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Sep 21, 2023

How new tech is helping people circumvent digital authoritarianism

Posted by in category: internet

From Iran to China to Russia, there’s an escalating ‘cat-and-mouse’ game between the censors and those trying to evade them.

I want to talk about the battle that’s raging every day between people who want to censor online content and those who want to protect access to a free and open internet.

It also relates to a recent scoop about a new Google product that’s designed to make it easier for developers to build censorship-resistant apps. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this is a space worth paying attention to.

Sep 21, 2023

How AI can help us understand how cells work—and help cure diseases

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI

A virtual cell modeling system, powered by AI, will lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of diseases, argue the cofounders of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

As the smallest living units, cells are key to understanding disease—and yet so much about them remains unknown. We do not know, for example, how billions of biomolecules—like DNA, proteins, and lipids—come together to act as one cell. Nor do we know how our many types of cells interact within our bodies. We have limited understanding of how cells, tissues, and organs become diseased and what it takes for them to be healthy.

AI can help us answer these questions and apply that knowledge to improve health and well-being worldwide—if… More.

Sep 21, 2023

Artificial womb human trials may soon inch closer to reality

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

CHOP researchers established the feasibility of an artificial womb called the “Biobag” to nurture a premature lamb in 2017.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a meeting of independent advisors on September 19–20. The meeting’s agenda is to discuss the viability of clinical trials using artificial womb technology to improve the survival and health of extremely preterm newborns.

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Sep 21, 2023

AI Startup Writer Raises $100 Million To Take On ChatGPT Enterprise

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Generative AI startup Writer has raised $100 million in a series B funding round, valuing it between $500 million and $750 million, the company announced Monday. Writer’s large language models produce content ranging from incident reports and emails to product descriptions and executive summaries, placing it squarely in competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise, which was launched last month, and other fast-growing unicorns like Typeface.

But despite the crowded generative AI space, Writer CEO and cofounder May Habib told Forbes that some enterprise customers are switching from Azure OpenAI over to Writer because the quality of outputs generated by ChatGPT wasn’t high enough. Her startup’s… More.


Firms like Spotify, Uber and Accenture use Writer’s generative AI tools to research, create and analyze content.

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Sep 21, 2023

What Is Generative AI: A Super-Simple Explanation Anyone Can Understand

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly a part of the world around us, and it’s rapidly changing our lives. It offers a hugely exciting opportunity, and sometimes, it can be more than a little scary. And without a doubt, the big development in AI making waves right now is generative AI.

Just like it sounds, it’s AI that can create, from words and images to videos, music, computer applications, and even entire virtual worlds.

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Sep 21, 2023

WEHI discovery leads to clinical trial for rare women’s cancers

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

An international clinical trial exploring a new way to treat rare and aggressive gynaecological cancers has launched in Melbourne.

Sep 21, 2023

How Our GENES Listen To Our Beliefs: Heal The Body & Prevent Disease | Dr. Bruce Lipton

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, genetics, life extension

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There is powerful science behind how our beliefs inform our genetic expression. It’s not our genes alone that dictate our health outcomes, rather it’s the biology of belief that determines our destiny.

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Sep 20, 2023

Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia

Posted by in category: futurism

Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.

Sep 20, 2023

Photonic chips could lower energy consumption from data centres

Posted by in categories: computing, space

Data centre energy consumption could be cut with new, ‘breakthrough’ photonic chips that are more efficient than today’s chips.

Data centres can consume up to 50 times more energy per square foot of floor space than a typical office building and account for roughly 2 per cent of all electricity use in the US.

In recent years, the number of data centres has risen rapidly due to soaring demand from the likes of Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

Sep 20, 2023

Laser Beam Sends Electricity Nearly 100 Feet Through the Air

Posted by in categories: electronics, mobile phones

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Electricity can be streamed wirelessly across a room through thin air, researchers have found.

Scientists from Seoul, South Korea, have figured out how to transmit 400 milliwatts (mW) of electricity over nearly 100 feet using infrared laser light, according to research published in the journal Optics Express.

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