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May 24, 2017
Body Part Regeneration Is in Our Future
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: life extension
May 24, 2017
Scientists Have Found a Way to Photograph People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: computing, holograms, internet, mobile phones
Wi-Fi can pass through walls. This fact is easy to take for granted, yet it’s the reason we can surf the web using a wireless router located in another room.
However, not all of that microwave radiation makes it to or from our phones, tablets, and laptops. Routers scatter and bounce their signal off objects, illuminating our homes and offices like invisible light bulbs.
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May 24, 2017
Chatbots Could Let You Talk With Deceased Loved Ones
Posted by Alexander Rodionov in category: robotics/AI
May 24, 2017
Trump budget would slash science programmes across government
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: government, health, science
May 23, 2017
NASA invites scientists to submit ideas for Europa lander
Posted by Brett Gallie II in category: space
May 23, 2017
I’m excited that popular site Consequence of Sound rated my #Moogfest talk one of the top 5 most unique experiences at the festival
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in category: transhumanism
The article with the other nominations is great reading of the event. https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/05/the-five-most-unique-…st-2017/4/ #transhumanism
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May 23, 2017
Google AI beats Chinese master in ancient game of Go
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
BEIJING A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm’s AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing to gain re-entry into the country.
In the first of three planned games in the eastern water town of Wuzhen, the AlphaGo program held off China’s world number one Ke Jie in front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) chief executive Eric Schmidt.
The victory over the world’s top player — which many thought would take decades to achieve — underlines the potential of artificial intelligence to take on humans at complex tasks.
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May 23, 2017
Sex Equality: I’m With Her
Posted by Philip Raymond in categories: education, ethics, policy, rants, sex
Lifeboat Editorial
Lydia Begag is a high school junior at Advanced Math and Science Academy in Massachusetts. She got our attention when she published an editorial critical of the school’s uniform policy. With eloquence and articulation, she laid out a brilliant and persuasive argument that the policy was anything but uniform. It was ambiguous, arbitrary and discriminatory.
I’m with Her
Ideas Regarding Sex Equality
—Forget the Rest
Political and social turmoil are everywhere we turn, especially in the early months of 2017. Lunch conversations, small talk at work, and, of course, the media we consume have all become related to a singular topic: the United States government and its workings. Emotionally, I want to curl up in a ball and block out the political nonsense being spewed left and right until the day I die (pun very much intended)—but I feel intellectually obliged to confront the controversy.
