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Jan 11, 2023

Reactions as First Robot Lawyer Sets for Launching, To Appear in Court Next Month

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

The AI company has earlier created something similar earlier, they have in the past used AI-generated form letters and chatbots to help secure and recovers people’s fund for onboarding wifi that failed to work.

Many people have reacted to this new innovation citing that it may be injurious to lawyers’ legal business, particularly lawyers who have no knowledge about artificial intelligence.

Jan 11, 2023

First full views of a CRISPR-guided system for gene insertion

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

High-resolution structures of CRISPR-associated transposon system.

Jan 11, 2023

Meet the Finalists of the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Introducing the 15 finalist teams who are developing physical avatar systems to make human telepresence and interaction possible across the globe. From performing life changing operations, caretaking, disaster relief, or simply bridging the distance for social connection, these robotic avatars will allow us to expand our physical reach and evolve the way we communicate and interact remotely. Learn more about next phase of the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE https://www.xprize.org/prizes/avatar/articles/ana-avatar-xpr…-finalists.

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Jan 11, 2023

This biotech startup says mice live longer after genetic reprogramming

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

The result is a widely anticipated landmark for rejuvenation technology.

Jan 11, 2023

Scientists Make Progress in Decoding Genetics of Insomnia

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Summary: Researchers identify the role the Pig-Q gene plays in sleep regulation. Mutations of the Pig-Q gene increase sleep.

Source: Texas A&M

A research effort involving researchers from Texas A&M University, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has used human genomics to identify a new genetic pathway involved in regulating sleep from fruit flies to humans—a novel insight that could pave the way for new treatments for insomnia and other sleep-related disorders.

Jan 11, 2023

Open-Sourcing And Accelerating Precision Health Of The Future: Progress, Potential and Possibilities Podcast episode

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

Simon Waslander is the Director of Collaboration, at the CureDAO Alliance for the Acceleration of Clinical Research (https://www.curedao.org/), a community-owned platform for the precision health of the future.

CureDAO is creating an open-source platform to discover how millions of factors, like foods, drugs, and supplements affect human health, within a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), making suffering optional through the creation of a “WordPress of health data”.

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Jan 11, 2023

Tesla Safety Report Returns: Autopilot Gets Better And Better

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

The number of accidents is massively lower than the US average.


Tesla recently released a new version of its Vehicle Safety Report, after about a year of silence, providing interesting new data.

Jan 11, 2023

Alphabet X graduates robotic agtech firm Mineral

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability

A little over two years after its public debut, Mineral is becoming its own Alphabet company. The team, which was formerly known as the “Computational Agriculture Project” (no prizes for guessing why they adopted the new name), just graduated from the X “moonshot” labs.

“After five years incubating our technology at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Mineral is now an Alphabet company,” CEO Elliott Grant said in a blog post. “Our mission is to help scale sustainable agriculture. We’re doing this by developing a platform and tools that help gather, organize, and understand never-before known or understood information about the plant world — and make it useful and actionable.”

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Jan 11, 2023

Rice breeding breakthrough could feed billions

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95 percent efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making high-yielding, disease resistant rice strains available to low-income farmers worldwide. The work was published Dec. 27 in Nature Communications.

First-generation hybrids of crop plants often show higher performance than their parent strains, a phenomenon called hybrid vigor. But this does not persist if the hybrids are bred together for a second generation. So when farmers want to use high-performing hybrid plant varieties, they need to purchase new seed each season.

Rice, the staple crop for half the world’s population, is relatively costly to breed as a hybrid for a yield improvement of about 10 percent. This means that the benefits of hybrids have yet to reach many of the world’s farmers, said Gurdev Khush, adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Working at the International Rice Research Institute from 1967 until retiring to UC Davis in 2002, Khush led efforts to create new rice high-yield rice varieties, work for which he received the World Food Prize in 1996.

Jan 11, 2023

NASA considers Titan hybrid aircraft mission and other visionary space concepts

Posted by in categories: innovation, space

The US space agency selected 14 projects that are focused on “making the impossible possible”.

Part of the value of space exploration comes from the fact it will open new frontiers to science that we don’t yet know exist.

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