David Fletcher

State of Utah CTO engaged in making the world better through digital government and related technologies, such as mobile, big data and analytics, and the internet of things.

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David Fletcher
flipped into The Final Frontier
Mars
NASA engineer says the Viking mission discovered life on Mars in the 1970s
TNW - Tristan Greene
Gilbert Levin, a NASA engineer who worked on the Viking missions, says he’s “convinced we found evidence of life of Mars in the 1970s.” In a Scientific American article published today, Levin explains
5 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into When the Singularity?
OpenAI
OpenAI’s AI-powered robot learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube one-handed
The Verge - Nick Statt
Artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in its quest to build general purpose, self-learning robots. The group’s robotics division says Dactyl, its humanoid robotic
5 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into The Final Frontier
Science
NASA Engineer Says New Thruster Could Reach 99% Speed of Light
futurism.com - Jon Christian
New Scientist is reporting that NASA engineer David Burns is making some bold claims about a conceptual new spaceship thruster he calls the “helical …
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into China Tech
Technology
China builds 400 mph ‘flying saucer’ attack helicopter with stealth coating and missile system
Fox News - The Sun
An experimental attack helicopter that looks like a flying saucer has been unveiled in China. The strange flying machine, dubbed the Great White Shark, is loaded with an arsenal of high-tech weaponry could
5 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into DOTGOV
Data Warehousing
Survey identifies a growing need to hire data analysts for government jobs
phys.org - Johns Hopkins University
As public agencies across the nation increasingly rely on data to improve operations, the market for careers in the field of data analytics is …
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into The Final Frontier
Science
Inside NASA's plan to use Martian dirt to build houses on Mars
Popular Science - Megan Gannon
If humans want to create a lasting presence on the Red Planet, they’ll have to learn to live off the land. Jeffrey Montes stands high on a ladder in the middle of a dirt-floored arena, squinting at the
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into The Final Frontier
Space
Space 'elevator' to the Moon could happen by the end of the century
Fox News - Walt Bonner
The concept of using an “elevator” to travel from Earth to space has been around for quite some time, with an early concept first proposed in 1959 by Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov. But now, that seemingly
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into BYU Cougar Mania
BYU Cougars
Broncos to defend perfect record on the road against BYU
idahonews.com - Ryan L Morrison
Broncos beat Hawai'i's Rainbow Warriors Oct. 12, and they will head to Utah this Saturday to defend their perfect record. Boise State's football team …
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into The Cloud-Based Enterprise
Technology
Multicloud is here but challenges remain
ZDNet - Anthony Caruana
Multicloud is reality even if AWS is trying to ban the term. Despite Amazon recently declaring war on the word multicloud in a leaked document sent to …
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into When the Singularity?
Learning
Machine Learning: A Formal Learning Model
ReadWrite - Divyesh Dharaiya
In day to day life, individuals are effectively confronting a few choices to make. For a machine to settle on these sorts of decisions, the automatic route is to show the issues faced in a numerical articulation.
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into When the Singularity?
Singularity
Multimodal learning: The future of artificial intelligence
TechRepublic - Macy Bayern
As AI devices continue developing, they will start working together. Here's how. Artificial intelligence (AI) not only helps businesses operate more …
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into The Final Frontier
Supernovae
Watch As a Supernova Morphs and Its Speedy Shock Waves Reverse
space.com - Elizabeth Howell
A new video from NASA shows how a supernova explosion morphs and changes during a 13-year period, The growing debris field, known as Cassiopeia A or …
October 14
David Fletcher
flipped into When the Singularity?
Singularity
Massive, AI-Powered Robots Are 3D-Printing Entire Rockets
WIRED - Condé Nast
For a factory where robots toil around the clock to build a rocket with almost no human labor, the sound of grunts echoing across the parking lot …
October 14
David Fletcher
flipped into When the Singularity?
Singularity
The next evolutionary leap in artificial intelligence is already driving ROI
VentureBeat - VB Staff
AI is a continuum of technology innovation, says Yonatan Hagos, chief product officer at Beyond Limits. If you go beyond the fiction and beyond the hype, you see that the evolution of AI has been prompted
October 1
David Fletcher
flipped into Utah Currents
Utah
The Krishna Temple Thriving in Mormon Country
OZY - Laura Siciliano-Rosen
The ornate Hindu temple complex is perched on a hill next to a llama farm, rugged mountains rising in the distance. Inside, a group of us on a tour …
October 14
David Fletcher
flipped into China Tech
China
China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home
boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow
For decades, it was a commonplace in western business that no one could afford to ignore China: whatever problems a CEO might have with China's human …
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into When the Singularity?
Artificial Intelligence
The cognitive AI breakthrough: Real human-like reasoning in business AI solutions
VentureBeat - VB Staff
Conventional, data-crunching artificial intelligence, which is the foundation of deep learning, isn’t enough on its own; the human-like reasoning of symbolic artificial intelligence is fascinating, but
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into The Final Frontier
Science
Alien life possibly found on Mars in 1970s, ex-NASA scientist says
Fox News - Chris Ciaccia
In a stunning op-ed, a former NASA scientist says he is convinced that the space agency "found evidence of life" on Mars in the 1970s. In the article, Gilbert Levin, who worked on the Viking missions the
October 14
David Fletcher
flipped into China Tech
China
Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says
ZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu
One of China's most brazen hacking sprees involved intelligence officers, hackers, security researchers, and company insiders. A report published …
6 days ago
David Fletcher
flipped into Digital Assistant
Alexa
Here's how Alexa learned to speak Spanish without your help
Engadget - Jon Fingas
Now that Alexa knows how to speak Spanish in the US, there's a common question: how did it learn the language when it didn't have the benefit of legions of users issuing commands? Through new tools, it
October 13
David Fletcher
flipped into The Final Frontier
Space
Radio waves reveal what's beneath Jupiter's clouds
skyatnightmagazine.com - Iain Todd
An ALMA image shows how radio waves can penetrate the cloudy surface of Jupiter to reveal what's going on below. As amateur astronomers well know, …
October 12
David Fletcher
flipped into China Tech
Conservative View
Pro-China App Can Spy on 100M Users' Data
newsmax.com - Eric Mack
A Chinese app spreads communist propaganda and then goes ahead and steals your data along the way, according to The Washington Post. "The [Chinese …
October 13
David Fletcher
flipped into The Final Frontier
Arianespace
Is SpaceX Rival Ariane Cutting Launch Prices?
The Motley Fool - Rich Smith
And if so, why would Ariane do that if it's already struggling to make a profit? Easy come, easy go -- SpaceX has lost the Ovzon contract. In its …
October 13
David Fletcher
flipped into The Final Frontier
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman's Space Tow Truck Has Finally Arrived
The Motley Fool - Rich Smith
Northrop opens a new chapter in spaceflight -- in-orbit satellite repair and servicing. A decade in the making, Northrop Grumman's (NYSE:NOC) space tow …
October 13
David Fletcher
flipped into When the Singularity?
Singularity
A.I. and Technology Convergence
HuffPost - Peter Diamandis
Unexpected convergent consequences… this is what happens when eight different exponential technologies all explode onto the scene at once. This blog (the second of seven) is a look at artificial intelligence.
Feb 14, 2016
David Fletcher
flipped into The Future of Travel
Campers
Neuron electric camper van and robo tiny home aim to disrupt travel
newatlas.com - C.C. Weiss
It's getting hard to keep track of all the electric vehicle startups these days. Which is just as well because it's inevitable some will never be …
October 12
David Fletcher
flipped into When the Singularity?
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence: What’s to Fear? - The American Interest
the-american-interest.com - Ronald W. Dworkin
What should worry us most about artificial intelligence: losing our jobs to cheaper labor or losing our lives to killer robots? The real threat may …
October 9
David Fletcher
flipped into The Final Frontier
Earth
There’s life on Mars, says a scientist who thinks he found the evidence 40 years ago
SYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne
David Bowie asked it, and so has just about everyone else at some point: is there life on Mars? Was there life on Mars? Was there ever potential for …
October 12
David Fletcher
flipped into When the Singularity?
Opinion
How to Stop Superhuman A.I. Before It Stops Us
The New York Times
The arrival of superhuman machine intelligence will be the biggest event in human history. The world’s great powers are finally waking up to this fact, and the world’s largest corporations have known for
October 8
David Fletcher
flipped into When the Singularity?
Artificial Intelligence
Sunday Reading: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
The New Yorker
We’re living through an extraordinary moment in technological history. In the past decade, the rise of artificial intelligence (both in theory and in practice) has revolutionized computer science and workplace.
October 13

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