Archeaology
World's first dinosaur brain fossil discovered bbc.co.uk w!
The piece of stone was discovered more than 10 years ago by a fossil hunter at Bexhill-on-Sea. But it has taken scientists years to find out what was inside.
Israel
Archaeologists spotlight first Solomon’s Temple-era artifacts ever found on Temple Mount timesofisrael
The highly sensitive Israeli excavations were conducted with minimum publicity in cooperation with the Islamic Waqf which manages the incendiary holy site. The artifacts excavated from the mount, detailed in a paper and presentations at a conference at Hebrew University huji.ac.il, are said to include olive pits, animal bones and pottery fragments dating to the time of the First Temple, between the 8th and 6th Centuries BCE.
Syria
Russian jet flew near coalition plane over Syria: U.S. spokesman reuters
On Oct. 17 the Russian jet passed within about half a mile (0.8 km) of the larger coalition plane, Colonel John Dorrian inherentresolve.mil, a spokesman for the coalition, told reporters during a video news conference.
The Russian actions did not appear to have been "done with nefarious intent" and the two aircraft communicated, Dorrian said. He added that U.S. and Russian officials followed up the next day through a previously set up communication mechanism.
Politics
Pirate party made up of anarchists, hackers poised to win Iceland’s upcoming election globalnews.ca
The Pirate Party time, an anti-authoritarian band of buccaneers that wants to shift power from government to people, is one of the front-runners in an election triggered by financial scandal in a country still recovering from economic catastrophe in 2008.
As a side-note, I found it interesting that the legislator in the video has a Zeitgeist carm.org flyer in the background
Philippine president says God threatened to crash his plane if he doesn’t stop cursing nydailynews
He said that while flying home, he was looking at the sky while everyone was sound asleep and he heard a voice that said "'if you don't stop epithets, I will bring this plane down now."
Curiously, his 'god' was silent regarding his murders :)
Society
Ban Christmas advertising until 1 December, says David Blunkett telegraph.co.uk
Lord Blunkett parliament.uk, the former Labour Home Secretary, has called for Britain to "reappraise" the commercial build up to the Christmas season.
In a letter to the Times, he warns that many have forgotten that the holiday is supposed be Christian celebration.
Data
Data contained in diamonds could stay there forever too mining
The authors, a team of physicists from City University of New York cuny.edu, used lasers to encode and read data on diamonds’ atomic-sized imperfections, known as a nitrogen vacancy centres. They treated those minuscule spaces as magnets that could repel or absorb electrons and encoded simple gray-scale images, such as the faces of Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger nobelprize.org by adding an electron and taking another away using lasers.
AI
Making computers explain themselves news.mit.edu
In recent years, the best-performing systems in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of neural networks, which look for patterns in training data that yield useful predictions or classifications. A neural net might, for instance, be trained to recognize certain objects in digital images or to infer the topics of texts.
But neural nets are black boxes. After training, a network may be very good at classifying data, but even its creators will have no idea why. With visual data, it’s sometimes possible to automate experiments that determine which visual features a neural net is responding to. But text-processing systems tend to be more opaque.
Google’s Alice AI Is Sending Secret Messages To Another AI geek
The task the Google Brain team set was for Alice to create a simple form of encryption and work with Bob to agree a set of numbers known as a key. Using this key, Bob can read the encrypted messages Alice sent. Meanwhile Eve intercepts the messages and attempts to decipher them.
Also see Great, now Google’s AI is coming up with its own encryption methods androidauthority
Automation
Step Into the Garage Where Robots Do All the Parking wired v
West Hollywood, California says it saved over a million dollars with the West Coast’s first municipal robot garage, which ditches the idea of driving into the garage, circling up and down ramps until you find an open spot, squeezing your way in, then wandering your way out again.
Space
Images reveal crashed Mars lander bbc
They show a dark patch around the capsule - a possible hint that a fuel tank exploded - and the indication is that the impact gouged out a crater 50cm deep.
Creatures
Tiny Ocean Crustaceans Wear Invisibility Cloak of Living Bacteria insider.si.edu
A new study from Duke University duke.edu and the Smithsonian Institution https://www.si.edu/ has found that these midwater hyperiid amphipods are covered with anti-reflective coatings on their legs and bodies that can dampen the reflection of light by 250-fold in some cases and prevent it from bouncing back to a hungry lantern fish’s eye.
Weirder still, these coatings appear to be made of living bacteria.
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