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Apr 3, 2022

Page Not Found — CBBC Newsround

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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 3, 2022

War in Space: The Battle for Ukraine

Posted by in categories: internet, space

I did a short youtube video discussing the space arena of the war in Ukraine.


Space War, what is it good for?

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Apr 3, 2022

Peptides on Stardust May Have Provided a Shortcut to Life

Posted by in category: futurism

The discovery that short peptides can form spontaneously on cosmic dust hints at more of a role for them in the origin of life, on Earth or elsewhere.

Apr 3, 2022

Clinical Trials Targeting Aging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

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The risk of morbidity and mortality increases exponentially with age. Chronic inflammation, accumulation of DNA damage, dysfunctional mitochondria, and increased senescent cell load are factors contributing to this. Mechanistic investigations have revealed specific pathways and processes which, proposedly, cause age-related phenotypes such as frailty, reduced physical resilience, and multi-morbidity. Among promising treatments alleviating the consequences of aging are caloric restriction and pharmacologically targeting longevity pathways such as the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), sirtuins, and anti-apoptotic pathways in senescent cells. Regulation of these pathways and processes has revealed significant health-and lifespan extending results in animal models. Nevertheless, it remains unclear if similar results translate to humans. A requirement of translation are the development of age-and morbidity associated biomarkers as longitudinal trials are difficult and not feasible, practical, nor ethical when human life span is the endpoint. Current biomarkers and the results of anti-aging intervention studies in humans will be covered within this paper. The future of clinical trials targeting aging may be phase 2 and 3 studies with larger populations if safety and tolerability of investigated medication continues not to be a hurdle for further investigations.

As age increases, so does the susceptibility to a series of chronic diseases which ultimately result in fatal endings. This is such a basic part of life that we rarely consider if there is anything we can do to postpone it. So far, the principal of “one-disease-one-treatment” has brought medical sciences far but this line of thought may soon be outdated when it comes to aging related conditions. It is like fighting a many-headed monster: If one condition is treated successfully, another emerges shortly after. This point is illustrated as eradicating the two leading causes of death (cancer and cardiovascular disease) extends mean life span by 3.3 and 4 years, respectively (Arias et al., 2013). Interestingly, the gain of treating multiple diseases combined exceeds the sum of these numbers.

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Apr 3, 2022

What Code Of Ethics Must Robots Follow

Posted by in categories: ethics, robotics/AI

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Apr 3, 2022

Code Jam

Posted by in category: information science

Put your coding skills to the test as you work your way through multiple rounds of algorithmic coding puzzles for the title of Code Jam Champ and 15,000 USD.

Apr 3, 2022

Story about spacecraft crew losing consciousness as they get farther from Earth

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

I’m trying to recall a sci-fi short story that I once read, about a spacecraft that’s attempting to travel farther from Earth than anyone ever has before. As it gets farther away, the crew start to experience unexplained psychological and neurological symptoms. One by one, they eventually become catatonic and need to be cared for in the ship’s infirmary, while their crewmates desperately try to determine the cause.

The protagonist is the last person to be affected, and just as they are starting to succumb, they come up with a theory: human consciousness is not just an individual phenomenon, but is somehow dependent on the collective effect of all the other human minds on Earth. So as the ship leaves Earth’s “sphere of influence”, its passengers lose their consciousness and intelligence. Having realized this, the protagonist is barely able to program the autopilot to turn around, and the narration describes their descent into insanity and subsequent return to consciousness.

The title might have contained a reference to “closeness”, “distance”, “solitude”, “togetherness”, or something along those lines. I have a vague sense that the theme and style reminded me of David Brin’s work, but having looked through his bibliography, I don’t think it’s one of his stories.

Apr 3, 2022

The Newest Robots and Future Technologies: All the March Technology News in One Issue

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, sustainability

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You are on the PRO Robots channel and in this video we present the March 2022 news digest. The largest exhibition of technology Expo 2022 in Dubai, artificial intelligence that will replace programmers, new Atlas robot arms, an emotional android and opening of the GigaFactory Berlin by Elon Musk. All the most interesting news from the world of high-tech in one issue!

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Apr 3, 2022

Engineering team develops approach to enable simple cameras to see in 3D

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, transportation

Standard image sensors, like the billion or so already installed in practically every smartphone in use today, capture light intensity and color. Relying on common, off-the-shelf sensor technology—known as CMOS—these cameras have grown smaller and more powerful by the year and now offer tens-of-megapixels resolution. But they’ve still seen in only two dimensions, capturing images that are flat, like a drawing—until now.

Researchers at Stanford University have created a new approach that allows standard image sensors to see in three dimensions. That is, these common cameras could soon be used to measure the distance to objects.

The engineering possibilities are dramatic. Measuring distance between objects with light is currently possible only with specialized and expensive —short for “light detection and ranging”—systems. If you’ve seen a self-driving car tooling around, you can spot it right off by the hunchback of technology mounted to the roof. Most of that gear is the car’s lidar crash-avoidance system, which uses lasers to determine distances between objects.

Apr 3, 2022

Imaginary Numbers Are Reality

Posted by in category: futurism

How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers.