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Apr 20, 2020

Britain Is Developing an AI-Powered Predictive Policing System

Posted by in categories: ethics, health, robotics/AI

What police would do with the information has yet to be determined. The head of WMP told New Scientist they won’t be preemptively arresting anyone; instead, the idea would be to use the information to provide early intervention from social or health workers to help keep potential offenders on the straight and narrow or protect potential victims.

But data ethics experts have voiced concerns that the police are stepping into an ethical minefield they may not be fully prepared for. Last year, WMP asked researchers at the Alan Turing Institute’s Data Ethics Group to assess a redacted version of the proposal, and last week they released an ethics advisory in conjunction with the Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing.

While the authors applaud the force for attempting to develop an ethically sound and legally compliant approach to predictive policing, they warn that the ethical principles in the proposal are not developed enough to deal with the broad challenges this kind of technology could throw up, and that “frequently the details are insufficiently fleshed out and important issues are not fully recognized.”

Apr 19, 2020

The universe as quantum computer

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

This article reviews the history of digital computation, and investigates just how far the concept of computation can be taken. In particular, I address the question of whether the universe itself is in fact a giant computer, and if so, just what kind of computer it is. I will show that the universe can be regarded as a giant quantum computer. The quantum computational model of the universe explains a variety of observed phenomena not encompassed by the ordinary laws of physics. In particular, the model shows that the quantum computational universe automatically gives rise to a mix of randomness and order, and to both simple and complex systems.

Apr 19, 2020

Quantum magnonics: The magnon meets the superconducting qubit

Posted by in category: quantum physics

O,.o circa 2016.


Nous appliquons les techniques de l’optique quantique micro-onde aux excitations collectives des spins d’une sphère macroscopique d’un isolant ferromagnétique. Nous mettons en évidence, dans la limite d’une unique excitation magnonique, le couplage fort entre un mode magnétostatique de la sphère et un mode d’une cavité micro-onde. En outre, nous avons ajouté un bit quantique supraconducteur à la cavité, ce qui permet de coupler ce bit quantique au mode de magnon, via l’échange virtuel d’un photon. Nous observons ainsi un anticroisement des fréquences de résonance du magnon et de la cavité. Cette plateforme hybride permet la création et la caratérisation d’états non classiques de magnons.

Apr 19, 2020

Human Magnetic Reception Laboratory

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Human Magnetoreception! What did we discover? We have confirmed that human neurophysiology is indeed sensitive to magnetism. We have discovered specific rotations of earth-strength fields that trigger distinctive brain wave activity that shows that we are subconsciously processing geomagnetic stimuli. Why is this so important? We’ve known about the five.

Apr 19, 2020

MIMIVIRE is a defence system in mimivirus that confers resistance to virophage

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, electronics

👽 Giant Viruses : “Mimiviruses”

(Jan 2016)

Fyodor R., issue 3, refund institute

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Apr 19, 2020

Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in patients of novel coronavirus disease 2019

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is a newly emerging virus. The antibody response in infected patient remains largely unknown, and the clinical values of antibody testing have not been fully demonstrated.

Methods

A total of 173 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection were enrolled. Their serial plasma samples (n=535) collected during the hospitalization were tested for total antibodies (Ab), IgM and IgG against SARS-CoV-2. The dynamics of antibodies with the disease progress was analyzed.

Apr 19, 2020

Indoor Precautions Essential to Stem Airborne COVID-19 – The World Should Face the Reality

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Researchers are urging health authorities to immediately recognize the role of airborne transmission of COVID-19 virus droplets from an infected person beyond 1.5m in order to stem the disease’s spread.

Apr 19, 2020

CRISPR Therapeutics braces for ‘severe impact’ from COVID-19 crisis

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

April 1, 2020


It was supposed to be an exciting time of next-gen science, where CRISPR gene editing was being used in the first series of human trials in the hope this tech could help cure a range of diseases.

But one of its proponents, CRISPR Therapeutics, has, alongside a growing number of biopharmas, admitted the spreading COVID-19 pandemic is starting to see it be “adversely affected.”

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Apr 19, 2020

Vaccins et traitements contre le Covid-19 : les principales pistes

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

La communauté scientifique est en ordre de bataille pour lutter contre le SARS-CoV-2 et mettre au point un traitement ou un vaccin. Quelles sont les voies les plus prometteuses?

Apr 19, 2020

Cognizant confirms Maze ransomware attack, says customers face disruption

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Maze, a data-stealing ransomware, typically publishes the data if a ransom is not paid.