Lifeboat Foundation

Yes he starts with his personal controversy, emerging challenges, TAME, longevity is moving along well but has a long way to go.

Dr. Aubrey de Grey discusses the changing priorities at the forefront of the field of longevity rejuvenation research at Lifespan.io’s 2021 EARD conference. “The crusade is accelerating”, says Dr. De Grey, “but there’s so much still to do.”
De Grey is the author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). He is an international adjunct professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the American Aging Association, and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

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Pocket sized kidney.

Using a device the size of a credit card that can model a real kidney, researchers at the UW School of Pharmacy are giving new hope to people with kidney conditions.

Scientists in the U.S. and U.K. have recently grown seven miniature human organs and housed them together on a chip to create a human-on-a-chip, a whole body biomimetic device. These clusters of assembled cells mimic how organs in the body function, both separately and in tandem.

The chip could take the place of animal and tissue testing for drugs in pharmaceutical development, say its creators. It will have to win regulatory approval in each country looking to use it for tests, and it could allow for insights into how organs interact, says Linda Griffith, professor of biological and mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Griffith heads The PhysioMimetics program at MIT, which has collaborated with CN Bio Innovations, a British company that creates live organ-on-a-chip devices. The $26.3-million development program is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Fusion power could be a silver bullet for the world’s energy and environmental woes, but it’s famously always 30 years away. A recent flurry of announcements is raising hopes that maybe the timeline has started to tighten.

The technology has huge potential because it promises to generate enormous amounts of energy from abundant fuel that can be cheaply extracted from seawater. On top of that, the process doesn’t create any long-lived radioactive waste, unlike conventional nuclear power plants.

The catch is that finding a way to contain the same reaction that powers the sun here on Earth is no easy feat. Now, though, MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has taken a significant step in that direction after carrying out the first tests of a magnet that can reach a field strength of 20 teslas, the highest ever achieved on Earth.

New tools that help developers write software also generate similar mistakes.

Learning how to learn is something most humans do well, by leveraging previous experiences to inform the learning processes for new tasks. Endowing AI systems with such abilities however remains challenging, as it requires the machine learners to learn update rules, which typically have been manually tuned for each task.

The field of meta-learning studies how to enable machine learners to learn how to learn, and is a critical research area for improving the efficiency of AI agents. One of the approaches is for learners to learn an update rule by applying it on previous steps and then evaluating the corresponding performance.

To fully unlock the potential of meta-learning, it is necessary to overcome both the meta-optimization problem and myopic meta objectives. To tackle these issues, a research team from DeepMind has proposed an algorithm designed to enable meta-learners to teach themselves.

Two interactive web experiences let you explore the Martian surface, as seen by cameras aboard the rover and orbiters flying overhead.

It’s the next best thing to being on Mars.

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Even the most highly trained and experienced person sometimes needs a hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DMfvQbP8cE&feature=share

This film looks like an unexpectedly positive, interesting take on post-apocalyptic AI and its creator (or creators) than we are usually presented with from Hollywood. Between this and the new Foundation adaptation (that comes out in less than a WEEK!), maybe it’s time to forgive them for their many sins and finally subscribe to Apples streaming service. Or maybe not. 🤔

First trailer for Finch starring Tom hanks.