By James Temple – Re/Co[de Emerald Therapeutics is developing potential treatments for viral infections like HIV and HPV. But they’re not ready to talk about that yet. What the stealth startup is ready to discuss is a tool they built in an effort to accelerate that work: A completely robotic lab that the company believes could aid other researchers as well,… Continue reading Founders Fund Backs a Robotic Lab that Puts Science in the Cloud
Data Science: What the Facebook Controversy is Really About
Sara M. Watson – The Atlantic Facebook has always “manipulated” the results shown in its users’ News Feeds by filtering and personalizing for relevance. But this weekend, the social giant seemed to cross a line, when it announced that it engineered emotional responses two years ago in an “emotional contagion” experiment, published in the Proceedings… Continue reading Data Science: What the Facebook Controversy is Really About
Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
By Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine For nearly a century, “reality” has been a murky concept. The laws of quantum physics seem to suggest that particles spend much of their time in a ghostly state, lacking even basic properties such as a definite location and instead existing everywhere and nowhere at once. Only when a particle is… Continue reading Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
This is the amazing design for NASA’s Star Trek-style space ship, the IXS Enterprise
By Abby Phillip – The Washington Post NASA engineer and physicist Harold White announced a few years ago that he was working on a potentially groundbreaking idea that could allow space travel faster than the speed of light. Yes, like in “Star Trek.” And now, to boldly go where no designer has gone before, Mark… Continue reading This is the amazing design for NASA’s Star Trek-style space ship, the IXS Enterprise
Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
Muscle-powered bio-bots walk on command http://phys.org/news/2014-06-muscle-powered-bio-bots-video.html Crowdsourcing for robots http://www.kurzweilai.net/crowdsourcing-for-robots Giant space telescope could detect hints of life on exoplanets http://www.kurzweilai.net/giant-space-telescope-could-detect-hints-ot-life-on-exoplanets California governor signs bill to bring bitcoin and other currency into fold http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/29/us-usa-california-bitcoin-idUSKBN0F402T20140629 It’s Not Magic: Watch How Parts Assemble Themselves http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-06-02/its-not-magic-watch-how-smart-parts-self-assemble Meet the future of public transport: electric cycles with onboard tablets http://qz.com/227264/meet-the-future-of-the-public-transport-electric-cycles-with-onboard-tablets/… Continue reading Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
New book: The Beginning and the End by Clément Vidal
By Clément Vidal – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. I am happy to inform you that I just published a book which deals at length with our cosmological future. I made a short book trailer introducing it, and the book has been mentioned in the Huffington Post and H+ Magazine. About the book: In this fascinating… Continue reading New book: The Beginning and the End by Clément Vidal
Space Travel Test Flight A Success, Trip To Space May Be A Reality Soon
Wall Street OTC An Arizona start-up company says it has successfully completed its first small-scale test flight of a stratospheric balloon and capsule being developed to show tourists a space like view of the Earth from 19 miles (30 km) above ground. Privately owned by World View, an offshoot of Paragon Space Development Corp, aims… Continue reading Space Travel Test Flight A Success, Trip To Space May Be A Reality Soon
Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How to Treat You
By Daniela Hernandez – Wired Long Island dermatologist Kavita Mariwalla knows how to treat acne, burns, and rashes. But when a patient came in with a potentially disfiguring case of bullous pemphigoid–a rare skin condition that causes large, watery blisters–she was stumped. The medication doctors usually prescribe for the autoimmune disorder wasn’t available. So she logged… Continue reading Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How to Treat You
The Moore’s Law of 3D Printing… Yes it Does Exist, And Could Have Staggering Implications
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Gov. Brown signs bills legalizing Bitcoins use, other legislation
Patrick McGreevy – LA Times Gov. Jerry Brown has signed bills that recognize the legal use of Bitcoins and other digital currencies in California, repeal a requirement for food handlers to use gloves, and keep minor truants out of lockup facilities, his aides announced Saturday. In all, the governor signed 15 pieces of legislation into… Continue reading Gov. Brown signs bills legalizing Bitcoins use, other legislation