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Mar 7, 2021

A California Experiment Gave People $500 A Month For Two Years. Here’s What Happened

Posted by in categories: employment, health, neuroscience

A study of a guaranteed income program in Stockton, California, found that after receiving an extra $500 in cash each month for a year, recipients had better job prospects and improved mental health.

As part of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) pilot program, 125 people in the California city received $500 per month for 24 months starting in February 2019. The program, initiated by former Mayor Michael Tubbs, chose recipients in neighborhoods at or below the city’s median household income of $46033. The money, in prepaid debit cards, was unconditional, meaning people could spend it as they chose.

A study released Wednesday based on the first year of the project, from February 2019 to February 2020, found that beneficiaries got full-time jobs at over twice the rate of non-recipients, were less anxious and depressed over time, and reported improvements in emotional health, well-being and fatigue.

Mar 7, 2021

Stamp-Sized Patch Can Check Your Sugar, Caffeine, Alcohol, and Blood Pressure Levels

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, health, wearables

Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a wearable health monitor that may bring us one step closer to the dream of Star Trek’s famous tricorder.

The monitor, a stretchy skin patch, can do it all: measuring blood pressure and heart rate, your glucose levels, as well as one of alcohol, caffeine, or lactate levels.

According to UCSD’s press release, the patch is the first device to demonstrate measuring multiple biochemical and cardiovascular signals at the same time.

Mar 7, 2021

A new way of cycling is coming with airless tires that never go flat

Posted by in category: futurism

Conspiracy theories never mutate to become a wider, funnier, more hopeful reality-map. This one has turned into QAnon and Pizzagate.

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Mar 7, 2021

An FPGA-based real quantum computer emulator

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

While we cannot efficiently emulate quantum algorithms on classical architectures, we can move the weight of complexity from time to hardware resources. This paper describes a proposition of a universal and scalable quantum computer emulator, in which the FPGA hardware emulates the behavior of a real quantum system, capable of running quantum algorithms while maintaining their natural time complexity. The article also shows the proposed quantum emulator architecture, exposing a standard programming interface, and working results of an implementation of an exemplary quantum algorithm.

Mar 7, 2021

Cellular Compartmentation And Protein Sorting (Protein Transport in Chloroplast) Part 3

Posted by in category: futurism

Protein Trafficking in Chloroplast.


This Video Explains Cellular Compartmentation And Protein Sorting (Protein Transport in Chloroplast)

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Mar 7, 2021

Introducing Silq- First Intuitive Programming Language for Quantum Computing

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, supercomputing

Silq is a new level of intuitive programming language developed to leverage the power of quantum computers enabling it to solve problems that would take a thousand years for classical computers or even supercomputers to solve.

Mar 7, 2021

New Research Reveals That Quantum Physics Causes Mutations in Our DNA

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, computing, quantum physics

An innovative study has confirmed that quantum mechanics plays a role in biological processes and causes mutations in DNA.

Quantum biology is an emerging field of science, established in the 1920s, which looks at whether the subatomic world of quantum mechanics plays a role in living cells. Quantum mechanics is an interdisciplinary field by nature, bringing together nuclear physicists, biochemists and molecular biologists.

In a research paper published by the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, a team from Surrey’s Leverhulme Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre used state-of-the-art computer simulations and quantum mechanical methods to determine the role proton tunneling, a purely quantum phenomenon, plays in spontaneous mutations inside DNA.

Mar 7, 2021

This X Does Not Exist

Posted by in category: futurism

Using generative adversarial networks (GAN), we can learn how to create realistic-looking fake versions of almost anything, as shown by this collection of sites that have sprung up in the past month.

Mar 7, 2021

Electric Hydrofoiling Watercraft

Posted by in categories: climatology, existential risks

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Rookie numbers we can doom ourselves far faster, but we probably wont because survived at least 6 mass extinctions and that drive probably wont change with level of tech we have now.

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Mar 7, 2021

Remote working. 😃

Posted by in category: virtual reality

Here’s a glimpse of what working remotely from home with VR looks like in a supermarket.