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The Associated Press is launching a series of stories called Future of Work that explore how workplaces across the U.S. and the world are being transformed by technology and global pressures. As more employers move, shrink or revamp their work sites, many employees are struggling to adapt. At the same time, workers with in-demand skills or knowledge are benefiting. Advanced training, education or know-how is becoming a required ticket to the 21st-century workplace.
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Three Chinese internet majors have set up what is claimed to be the one of the largest open databases for artificial intelligence (AI) in the world, aimed at helping global talent advance AI research by harnessing the huge data pool generated by China’s 750 million internet users.
The platform wants to empower AI researchers and developers to advance their research without constraints of data resources, say its backers.
PUBLISHED : Monday, 14 August, 2017, 5:52pm.
UPDATED : Monday, 14 August, 2017, 5:52pm.
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(SpaceX) SpaceX launched 6,400 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station on Monday afternoon, and the roughly 100,000 people watching the live video online got to experience a rare shot of the reusable portion of the rocket sticking its landing in real time.
It was SpaceX’s 40th Falcon 9 mission and 11th rocket launch this year.
After the Dragon capsule full of materials for the ISS detached, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket — which Elon Musk’s rocket company reuses to dramatically cut down on costs — came hurtling back to Earth.
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In the study, 22-month-old rats — who were considered old — received stem cells from four-month-old rats.
Across the board, all of them experienced improved heart function, improved their exercise capacity by an average of 20 percent, and regrew hair faster than rats that didn’t receive the cells.
They also demonstrated longer heart cell telomeres.
Until now, scientists have tested the method to repair damage. But the Cedars-Sinai team in LA — who did the world’s first cardiac stem cell infusion in 2009 — have shown it can also reverse aging.
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Congratulations to the AgeMeter campaign (https://www.lifespan.io/agemeter/) for blasting past the half way mark to 55%, and also congratulations to you all for helping fund this important biomarker system, supported by Drs. George Church, Aubrey de Grey, and David Sinclair
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Let’s keep up the momentum and continue to show the world what power the crowd can have in standing up to age-related disease. # LifespanIO # CrowdfundTheCure.
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