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Apr 1, 2020

Ben Hammersley Futurist, Defines our New Normal in the Age of Coronavirus

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Defining our “New Normal” in the Age of Coronavirus — Amanda Christensen, ideaXme (http://radioideaxme.com/) guest interviewer, interviews Ben Hammersley, one of the world’s leading futurists to answer questions about how we are going to work, live, thrive, and innovate in the coming years — #Ideaxme #BenHammersley #Innovation #Futurist #Futurism #Covid19 #Coronavirus #Science #Longevity #Health #Medicine #Environment #Space #Oceans #Literature #Music #Food #Future #Entertainment #Sports #Fashion Awesome Foundation European University Institute United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) UNAOC Fellowship Program Goldsmiths, University of London WIRED UK The Brookings Institution European Commission.


Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest interviewer, interviews Ben Hammersley, one of the world’s leading futurists and founder of international Strategic Foresight agency Hammersley Futures.

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Apr 1, 2020

Turkmenistan bans the word ‘coronavirus’ and wearing of masks

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Citizens discussing pandemic could reportedly find themselves detained by police.

Apr 1, 2020

Aubrey de Grey talks about longevity for rich and poor people

Posted by in categories: futurism, life extension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqtEn605bpA

#longevity

#overpopulation

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Apr 1, 2020

New test can detect COVID-19 in just five minutes

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

In yet another demonstration of how rapidly technology can advance, biotech firm Abbott Laboratories has developed a new molecular test for the detection of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which delivers results in just five minutes.

Abbott Laboratories, headquartered in Illinois, United States, has been granted Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for adapting COVID-19 tests to its ID NOW platform.

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Apr 1, 2020

Israel tests coronavirus vaccine prototype on rodents at defense lab

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel has begun testing a COVID-19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its bio-chemical defense laboratory, a source said on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), in rural Ness Ziona, to join the fight against the coronavirus pandemic on Feb. 1, prompting an easing of its secrecy as it cooperates with civilian scientists and private firms.

In a statement, Netanyahu’s office said IIBR director Shmuel Shapira had informed him of “significant progress” in designing a vaccine prototype and that the institute “is now preparing a model for commencing an animal trial”.

Apr 1, 2020

Not Made in China Is Global Tech’s Next Big Trend

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics

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Three years ago, manufacturing gadgets in China was a given. That’s changed fundamentally in the era of trade wars and coronavirus.

Under the new reality, the world’s electronics makers are actively seeking ways to diversify their supply chains and reduce their dependence on any single country, no matter how attractive.

Apr 1, 2020

This Is How Your Immune System Reacts to Coronavirus

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This Is How Your Immune System Reacts to #Coronavirus: https://bit.ly/3bHkdnv by Dana G Smith Explaining why COVID-19 induces different symptoms on different individuals. #COVID19 #CoronavirusOutbreak


Here’s how the immune system responds when a person catches Covid-19 — and what that means for treatment.

Apr 1, 2020

Useful 3D printed tools against coronavirus COVID-19

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical

Don’t be stupid be innovative. Keep you, your friends and family safe. Here is a collection of free 3D printable tools that may help in this fight against coronavirus.


Here is a selection of the most useful 3D models to make with a 3D printer agains coronavirus covid-19.

Mar 31, 2020

Extreme high-frequency signals enable terabits-per-second data links

Posted by in categories: internet, mathematics, mobile phones

Using the same technology that allows high-frequency signals to travel on regular phone lines, researchers tested sending extremely high-frequency, 200 GHz signals through a pair of copper wires. The result is a link that can move data at rates of terabits per second, significantly faster than currently available channels.

While the technology to disentangle multiple, parallel signals moving through a already exists, thanks to signal processing methods developed by John Cioffi, the inventor of digital subscriber lines, or DSL, questions remained related to the effectiveness of implementing these ideas at higher frequencies.

To test the transmission of at higher frequencies, authors of a paper published this week in Applied Physics Letters used experimental measurements and mathematical modeling to characterize the input and output signals in a .

Mar 31, 2020

Study determines burst properties of the most recurring transient magnetar

Posted by in categories: energy, space

Using NASA’s Fermi and Swift spacecraft, astronomers have investigated SGR J1935+2154, the most recurring transient magnetar known to date. The new research sheds more light on the burst properties of this object. The study is detailed in a paper published March 23 on the arXiv pre-print repository.

Magnetars are with extremely , more than 1 quadrillion times stronger than the magnetic field of Earth. Decay of magnetic fields in magnetars powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, for instance, in the form of X-rays or radio waves.

Discovered in 2014, SGR J1935+2154 has a spin period of 3.24 seconds, spin-down rate of 14.3 picoseconds/second, and a dipole-magnetic field with a strength at a level of approximately 220 trillion G, what confirms its nature. Since its detection, the source experienced more than 100 bursts, occurring almost annually.