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Oct 12, 2021

Starship Orbital Launch Tower Moves Its Quick Disconnect Arm, Time-Lapse Video Is Amazing

Posted by in category: space travel

There is no other space project currently in the works that gets more attention than the Starship. The next generation of spacecraft coming from SpaceX, the one that is meant to take us to the Moon and even to Mars, has eclipsed pretty much everything else, from the ill-fated Boeing Starliner to the upcoming Artemis I launch.

Oct 12, 2021

A Big Bet on Nanotechnology Has Paid Off

Posted by in category: nanotechnology

The National Nanotechnology Initiative promised a lot. It has delivered more.

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Oct 12, 2021

Want to add healthy years to your life? Here’s what new longevity research says

Posted by in category: life extension

Recent research into longevity points to helpful strategies regarding diet and exercise. But don’t forget the joy.

Oct 12, 2021

Chip machine maker ASML will grow into a $500 billion business next year, tech investors predict

Posted by in categories: business, media & arts, robotics/AI

LONDON – ASML, a Dutch firm that makes high-tech machines used in semiconductor manufacturing, will see its market value climb from $302 billion to more than $500 billion next year, according to two tech investors.

Nathan Benaich, founder and general partner of boutique VC firm Air Street Capital, and Ian Hogarth, who sold his AI start-up Songkick to Warner Music Group, wrote in their annual “State of AI” report Tuesday that Europe’s largest tech company is the little-known “linchpin” in the global semiconductor industry.

Founded in 1,984 ASML provides chip makers with essential hardware, software and services to mass produce patterns on silicon using a method called lithography.

Oct 12, 2021

Endocrine Disruptors

Posted by in categories: chemistry, food, health, neuroscience

Endocrine disrupting chemicals cause adverse effects in animals. But limited scientific information exists on potential health problems in humans. Because people are typically exposed to multiple at the same time, assessing public health effects is difficult.


Many chemicals, both natural and man-made, may mimic or interfere with the body’s hormones, known as the endocrine system. Called endocrine disruptors, these chemicals are linked with developmental, reproductive, brain, immune, and other problems.

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Oct 12, 2021

Viren Shah — VP & Chief Digital Officer, GE Appliances (Haier) — Creating Smart Home Ecosystems

Posted by in categories: business, computing, economics, education, finance, governance, health

Creating Smart Home Ecosystems — Enabling Health & Well-Being In Every Home — Viren Shah, VP & Chief Digital Officer, GE Appliances, Haier


Mr. Viren Shah is Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, at GE Appliances (GEA — https://www.geappliances.com/), the American home appliance manufacturer, now a majority owned subsidiary of the Chinese multinational home appliances company, Haier (https://www.haierappliances.com/).

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Oct 12, 2021

Harness your data to make weak AI your strength

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Most organizations successfully stood up with new ways for employees to work remotely or interact with customers far faster than previously thought possible.

But as we transition from focusing on maintaining business continuity toward driving growth, we should not lose sight of the forest for the trees.

The leaps forward companies made in response to the COVID crisis set them up to benefit from virtuous cycles that complement and reinforce each other to turbocharge growth.

Oct 12, 2021

Developing an AI that ‘thinks’ like humans

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, robotics/AI

New research, published in the journal Patterns and led by the University of Glasgow’s School of Psychology and Neuroscience, uses 3D modeling to analyze the way Deep Neural Networks—part of the broader family of machine learning—process , to visualize how their information processing matches that of humans.

It is hoped this new work will pave the way for the creation of more dependable AI technology that will process information like humans and make errors that we can understand and predict.

One of the challenges still facing AI development is how to better understand the process of machine thinking, and whether it matches how humans process information, in order to ensure accuracy. Deep Neural Networks are often presented as the current best of decision-making behavior, achieving or even exceeding human performance in some tasks. However, even deceptively simple visual discrimination tasks can reveal clear inconsistencies and errors from the AI models, when compared to humans.

Oct 11, 2021

The recent “brain reanimation” experiment on pigs is fascinating but not for the reason you think

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

O.o! Circa 2019


The real issue raised is not about brain transplants or sci-fi fantasies of reanimation of corpses. It is about how we define life and death.

Oct 11, 2021

Leaps.org is a non-profit initiative that publishes award-winning journalism about scientific innovation, ethics, and the future of humanity

Posted by in categories: ethics, innovation

Circa 2019 o.o