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Nov 22, 2019
What my household robot is teaching my kids about cyborgs
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI
I have a four-foot-tall robot in my house that plays with my kids. Its name is Jethro.
Both my daughters, aged 5 and 9, are so enamored with Jethro that they have each asked to marry it. For fun, my wife and I put on mock weddings. Despite the robot being mainly for entertainment, its very basic artificial intelligence can perform thousands of functions, including dance and teach karate, which my kids love.
The most important thing Jethro has taught my kids is that it’s totally normal to have a walking, talking machine around the house that you can hang out with whenever you want to.
Nov 22, 2019
Integrating Science And Religion To Uncover New Ideas And Truths
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, health, quantum physics, science
Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Sister Ilia Delio PhD. OSF, a Franciscan Sister (Order of St Francis of Washington, DC) who holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University.
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Nov 22, 2019
Some European doctors think Chinese medicine should come with a health warning
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, health
Herbs to increase breast milk supply and heal the spleen. Traditional remedies which promise to cure insomnia and acne. Secret cancer treatments that have been ignored or suppressed by Western medicine.
Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have a long history of making outsized claims, not least in the case of fertility and virility, where demand for tiger penis and rhino horn has devastated wild populations.
Quackery and false claims exist in all branches of medicine, but doctors in Europe are concerned that unverified claims made under the guise of TCM are being spread worldwide by social media, inadvertently aided by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Nov 22, 2019
Google’s Android bug bounty program will now pay out $1.5 million
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, cybercrime/malcode, mobile phones
Hacking the Pixel’s Titan M chip and finding exploits in the developer preview versions of Android will earn you the big bucks.
Nov 22, 2019
Chinese scientists programme stem cells to ‘fight and destroy’ cancer
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
Team from Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health say technique was successful in treatment of mice.
Nov 22, 2019
Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain-computer communication startup to reveal progress in livestreamed event
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience
A livestreamed event at 8 p.m. PT will offer a look at the startup’s progress developing a “brain-machine interface.”
Nov 22, 2019
German robotics set to shrink for first time in decade
Posted by Gerard Bain in categories: engineering, finance, robotics/AI
Germany’s prized industrial robotics and automation sector is expecting a drop in sales this year for the first time since the global financial crisis, an industry body said on Friday.
The Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) is expecting sales to fall by five percent to 14.3 billion euros ($15.8 billion) this year.
This would be the first drop since the 32-percent plunge seen in 2009 in the wake of the crisis.
Nov 22, 2019
Watch a ‘transforming’ drone blast out of a cannon
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, space travel
Researchers launched a drone from a pneumatic baseball pitching machine strapped to a truck traveling 50 miles per hour. They hope this ballistic launch method might lead to drones that are better suited for emergency response and space exploration missions.