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Dec 11, 2016

A customized cancer vaccine is showing promising results in leukemia patients

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Nice. Personalized Cancer Vaccine showing promise.


A majority of patients in a small clinical trial have been in remission from a deadly type of cancer for more than four years.

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Dec 11, 2016

Connecting through the brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

Excellent overview on BMI technology.


Less than a century ago, Hans Berger, a German psychiatrist, was placing silver foil electrodes on his patients’ heads and observing small ripples of continuous electrical voltage emerging from these. These were the first human brain waves to ever be recorded. Since Hans Berger’s first recordings, our knowledge on the brain structure and function has developed considerably. We now have a much clearer understanding of the neuronal sources that generate these electrical signals and the technology that is now available allows us to get a much denser and accurate picture of how these electrical signals change in time and across the human scalp.

The recording and analysis of brain signals has advanced to a level where people are now able to control and interact with devices around them with the use of their brain signals. The field of brain-computer interfaces has in fact garnered huge interest during the past two decades, and the development of low-cost hardware solutions together with the continuously evolving signal analysis techniques, have brought this technology closer to market than ever before.

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Dec 11, 2016

China Set To Launch It’s Satellite Missile Test, What Does This Mean?

Posted by in categories: military, satellites

With the ongoing number of China’s space mission, how important is this missile test that is believed to be capable of destroying enemy communications? If all goes according to plan, what will happen then? Find out what authorities have to say.

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China is once again being put to the spotlight after it has revealed that they are preparing to launch their anti-satellite missile that is believed to have the ability of destroying satellites in space. Authorities of the said project says that this is definitely one of Beijing’s most potent asymmetric warfare weapons. one of Beijing’s most potent asymmetric warfare weapons. It was found that the US intelligence officials have already detected preparations for a test launch of the Dong Neng-3 which is due to take place at a military facility in central China. However, despite these information, riva; countries said that little is known about the missile and the satellite.

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Dec 11, 2016

New Program Awards Points to Computer Hackers

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

United offers up to a million miles in its bug bounty program but it’s not just white hat hackers being offered points.

There’s a new program that will award hackers with points for participating in DDoS attacks.

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Dec 11, 2016

Smart contact lens is discussed at electron devices meeting

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, innovation

Cannot wait to get my AR Contacts.


(Tech Xplore)—Can we look at a future smart contact lens for those with eye problems? The iris, a key part of our eyes, modulates the amount of light reaching the retina, said researchers, and an estimated 200,000 individuals worldwide suffer from iris deficiencies.

These deficiencies bring discomfort and extreme photosensitivity, such as aniridia and leiomyoma.

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Dec 11, 2016

Tiny barcodes are huge help in personalized cancer therapy

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

In process similar to allergy testing, small quantities of different ‘barcoded’ drugs are tested inside patient’s tumor to determine effectiveness.

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Dec 11, 2016

Yale Neuroscientists Can Now Determine Human Intelligence Through Brain Scans

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Safeguards must be put into place before a Minority Report scenario crops up.

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Dec 11, 2016

UC Berkeley’s wall-jumping robot

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

This is SALTO: a powerful new wall-jumping robot built by researchers at UC Berkeley.

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Dec 11, 2016

The future just arrived, first state legalizes driverless cars (5 Photos)

Posted by in categories: law, robotics/AI, transportation

Michigan just made it into the history books today after Governor Rick Snyder signed 4 bills into law, all governing the legality of the autonomous car, making Michigan the first state to officially sign off on driverless cars on the roads.

Many states have allowed testing of driverless vehicles, but Michigan just officially put them on the road for consumers.

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Dec 11, 2016

Microsoft is developing its own quantum computer hardware

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Microsoft has been working on quantum computing for years, but the company is coming out of stealth mode now and taking a more active role in quantum computer development. It wants to build a theoretical type of machine known as a topological quantum computer, despite the difficulty of doing so.

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