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Aug 10, 2023

Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law

Posted by in categories: business, law, robotics/AI

Even if it doesn’t replace lawyers en masse | Business.

Aug 10, 2023

Elon Musk is now floating the idea of having a ‘noble’ debate with Mark Zuckerberg instead of a tech bro cage fight

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

Elon Musk said TED curator Chris Anderson’s suggestion to have a debate with Mark Zuckerberg, instead of a cage fight, “sounds like a good idea too.”

Aug 10, 2023

Stanford Big Ideas in Medicine

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education, ethics, life extension

Hosted by: medical humanities and arts program, center for biomedical ethics, center for asian health research and education, center for innovation in global health, center for population health sciences, stanford center on longevity.

*Program is preliminary and subject to change.

Contact: [email protected]

Aug 10, 2023

Spatial Interactions in Hydrogenated Perovskite Nickelate Synaptic Networks

Posted by in categories: chemistry, robotics/AI

A key aspect of how the brain learns and enables decision-making processes is through synaptic interactions. Electrical transmission and communication in a network of synapses are modulated by extracellular fields generated by ionic chemical gradients. Emulating such spatial interactions in synthetic networks can be of potential use for neuromorphic learning and the hardware implementation of artificial intelligence. Here, we demonstrate that in a network of hydrogen-doped perovskite nickelate devices, electric bias across a single junction can tune the coupling strength between the neighboring cells. Electrical transport measurements and spatially resolved diffraction and nanoprobe X-ray and scanning microwave impedance spectroscopic studies suggest that graded proton distribution in the inhomogeneous medium of hydrogen-doped nickelate film enables this behavior.

Aug 10, 2023

G/O Tells Staff Not to Worry About Everyone Mocking Their Horrible AI Content

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown reiterated the company was committed to AI articles despite external commentary.

Aug 10, 2023

‘Large’ creature — with 20 arms — found lurking in Antarctic sea. It’s a new species

Posted by in category: futurism

The animal has a “strawberry-like” shape and is one of four newly discovered species, researchers said.

Aug 10, 2023

Fentanyl’s deathly grip on America causes 1,500 deaths a week

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

This is a major crisis in America and most likely globally now.


The US is in the midst of a catastrophic fentanyl epidemic that is causing an eye-watering number of deaths and tearing the fabric of American society apart.

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Aug 10, 2023

Remarkable: For the Second Time, U.S. Scientists Have Achieved Fusion Ignition

Posted by in category: energy

And the results are even more spectacular.

Aug 10, 2023

Webb telescope reveals colors of Earendel, most distant star ever detected

Posted by in categories: cosmology, futurism

Detecting extremely distant stars, or those closest in time to the big bang, can provide insights into the first few chapters of the history of our universe. In 2022, the Hubble Space Telescope broke its own record, and spotted the most distant star yet. This star, nicknamed Earendel, emitted its light within the universe’s first billion years.

Spotting, and confirming, the distance of the star is just the beginning, though. That’s where NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Webb’s initial observations of Earendel have revealed insights into the star’s type, and even the galaxy surrounding the star. Future analysis of Webb spectroscopic observations of Earendel and its host galaxy, the Sunrise Arc, could also reveal information about brightness, temperature, and composition.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the . Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our sun, and about a million times more luminous.

Aug 9, 2023

Renowned tumor suppressor has prominent role in tissue repair, study finds

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

A protein famed among scientists and clinicians for its ability to suppress the development of many types of tumors may just be moonlighting as a cancer fighter, a recent study by researchers at Stanford Medicine found. The study, conducted in laboratory mice, suggests that the protein, p53, instead evolved to promote the repair of tissues and cells after injury.

The surprising finding is like learning that your favorite bit actor is actually an Oscar-winning director who dabbles in performance on the weekends.

“This turns what we thought we knew about p53 on its head,” said Laura Attardi, Ph.D., professor of radiation oncology and of genetics. “We need to consider that p53’s role as a tumor suppressor may be secondary to a more basic role in repairing damage to tissues.”