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Kernel is a human intelligence (HI) company developing the world’s first neuroprosthesis to mimic, repair, and improve cognition

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in cyborgs, neuroscience

Aug 22
2016

Inside China’s effort to replace millions of manufacturing workers with robots

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in economics, robotics/AI

Aug 22
2016

Can China reboot its manufacturing industry—and the global economy—by replacing millions of workers with machines?

Chinese Search Giant Baidu Thinks AI Pioneer Andrew Ng Can Help It Challenge Google and Become a Global Power

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in energy, robotics/AI

Aug 22
2016

Baidu is a fixture of online life in China, but it wants to become a global power. Can one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence researchers help it challenge Silicon Valley’s biggest companies?

The Tiny Brain Chip That May Supercharge Your Mind

Posted by Elmar Arunov in biotech/medical, computing, cyborgs, neuroscience

Aug 22
2016

How will we interact with the intelligent machines of the future? If you’re asking Bryan Johnson, founder of startup Kernel, he’ll tell you those machines should be implanted inside our brains.

His team is working with top neuroscientists to build a tiny brain chip—also known as a neuroprosthetic —to help people with disease-related brain damage. In the long term, though, Johnson sees the product applicable to anyone who wants a bit of a brain boost.

Yes, some might flag this technology as yet another invention leading us toward a future where technology just helps the privileged get further in life.

This Device Connects Your Contact Lenses To WiFi

Posted by Elmar Arunov in internet

Aug 22
2016

Scientists unlock a secret to Latinos’ longevity, with hopes of slowing aging for everyone

Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in life extension

Aug 22
2016

Cientistas descobrem um segredo para a longevidade nos Latinos ’, com a esperança de retardar o envelhecimento para todos.

A pesquisa também ajuda a responder a perguntas sobre por que algumas pessoas morrem jovens, enquanto outros vivem até a velhice, e que doenças crônicas têm a ver com o envelhecimento.

Changing the Nature of Nature

Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in bioengineering, biological, genetics

Aug 22
2016

Alterar a natureza da natureza.

Inovadores estão trabalhando em direção a um mundo no qual a matéria viva é totalmente programável por meio da biologia sintética onde as pessoas já não são apenas consumidores de tecnologia, mas os cidadãos de um mundo tecnológico.

Isto é o que eu explorei no episódio 3 das explorações, como a biologia sintética está mudando a natureza da Natureza.

Você é a biologia, eu sou a biologia, a Terra é a biologia — e tudo isso é cada vez mais programável. Com o poder de projetar e crescer o nosso futuro, que tipo de mundo que você vai ajudar a construir?

#TheWorldWeBuild
Por Bryan Johnson.

Scientists Design Genome For Upgraded E. Coli

Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics

Aug 20
2016

A team of Harvard Medical School scientists, which includes genetics professor George Church, have designed a bacterial genome that has been rewritten on a massive scale, with changes in more than 62,000 spots.

They haven’t used it to make living E. coli yet, but the findings, reported today in Science, mark progress towards genetically engineered bacteria that could make new materials without risk of exchanging genes with organisms in the wild.

“It‘s an important step forward for demonstrating the malleability of the genetic code and how entirely new types of biological functions and properties can be extracted from organisms through genomes that have been recoded,” Farren Isaacs of Yale University, who has worked with the team in the past, told Nature.