For many years now, it has been rumored that the Apple Watch will eventually gain non-invasive blood sugar monitoring capabilities, which would enable millions of people with diabetes to track their blood glucose levels without needing to prick their skin with a needle or wear a dedicated continuous glucose monitor.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple recently shifted oversight of the project from its platform architecture chief Tim Millet to Zongjian Chen, a senior engineer overseeing advanced technologies within the company.
Scientists in Japan have created powerful new vitamin K-based compounds that may help the brain regenerate lost neurons — a breakthrough that could one day change how diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are treated. By combining vitamin K with components related to vitamin A, the researchers developed compounds that were about three times more effective at turning neural stem cells into neurons than natural vitamin K alone.
Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, but today’s computers are reaching their physical and energy limits. Now, scientists are exploring a revolutionary solution: light-matter particles known as polaritons. These exotic hybrid particles combine the properties of light and matter, allowing information to move at incredible speeds while consuming far less energy than traditional electronic chips.
In this video, we explore how light-based computing could transform the future of AI, why researchers believe polariton technology may outperform conventional processors, and what this breakthrough could mean for machine learning, robotics, quantum technologies, and the future of computing itself.
Could this be the next major leap beyond silicon chips? And are we entering an era where AI operates at near light speed?
Watch to discover the science behind one of the most exciting technological breakthroughs of the decade.
A major breakthrough in artificial intelligence may have arrived: scientists have created an artificial neuron capable of communicating with other neurons.
Inspired by the human brain, this technology could allow machines to process information in a far more biological and efficient way. Instead of traditional computing architectures, future systems could operate more like living neural networks.
In this video we explore how artificial neurons work, why this breakthrough matters, and how it could reshape AI, robotics, and neuroscience.
It was a bionic hand, and Nigel Ackland gripped mine like any man would, except this one whirred and clicked and carried more meaning in a single gesture than most of us pack into a lifetime of handshakes.
Nigel is gone now. We miss him. He called himself ordinary. He was anything but.
Thirteen years ago, on Singularity 1 on 1, we sat down to talk about life with a bionic arm. And somewhere in that conversation we wandered into territory the world only just got around to naming this month: the Enhanced Games.
We asked whether people would one day volunteer to be enhanced. Whether the line between fixing a body and upgrading one was ever as solid as we pretended. Whether the Paralympics might one day be the more interesting show.
In 2013, those were thought experiments. Last weekend in Las Vegas, they sold tickets.
Michael Levin is an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms with Josh Bongard.
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Links Mentioned: Michael’s paper on cognition — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti… Gabriele Carcassi Video — • Newtonian/Lagrangian/Hamiltonian mechanics… Michael Levin’s blog post on advice — https://thoughtforms.life/what-advice… TOE ep with Levin, Tung and Gumuskaya — • New Groundbreaking Research, Anthrobots, H… TOE ep with Levin — • Unveiling the Mind-Blowing Biotech of Rege… TOE ep with Bach and Levin — • Michael Levin Λ Joscha Bach: Collective In… TOE ep with Lang, Friston and Levin — • Levin Λ Friston Λ Fields: \.
