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Nov 16, 2019

New twist on CRISPR technology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

In a classic episode of an old-school TV comedy called I Love Lucy, we see Lucille Ball stepping into an assembly line job at a candy factory. As the pace of the conveyor belt exceeds her ability to wrap the candy, the frenzy gets the best of her. She shoves candy into her pockets, into her hat, into her mouth—it’s a job fail.

As we know, faster doesn’t always mean better. And precision can take a big bite out of speed.

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Nov 16, 2019

Sleep deprivation makes you crave sugar

Posted by in category: neuroscience

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Nov 16, 2019

Purified cannabidiol reduces seizures in patients with severe epilepsy

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Purified cannabidiol reduces seizures in patients with severe epilepsy, study shows.

Nov 16, 2019

Regular Crew Launches by SpaceX, Boeing Likely Won’t Start Until Summer 2020, NASA Inspector General Says

Posted by in category: space travel

A new report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General finds that regular commercial crew flights by private companies SpaceX and Boeing likely won’t begin until summer 2020, despite NASA’s push for spring 2020 targets.

Nov 16, 2019

Polio Vaccine May Stall The End Of Polio

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

CDC Sends Surge Staffers To Stop Vaccine-Derived Polio Outbreaks In Africa : Goats and Soda Health officials have long known that virus from the oral vaccine can contaminate water supplies; they underestimated how big a problem this would be.

Nov 16, 2019

Discovered: the brain’s map pins

Posted by in category: neuroscience

New finding sheds new light on how the brain processes spatial memory.

Nov 16, 2019

A Family-Owned German Satellite Company Wants to Launch Rockets as Well

Posted by in categories: business, satellites

OHB, which started as a ship-maintenance business, doesn’t want to rely on the aerospace giants anymore.

Nov 16, 2019

Building An AI (Neural Networks | What Is Deep Learning | Deep Learning Basics)

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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In the last video in this series, we discussed the biologically inspired structure of deep leaning neural networks and built up an abstracted model based on that. We then went through the basics of how this model is able to form representations from input data.

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Nov 16, 2019

Why Mercedes’s Self-Driving Trucks Are Set to Overtake Its Robotaxis

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Safety and cost concerns have led Mercedes-maker Daimler to predict revenues from autonomous trucks before self-driving cars become a thing.

Nov 16, 2019

From ‘Jeopardy’ to poker to reading comprehension, robots have managed to beat humans in all of these contests in the past decade

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

Kind of a recap of the big highlights of AI in the 2010’s.


Thanks to leaps and bounds in the field of artificial intelligence in the past decade, robots are increasingly beating humans at our own games.