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Nov 10, 2023

AI Will Put Programmers out of Work in 2025

Posted by in categories: business, employment, information science, robotics/AI

Will AI put game developers out of business? Find out why we think so after developing a new udemy course “Fast and Furious Game Dev with JavaScript and AI.”

Nov 10, 2023

Longevity Neurotech report

Posted by in categories: evolution, government, mobile phones, neuroscience

DBS delivers electric currents to an electrode implanted in the brain.


Neurotechnology – or – while still an emerging industry, has attracted both major capital investments, and extensive media coverage in recent years. As tech relentlessly searches for the next “big tech platform” in the aftermath of the smartphone era [1], we propose that the answer may lie within our own minds. At NTX Services, we definenology as any technological intervention that interacts with the brain or central nervous system either directly or indirectly, and as attempts to integrate human and machine to enhance both, applications of the technology are broad ranging.

Often described as a new field, is actually based on decades of academic research, previously held back from commercialization at scale due to technological limitations, and slow changes in government policies and regulations. Although humans have been researching the brain and its bioelectrical signals since the 1600s [2], the first major breakthrough in was the invention of the electroencephalogram (EEG) by Hans Berger in 1929 [3]. Since this initial invention, several key developments have influenced the evolution of the industry until 2016, when Neuralink was founded [4].

Nov 10, 2023

Star Trek and real-life science

Posted by in category: science

This week Sing For Science and Science Friday are joining forces to bring you a new episode of Universe of Art. Learn how Star Trek incorporates real-life science.

Nov 10, 2023

Scientists discover a new system to control the chaotic behavior of light

Posted by in category: futurism

Bartering light for light!

Nov 10, 2023

No Priors Ep. 39

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI

Each iteration of ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable step function capabilities. But what’s next? Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at OpenAI, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the origins of OpenAI as a capped profit company, early emergent behaviors of GPT models, the token scarcity issue, next frontiers of AI research, his argument for working on AI safety now, and the premise of Superalignment. Plus, how do we define digital life?

Ilya Sutskever is Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI. He leads research at OpenAI and is one of the architects behind the GPT models. He co-leads OpenAI’s new “Superalignment” project, which tries to solve the alignment of superintelligences in 4 years. Prior to OpenAI, Ilya was co-inventor of AlexNet and Sequence to Sequence Learning. He earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

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Nov 10, 2023

Team develops new method for communicating around arbitrary opaque walls

Posted by in category: futurism

Information transfer in free space using ultraviolet, visible, or infrared waves has been gaining interest because of the availability of large bandwidth for high-data-rate communication. However, the presence of opaque occlusions or walls along the path between the transmitter and the receiver often impedes information transfer by blocking the direct line of sight.

In a new article published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and the California NanoSystems Institute, led by Dr. Aydogan Ozcan, the Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Dr. Mona Jarrahi, the Northrop Grumman Endowed Chair at UCLA, has reported a fundamentally new method for delivering optical information around arbitrarily shaped opaque occlusions or walls.

This method permits the transmission of optical information, for example, images, around large and dynamically changing opaque occlusions. It is based on digital encoding at the transmitter and diffractive all-optical decoding at the receiver for transferring information around arbitrary opaque occlusions that completely block the direct line of sight between the transmitter and the receiver apertures.

Nov 10, 2023

BlueNoroff hackers backdoor Macs with new ObjCShellz malware

Posted by in categories: cryptocurrencies, cybercrime/malcode, finance

The North Korean-backed BlueNorOff threat group targets Apple customers with new macOS malware tracked as ObjCShellz that can open remote shells on compromised devices.

BlueNorOff is a financially motivated hacking group known for attacking cryptocurrency exchanges and financial organizations such as venture capital firms and banks worldwide.

The malicious payload observed by Jamf malware analysts (labeled ProcessRequest) communicates with the swissborg[.]blog, an attacker-controlled domain registered on May 31 and hosted at 104.168.214[.]151 (an IP address part of BlueNorOff infrastructure).

Nov 10, 2023

Supermassive black holes are messy eaters big on recycling

Posted by in categories: cosmology, sustainability

At the heart of a distant galaxy, scientists saw a fountain of material moving away from the central supermassive black hole — and back.

Nov 10, 2023

VR mental health platform XRHealth blasts off with NASA

Posted by in categories: space, virtual reality

XRHealth, HTC Vive and Nord-Space Aps engineered the Vive Focus 3 headset to withstand microgravity conditions to help treat astronauts’ mental health in space.

Nov 10, 2023

ChatGPT is about to make AI as personal as your iPhone

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

GPTs are the start of something big.