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Apr 14, 2020
Downloading the Human Brain to a Computer: Elon Musk’s Neuralink
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, robotics/AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vbh3t7WVI
Your Neuralink device would be implanted using traditional neurosurgery methods safely and seamlessly with a robot surgeon. As mentioned in the Neuralink published paper, “We have also built a neurosurgical robot capable of inserting six threads (192 electrodes) per minute. Each thread can be individually inserted into the brain with micron precision for the avoidance of surface vasculature and targeting specific brain regions.”
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Apr 14, 2020
Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures Funds Microchip Implant Vaccine Technology
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: biotech/medical, computing, mobile phones, nanotechnology, quantum physics
You really can not make this up The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated more than $21 million towards developing a vaccine technology that uses a tattoo-like mechanism which injects invisible nanoparticles under the skin that is now being tested in a vaccine against the virus that causes COVID-19.
Another study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and published in December, 2019 by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the Global Good, Intellectual Ventures Laboratory in Bellevue, WA, describes how “near-infrared quantum dots” can be implanted under the skin along with a vaccine to encode information for “decentralized data storage and bio-sensing.”
“To maximize the utility of this technology for vaccination campaigns, we aimed to create a platform compatible with microneedle-delivered vaccines that could reliably encode data on an individual for at least five years after administration,” said the MIT paper, titled Biocompatible near-infrared quantum dots delivered to the skin by microneedle patches record vaccination. “In addition, this system also needed to be highly biocompatible, deliver a sufficient amount of dye after an application time of 2 min or less, and be detectable using a minimally adapted smartphone.”
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Apr 14, 2020
FDA should approve transplants of islet cells for type 1 diabetes
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
O,.o 2019
Transplanting insulin-making islet cells comes close to a cure for type 1 diabetes. It was developed in the U.S. and should be available here. But it isn’t.
The Wolfram Physics Project intends to crowdsource the pursuit of the discipline’s holy grail: A fundamental theory of everything.
Apr 14, 2020
New electronic cooling technology to enable miniaturization of quantum computers
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, quantum physics, security
VTT researchers have successfully demonstrated a new electronic refrigeration technology that could enable major leaps in the development of quantum computers. Present quantum computers require extremely complicated and large cooling infrastructure that is based on mixture of isotopes of helium. The new electronic cooling technology could replace these cryogenic liquid mixtures and enable miniaturization of quantum computers.
In this purely electrical refrigeration method, cooling and thermal isolation operate effectively through the same point like junction. In the experiment the researchers suspended a piece of silicon from such junctions and refrigerated the object by feeding electrical current from one junction to another through the piece. The current lowered the thermodynamic temperature of the silicon object as much as 40% from that of the surroundings. This could lead to the miniaturization of future quantum computers, as it can simplify the required cooling infrastructure significantly. The discovery has been published in Science Advances.
“We expect that this newly discovered electronic cooling method could be used in several applications from the miniaturization of quantum computers to ultra-sensitive radiation sensors of the security field,” says Research Professor Mika Prunnila from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Apr 14, 2020
Turn your raw data into a machine learning model without Python or SQL
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
How to build an entire ML pipeline, including data transformation and model training, without code.
Apr 14, 2020
Heavy iron isotopes leaking from Earth’s core
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: materials
Could use magnetism to pull the iron back inside. O,.,o.
Earth’s molten core may be leaking iron, according to researchers who analyzed how iron behaves inside our planet.
The boundary between the liquid iron core and the rocky mantle is located some 1,800 miles (2,900 km) below Earth’s surface. At this transition, the temperature drops by more than a thousand degrees from the hotter core to the cooler mantle.
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Apr 14, 2020
Exolaunch signs first launch agreement with SpaceX
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: satellites
SAN FRANCISCO — German launch services provider Exolaunch announced plans April 14 to send multiple small satellites into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission scheduled for December.
Exolaunch has integrated payloads and arranged launches for almost 100 satellites, but this is the company’s first launch services agreement with SpaceX, Exolaunch Commercial Director Jeanne Medvedeva told SpaceNews.
“Participation in SpaceX’s smallsat rideshare program will allow Exolaunch to offer reliable and cost efficient rideshare options out of the United States,” Medvedeva said by email. “Most of our customers have been proactively requesting such opportunities.”
Apr 14, 2020
Stephen Wolfram’s proposal aims for a fundamental theory of physics
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: physics, space
Simple rules generating complicated networks may be how to build the universe.
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