Feb 1, 2020
Mining coronavirus genomes for clues to the outbreak’s origins
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
Theories abound about how the virus that’s now rampant in China made its way from bats (almost certainly) to humans.
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Feb 1, 2020
WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: health
O…o welp…
The decision is an acknowledgement of the need for a more coordinated international response to the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Feb 1, 2020
MIT discovery: A drug to cure nearly any virus
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
Circa 2011
In tests, the new drug was effective against rhinoviruses that cause the common cold, the swine flu virus H1N1, a stomach virus, a polio virus and dengue fever.
Feb 1, 2020
GLAMOS: Bring Your Touchless Screens To Life
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: futurism
A crazy Kickstarter project
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/300948436/glamos-bring-…ns-to-life
Glamos is a tiny yet mighty device that uses LiDAR tech to turn any screen at home or the office into a fully interactive touch screen!
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Feb 1, 2020
Xenobots Have Heart (Cells) — DTNS 3700
Posted by Tanvir Ahmed in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Scientists from Tufts University, the University of Vermont, and the Wyss Institute at Harvard published early research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about robots made from heart and skin cells derived from frog embryo stem cells that they call xenobots. What does this mean for robotics and what are the ethical issues at play?
Starring tom merritt, sarah lane, len peralta, roger chang, annalee newitz.
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Circa 2016
After a long period of historical neglect, the Holy Roman Empire has finally found a modern chronicler to bring it back to life for contemporary readers.
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Directed by Timo Vuorensola. With Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby, Götz Otto, Udo Kier. The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018.
Feb 1, 2020
Hyper-Intelligent AI Hive Mind Claims to Predict Super Bowl Winner
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
Feb 1, 2020
Google issues coronavirus ‘SOS Alert’ in Search, here’s what that means
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
You can now get quick access to all official coronavirus resources on top of Google Search.
Feb 1, 2020
Meet Meena, Google’s new chatbot that interacts like humans
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
Remember the first time you tried Apple’s Siri and went absolutely gaga over the human-like qualities of the application? Well, then came Amazon’s Alexa, a virtual assistant AI that was first available in the Amazon Dot and Amazon Echo Dot speakers but none of these were conversational as such. Although they can answer general questions about the weather and news, it will never feel really conversational.
Google, however, has in store something more conversational than the existing Siri, Alexa and Cortana in the form of its new chat companion, Meena. The company claims that it is going to be the best chatbot in the market that can talk with the user about anything on earth.
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