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Samuele Ferracin^1,2, Akel Hashim^3,4, Jean-Loup Ville³, Ravi Naik^3,4, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas¹, Hammam Qassim¹, Alexis Morvan^3,4, David I. Santiago^3,4, Irfan Siddiqi^3,4,5, and Joel J. Wallman^1,2

¹Keysight Technologies Canada, Kanata, ON K2K 2W5, Canada ² Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada ³ Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, Dept. of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94,720, USA ⁴ Applied Math and Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA 94,720, USA ⁵ Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA 94,720, USA

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Transhuman hackers are a growing subculture that implants technology into their bodies, but now, some hackers are weaponising their implants.

Len Noe is an ethical transhuman hacker and joins us to explain.
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Ray Kurzweil tightened his timeline for reaching “the singularity,” reflecting technological advances that are bringing us much closer to AGI.

Is AI singularity going to happen in the period of our lifetime? What will be its effects? Learn all this and more from an AI expert.

What is the best way to think about human consciousness? This post helps you understand it seeing it as three loops.

“Bridge recombination can universally modify genetic material through sequence-specific insertion, excision, inversion, and more, enabling a word processor for the living genome beyond CRISPR,” said Berkeley’s Patrick Hsu, a senior author of one of the studies and Arc Institute core investigator, in a press release.

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Summary: Researchers have identified how the brain’s default mode network (DMN) collaborates with other regions to produce creative thought. By using advanced brain imaging techniques, they tracked real-time brain activity during creative tasks.

This study reveals that the DMN initiates creative ideas, which are then evaluated by other brain regions. Understanding this process could lead to interventions that enhance creativity and aid mental health treatments.

How and to what degree we respond emotionally to the real world is handled by a region at the back of the brain called the occipital temporal cortex.

Scientists reveal how brain activity predicts a person’s response — normal or abnormal — to an emotionally charged image

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The artificial intelligence startup and Menlo Ventures are launching a $100 million fund on Wednesday to back early-stage startups, and get them using the AI company’s technology. Menlo will put up the cash to invest in the startups, while Anthropic will give founders $25,000 in credits that go toward using its large language models.

The launch of the Anthology Fund mirrors a partnership between Apple and venture firm Kleiner Perkins. The joint venture, called the iFund, was introduced in 2008, a year after the iPhone hit the market, to support developers on Apple’s mobile platforms. It initially started with $100 million in 2008, and doubled to $200 million two years later.

Matt Murphy, a partner at Menlo Ventures and a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, said the iFund was the inspiration for this launch.