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Sep 22, 2019
Google Claims ‘Quantum Supremacy,’ Marking a Major Milestone in Computing
Posted by Tracy R. Atkins in categories: computing, quantum physics
In a new scientific paper, Google researchers claim for the first time to have demonstrated “quantum supremacy,” where a quantum computer outperforms a traditional one.
Sep 21, 2019
Full body deepfakes are the next step in AI-based human mimicry
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
This developing branch of synthetic media technology has commercial applications—but also has the potential to disrupt elections and spread disinformation.
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Sep 21, 2019
Everything we know about Neom, a ‘mega-city’ project in Saudi Arabia with plans for flying cars and robot dinosaurs
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Saudi Arabia has called its giga-project Neom, a new city 33 times the size of New York City, “the world’s most ambitious project” — and it sounds it.
Sep 21, 2019
Wearable brain-machine interface could control a wheelchair, vehicle or computer
Posted by Gerard Bain in categories: information science, robotics/AI, wearables
Combining new classes of nanomembrane electrodes with flexible electronics and a deep learning algorithm could help disabled people wirelessly control an electric wheelchair, interact with a computer or operate a small robotic vehicle without donning a bulky hair-electrode cap or contending with wires.
By providing a fully portable, wireless brain-machine interface (BMI), the wearable system could offer an improvement over conventional electroencephalography (EEG) for measuring signals from visually evoked potentials in the human brain. The system’s ability to measure EEG signals for BMI has been evaluated with six human subjects, but has not been studied with disabled individuals.
The project, conducted by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Kent and Wichita State University, was reported on September 11 in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.
Sep 21, 2019
The World Knows an Apocalyptic Pandemic Is Coming
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Sep 21, 2019
Mixing RNA and DNA to study how life began on Earth
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Scientists have demonstrated that life’s process on Earth could have actually started with molecules that formed by mixing RNA and DNA.
Sep 21, 2019
Greta Thunberg: Most Important Message Ever
Posted by Philip Raymond in categories: climatology, education, energy, environmental, existential risks, geopolitics, government, homo sapiens, lifeboat, policy, treaties
If you are a Lifeboat subscriber or have been reading these pages for awhile, you may know why it’s called “Lifeboat”. A fundamental goal of our founder, board, writers and supporters is to sustain the environment, life in all its diversity, and—if necessary—(i.e. if we destroy our environment beyond repair, or face a massive incoming asteroid), to prepare for relocating. That is, to build a lifeboat, figuratively and literally.
But most of us never believed that we would face an existential crisis, except perhaps a potential for a 3rd World War. Yet, here we are: Burning the forests, killing off unspeakable numbers of species (200 each day), cooking the planet, melting the ice caps, shooting a hole in the ozone, and losing more land to the sea each year.
Regading the urgent message of Greta Thunberg, below, I am at a loss for words. Seriously, there is not much I can add to the 1st video below.
Information about climate change is all around us. Everyone knows about it; Most people understand that it is real and it that poses an existential threat, quite possibly in our lifetimes. In our children’s lives, it will certainly lead to war, famine, cancer, and massive loss of land, structures and money. It is already raising sea level and killing off entire species at thousands of times the natural rate.
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Sep 21, 2019
Alzheimer’s memory loss reversed by new head device using electromagnetic waves
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
A new, non-invasive brain stimulation treatment shows promise in enhancing memories and cognitive function in those with Alzheimer’s disease. Transcranial electromagnetic treatment (TEMT) increases functional connectivity within the cingulate cortex. TEMT is also able to penetrate the brain to break up amyloid-beta and tau deposits, slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.