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Apr 6, 2020
COVID-19 Update 8: Zinc and chloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19?
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, education, health, media & arts
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the combination of zinc and hydroxychloroquine may be beneficial for the treatment of Covid-19:
We have been asked again and again — “What else can I do, apart from social distancing, hand hygiene, and so on, to protect myself from COVID-19?” There are additional actions that can be taken.
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Apr 6, 2020
These brain-boosting devices could give us intelligence superpowers
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, health, robotics/AI
Circa 2017
The era of merging our minds with technology has begun. Already, we can hack the brain to treat diseases such as Parkinson’s or help paralyzed people move again. But what if you could install a chip in your head that would not only fix any health issues, but could amp up your brainpower — would you remember every word said during a meeting, finish crossword puzzles faster, drive better thanks to enhanced senses, or pick up a new language before your next trip?
That’s the future envisioned by Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO who recently announced Neuralink, a new company dedicated to blending human brains with computers. In Musk’s view, we’ll have to keep pace with ever-smarter artificial intelligence by implanting a “neural lace,” or sci-fi inspired machine interface that will make us smarter.
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Apr 6, 2020
How a New AI Translated Brain Activity to Speech With 97 Percent Accuracy
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: neuroscience, robotics/AI
That vision may have come a step closer after researchers at the University of California, San Francisco demonstrated that they could translate brain signals into complete sentences with error rates as low as three percent, which is below the threshold for professional speech transcription.
While we’ve been able to decode parts of speech from brain signals for around a decade, so far most of the solutions have been a long way from consistently translating intelligible sentences. Last year, researchers used a novel approach that achieved some of the best results so far by using brain signals to animate a simulated vocal tract, but only 70 percent of the words were intelligible.
The key to the improved performance achieved by the authors of the new paper in Nature Neuroscience was their realization that there were strong parallels between translating brain signals to text and machine translation between languages using neural networks, which is now highly accurate for many languages.
Apr 6, 2020
This Map Shows the Global Spread of Zero-Day Hacking Techniques
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: cybercrime/malcode, government
So-called zero-day exploits—hacking techniques that take advantage of secret software flaws—were once the calling card of only the most sophisticated hackers. But today, the global map of zero-day hacking has expanded far beyond the United States, Russia, and China, as more countries than ever buy themselves a spot on it.
Security and intelligence firm FireEye today released a sweeping analysis of how zero days have been exploited worldwide over the last seven years, drawing in data from other security research organizations’ reporting as well as Google Project Zero’s database of active zero days. FireEye was able to link the use of 55 of those secret hacking techniques to state-sponsored operations, going so far as to name which country’s government it believes to be responsible in each case.
The resulting map and timeline, with a tally of which countries have used the most zero days over the last decade, are far from comprehensive. Countries like the US almost certainly have used zero days that remain undetected, FireEye acknowledges, and many others couldn’t be pinned with certainty on any particular country. But it does show how the collection of countries using those hacking techniques now includes less expected players like the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.
Apr 6, 2020
The world’s largest plane will soon be used to launch hypersonic aircraft capable of traveling 6 times the speed of sound
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Stratolaunch Systems, founded by Microsoft’s Paul Allen, is shifting to the development of hypersonic aircraft that may soon carry people and cargo.
While aging is inevitable, it’s a process that many people would like to slow. Here are 12 of the best anti-aging supplements.
Apr 6, 2020
Robert Zubrin…When Will Humans go to Mars?
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: Elon Musk, military, space travel
Always a good interview. Short answer, he doesn’t think the timeline is accurate.
Dr. Robert Zubrin, former engineer at Lockhead Martin and president and founder of the Mars Society joins us today for a groundbreaking conversation. We discuss the obstacles to sending humans to Mars and the moon, the emergence and role of private enterprise in leading the way to space exploration, as well as the likelihood of success of the US administration’s announcement of its goal to establish a permanent human presence on the moon in 4 years. Dr. Zubrin also recounts the details of his meetings with Elon Musk prior and during the foundation of SpaceX. Other subjects we touched on included the justification for space exploration in the face of mounting problems and priorities here on earth. We also discuss the role of space as a game-changer in the way military domination and conflicts will be done in the future.
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This is a video about the philanthropic billionaire, Bill Gates. We go into his family history, his early childhood, education, extracurriculars, and time at Harvard to answer the question “Who was Bill Gates before Microsoft?” Support my channel on Patreon: http://patreon.com/reallygraceful