Researchers hope their new approach, which works well in lab animals, may save more lives.
- By Dina Fine Maron on January 18, 2018
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Gesture-Control Chip
This chip can control certain devices using *just* gestures.
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Has AI made significant progress over the years towards artificial general intelligence?
This decades-old debate could end by the new project from the Stanford 100 Year Study on AI, called The AI Index. If their goal is achieved.
Off to a good start, the AI Index’s first report includes many useful visualisations of the data they are collecting, such as the following outline of AI breakthroughs since 1980.
This 3D-Printed Heart Could Replace Blood Pumps
These 3D-printed, artificial hearts could replace real hearts one day.
Why Gene Silencing Could Launch a New Class of Blockbuster Drugs
Over 85 percent of proteins in the body can’t be targeted with conventional chemical drugs. By working on the RNA responsible for problematic proteins, gene silencing opens up an enormous portion of the genome to intervention. If realized, a new class of drugs based on gene silencing could overhaul modern medicine.
How the Science of Decision-Making Will Help Us Make Better Strategic Choices
Neuroscientist Brie Linkenhoker believes that leaders must be better prepared for future strategic challenges by continually broadening their worldviews.
As the director of Worldview Stanford, Brie and her team produce multimedia content and immersive learning experiences to make academic research and insights accessible and useable by curious leaders. These future-focused topics are designed to help curious leaders understand the forces shaping the future.
Worldview Stanford has tackled such interdisciplinary topics as the power of minds, the science of decision-making, environmental risk and resilience, and trust and power in the age of big data.
This is the darkest material on Earth
And it’s changing everything from art to space exploration. http://cnn.it/2hPFph3
