to an orbiting satellite.
The researchers used a brand new satellite that was launched in 2016 using a Long March Rocket.
The photons in question were beamed from a ground station in Ngari Tibet, up to China's Micius satellite, which was orbiting the earth at a distance of 311 miles. The satellite's sensitive photon receiver detected the states of many single photons, which were part of entangled pairs, that were fired from the ground. The researchers were successful in 900 cases.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Scientists Discover A New Particle
On July 6th 2017, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, in Geneva Switzerland, announced that they have discovered a new particle. The new particle is a baryon. This particular particle is called the Xi-cc++, and has four times the mass of its fellow baryon, the proton. The researchers say that the new particle is predicted by the standard model and may help them understand quantum chromodynamics and the strong forces.
Baryons, such as protons and neutrons are composed of what are known as quarks. There are six types of quarks, up, down, top, bottom, and strange, charmed. Each baryon is composed of three quarks, two up and a down which makes up a proton, and one up and two down which makes up a neutron. The Xi-cc++ is being called a doubly charmed particle because it contains two charmed quarks which are heavy.
The researchers say that they have created charmed quarks in pairs before, but until now have never witnessed a particle in nature that actually possessed them, and say that this is very rare.
Baryons, such as protons and neutrons are composed of what are known as quarks. There are six types of quarks, up, down, top, bottom, and strange, charmed. Each baryon is composed of three quarks, two up and a down which makes up a proton, and one up and two down which makes up a neutron. The Xi-cc++ is being called a doubly charmed particle because it contains two charmed quarks which are heavy.
The researchers say that they have created charmed quarks in pairs before, but until now have never witnessed a particle in nature that actually possessed them, and say that this is very rare.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
New Release!
Just released a new album by Nprogram entitled, "Searchin'." It's available now at iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/searchin/id1252731105
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Yahoo Is Now Part Of Verizon
On June 13th 2017, Verizon announced that its deal to purchase Yahoo is now complete and that it now officially owns the once internet giant. The $4.48 billion deal will see Yahoo become a part of AOL, which Verizon bought for an estimated 4.4 billion in 2015. The two companies will come together to form a new company called Oath. The CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer will resign and former AOL chief, Tim Armstrong will head the new entity.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Amazon Buys Whole Foods
On June 16th 2017 Amazon announced that is buying the grocery store chain, Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. The Whole foods purchase is actually a merger agreement in which Amazon will assume the grocers debt and buy its stock for $42 dollars a share. The plan, at least for now, is that Whole Foods will continue to be a separate entity, keeping its brand and suppliers intact. John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, will continue to run the company.
Whole Foods is a grocery store chain that emphasizes high quality natural and organic foods as well as low priced daily staples. In purchasing Whole Foods, Amazon will be increasing its brick and mortar presence significantly. There is much speculation as to what Amazon's plans are. Some industry analysts believe that Amazon will use this purchase to try and go head to head with Walmart in the online grocery wars.
Some industry analysts think that Amazon may use its Prime subscription delivery service to offer free two day shipping to Whole foods customers, and give them better prices on groceries. While this may indeed turn out to be the case, there is also the possibility that they could use the Whole Foods purchase to move forward with its plans for a cashierless grocery store called Amazon Go, which Amazon is currently testing in Seattle.
Whole Foods is a grocery store chain that emphasizes high quality natural and organic foods as well as low priced daily staples. In purchasing Whole Foods, Amazon will be increasing its brick and mortar presence significantly. There is much speculation as to what Amazon's plans are. Some industry analysts believe that Amazon will use this purchase to try and go head to head with Walmart in the online grocery wars.
Some industry analysts think that Amazon may use its Prime subscription delivery service to offer free two day shipping to Whole foods customers, and give them better prices on groceries. While this may indeed turn out to be the case, there is also the possibility that they could use the Whole Foods purchase to move forward with its plans for a cashierless grocery store called Amazon Go, which Amazon is currently testing in Seattle.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Scientists Discover 300,000 Year Old Human Bones
On June 7th 2017, archaeologists announced in the Journal Nature that they have discovered the fossilized skull, jaw bones, and teeth of early humans that date back to 300,000 years ago. The bones where found on a hillside in an area known as Jebel Irhoud, in Morocco, between Marrakesh and the Atlantic ocean. The fossils are now the earliest evidence of modern humans or Homo Sapiens, to date.
The site was first discovered by barite miners the 1961. New finds that began in the late 1980s eventually led to further discoveries that came in 2004. The remains are those of of five early humans, three adults, a child, and an adolescent. The site revealed evidence of sophisticated stone tools and charcoal that may have been used to start fires. The archaeologists also found campsite debris and butchered animal bones.
Multiple dating techniques that included thermoluminescence (TL) were used to determine that the fossils were around 315,000 years old. Until this find, it had been believed that evidence of the earliest humans, or Homo Sapiens were from remains discovered in East Africa that date back to 200,000 years ago. This raises the question of whether the current understanding of human evolution is correct.
The site was first discovered by barite miners the 1961. New finds that began in the late 1980s eventually led to further discoveries that came in 2004. The remains are those of of five early humans, three adults, a child, and an adolescent. The site revealed evidence of sophisticated stone tools and charcoal that may have been used to start fires. The archaeologists also found campsite debris and butchered animal bones.
Multiple dating techniques that included thermoluminescence (TL) were used to determine that the fossils were around 315,000 years old. Until this find, it had been believed that evidence of the earliest humans, or Homo Sapiens were from remains discovered in East Africa that date back to 200,000 years ago. This raises the question of whether the current understanding of human evolution is correct.
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