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Apr 30, 2016

Are people actually BORN murderers? Brain imaging study finds ‘killer gene’

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

Thru Gene Editing could we some day see no more murderers?


FOR MOST of us, understanding how mass murderers can kill without remorse is an impossible feat.

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Apr 30, 2016

Google has a crazy idea for injecting a computer into your eyeball

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, computing, cyborgs, transhumanism

Not only Google; there is Huawei and their AR contacts and Samsung are also making AR Contacts. And, the news 3 weeks ago shows that Samsung has applied for their own patent.


Google has filed a patent for what sounds like a bionic eye.

A patent filed in 2014 and published Thursday describes a device that could correct vision without putting contacts in or wearing glasses everyday.

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Apr 30, 2016

Spintronics for future information technologies

Posted by in categories: materials, particle physics

An international team headed by HZB researcher Jaime Sánchez-Barriga has shown how spin-polarised currents can be initiated in a controlled manner within samples of topological insulator material. In addition, they were able to manipulate the orientation of the spins of these currents.

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Apr 30, 2016

Cassini discovers that lake on Saturn’s moon is liquid methane

Posted by in category: space

The moon has three large seas and a number of smaller lakes connected by rivers and rivulets located in its northern hemisphere, and one large lake in the south. NASA researchers previously believed the liquid to be ethane, which is produced when “sunlight breaks methane molecules apart”, said Alice Le Gall, a member of the Cassini radar team who led the study into the makeup of the moon’s liquid reservoirs.

Using radar observations of the heat given off by Ligeia Mare, as well as data from a 2013 experiment that bounced radio signals off of the sea, the team determined the compositions of the liquid sea and the sea bed by separating each of their contributions to the sea’s observed temperature.

This image from Cassini shows Ligeia Mare, the second largest known body of liquid on Titan.

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Apr 30, 2016

Focus: Superfluid Increases Force of Laser Light

Posted by in category: entertainment

Shining a laser onto a microscopic object coated with a superfluid film induces flows that can generate a controlled force.

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Apr 30, 2016

First, we will upload brains to computers. Then, those computers will take over the world

Posted by in categories: computing, food, neuroscience, robotics/AI

Economist Robin Hanson says we’re on the brink of a strange new era. Read an excerpt ofThe Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth” below.

digital city
Eugene Sergeev / Shutterstock.

What will the next great era be like, after the eras of foraging, farming, and industry?

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Apr 30, 2016

Transhumanist rights are the Civil Rights of the 21st Century, says futurist Zoltan Istvan

Posted by in categories: geopolitics, transhumanism

My new article for Newsweek on the future of transhumanist civil rights:


Transhumanists like presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan believe a new civil rights age is looming.

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Apr 30, 2016

These Japanese Researchers Are Making Holograms You Can Touch

Posted by in category: futurism

“Imagine if you were in a zoo, and there was a lion on the other side of the glass that you could have the sensation of touching.”

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Apr 30, 2016

KEY TO ETERNAL LIFE? Someone already born will ‘live to 1,000 and immortality IS possible’

Posted by in category: life extension

A DOCTOR who has dedicated his work to the quest for eternal life insists the record for the oldest living person will soon fall and someone already alive will keep going until they make 1,000.

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Apr 30, 2016

Humanoid Robotic Diver Recovers Treasure from King Louis XIV’s Flagship

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Stanford’s OceanOne uses haptic feedback to let human pilots safely explore the briny deep.

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