Menu

Blog

Page 7832

Apr 7, 2019

Musk Describes Newest Tesla Autopilot Update As “Epic”

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Epic update suggests big improvements over the current version of Tesla Autopilot, which is already considered very advanced. What exactly does Elon Musk mean by epic though?

Read more

Apr 7, 2019

Andrew Yang | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 45

Posted by in categories: climatology, economics, geopolitics, robotics/AI, sustainability

Andrew Yang gives a dynamite interview on automation, UBI, and economic solutions to transitioning to the future.


Andrew Yang, award winning entrepreneur, Democratic Presidential candidate, and author of “The War on Normal People,” joins Ben to discuss the Industrial Revolution, Universal Basic Income, climate change, circumcision, and much more.

Continue reading “Andrew Yang | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 45” »

Apr 7, 2019

How a blast to the kidney could end high blood pressure for good

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

A revolutionary 60-minute therapy for high blood pressure could allow patients to throw their tablets away for good.

The unlikely remedy involves blasting nerves in the kidneys with sound waves to stop them sending signals to the brain that drive up blood pressure.

Continue reading “How a blast to the kidney could end high blood pressure for good” »

Apr 7, 2019

IBM’s New AI Does Something Amazing: It Learns From “Memories”

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Now AI doesn’t have to forget everything it learned when it picks up new skills.

Read more

Apr 7, 2019

Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution. Then Came the Bill

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

More drugmakers are betting gene therapies will have a big impact on patients and profits, with Pfizer Inc. last month agreeing to collaborate with Paris-based Vivet Therapeutics on a treatment for a rare liver disorder. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration forecasts as many as 20 cell- and gene-therapy approvals each year by 2025. Doubts remain about whether the treatments will sustain their dramatic results, making it difficult to determine their value.


Dozens of revolutionary gene therapies that mend faulty strands of DNA are on their way, bringing the power to eliminate lethal childhood diseases, rare blood disorders and other severe illnesses.

Beneath the excitement about these potential cures lies an important catch: no one knows how much to charge for them.

Continue reading “Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution. Then Came the Bill” »

Apr 6, 2019

Digital Health Nordic 2019 / Aubrey De Grey / Sens Foundation

Posted by in category: health

Some newer info from Aubrey(Especially after 23 min) including published papers, spin out company investing, unity 300 million, and he is confident Project 21 will indeed get rolling in 2021 which is human trials.

Read more

Apr 6, 2019

Carmakers have become a surprising front-runner in quantum computing

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Despite the uncertainty, automakers have been hiring quantum experts and launching early experiments.

Read more

Apr 6, 2019

Sjaak Vink — CEO, TheSocialMedwork — IdeaXme — Ira Pastor

Posted by in categories: aging, biological, biotech/medical, business, chemistry, education, finance, health, innovation, life extension

Apr 6, 2019

Yesterday’s ISS resupply mission broke an incredible record

Posted by in category: space

A resupply mission for the International Space Station, Progress MS-11, took off yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, eventually docking with the space station and providing its inhabitants with over 5,400 pounds of supplies. In many ways it was exactly like the countless resupply missions carried out before it, but in one way it was very special.

The mission, which was carried out by Russian space agency Roscosmos, took just three hours and 21 minutes to go from Earth to a successful docking with the ISS. That’s incredibly fast, and it’s actually now the fastest trip to the International Space Station ever, beating out the previous record (also set by a Progress resupply spacecraft) by a solid 19 minutes.

Continue reading “Yesterday’s ISS resupply mission broke an incredible record” »

Apr 6, 2019

Scientists set to unveil first picture of a black hole

Posted by in category: cosmology

The world, it seems, is soon to see the first picture of a black hole.

On Wednesday, astronomers across the globe will hold “six major press conferences” simultaneously to announce the first results of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which was designed precisely for that purpose.

It has been a long wait.

Continue reading “Scientists set to unveil first picture of a black hole” »