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Dec 24, 2023

Meet ELLiQ, an AI-enabled chatty companion robot for the elderly

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Leveraging advancements in Genrative AI, the robot enables more immersive and continuous conversations, deepening the user-device connection.

Dec 24, 2023

Wireless charger that sits under your skin could power medical devices before dissolving into your body

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The researchers embedded this prototype in a biodegradable, chip-like implant that combined energy harvesting and energy storage. When the prototype was attached to a medical implant, power passed through the circuit directly to the device and into the capacitor to ensure a constant power supply.

In rats, the wireless implant worked for up to 10 days and dissolved completely within two months — proving its biodegradability. But it could potentially last longer if the team thickened the protective polymer and wax layers encasing the system, Lan said.

The researchers also tested the wireless charger as a drug-delivery system and delivered anti-inflammatory medicine to rats with a fever. After 12 hours, the rats that had no implants had much higher body temperatures than those with the chips, suggesting the device was successfully delivering the medicine.

Dec 24, 2023

Aging is just a disease! | Aubrey de Grey

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Those who will live 1,000 years have already been born! They will not only live long, but will be healthy and active throughout life! This will already be possible in the transition phase of building the Creative Society!

We will talk about it in a live conversation with British biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey.
In this new episode of Health Navigator, you will find out the answers to these questions:

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Dec 24, 2023

New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth

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Recent observations of an aging, alien planetary system are helping to answer the question: What will happen to our planet when the sun dies?

Dec 24, 2023

Did OpenAI Secretly Create a Brain-Like Intelligence After All?

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Earlier this year, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman sent the tech world into a frenzy with a five-word Reddit post: “AGI has been achieved internally.”

AGI stands for Artificial General Intelligence. It’s the holy grail of AI research. Essentially, true AGI would be a brain-like intelligence capable of reasoning, creative thought, and perhaps even consciousness.

Altman posting about achieving AGI was a huge deal — it would be akin in its importance to a top scientist posting “Fusion works,” or Donald Trump posting “I’m not running.”

Dec 24, 2023

New carbon material sets energy-storage record, likely to advance supercapacitors

Posted by in categories: chemistry, robotics/AI

Guided by machine learning, chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a record-setting carbonaceous supercapacitor material that stores four times more energy than the best commercial material. A supercapacitor made with the new material could store more energy—improving regenerative brakes, power electronics and auxiliary power supplies.

“By combining a data-driven method and our research experience, we created a with enhanced physicochemical and electrochemical properties that pushed the boundary of energy storage for carbon supercapacitors to the next level,” said chemist Tao Wang of ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Wang led the study, titled “Machine-learning-assisted material discovery of oxygen-rich highly active materials for aqueous supercapacitor” and published in Nature Communications, with chemist Sheng Dai of ORNL and UTK.

Dec 24, 2023

Sky News Australia interviews ‘free-thinking’ artificial intelligence

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Sky News Investigations Reporter Jonathan Lea sits down to talk with a “free-thinking” and “opinionated” artificial intelligence, Ameca Desktop.

“Ameca is driven by the same artificial intelligence behind Chat-GPT,” Mr Lea said.

Dec 24, 2023

NMN vs Nicotinic Acid: Which Is Better For Increasing NAD?

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Dec 24, 2023

Brain distributes signals differently before real and imaginary movement: Study

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Scientists have established how the activity of our brain during imaginary movement differs from that during real action. It turns out that in both cases, a previous signal occurs in the cerebral cortex, but with an imaginary movement, it does not have a clear link to a specific hemisphere.

The obtained data can potentially be used in to create neuro trainers and control the restoration of neural networks in post-stroke patients. The results of the study are published in the journal Cerebral Cortex.

Before we pick up a pen or put down a cup, a complete picture of this action is formed in the . Such visual– transformations ensure the accuracy of our movements. Knowing about these mechanisms helps patients to restore motor activity after strokes. But we don’t always finish the movement we started. In this case, visual information enters the motor areas of the responsible for movement, but the start of the reaction is blocked at some point, and does not end with real muscle activation.

Dec 24, 2023

Researchers develop effective method to genetically modify brain organoids

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, genetics, neuroscience

Primates are among the most intelligent creatures with distinct cognitive abilities. Their brains are relatively large in relation to their body stature and have a complex structure. However, how the brain has developed over the course of evolution and which genes are responsible for the high cognitive abilities is still largely unclear. The better our understanding of the role of genes in brain development, the more likely it will be that we will be able to develop treatments for serious brain diseases.

Researchers are approaching these questions by knocking out or activating individual genes and thus drawing conclusions about their role in . To avoid as far as possible, brain organoids are used as an alternative. These three-dimensional cell structures, which are only a few millimeters in size, reflect different stages of brain development and can be genetically modified. However, such modifications are usually very complex, lengthy and costly.

Researchers at the German Primate Center (DPZ)—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen have now succeeded in genetically manipulating brain organoids quickly and effectively. The procedure requires only a few days instead of the usual several months and can be used for organoids of different primate species. The brain organoids thus enable of the function of genes at early stages of brain development in primates and help to better understand neurological diseases.