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Jul 12, 2021

Which Diet Is Optimal For Health: The Evolutionary Perspective (Part III Featuring Dr. Michael Rose)

Posted by in category: health

Paper referenced in the video:

Diet and Botanical Supplementation: Combination Therapy for Healthspan Improvement?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32924860/

Jul 12, 2021

Star’s Death Will Play a Mean Pinball With Unusual Planetary System Locked in a Perfect Rhythm

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

Four planets locked in a perfect rhythm around a nearby star are destined to be pinballed around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, according to a study led by the University of Warwick that peers into its future.

Astronomers have modeled how the change in gravitational forces in the system as a result of the star becoming a white dwarf will cause its planets to fly loose from their orbits and bounce off each other’s gravity, like balls bouncing off a bumper in a game of pinball.

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Jul 12, 2021

Classical approach extends the range of noisy quantum computers

Posted by in categories: computing, information science, mathematics, quantum physics

Quantum computing algorithms can simulate infinitely-large quantum systems thanks to mathematical tools known as tensor networks.

Jul 12, 2021

ChainSwap Exploit Leads to Multi-Million Loss For DeFi Tokens

Posted by in category: cryptocurrencies

Alameda-backed ChainSwap, a platform that bridges Ethereum to Binance Smart Chain, fell victim to another attack last night.

Jul 12, 2021

Johns Hopkins startup aims to shake up AI with a research-first approach

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI

The formula for launching a machine learning company in health care looks something like this: Build a model, test it on historical patient data in a computer lab, and then start selling it to hospitals nationwide.

Suchi Saria, director of the machine learning and health care lab at Johns Hopkins University, is taking a different approach. Her company, Bayesian Health, is coming out of stealth mode on Monday by publishing a prospective study on how one of its lead products — an early warning system for sepsis — impacted the care of current patients in real hospitals.

Jul 12, 2021

Hackers accessed Mint Mobile subscribers’ data and ported some numbers

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, mobile phones

Mint Mobile is an American telecommunications company which sells mobile phone services and operates as an MVNO on T-Mobile’s cellular network in the United States.

BleepingComputer reported that Mint Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed subscribers’ account information and ported phone numbers to another carrier.

The data breach notification sent to the impacted subscribers reveals that an unauthorized person gained access to their data between June 8th and June 10th. The company did not reveal how hackers had access to the subscribers’ data.

Jul 12, 2021

Need a Soundtrack for Your YouTube Video? Ask an AI Composer

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

A new music creation plug-in uses machine intelligence to compose songs on the fly that match the visual tone and rhythm of creators’ videos.

Jul 12, 2021

Rare ‘hypernova’ explosion detected on fringes of the Milky Way for the first time

Posted by in category: cosmology

The catastrophic blast was 10 times stronger and brighter than a typical supernova.


The blast was 10 times stronger and brighter than a typical supernova, and we can still see its impact today.

Jul 12, 2021

ChainSwap Exploited: Projects Using The Bridge Protocol Crashed 99%

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies

Following a second exploit in 9 days, over 14 tokens listed on the ChainSwap bridge have plunged 99%. The company insists: funds from individual wallets are safe.


ChainSwap, a cross-chain asset bridge and application smart chain, has become the latest victim of the increasingly worrying exploits happening in the DeFi ecosystem that has caused the sector to lose hundreds of millions of dollars since the start of the year.

What is ChainSwap?

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Jul 12, 2021

The argument for a permanent Olympic City

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, entertainment, finance, internet, policy

Olympic stadiums can be costly and wasteful. Some have argued for a single, more sustainable, location that can be used year after year.


The summer Olympics have been a quadrennial tradition ever since the late 1800s—when modern sports and rivalries freshened up the ancient tradition. Since COVID-19 crashed the schedule for last years’ events, now the world is gearing up again for another round of competition in Tokyo.

Transporting athletes and fans from all over the world and to cities hosting the Olympic games comes with a gigantic carbon footprint, for example, the 2021 London Olympics had an estimated footprint of over 400 thousand tons of CO2 emissions. Constantly building brand-new stadiums every few years that often go unused after the games, with very few exceptions, is also extremely wasteful. The 2016 Rio Olympics whipped up a whopping 3.6 million tonnes of carbon when including all that went into infrastructure. Eerie listicles of decaying stadiums, including Rio’s, litter the internet with costly examples of the wasted hundreds of millions of dollars worth of labor and materials that go into just one site.

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