BlueFire IT. Solutions, Inc.

06/16/2023

Researchers are working out ways to ignore the noise and leverage the power of qubits to advance quantum computing.

06/13/2023

https://www.popsci.com/science/ai-singularity/?ref=thefuturist

We don’t fully understand why many AI systems behave in the ways they do—a problem that may never disappear.

03/24/2023

Project Titan. Apple Car.

Latest numbers from California DMV show that Apple employs 201 drivers and uses 67 vehicles for testing and development of autonomous driving technology.

03/09/2023

Word on the Floppy - 2023.

The floppy disk today is still used in:
-Airplanes like some Boeing 747s and 767s, and Airbus A320s
-Medical equipment and embroidery machines
-San Francisco’s subway system
-Chuck E. Cheese animatronics (but not for much longer)

Floppies were even used in the US nuclear weapons program up until 2019. And, they can be a medium for some pretty cool art.
While the world goes digital…

… one man holds his ground. Tom Persky runs www.floppydisk.com from a California warehouse filled with hundreds of thousands of disks.

He sells ~1k floppy disks per day (3.5-inch disks are most popular) Almost 25 years ago, disks sold for as little as seven cents; now, Persky sells 3.5-inch disks for $1 each. The site also recycles disks, completes data transfers, and resells used or broken disks.

Floppy disks, floppy drives, and file transfer from floppy and zip disks

01/20/2023

ChatGPT recently passed all three parts of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination.

01/11/2023

The most common retinal cell types forming synapses were photoreceptors – rods and cones – which are lost in diseases like retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration, as well as in certain eye injuries.

11/11/2022

Geometry.

If accepted at the time, the design would have likely revolutionized architecture.

10/13/2022

Sophos observed a new attack technique where BlackByte ransomware operators disabled endpoint detection and response security products.

09/30/2022

A new Amazon robot handles 1,000 items an hour.

09/01/2022

Your personal online data may not be as secure as you'd like it to be. If you're browsing on public Wi-Fi or even at home, your data may be tracked, sold

09/01/2022

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a battery with two electrodes made of aluminum and sulfur, and a molten salt electrolyte placed between them. They said the sulfur e…

08/30/2022

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/29/1058724/the-first-private-mission-to-venus-will-have-just-five-minutes-to-hunt-for-life/amp?utm_source=thefuturist&utm_campaign=thefuturist-20220830&ref=thefuturist

Launching as soon as next year, Rocket Lab’s low-cost mission will be brief, but it could transform the search for alien biology.