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Feb 3, 2023

Eye Drops Are Recalled After Being Linked to Vision Loss and 1 Death

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

The maker of EzriCare Artificial Tears said it was recalling the eye drops after U.S. health authorities linked the product to a drug-resistant bacteria strain.

Feb 3, 2023

Conducting the Mathematical Orchestra From the Middle

Posted by in category: mathematics

Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory while also working to make mathematics more inclusive.

Feb 3, 2023

Biological Big Bang: How we solved Darwin’s dilemma

Posted by in categories: biological, chemistry, cosmology, evolution

Evolution’s rapid pace after the Cambrian explosion

Though the work of Schopf and other paleobiologists continues to fill in the Precambrian fossil record, questions remain about the pace of the Cambrian explosion. What triggered life to evolve so fast?

The question has intrigued scientists of many disciplines for decades. Interdisciplinary collaboration has wrought a wealth of evidence from diverse perspectives — geochemical, paleoenvironmental, geological, anatomical, and taxonomic — that describes how biological organisms evolved in concert with changing environmental conditions.

Feb 3, 2023

8 possible alien ‘technosignatures’ detected around distant stars in new AI study

Posted by in categories: alien life, robotics/AI

Eight signals from far-off stars probably aren’t aliens, but the machine learning method that found them holds promise in the search for real extraterrestrials.

Feb 3, 2023

All 5 Key Ingredients of OUR DNA have been Found in Meteorites that came from Outer Space

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

The study was undertaken by Yasuhiro Oba’s team from Hokkaido University in Japan and astrochemists at NASA. A few years ago, Oba developed a technique to delicately excavate and separate different chemical compounds found in meteorite dust.

Using their mild extraction technique that uses cold water instead of acids, scientists found life-creating bases and compounds in four meteorite samples from Australia, US state of Kentucky, and Canadian province of British Columbia.

The discovery of these compounds in meteorites means that it is possible life on Earth as it stands today was created by compounds that came from outer space.

Feb 3, 2023

65 Years Ago, the First American Satellite Radically Reshaped the Space Race

Posted by in category: military

Explorer 1 marked the entry of science into what had been a military affair.

Feb 3, 2023

Bill Gates proposal to monitor disease outbreaks could cost $1 billion a year

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, surveillance

Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder turned philanthropist, has called for a global response team to be set up to carry out surveillance for pathogens that can potentially ring in the next pandemic, Financial Times reported.

Long before COVID-19 struck, Gates warned the world of an imminent pandemic and the need to prepare ourselves to face it. Gates has been vocal about the long delays involved in the vaccine development process and the lack of equity in vaccine distribution in the world. So far, he has also been right about how the COVID-19 pandemic will play out and has pandemic avoiding strategies in his new book.

Feb 3, 2023

Deep fake AI will let Tom Hanks play his younger self

Posted by in categories: life extension, robotics/AI

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Metaphysic’s new Live tool creates high-resolution photorealistic faceswaps and de-aging effects on top of actors’ performances live and in real-time without the need for further compositing or VFX work.

Feb 3, 2023

ChatGPT may be coming for our jobs. Here are the 10 roles that AI is most likely to replace

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

Media jobs across the board — including those in advertising, technical writing, journalism, and any role that involves content creation — may be affected by ChatGPT and similar forms of AI, Madgavkar said. That’s because AI is able to read, write, and understand text-based data well, she added.

“Analyzing and interpreting vast amounts of language based data and information is a skill that you’d expect generative AI technologies to ramp up on,” Madgavkar said.

Economist Paul Krugman said in a New York Times op-ed that ChatGPT may be able to do tasks like reporting and writing “more efficiently than humans.”

Feb 3, 2023

Will an AI Be the First to Discover Alien Life?

Posted by in categories: alien life, information science, robotics/AI

SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, is deploying machine-learning algorithms that filter out Earthly interference and spot signals humans might miss.