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Oct 24, 2016
Meet the Fully Programmable Linux Computer That’s Smaller Than a Coin
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: computing, media & arts, security
Microcomputers are great for learning about code and hardware. The VoCore2 Mini is the smallest ever, packing full Linux functionality and wireless connectivity into a coin-sized device. New Atlas Deals has it for just $42.99.
This impressive little computer is capable of running programs in C, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, and many other languages. This means you can code the VoCore2 to expand its functionality, turning it into a VPN gateway, airplay music station, and much more.
You can also augment the VoCore2 with hardware components for further tinkering fun. Add a USB webcam to turn it into a home security camera, attach a microphone to issue voice commands to Siri or Echo, and so on. Your projects are limited only by your imagination.
Oct 24, 2016
Fighting cancer with the power of immunity
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, engineering
Combination therapy to kick cancer to the curb!
Harnessing the body’s own immune system to destroy tumors is a tantalizing prospect that has yet to realize its full potential. However, a new advance from MIT may bring this strategy, known as cancer immunotherapy, closer to becoming reality.
In the new study, the researchers used a combination of four different therapies to activate both of the immune system’s two branches, producing a coordinated attack that led to the complete disappearance of large, aggressive tumors in mice.
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Oct 24, 2016
Voyager 2 “hacked” in deep space? NASA Scientist: It can be called an alien language
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in category: alien life
BELGRADE – NASA’s ground-breaking voyager 2 probe is more than 3 decades into its epic journey towards deep space. On April 22nd, 2010 just as the craft prepares to cross the boundary to enter into interstellar space, it malfunctions, physics-astronomy.com reported.
As NASA’s planetary scientist, Kevin Baines said:
“Just about 10 billion miles away from the Earth and all of the sudden it starts sending data in the language we don’t understand. It can be called as an alien language”
Oct 24, 2016
Assassin’s Creed — Virtual Reality
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: virtual reality
Oct 24, 2016
Newly-developed ‘gene therapy in a box’ could save millions of lives
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Gene therapy in a box could reduce costs and save lives.
Gene therapy — the process of genetically altering cells to treat disease — is a highly promising process being studied as a way to cure devastating conditions like genetic disorders, HIV, and even cancer.
But despite the great need for medical advances in these areas, gene therapy can only be performed at a handful of high-tech clinics around the world and require highly trained staff, meaning that it may never be accessible to the millions of people whose lives it could save.
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Oct 24, 2016
Craig Venter: Bridging the Gap Between Our Genomes, Ourselves
Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in category: biotech/medical
Craig Venter’s New Enterprise: You
Scientist who jump-started the Human Genome Project works to integrate ‘personalized and preventive care into the practice of medicine.’
Oct 24, 2016
Positron Dynamics near term work to proving out antimatter catalyzed deuterium fusion propulsion with over 100,000 ISP
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: innovation, space travel
Nextbigfuture has interviewed Ryan Weed, CEO of Positron Dynamics. Positron Dynamics is developing antimatter catalyzed fusion propulsion which they will first demonstrate in a cubesat launch. They are getting around the still mostly unsolved difficulties of storing antimatter. They are doing this by using Sodium 22 isotopes.
Positron Dynamics has previously received a lot of press coverage when it was funded by the Thiel Breakthrough foundation to work on antimatter.
Oct 24, 2016
5 Ways Medical VR Is Changing Healthcare
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: biotech/medical, virtual reality
Virtual Reality started its fascinating take-over of healthcare for the greatest pleasure of patients and doctors alike. Here are five great examples of medical VR transforming patient lives and how doctors work.
Oct 24, 2016
Here’s what the world will be like in 2045, according to top scientists
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: futurism, government
The government’s research-and-development arm has some exciting predictions for the world of tomorrow.