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Aug 31, 2016
Made in Space wins the Singularity University Grand Challenge in space #gsummit
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: singularity, space
Made in Space has won the Singularity University Grand Challenge in space.
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Aug 31, 2016
The Human Existential Crises We Can All Overcome
Posted by Michael Paton in category: existential risks
Latest article on my pursuit in the quest to preserve human existence.
It’s 2AM. Sleep eludes my dreary mind… Its tiredness a burden weighing down upon my eyelids, yet it’s very relinquishing aspect of giving oneself up to the night feels like a waste of time. In this race that is so close to the finish line, it has felt easy to procrastinate, and focus in areas that don’t truly matter. Maybe it’s my soul trying to find some form of semblance in the continuity of this multi-year struggle — to succeed and better the world — that it has decided to distract itself. But tonight, I am awake. I slept not the night before, and a mere 3 hours asleep prefaces this incitement, to write this history of my challenges and happenings in the making of my company — one that I believe could one day truly be part of the saving grace of mankind.
I do not consider myself a prophet, nor do I think that anyone is less capable of achieving their dreams than I am, but I do believe that I am fortunate enough to be at the right time, at the right place, with the right people surrounding me and the luck bred from adversity and consistent lessons born from failure to make YawLife a reality. It is no longer a matter of how or if it will come into being. For, it is a living incarnation of light in and of itself, from the minds of many, sparked by the thoughts of dreams-met-real. It is simply the ticking of time, the clock in-itself a personal doomsday to all of us. Now, I do not mean some religious event, and while I won’t rule out a cosmic one, I see mankind on a path to annihilation if we do not redeem ourselves and change our ways.
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Aug 31, 2016
Aubrey de Grey and Panel — Prolonging Lifespan
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5chIH_ozLkI
Inconvenient truths about aging, senescent cells and more.
Filmed August 16th 2016.
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Aug 31, 2016
Methuselah Foundation Fellowship Award Winner Tackles Research in Macular Degeneration
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, education, mathematics
Our friends at the Methuselah Foundation are working on macular degeneration.
Typically, a fellowship and participation in a research study to cure a major disease would occur years after completing undergrad, possibly even after earning a PhD. But Jennifer DeRosa is not a typical student.
As early as high school, DeRosa was already in the lab, conducting research in plant biotechnology at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) before graduating valedictorian from Skaneateles High School. As a freshman student at Onondaga Community College, she continued to develop skills in molecular biology, analytical chemistry, and cell biology. She logged over 1,600 hours in academic and industry laboratories while maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA, completing her associate’s degree in Math and Science in only one year.
Aug 31, 2016
RoboMasters, world’s most advanced robot battle
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: drones, robotics/AI
Aug 30, 2016
Black Holes are likely sending quantum messages in the universe
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, quantum physics
Spinning black holes are capable of complex quantum information processes encoded in the X-ray photons emitted by the accretion disk.
The black holes sparked the public imagination for almost 100 years now. Their debated presence in the universe has been proven without a doubt by detecting the X-ray radiation coming from the center of the galaxies, a feature of massive black holes. Black holes emit X-ray radiation, light with high energy, due to the extreme gravity in their vicinity. The vast majority if not all of the known black holes were unveiled by detecting the X-ray radiation emitted by the stellar material accreting around black holes.
X-ray photons emitted near rotating black holes not only exposed the existence of these phantom-like astrophysical bodies, but also seem to carry hidden quantum messages.
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Aug 30, 2016
How Social Media May Be Keeping Senior Citizens Young
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Those “HI HONEY IT’S ME GRANDMA LOVE YOU—GRANDMA” posts may be keeping her happy and healthy.
Aug 30, 2016
Forget Passwords, This Device Locks Your PC Based On Your Proximity
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, encryption, security
The Gatekeeper keychain uses bluetooth 4.0 technology with an AES encryption method to automatically lock your computer when you walk away.
Every office has that one coworker—that person who sneaks on to your computer and posts absurd messages on your various social media pages. Fortunately, computers come with handy security features and are generally password protected.
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Aug 30, 2016
MIT’s 3D-Printed Shape-Shifting Objects Could Revolutionize Medicine
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, cyborgs
Using light, a team of MIT researchers were able to print 3D structures that “remember” their original shapes. Even after being stretched, twisted, and bent at extreme angles, the structures sprang back to their original forms within seconds of being heated to a certain temperature “sweet spot.”
Beyond 3D-printed dinners, additive manufacturing has helped create artificial jaws, better prosthetics, and even brain tumors. Researchers at MIT have found a way to print 3D structures that remember their original shapes within seconds of being heated at a specific temperature “sweet spot,” paving the way towards developing tiny drug capsules that open upon early signs of infection.
Researchers often turn to 3D printing to fabricate shape-memory structures since the technology lets them to custom-design structures with relatively fine detail. The only problem is that conventional 3D printers come with size restrictions—the structures’ details can’t go any smaller than a few millimeters, and the restriction limits how fast the material can recover its original shape.
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