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Mar 7, 2016
How to Create Friendly AI and Survive the Coming Intelligence Explosion?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: life extension, robotics/AI
“Yet, it’s our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.” –Clyde DeSouza, Memories With Maya.
IMMORTALITY or OBLIVION? I hope that everyone would agree that there are only two possible outcomes after having created Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for us: immortality or oblivion. The necessity of the beneficial outcome of the coming intelligence explosion cannot be overestimated.
AI can already beat humans in many games, but can AI beat humans in the most important game, the game of life?
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Mar 7, 2016
What It Will Take to Become an Interstellar Civilization
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
Researchers met recently to discuss the hurdles that we’ll need to overcome before humanity can spread across interstellar space.
Mar 7, 2016
Google’s magic Internet balloons bringing Wi-Fi to India
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: internet
The software and hardware giant hopes to succeed where Facebook’s Free Basics failed — connecting hundreds of millions of Indians in rural areas to the Internet with Project Loon.
Mar 7, 2016
Zuckerberg Says Banning Free Basics Won’t Keep Internet.org Away From India
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: internet
In response to the recently imposed ban on Free Basics by TRAI, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reiterated his commitment towards his Internet.org initiative.
Mar 6, 2016
Researchers think they’ve just found a new kind of stem cell
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
Though their use is marred by controversy and debate, stem cells are one of our best bets when it comes to developing regenerative treatments for a plethora of different conditions. Now, scientists believe they’ve found a brand new type of stem cell hidden in plain sight called XEN, also referred to as iXEN, and it could lead to new ways to study birth defects and reproductive problems.
Before we dive into the latest discovery, it’s worth mentioning how researchers have been using stem cells up to this point. Pluripotent stem cells are so important because they have the potential to develop into every cell in the body, effectively allowing researchers to heal any type of tissue. In the past, these cells were harvested from embryos, but researchers have now figured out how to unlock the potential of pluripotent stem cells using adult cells — avoiding the controversy.
These cells are known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) and researchers create them by “reactivating embryonic genes to ‘reprogram’ mature adult cells”. By doing so, researchers can to an extent, control what these cells become, which means they have the power to regrow damaged tissues.
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Mar 6, 2016
The Galaxy S7‘s water resistance is tested with an underwater unboxing video
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: mobile phones
Mar 6, 2016
VR Animated Series ‘Sequenced’ Creates Truly Reactive Storytelling in VR
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: virtual reality
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UjrjeamdZ5k
Sequenced is an upcoming animated series by Apelab for VR headsets that’s pioneering a new method of delivering episodic content, one that tailors itself to the individual viewer in the slightest way imaginable. And all that Sequenced wants from you, the passive observer, is your attention.
Enter Raven, a thirteen year old girl soon to become the ‘chosen one’ of a post apocalyptic society. The world, a bleak but hauntingly beautiful landscape, only has a single city left in existence, and it’s the last remaining seat of high technology.
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Mar 6, 2016
Hot Bot Official Trailer 2016 HD
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, sex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEFcUuhi1jE
Comedy.
From director: Michael Polish
Writers: Mark Polish, Mark Polish
Hot Bot is the hilarious journey of two sexually repressed and unpopular teenage geeks who accidentally discover a life-like super-model sex bot (Bardot).
Cast: zack pearlman, doug haley, cynthia kirchner, anthony anderson, donald faison, danny masterson.
Mar 6, 2016
Bioluminescent Bacteria Could Light Up The Streets Of Paris
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=a8MYrlT4DzQ
When science does amazing things; it definitely creates the “WOW” factor like nothing else can.
A French company is harnessing the power of bioluminescent bacteria to light up public areas.
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