Sep 17, 2022
How a ‘Living Drug’ Could Treat Autoimmune Disease
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: biotech/medical
CAR-T therapy has been successful at treating cancer. Now, it’s driven lupus into remission in a handful of patients.
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Sep 17, 2022
Microbes Are Evolving to Eat Plastic Pollution, Scientists Say
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: biotech/medical
In a study that truly underscores the profound and devastating impact humans have on the environment, researchers have found that microscopic bugs are evolving to eat plastic.
The study, published in the journal Microbial Ecology, found a growing number of microbes that have evolved to carry a plastic-degrading enzyme. These bugs could hold the key to creating enzymes that break down specific plastics and alleviate the detrimental effects of anthropogenic pollution.
Sep 17, 2022
An AI used medical notes to teach itself to spot disease on chest x-rays
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
The model can diagnose problems as well as a human specialist, and doesn’t need lots of labor-intensive training data.
Sep 17, 2022
NIH launches Bridge2AI program to expand the use of artificial intelligence in biomedical and behavioral research
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, health, robotics/AI
The National Institutes of Health will invest $130 million over four years, pending the availability of funds, to accelerate the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) by the biomedical and behavioral research communities. The NIH Common Fund’s Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program is assembling team members from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to generate tools, resources, and richly detailed data that are responsive to AI approaches. At the same time, the program will ensure its tools and data do not perpetuate inequities or ethical problems that may occur during data collection and analysis. Through extensive collaboration across projects, Bridge2AI researchers will create guidance and standards for the development of ethically sourced, state-of-the-art, AI-ready data sets that have the potential to help solve some of the most pressing challenges in human health — such as uncovering how genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors influence a person’s physical condition throughout their life.
“Generating high-quality ethically sourced data sets is crucial for enabling the use of next-generation AI technologies that transform how we do research,” said Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Performing the Duties of the Director of NIH. “The solutions to long-standing challenges in human health are at our fingertips, and now is the time to connect researchers and AI technologies to tackle our most difficult research questions and ultimately help improve human health.”
Sep 17, 2022
Users trust AI as much as humans for flagging problematic content
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: materials, robotics/AI
Social media users may trust artificial intelligence (AI) as much as human editors to flag hate speech and harmful content, according to researchers at Penn State.
The researchers said that when users think about positive attributes of machines, like their accuracy and objectivity, they show more faith in AI. However, if users are reminded about the inability of machines to make subjective decisions, their trust is lower.
The findings may help developers design better AI-powered content curation systems that can handle the large amounts of information currently being generated while avoiding the perception that the material has been censored, or inaccurately classified, said S. Shyam Sundar, James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications and co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory.
Sep 17, 2022
Smart Bin Technology sorts recyclable bottles automatically
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: sustainability
We’ve partnered with UTS to develop Smart Bin Technology, which automatically separates glass, metal and plastic bottles for recycling.
Sep 17, 2022
Shanghai Built Its Own Silicon Valley, and Very Few Came
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: futurism
A giant new tech hub near Shanghai successfully attracted major names like Tesla, but Lingang remains almost empty of residents three years into its launch.
Sep 17, 2022
Explore the Merge with Consensys
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: blockchains, cryptocurrencies
The Merge is the result of years of decentralized coordination and innovation. On Merge Day, ConsenSys is hosting a 72-hour mint to celebrate the achievement of Ethereum core devs, client teams and researchers. Follow the link to claim your piece of history. Links to merge.consensys-nft.com. Learn more about the NFT drop.
Sep 17, 2022
Interaction Detection with Attosecond Perfection
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
Mina Bionta explores how light interacts with matter by capturing snapshots of those interactions on the timescale of the light’s oscillations.
Sep 17, 2022
Future DeFi : Better Transparency, Efficiency, and Control
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: computing, quantum physics
Quantum Computers:
The Quantum computer is the next generation tech that works not with bits but with quantum bits (qubits) with optimized performance. Its working principle is based on the superposition i.e. Unlike the dualistic processing systems based on High and LOWs(0s), it can simultaneously be 1 and 0, or a mixture of both HIGH and LOW. Quantum computers are based on the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that are too complex for classical computers. Here are some key takeaways on how quantum computers assist DeFi to get boosted.
