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Jun 27, 2021

World Wide Web source code is latest NFT for sale

Posted by in category: internet

Tim Berners-Lee’s source code for the World Wide Web is the latest non-fungible token (NFT) to go up for sale.

Sotheby’s in New York is selling the program that paved the way for the internet we know today more than 30 years after its creation.

The sale started June 23 and ends on Wednesday. Bidding had reached $2.8 million on Friday.

Jun 27, 2021

IQ Tests Can’t Measure It, but ‘Cognitive Flexibility’ Is Key to Learning and Creativity

Posted by in categories: innovation, neuroscience

Flexible thinking is key to creativity – in other words, the ability to think of new ideas, make novel connections between ideas, and make new inventions. It also supports academic and work skills such as problem solving. That said, unlike working memory – how much you can remember at a certain time – it is largely independent of IQ, or “crystallised intelligence”.


IQ is often hailed as a crucial driver of success, particularly in fields such as science, innovation and technology. In fact, many people have an endless fascination with the IQ scores of famous people. But the truth is that some of the greatest achievements by our species have primarily relied on qualities such as creativity, imagination, curiosity and empathy.

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Jun 27, 2021

Loss of circadian regulation allows for increase in glucose production during lung cancer

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

This research places the circadian clock as a central regulator of glucose production during lung cancer progression and provides important insight toward the development of novel therapeutics to target REV-ERBα to suppress cancer cell growth.


New research from the University of California, Irvine reveals how the circadian regulation of glucose production in the liver is lost during lung cancer progression, and how the resulting increase in glucose production may fuel cancer cell growth.

The new study titled, “Glucagon regulates the stability of REV-ERBα to modulate hepatic in a model of lung cancer-associated cachexia,” published today in Science Advances, illustrates how the is regulated under conditions of stress such as during lung cancer progression and cancer-associated tissue wasting disease called cachexia.

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Jun 27, 2021

Thousands of physicists are working together to redefine the cosmos

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

The Large Hadron Collider has a lot of tasks ahead of it. Next stop: investigating the Big Bang.


The truth is, we don’t really know because it takes huge amounts of energy and precision to recreate and understand the cosmos on such short timescales in the lab.

But scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Switzerland aren’t giving up.

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Jun 27, 2021

If there are aliens in nearby star systems, they may have already spotted Earth

Posted by in categories: alien life, habitats

Location, location, location. It matters whether you’re looking for a house — or for humans.

Jun 27, 2021

Here’s What A.I. Thinks Will Be The Next Big Thing in Tech

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

The “technology intelligence engine” uses A.I. to sift through hundreds of millions of documents online, then uses all that information to spot trends.


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Tarraf was fed up with incorrect predictions. He wanted a more data-driven approach to forecasting that could help investors, governments, pundits, and anyone else to get a more accurate picture of the shape of tech-yet-to-come. Not only could this potentially help make money for his firm, but it could also, he suggested, illuminate some of the blind spots people have which may lead to bias.

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Jun 27, 2021

Intel to make a custom SiFive-based RISC-V CPU, will be fabricated on a 7 nm node in a first step towards competing directly with Arm-based chips

Posted by in category: computing

Intel has taken its first steps towards directly taking on Arm-based chips through a new partnership with potential acquisition target SiFive. The hook-up will see Intel license SiFive’s chip architecture and fabricate a custom SoC expected in 2022.

Jun 27, 2021

Security robots expand across U.S., with few tangible results

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, security

“It would be difficult to introduce a single thing and it causes crime to go down,” one expert said.


“Are we seeing dramatic changes since we deployed the robot in January?” Lerner, the Westland spokesperson said. “No. But I do believe it is a great tool to keep a community as large as this, to keep it safer, to keep it controlled.”

For its part, Knightscope maintains on its website that the robots “predict and prevent crime,” without much evidence that they do so. Experts say this is a bold claim.

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Jun 27, 2021

SpaceX delays rare-trajectory Cape Canaveral launch to this week

Posted by in category: space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX is targeting no earlier than this week for its upcoming Falcon 9 launch from Florida, a rare polar mission that will see the rocket pivot south and hug the state’s east coast, according to News 6 partner Florida Today.

The company on Friday confirmed teams were targeting no earlier than 2:56 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, for the 230-foot rocket’s flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The mission named Transporter-2 was originally slated to fly from Launch Complex 40 on Friday, June 25.

“This mission will launch 88 spacecraft to orbit and more customer mass than SpaceX’s previous dedicated rideshare mission,” SpaceX said Friday.

Jun 27, 2021

Rapamycin Extends Lifespan

Posted by in categories: biological, life extension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS8lYst2iRU

Rapamycin consistently shows lifespan extension in mice and in my opinion, is the most exciting molecule to possibly extend healthspan in humans. This video dives into the data.

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