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Jan 17, 2017
MIT’s ‘Moral Machine’ wants you to decide who dies in a self-driving car accident
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: ethics, transportation
Yikes!
If there’s an unavoidable accident in a self-driving car, who dies? This is the question researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) want you to answer in ‘Moral Machine.’
The simplistic website is sort of like the famed ‘Trolley Problem’ on steroids. If you’re unfamiliar, according to Wikipedia, the Trolley Problem is as follows:
Jan 17, 2017
This Concept Design Could Be The Supermarket Of The Future
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: augmented reality, futurism
Jan 17, 2017
MIT create adaptive 3D printing process using light
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, materials
Researchers at MIT have developed a method of altering 3D printed objects once printed. The technique involves using light in order to adapt the chemical structure of a 3D printed material. This allows the creation of more complex objects which could be molded together, softened, or even enlarged.
The university is a hub of 3D printing research. Recently announcement include their Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab creating the ‘photoshop for 3D printing’. The ‘Foundry’ software was developed in order to make use of 3D printing’s advanced capabilities over conventional manufacturing techniques. Also addressing 3D printing technology, MIT researchers looked at using 3D printing to investigate how graphene might create the strongest material ever.
The newly published paper is called ‘Living Additive Manufacturing: Transformation of Parent Gels into Diversely Functionalized Daughter Gels Made Possible by Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis’ and available in the ACS Central Science Journal.
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Jan 17, 2017
Human organs-on-chips: Harvard develops microchips lined with living cells to revolutionise medicine
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, computing, engineering, neuroscience
Biological engineers at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have invented a microchip that can be lined with living human cells in order to revolutionise medicine, particularly relating to drug testing, disease modelling and personalised medicine.
The ‘human organs-on-chip’ is a microchip made from a clear flexible polymer that contains hollow microfluidic channels that are lined with living human cells, together with an interface that lines the interior surface of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels, known as an endothelium.
The idea is that the microchip can emulate the microarchitecture and functions of multiple human organs such as the lungs, kidneys, skin, bone marrow, intestines and blood-brain barrier. And if you were able to do this, you could then test out drugs and study how diseases affect the body without having to endanger human patients, or waste precious organs needed for transplants.
Jan 17, 2017
We Actually Still Know Nothing About AI (But At Least We’re Trying)
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: internet, robotics/AI
Thus far, the month of January has been an exciting time for AI — new smart technologies have demoed, new papers have been written, and new discussions about how to make sure our new synthetic friends don’t kill us have sprung up.
According to Crunchbase’s annual Global Innovation Investment report, venture capital funding for artificial intelligence projects is primed for a boom this coming year, especially when it comes to smart devices, all of those lovely little toys that will make up the Internet of Things, aimed at making consumers’ lives just that much easier.
From the report:
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Jan 17, 2017
Even a Little Daily Activity May Boost Colon Cancer Survival: Study
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, health
Interesting.
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Just a half hour a day of moderate physical activity could be potent medicine for patients with advanced colon cancer, preliminary research suggests.
Study authors who tracked more than 1,200 colon cancer patients found a 19 percent decline in risk for early death among those who got 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily.
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Jan 17, 2017
Epigenetics Drives Pancreatic Cancer Metastasis, Potentially Reversible
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics
Jan 17, 2017
Malaria Drug Successfully Treats 26 Year Old Brain Cancer Patient
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Summary: Researchers report an anti malaria drug has helped improve length and quality of life for a 26 year old brain cancer patient.
Source: University of Colorado.
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Jan 17, 2017
Cancer agency hacked for data won’t pay ransom
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, bitcoin, computing
Pathetic. This is truly a new low for Ransomware hackers.
MUNCIE — An Indiana cancer services agency says it will replace and rebuild its data after a computer hack demanding a ransom.
Cancer Services of East Central Indiana-Little Red Door in Muncie says it was hacked Jan. 11 and the hackers demanded a ransom of 50 bitcoins, or about $43,000, for access to its data.
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