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Apr 25, 2022

Dropping over 100,000 seeds a day, these drones are helping revive lost forests

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Apr 25, 2022

While 3D printing is usually used for industrial items like automobile parts or medical implants —

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical

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One company in California has found a new delicious way to use the technology.

Apr 25, 2022

Attackers swipe $80 million from ethereum DeFi project Beanstalk in one of the largest flash-loan exploits ever

Posted by in category: cryptocurrencies

“Like all other investors in Beanstalk, we lost all of our deposited assets in the Silo, which was substantial,” the founders said.

Apr 25, 2022

Spot robot dog can smell airborne gas or chemical hazards in real-time

Posted by in categories: chemistry, robotics/AI

Teledyne FLIR Defense has announced the partnership with MFE Inspection Solutions to integrate the FLIR MUVE C360 multi-gas detector on Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot and commercial unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The integrated solutions will enable remote monitoring of chemical threats in industrial and public safety applications.

The compact multi-gas detector can detect and classify airborne gas or chemical hazards, allowing inspection personnel to perform their job more safely and efficiently with integrated remote sensing capabilities from both the air and ground.

MUVE C360 is designed to operate on Boston Dynamics‘Spot mobile robot, which can autonomously inspect dangerous, inaccessible, or remote environments. It is also compatible with common commercial UAS systems, which allow operators to fly the C360 into a scene to perform hazard assessments in real-time.

Apr 25, 2022

This slime robot might be able to help kids who’ve swallowed small items like batteries —

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Here’s how ⚡️.

Apr 25, 2022

You haven’t seen a sandbox quite like this one

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, mapping

Weber State’s new augmented reality sandbox uses 3D sensors and a projector to instantly display topographic maps on to the sand. The display moves with the sand, adjusting for different elevations, features, and weather events.

Apr 25, 2022

Developers hope their ‘slime robot’ will one day be used to help find items that have been swallowed by accident

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Apr 25, 2022

A pan-tissue DNA-methylation epigenetic clock based on deep learning

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, robotics/AI

Next, we aimed to determine whether the model type, i.e., a linear regression vs. a neural network, would significantly impact the performance. We, therefore, compared the aforementioned linear models with the neural network AltumAge using the same set of features. AltumAge outperformed the respective linear model with Horvath’s 353 CpG sites (MAE = 2.425 vs. 3.011, MSE = 32.732 vs. 46.867) and ElasticNet-selected 903 CpG sites (MAE = 2.302 vs. 2.621, MSE = 30.455 vs. 39.198). This result shows that AltumAge outperforms linear models given the same training data and set of features.

Lastly, to compare the effect of the different sets of CpG sites, we trained AltumAge with all 20,318 CpG sites available and compared the results from the smaller sets of CpG sites obtained above. There is a gradual improvement in performance for AltumAge by expanding the feature set from Horvath’s 353 sites (MAE = 2.425, MSE = 32.732) to 903 ElasticNet-selected CpG sites (MAE = 2.302, MSE = 30.455) to all 20,318 CpG sites (MAE = 2.153, MSE = 29.486). This result suggests that the expanded feature set helps improve the performance, likely because relevant information in the epigenome is not entirely captured by the CpG sites selected by an ElasticNet model.

Overall, these results indicate that even though more data samples lower the prediction error, AltumAge’s performance improvement is greater than the increased data effect. Indeed, the lower error of AltumAge when compared to the ElaticNet is robust to other data splits (Alpaydin’s Combined 5x2cv F test p-value = 9.71e−5).

Apr 25, 2022

Cryonics Institute’s Annual General Meeting 2022

Posted by in categories: cryonics, life extension

Sun, Sep 11 at 12 PM CDT.


This is an invitation to the Annual General Meeting of the Cryonics Institute & the Immortalist Society.

The Cryonics Institute’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Sunday, September 11th 2022 from 3:00pm to 6:30pm at the Infinity Hall & Sidebar 16,650 E. 14 Mile Rd, Fraser, MI 48,026 (USA). For more information visit www.infinityhallsidebar.com

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Apr 25, 2022

7 Newly Discovered Animal Species That Were Hiding in Plain Sight

Posted by in category: futurism

Monkeys, mice, and sea sponges: these creatures are new to science, but they’ve been living right under our noses. Here are 7 spectacular tales of discovery.