Tesla is making AI-powered humanoid robots. Google wants to give its AI brain a bot body. Robotics are moving fast, and every day, droids are becoming more like us.
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The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
For the first time since 2006, we have two joint recipients of the Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award. This year’s recipients are Jerome C. Glenn and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who are defending against world existential risks and country existential risks, respectively.
Jerome C. Glenn and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are winners of the 2022 Guardian Award.
Jan 1, 2023
Scientists Uncover a Gut-Brain Connection for Social Development
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biological, neuroscience
To learn to socialize, zebrafish need to trust their gut.
Gut microbes encourage specialized cells to prune back extra connections in brain circuits that control social behavior, new University of Oregon research in zebrafish shows. The pruning is essential for the development of normal social behavior.
The researchers also found that these ‘social’ neurons are similar in zebrafish and mice. That suggests the findings might translate between species — and could possibly point the way to treatments for a range of neurodevelopmental conditions.
Jan 1, 2023
The Practical Aspect Of Quantum Entanglement
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, robotics/AI
Do you want to get started with Quantum Machine Learning? Have a look at Hands-On Quantum Machine Learning With Python.
Jan 1, 2023
Ketamine Found to Increase Brain Noise
Posted by Paul Battista in category: neuroscience
Summary: By inhibiting NMDA receptors, ketamine increases noise to gamma frequencies in one layer of the thalamic nucleus and one lay of the somatosensory cortex. Findings suggest psychosis may be triggered by an increase in background noise impairing thalamocortical neurons which may be caused by a malfunction in NMDA receptors affecting the balance of inhibition and excitation in the brain.
Source: HSE
An international team of researchers including Sofya Kulikova, Senior Research Fellow at the HSE University-Perm, found that ketamine, being an NMDA receptor inhibitor, increases the brain’s background noise, causing higher entropy of incoming sensory signals and disrupting their transmission between the thalamus and the cortex.
Jan 1, 2023
Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti specifications leak, reportedly will come priced at $799
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The Nvidia RTX 4,070 Ti could be announced as early as next month at CES, and pricing could come in at $799.
Jan 1, 2023
David Sinclair’s AMA: Age Reversal Breakthroughs, FDA Approval, and Living Forever
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension, Peter Diamandis
The whole interview is good and informative but starts with Sinclair commenting that at the moment he thinks living to 150 is possible in our lifetimes but not immortality. But given that, I’m 51. If I’m going to live potentially another century the technology will get better and better in that century and I would fully expect to life spans to become what we want rather than what we have to accept.
In this Ask Me Anything session, David and Peter discuss the latest age-reversal breakthroughs, getting approval from the FDA, and the possibility of living forever.
David Sinclair is a biologist and academic known for his expertise in aging and epigenetics. Sinclair is a genetics professor and the Co-Director of Harvard Medical School’s Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research. He’s been included in Time100 as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, and his research has been featured all over the media. Besides writing a New York Times Best Seller, David has co-founded several biotech companies, a science publication called Aging, and is an inventor of 35 patents.
Read David’s book, Lifespan: Why We Age-and Why We Don’t Have To: https://a.co/d/85H3Mll.
Jan 1, 2023
How Did Humans Boil Water Before the Invention of Pots?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: innovation
Roasting would have been easy. But re-creating the paleo way of boiling water requires a bit more imagination.
Jan 1, 2023
Tesla stock concerns lie around ‘brand damage’ from Elon Musk, Twitter: Analyst
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: Elon Musk, finance, sustainability, transportation
This segment originally aired on December 28, 2022.
Colin Rusch, Oppenheimer & Co. Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, sits down with Yahoo Finance Live anchors Seana Smith and Jared Blikre to talk about Tesla’s stock outlook in 2023 following Elon Musk’s invested interest in managing Twitter this past year.
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Jan 1, 2023
Scientists claim to have found a portal to the fifth dimension
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cosmology, particle physics
In a new study, scientists say they can explain dark matter by positing a particle that links to a fifth dimension.
(Updated version of the previous article.)
While the “warped extra dimension” (WED) is a trademark of a popular physics model first introduced in 1999, this research, published in The European Physical Journal C, is the first to cohesively use the theory to explain the long-lasting dark matter problem within particle physics.
