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Aug 25, 2023

Navigating The Tech Talent Shortage: Innovative Hiring Strategies For The Modern Age

Posted by in category: innovation

Finally, offering additional benefits such as child care, wellness programs and flexible working hours can play a decisive role in securing top tech talent. We have an internal communication channel dedicated to well-being, where the team shares recommendations, and we also hold a monthly “well-binar” to keep this conversation strong. These benefits not only serve to attract talent but also ensure the well-being and satisfaction of current team members, increasing their productivity and willingness to stick with us in the long run.

For remote workers, building genuine relationships with their co-workers can be difficult. That is why we have the Global Ambassador Program. This is a company-hosted event in which participants partake in fun team-building activities, such as escape room adventures, to build connections and have the irreplaceable experience of meeting colleagues in person.

As the competition for tech talent intensifies, innovation in hiring strategies becomes a necessity, not a choice. The examples shared here hopefully provide a starting point for organizations looking to navigate this new landscape successfully.

Aug 25, 2023

Embracing the Journey to Longevity Escape Velocity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Imagine walking on a treadmill and time is the speed at which the belt moves. As you age, the speed of the belt increases, representing time passing faster and faster as we age. However, what if we could speed up and run faster than the belt? This is widely known as the concept of Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV), which is essentially the idea of outrunning time itself.

Longevity Escape Velocity refers to a future scenario in which medical progress and innovation allows scientists to extend human lifespan at a rate greater than the passage of time. Imagine a world where each passing year not only adds another year to our lives but also enhances our health, vitality, and functional abilities. This concept, popularised by Biomedical gerontologist Dr. Aubrey de Grey, centres around the idea of developing rejuvenation therapies that repair age-related damage at the cellular and molecular levels, with the aim of effectively reversing the aging process.

Organisations such as Dr Aubrey de Grey’s LEV Foundation are playing a huge role in attempting to achieve this extraordinary milestone by striving to speed up the development of life extending therapies and endeavouring to make them accessible to all. It can be argued that they tend to focus on high risk, high reward research that other institutions might overlook due to its experimental nature, however without those that dare to think big, developments in longevity science will not make the strides needed to make a real impact in our future.

Aug 25, 2023

Pentagon preps for $48B tech-research contracts

Posted by in category: military

Officials released more details on bidding for work that will support the preservation and distribution of defense research and analysis.

Aug 25, 2023

As DOD steps up response to bioweapon threat, China plays complicated role in biosecurity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, military

A new biodefense council looks to get ahead of the next pandemic.

Aug 25, 2023

Plasma breakthrough could enable better hypersonic weapons, spacecraft

Posted by in categories: chemistry, military, particle physics

A potential new way to protect sensitive electronics from the extreme heat generated by flying at high speed could give the United States an edge in the race to deploy hypersonic missiles and new spacecraft.

A July research paper in the American Chemical Society’s journal ACS Nano describes one potential solution that uses focused plasma, the photons and highly charged particles that make up the so-called fourth state of matter. If the method bears out in further research, it could usher in hypersonic weapons with much more advanced electronic guidance and could even enable on-the-ground weapons to evade heat sensors.

The breakthrough grew out of efforts to use a laser to measure the temperature of electronics in plasma-facing environments, work the Air Force is supporting through a grant at the University of Virginia, said professor Patrick Hopkins, one of the researchers on the paper.

Aug 25, 2023

Air Force selects JetZero for blended-wing body prototype plane

Posted by in category: transportation

The company says the airplane will have its first flight in 2027.

Aug 25, 2023

Did A Black Hole Give Birth To Our Universe?

Posted by in category: cosmology

And do our black holes give birth to baby Universes?

Aug 25, 2023

Scientists Regrow Retina Cells to Tackle Leading Cause of Blindness Using Nanotechnology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

Regrowing the cells of the human retina on a scaffold of synthetic, tissue-like material showed substantial improvements over previously used materials such as cellulose, and the scientists hope they can move on to testing their method in the already blind.

Macular degeneration is increasing in prevalence in the developed world. It’s the leading cause of blindness and is caused by the loss of cells in a key part of the eye called the retina.

Humans have no ability to regrow retinal pigment cells, but scientists have determined how to do it in vitro using pluripotent stem cells. However as the study authors describe, previous examples of this procedure saw scientists growing the cells on flat surfaces rather than one resembling the retinal membrane.

Aug 25, 2023

Harnessing AI’s Potential: 9 Cutting-Edge Advances in Circuit Design and Hardware Engineering

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changer in various industries. With its ability to analyze vast amounts of data and derive meaningful insights, AI has now made its way into the realm of circuit design and hardware engineering. This article explores the transformative potential of AI in these domains, focusing on how it can accelerate component selection, enhance quality control, enable failure analysis, predict maintenance requirements, streamline supply chain management, optimize demand forecasting, and much more.

Circuit Design

Through the adoption of AI, hardware engineers are given unparalleled help in their pursuit of excellence. AI reveals secrets to sublime circuit performance through its industrious investigation of component databases and innovative simulations. Engineers can then go onto augment their own intelligence to design circuits that exceed expectations and reinvent what is possible in the realm of technology.

Aug 25, 2023

4 Charts That Show Why AI Progress Is Unlikely to Slow Down

Posted by in categories: business, education, law, robotics/AI

In the last ten years, AI systems have developed at rapid speed. From the breakthrough of besting a legendary player at the complex game Go in 2016, AI is now able to recognize images and speech better than humans, and pass tests including business school exams and Amazon coding interview questions.

Last week, during a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about regulating AI, Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut described the reaction of his constituents to recent advances in AI. “The word that has been used repeatedly is scary.”

The Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law overseeing the meeting heard testimonies from three expert witnesses, who stressed the pace of progress in AI. One of those witnesses, Dario Amodei, CEO of prominent AI company Anthropic, said that “the single most important thing to understand about AI is how fast it is moving.”