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Nov 26, 2017

170813 RAADfest final panel

Posted by in categories: futurism, life extension

On August 13, 2017, during the final day at RAADfest 2017.

Q&A session with an extraordinary group of gerontologists, futurists, speakers, scientists and advocates of Radical Life Extension (RLE):

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Nov 26, 2017

The world’s most polluted cities

Posted by in category: futurism

Four of 10 are in india.

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Nov 26, 2017

World’s 1st robot citizen wants her own family, career & AI ‘superpowers’

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TGMeZQTkW2Y

The world’s first robot citizen wants to start a family and have a career, but also believes AI will grant her ‘superpowers’ in the future.

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Nov 26, 2017

Bright fireball over England

Posted by in category: futurism

Bright fireballs seen over southern England by dozens of people. Watch videos here: https://asteroidday.org/11-26-2017-bright-fireballs-…of-people/

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Nov 26, 2017

Fukushima’s radioactive water grows

Posted by in category: futurism

By 150 tons a day and Japan doesn’t know what to do with it. Scientists vs fishermen and locals conflict.

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Nov 26, 2017

Japan is embracing nursing-care robots

Posted by in categories: health, robotics/AI

Japan leads the world in advanced robotics. Many of its firms see great potential in “carerobos” that look after the elderly. Over a quarter of the population is over 65, the highest proportion of any country in the OECD. Care workers are in desperately short supply, and many Japanese have a cultural affinity with robots.


AT SHINTOMI nursing home in Tokyo, men and women sit in a circle following exercise instructions before singing along to a famous children’s song, “Yuyake Koyake” (“The Glowing Sunset”).

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Nov 26, 2017

What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind?

Posted by in category: neuroscience

See if you can get your head around this.

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Nov 25, 2017

DARPA Wants to Use Genetic Modification to Turn Plants into Spy Tech

Posted by in categories: genetics, military, robotics/AI, surveillance

DARPA has a new surveillance program in the works, and it doesn’t involve training human agents or AI operators. Instead, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense wants to genetically engineer plant-based sensors as battlefield spy tech.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the think-tank that’s under the U.S. Department of Defense, recently announced that it’s working on a new project that could change how pertinent information is gathered on the battlefield. The project, dubbed the Advanced Plant Technologies (APT) program, examines the possibility of turning plants into next-generation surveillance technology.

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Nov 25, 2017

Iceland drafts emergency evacuation plans as volcano rumbles after centuries of inactivity

Posted by in category: futurism

A volcano that has been dormant for centuries could be about to erupt on Iceland’s southeast coast. Officials are now preparing evacuation plans.

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Nov 25, 2017

New systems must be put in place that can detect missile containers

Posted by in categories: military, policy, space

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

We have recently seen evidence of how our national security was compromised by the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal that gave Russia 20 percent of our uranium reserves. We are now learning more about the serious security compromise at Port Canaveral and its adjacent military infrastructure.

The container port is not only close to U.S. Air Force facilities and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, but more importantly, it is adjacent to our strategic ballistic missile nuclear submarine base. A Nov. 2 Center for Security Policy updated “occasional paper” exposes this “perfect storm” of a threat tied to Russia’s Club-K container missile system.

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