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Jun 29, 2020

THE 31st GOD: Becoming a Deity through Zenet — Kindle edition

Posted by in category: mobile phones

By Nichols, Steve. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading THE 31st GOD: Becoming a Deity through Zenet.

Jun 29, 2020

Supersensitive e-skin will change how humans communicate

Posted by in category: wearables

A team of researchers has designed a new type of wearable — and e-skin — that is bacterial resistant and can detect emotion through micro face movements.

Jun 29, 2020

NASA Science Live: Science in the Time of Coronavirus

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, science

We are in this together. From oxygen hoods to ventilators, our scientists and engineers across the agency are uniting to join the fight against coronavirus. Tune in to #NASAScience Live on June 25 at 3 p.m. EDT to watch this nationwide effort.

Jun 29, 2020

Super Teacher Gets Bionic Arm

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, transhumanism

Vikki was born without her right hand and says her “life has changed forever” after receiving a Hero Arm. Vikki’s bionic arm was funded by generous donors, and there’s more funding available now for upper limb amputees from low-income families! Apply here: http://www.openbionics.com/sign-up 😍😍😍.

Jun 29, 2020

Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir to Cost $3,120 for Typical Patient on Private Insurance

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

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Gilead’s Covid-19 drug remdesivir will be priced at $3,120 for a typical U.S. patient with commercial insurance.


Gilead Sciences Inc. detailed its pricing plans for Covid-19 drug remdesivir, saying it will charge U.S. hospitals $3,120 for a typical patient with commercial insurance.

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Jun 29, 2020

How Chinese tech giants are disrupting insurance industry with pooled funds

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, finance, health, information science, internet, mobile phones

However, the situation has been improving as Chinese tech giants including e-commerce company Alibaba, search engine Baidu, on-demand delivery company Meituan Dianping, ride-hailing operator Didi Chuxing and smartphone maker Xiaomi now offer more affordable health care plans via mutual aid platforms, which operate as a collective claim-sharing mechanism.


China’s online mutual aid platforms are disrupting old school insurance companies by leveraging big data and internet finance technologies to offer low cost medical coverage.

Jun 28, 2020

The Next Wave Of AI Disruption: Millennial And Generation Z Entrepreneurial Pioneers

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

With perspectives and passions, Millennial and Generation Z entrepreneurs are at the forefront of AI innovation. They are unlocking new ways to do even the mundane tasks and will forever change how we work and look at the world.

Jun 28, 2020

Machines That Can Understand Human Speech: The Conversational Pattern Of AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Conversation and human language is a particularly challenging area for computers, since words and communication is not precise. Learn more about the conversational pattern of AI.

Jun 28, 2020

Physicists Verify Half-Century-Old Theory about Rotating Black Holes

Posted by in categories: alien life, physics

Physicists from the University of Glasgow and the University of Arizona have experimentally verified a half-century-old theory that began as speculation about how an advanced alien civilization could use a rotating black hole to generate energy.

Jun 28, 2020

Newborn Pluto Was Hot and Had Subsurface Ocean: Study

Posted by in categories: materials, space

Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean beneath its thick ice shell. It has generally been assumed that the dwarf planet formed out of cold material and then later developed its ocean due to warming from radioactive decay. By combining numerical simulations with geological observations by NASA’s New Horizons mission, a team of researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz and the Southwest Research Institute demonstrated that Pluto was instead relatively hot when it formed, with an early subsurface ocean.