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Sep 27, 2021

What Longevity Diet do Experts Eat?

Posted by in categories: food, life extension, lifeboat

We interviewed four longevity experts (including several Lifeboat Foundation board members) to learn how they think about their diets. I was particularly struck by how different they all were (except almost all of them fasted)!


Food.

In all our research into longevity so far, from quantifying how we sleep to exploring the science behind whether human life extension is possible, nutrition has remained the most controversial and confusing subject that we’ve covered. For example, when we surveyed 101 of our readers on their longevity diet, we got 101 very different answers. There is little consensus on what the perfect life extension diet should look like.

Sep 27, 2021

Chinese KZ-1A returns to flight and lofts new remote sensing satellite into orbit

Posted by in categories: government, satellites

A Chinese Kuaizhou 1A (KZ-1A) rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia at 06:19 UTC on September 27 lofting a new high-resolution remote sensing satellite into orbit.

The rocket lifted off from Site 95 at Jiuquan, marking the 14th flight of a KZ-1 series rocket. This was also the first KZ-1 launch since the Jilin-1 Gaofen-02C launch in September 2,020 which ended in failure and the loss of its payload.

China’s KZ-1A rocket is manufactured by the ExPace Technology Corporation, an aerospace company owned by the Chinese government, based out of Wuhan in China’s Hubei province. The rocket is capable of delivering payloads of up to 200 kg into a Sun-Synchronous Orbit, and therefore is mainly marketed as a small satellite launch vehicle.

Sep 27, 2021

Preparing for the ‘golden age’ of artificial intelligence and machine learning

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The latest ZDNet survey on AI actionability and accountability finds that IT teams are taking a direct lead, with most companies building in-house systems. However, oversight of AI-generated decisions is lagging.

Sep 27, 2021

How neutron star collisions flooded Earth with gold and other precious metals

Posted by in category: alien life

It killed some alternate ideas about gravity, too!


The universe is pretty good at smashing things together. And when neutron stars do it, the collisions release a flood of elements necessary for life.

Sep 27, 2021

Cloudflare Is Taking a Shot at Email Security

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, internet

Cloudflare, The internet infrastructure company, already has its fingers in a lot of customer security pots, from DDoS protection to browser isolation to a mobile VPN. Now the company is taking on a classic web foe: email.

On Monday, Cloudflare is announcing a pair of email safety and security offerings that it views as a first step toward catching more targeted phishing attacks, reducing the effectiveness of address spoofing, and mitigating the fallout if a user does click a malicious link. The features, which the company will offer for free, are mainly geared toward small business and corporate customers. And they’re made for use on top of any email hosting a customer already has, whether it’s provided by Google’s Gmail, Microsoft 365 Yahoo, or even relics like AOL.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says that from its founding in 2,009 the company very intentionally avoided going anywhere near the thorny problem of email. But he adds that email security issues are unrelenting, so it has become necessary. “I think what I had assumed is that hosting providers like Google and Microsoft and Yahoo were going to solve this issue, so we weren’t sure there was anything for us to do in the space,” Prince says. “But what’s become clear over the course of the last two years is that email security is still not a solved issue.”

Sep 27, 2021

Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The cost of improvement is becoming unsustainable.

Sep 27, 2021

Epic deploys tech to verify COVID-19 vaccination status, test results

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones

Epic has developed technology that serves as a digital vaccination verification by binding a person’s identity with their vaccination or lab results and displaying it via QR codes on a smartphone, Wisconsin State Journal reported Sept. 27.


Epic has rolled out technology that serves as a digital vaccination verification by binding a person’s identity with their vaccination or lab results and displaying it via QR codes on a smartphone, Wisconsin State Journal reported Sept. 27.

Seven things to know:

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Sep 27, 2021

New global program to help customers develop solutions to improve health outcomes and health equity

Posted by in category: health

This year’s deadline for applications is November 15 2021. To learn more, visit https://aws.amazon.com/health/health-equity.


AWS is announcing a new global program to support organizations working to enhance health outcomes for underserved or underrepresented communities. We are providing AWS credits and technical expertise, committing $40 million over three years to help organizations develop solutions to improve health outcomes.

Sep 27, 2021

Do we finally have control over ageing? | Prof David Sinclair

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, law, life extension

In case this hasn’t been posted here yet.


Ageing is inevitable, but what if everything we’ve come to believe about ageing is wrong and we’re able to choose our lifespans? What if ageing is a disease?

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Sep 27, 2021

When will we meet aliens? 3 parameters reveal the timeline

Posted by in category: existential risks

New research sheds light on the Fermi Paradox.


Italian-American nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi asked his colleagues a question during a lunchtime conversation. The Fermi Paradox is famous for questioning whether aliens exist.