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Dec 16, 2021

The Sun was half of a binary system, a new paper suggests

Posted by in category: futurism

The theory could resolve some unanswered questions.

Dec 16, 2021

Neural networks can hide malware, and scientists are worried

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI

This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence.

With their millions and billions of numerical parameters, deep learning models can do many things: detect objects in photos, recognize speech, generate text—and hide malware. Neural networks can embed malicious payloads without triggering anti-malware software, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Illinois have found.

Their malware-hiding technique, EvilModel, sheds light on the security concerns of deep learning, which has become a hot topic of discussion in machine learning and cybersecurity conferences. As deep learning becomes ingrained in applications we use every day, the security community needs to think about new ways to protect users against their emerging threats.

Dec 16, 2021

Split-Brains, Consciousness and Combining Minds | Waking Cosmos Documentary

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education, media & arts, neuroscience

One of the reasons branching identity is being accepted more seriously these days.


Beginning in the 1950s, experiments with split-brain patients revealed that consciousness could be divided between the two hemispheres of the brain. A surprising implication was that if consciousness could be divided, then it could also be combined. Evidence of this came in 2006, when conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana Hogan were born. The Hogan sisters were born with their brains connected by a thalamic bridge, which allowed a unique mental connection between them. We explore this surprising mental connection, and the possibility that we may one day connect our own minds with other conscious beings, together with what this might mean for our concept of self, identity, and the future of mind.

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Dec 16, 2021

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Posted by in categories: futurism, life extension

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Dec 16, 2021

Can Mushrooms replace EVERYTHING? | Concrete, Plastic, Meat, Leather

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing

One promising solution to plastic pollution is mycelium or mushroom packaging. It is made of 2 ingredients: mushrooms and hemp. Mycelium is the underground network of very durable, thread-like filaments called hyphae. It is mixed with agricultural waste like wood chips, oat hulls, cotton burrs or hemp hurds.

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Dec 16, 2021

NASA Begins Testing Robotics for Daring Space Mission To Bring First Samples Back From Mars

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

Engineers are developing the crucial hardware needed for a series of daring space missions that will be carried out in the coming decade.

Testing has already begun on what would be the most sophisticated endeavor ever attempted at the Red Planet: bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars.

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Dec 16, 2021

Surgeons Successfully Transplanted Pig Kidneys to Two Humans

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Pig Kidney transplant to humans: Surgeons in New York have successfully transplanted pig kidneys to two recipients in what could be a revolutionary study.

Dec 16, 2021

Uber Eats and Motional are working on driverless food delivery for 2022

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

AI doesn’t just want to eat your lunch — sometimes it wants to deliver it, too.

Driverless tech provider Motional and Uber Eats plan to add a dash of autonomy to food delivery next year in Santa Monica, serving up meal kits from select restaurants. The news was first reported by AiThority.

The plan is for food deliveries to come via Motional’s all-electric Hyundai IONIQ 5-based robotaxis. Motional said this will be the first time its vehicles are used to deliver food. It’s not clear whether humans or robots will bring the meal kits to customers’ doorsteps.

Dec 16, 2021

Roche, Genentech, Recursion Launch Up-to-$12B AI Drug Discovery Effort

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

Roche and its Genentech subsidiary have committed up to $12 billion to Recursion in return for using its Recursion Operating System (OS) to advance therapies in 40 programs that include “key areas” of neuroscience and an undisclosed oncology indication.

Recursion OS applies machine learning and high-content screening methods in what the companies said would be a “transformational” model for tech-enabled target and drug discovery.

The integrated, multi-faceted OS is designed to generate, analyze and glean insights from large-scale proprietary biological and chemical datasets—in this case, extensive single-cell perturbation screening data from Roche and Genentech—by integrating wet-lab and dry-lab biology at scale to phenomically capture chemical and genetic alterations in neuroscience-related cell types and select cancer cell lines.

Dec 16, 2021

NASA officially touches the Sun — and solves a solar mystery

Posted by in category: space

This is the closest encounter between our species and the Sun ever.


NASA announced that the Parker Solar Probe went into the Sun’s atmosphere, the closest encounter with our home star.