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Jun 16, 2016
Leading astronomer urges Europe to end human space missions
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: robotics/AI, space
This guy is just… wrong.
Just totally and completely WRONG.
PERIOD.
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Jun 16, 2016
All aboard the Immortality Bus: the man who says tech will help us live forever
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism
A feature story in The Guardian on my presidential run to grow the transhumanism movement. Thanks for your support!
Zoltan Istvan leads the Transhumanist party and believes that, through science, humans will reverse ageing and eventually death. Can he convert the skeptics?
Jun 16, 2016
EU May Decide on Apple Tax Probe In July — By Natalia Drozdiak | The Wall Street Journal
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: business
“The European Union may announce its decision in its long-running probe into Apple Inc.’s tax arrangements with Ireland in July, the country’s finance minister said Thursday.”
Jun 16, 2016
Biological nano-drones can vaccinate against cancer
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, drones, nanotechnology
When cancer hits, your immune system shuts down. Over the past 5–10 years, research into cancer has therefore increasingly focused on helping the immune system start up again. Because if we succeed in that, there is much to indicate that this approach will prove significantly more effective than the aggressive, all encompassing chemotherapy treatments we currently use.
One of the initiatives in this area is the work of Professor Thomas Andresen from DTU Nanotech. He has recently been awarded a grant from Innovation Fund Denmark for a project in which biological nano-drones are used to train the immune system to recognize cancer cells; and kill them.
This is something it cannot do on its own, because cancer cells are adept at concealing themselves. It is true that when chemotherapy or radiotherapy is used to kill cancer cells today, the immune system steps in afterwards to clear away the dead cells, but it doesn’t learn anything from the process. This is what Thomas Andresen is looking to change.
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Jun 16, 2016
Physicists Just Entangled 10 Photon Pairs And Set A New World Record
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
A team from the University of Science and Technology of China has shattered the quantum entanglement record, entangling 10 photon pairs.
Quantum entanglement is one of the strangest occurrences in the already strange world of quantum physics. Basically, entanglement is the state where quantum particles become so deeply linked that they share what is, in essence, the same existence.
The video below delves into the ins and outs of this phenomenon.
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Jun 16, 2016
This robot can 3D-print a pizza in under five minutes
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, robotics/AI
BeeHex has engineered a robotic 3D printer that can make any type of pizza. Here’s how it works.
Jun 16, 2016
Augmented reality comes to phones — and kitchens
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: augmented reality, food, mobile phones
Jun 16, 2016
Detroit Become Human — E3 2016 Trailer | PS4
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: entertainment
Detroit Become Human — E3 2016 Trailer
Detroit: Become Human is the latest game from Quantic Dream — and it’s looking like a knockout.
Jun 16, 2016
Detroit: Become Human — Official Announcement Trailer
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Quantic Dream, the studio behind Heavy Rain, has revealed its ambitious new project. Here’s the full trailer!