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Sep 20, 2016
Alarms Raised Over DARPA-Funded ‘Neural Dust’
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, computing, internet, neuroscience
Alarms are being raised over the recent advancements in a new DARPA-funded technology known as “electroceuticals,” with the possibility that dark forces could be unleashed in a world where millions have hundreds of tiny neural dust sensors gathering and transmitting the most personal of information into external computer networks. The fears being that non-state actors, hostile nations, and could hack into the most secure and sensitive databases, gaining access to in-body telemetry from a head of state or sending nefarious commands directly into their brain unleashing havoc.
Engineers at UC Berkeley have cracked the millimetre barrier producing the first dust-sized wireless sensor small enough to implant into the body and be parked next to a muscle, nerve or organ. These motes are sprinkled thoughout the body, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real time. The neural dust sensor is born from a DARPA funded weapons program. (DARPA is also the organization responsible for creating the Internet).
We already have zero ability to keep foreign actors, hostile groups, not to mention cybercriminals, from hacking into the most secure and sensitive databases. If they gained access to in-body telemetry from a head of state or sent nefarious commands directly into their brain, what havoc they could wreak.
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Sep 20, 2016
Microsoft wants to crack the cancer code using artificial intelligence
Posted by Albert Sanchez in categories: biotech/medical, computing, health, robotics/AI
Cancer is like a computer virus and can be ‘solved’ by cracking the code, according to Microsoft. The computer software company says its researchers are using artificial intelligence in a new healthcare initiative to target cancerous cells and eliminate the disease.
One of the projects within this new healthcare enterprise involves utilizing machine learning and natural language processing to help lead researchers sift through all the research data available and come up with a treatment plan for individual cancer patients.
IBM is working on something similar using a program called Watson Oncology, which analyzes patient health info against research data.
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Sep 20, 2016
China is more innovative than people think
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, economics, government
China has its sights to be the World’s SV.
Editor’s Note:
The New York Times business bestseller Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle which explores the roots of Israeli innovation has garnered global attention and won its co-authors Dan Senor and Saul Singer worldwide fame overnight. In a recent interview with Global Times reporter Zhang Ni (GT) in Beijing, Singer (S), who served as an adviser to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee before moving to Israel in 1994, said he believes China is more innovative than people think. He suggested that China is ahead of the US in some aspects, as Facebook is now trying to copy China’s WeChat.
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Want to immigrate? Why not to Russian Space Settlement.
Roscosmos has revealed plans to send a manned mission to the moon between 2025 and 2045 – some 60 years after Neil Armstrong’s Apollo mission ended the space race between the US and Soviet Russia.
Russian Academy of Cosmonautics member Yury Karash previously said: “Back in the 1960s the Soviet Union was competing head-to-head with the United States.
Sep 20, 2016
IRL: September 20, 2016 | NATO Chief Says Russia Could Invade Europe Within 48 Hours & Other News
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
Yikes!
Russia could launch an attack on Europe within 48 hours, Donald Trump Jr. equates Syrian refugees with poisoned Skittles & other news.
Sep 20, 2016
Dawn of the super human: U. S. is daunted by Russia’s “enhanced human operation”
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, computing, cyborgs, military, neuroscience, transhumanism
Pentagon accused Russia that the country is working on “enhanced human operation” to create an army of superhuman soldiers. Russia’s Sputnik issues the news.
U.S. Army chiefs are claiming that Moscow is working to create bionic superhuman soldiers with brain implants. And the soldiers will be fuelled by steroids. Usage of steroid will increase the tolerance capability and make the soldiers more resilient. While the brain implant or chip will assist a soldier to fight for a longer time even in extreme warfare. It will also force the soldiers to fight and obey the command at any cost. The sole purpose is to strengthen the soldiers to make them stronger and tougher in battles.
Yet, the U.S. opponent is working to use microscopic technology so that soldiers can cure themselves without any assistance of physicians.
Sep 20, 2016
Teleportation step toward quantum internet
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: internet, particle physics, quantum physics
Is everyone ready for a new teleporting net?
Physicists have set a new bar for quantum teleportation: moving information from one place to another without physically sending anything between the locations.
Two separate teams managed to teleport information across several kilometres of optical fibre network in two cities.
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Sep 20, 2016
Haier Introduces New Disruptive Refrigeration Technology
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, transportation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jCIbbhL2td8
Nice method for refrig.; now imagine it in autos/ various forms of transportation, buildings, appliances, etc.
NEW YORK, NY – 9/20/2016 (PRESS RELEASE JET) — Haier, a global leader in consumer electronics and appliances has launched a new compressor-free solid-state refrigeration technology. Haier created this new technology through integrating Silicon Valley resources, Haier Group R&D, Haier America R&D, Liquid King, Xi’an Jiaotong University, South China University of Technology and other resources. The new technology breaks the technological bottlenecks of compressor-based refrigeration appliance that have been used in the industry for a century.
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Sep 20, 2016
Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy at Keck Hospital of USC
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: biotech/medical, transportation
By Meg Alrich
Keck Medical Center of USC today announced that a team of doctors became the first in California to inject an experimental treatment made from stem cells, AST-OPC1, into the damaged cervical spine of a recently paralyzed 21-year-old man as part of a multi-center clinical trial.
On March 6, just shy of his 21st birthday, Kristopher (Kris) Boesen of Bakersfield suffered a traumatic injury to his cervical spine when his car fishtailed on a wet road, hit a tree and slammed into a telephone pole.