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Oct 23, 2016
Elon Musk’s Mars colony would have a horde of mining robots
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space
Oct 23, 2016
‘Every aspect of our lives will be transformed’ — exploring the future of AI
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: computing, law, robotics/AI
A new centre has opened to study the positive and negative implications of AI and ethical quandaries it poses.
“The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity,” Professor Stephen Hawking said in Cambridge, at the launch of the Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI).
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Oct 23, 2016
MORGAN STANLEY: It is ‘under appreciated’ how devastating the world’s ageing population could be for the global economy
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: economics, life extension
Oct 23, 2016
Our Dark-Energy-Dominated Accelerating Universe –“Flimsier Than Previously Thought”
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, physics
Five years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astronomers for their discovery, in the late 1990s, that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace. Their conclusions were based on analysis of Type Ia supernovae — the spectacular thermonuclear explosion of dying stars — picked up by the Hubble space telescope and large ground-based telescopes. It led to the widespread acceptance of the idea that the universe is dominated by a mysterious substance named ‘dark energy’ that drives this accelerating expansion.
Oct 23, 2016
Cartilage from nose is used to repair bum knees
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
Using cells from the cartilage in patients’ noses, Swiss doctors have successfully made patches to treat 10 adults whose knee cartilage was damaged by injury.
Two years after the transplants, most of the patients grew new cartilage in their knees and reported improvements in pain, knee function and quality of life.
“We have developed a new, promising approach to the treatment of articular cartilage injuries,” said lead researcher Ivan Martin, a professor of tissue engineering at the University of Basel. The articular cartilage is the tissue that covers and protects the ends of the knee bones, and injuries to it can lead to degenerative joint conditions like osteoarthritis.
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Oct 23, 2016
Why Space Elevators Could Be the Future of Space Travel
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: materials, space travel
In Brief:
- Expensive, unsustainable rockets have served as our primary means to exit Earth, but space elevators present a cheaper way to enter outer space.
- Although new materials are needed, space elevator missions are in motion and we could see the first elevator constructed in the next several decades.
Getting into space with rockets is ridiculously expensive. A NASA Inspector General report says the agency will pay Russia $491.2 million to send six astronauts into space in 2018. That’s almost $82 million a seat.
Oct 23, 2016
America’s most popular voting guide for elections, political issues, candidates, and poll data
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, transhumanism
Last week my presidential candidacy (an openly nonreligious and transhumanist one) got a big boost when it was added to ISideWith, the most popular site for helping to match you with your best candidate. They currently only have 8 candidates featured still running. Take the 3-minute survey on their site to see who you side with now that I’ll be in the results. https://www./ And, I also participated alongside Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Eric McMullin and others in their online debate in real time that tracked the 3rd Clinton/Trump debate last Wed. (I didn’t give many answers as I was in the middle of a campaign event that exact same moment in Baltimore, but I still chimed in some supporting science and reason). My answers start about 15 min into the debate:
http://secure.isidewith.com/debate-stream/20161019
ISideWith shows which political parties, candidates, and ballot initiatives match your beliefs based on the 2016 issues that are most important to you.
Oct 23, 2016
This artificially intelligent camera drone can follow its subjects around
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: drones, robotics/AI
Oct 23, 2016
How the Universe Could Annihilate Itself at the Speed of Light
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
Time now for a very cute video about a rather terrible prospect—the very grim possibility of the universe spawning a lethal bubble of pure vacuum that expands in all directions at the speed of light.