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Dec 7, 2018

Human Stem Cell Trial Successful Against Age-Related Frailty

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Today, we want to highlight results from human trials in which stem cell transplants have been shown to reduce age-related frailty.

Age-related frailty and stem cell transplants

Currently, there are no specific approved therapies to address age-related frailty, which can cause elderly people to suffer potentially fatal falls and injuries. There has been considerable interest in stem cell therapies to combat frailty in recent years, and the results we will discuss today are from one of the more advanced human clinical trials exploring mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) transplants [1].

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Dec 7, 2018

First look at Tesla’s new Enhanced Anti-Theft system

Posted by in categories: security, sustainability, transportation

Tesla launched a new ‘Enhanced Anti-theft’ system as an aftermarket product last month and we now take a first look at one of the very first installations on a Model X.

There have been strings of Tesla thefts earlier this year that prompt the automaker to offer several new security features.

We reported on several Tesla vehicle thefts through relay attacks in Europe earlier this year.

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Dec 7, 2018

Servicing Mission 1 from the Astronauts’ Perspective

Posted by in category: space

Learn about the historic space shuttle mission that saved the Hubble Space Telescope as described by veteran astronauts Jeffrey Hoffman and Kathryn Thornton, who conducted spacewalks to install the instruments and corrective optics that cured Hubble’s blurred vision.

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Dec 7, 2018

Putting this journey into words will not be easy, but I will try

Posted by in category: space

I am finally where I was born to be.” — NASA Astronaut Anne McClain.

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Dec 7, 2018

Distributed, decentralized, and democratized artificial intelligence

Posted by in categories: business, economics, robotics/AI, singularity

The accelerating investment in artificial intelligence has vast implications for economic and cognitive development globally. However, AI is currently dominated by an oligopoly of centralized mega-corporations, who focus on the interests of their stakeholders. There is a now universal need for AI services by businesses who lack access to capital to develop their own AI services, and independent AI developers lack visibility and a source of revenue. This uneven playing field has a high potential to lead to inequitable circumstances with negative implications for humanity. Furthermore, the potential of AI is hindered by the lack of interoperability standards. The authors herein propose an alternative path for the development of AI: a distributed, decentralized, and democratized market for AIs run on distributed ledger technology. We describe the features and ethical advantages of such a system using SingularityNET, a watershed project being developed by Ben Goertzel and colleagues, as a case study. We argue that decentralizing AI opens the doors for a more equitable development of AI and AGIt will also create the infrastructure for coordinated action between AIs that will significantly facilitate the evolution of AI into true AGI that is both highly capable and beneficial for humanity and beyond.

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Dec 7, 2018

Meet the sixth Southeast Asian country to finally have its own space agency

Posted by in category: space

Here’s a clue: PhilSA.

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Dec 7, 2018

China emerges as lead suspect in Marriott data hack

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, government

Not cool, China.


(Reuters) — Hackers behind a massive breach at hotel group Marriott International left clues suggesting they were working for a Chinese government intelligence gathering operation, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Marriott said last week that a hack that began four years ago had exposed the records of up to 500 million customers in its Starwood hotels reservation system.

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Dec 7, 2018

The Most Powerful Ion Drive Ever is About to Blast a Spacecraft to Mercury

Posted by in category: space travel

But it will still take seven years to get there.


The BepiColombo will be travelling a distance of 9 billion kilometers over the next seven years.

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Dec 7, 2018

New 2D sensors can cover any smooth surface

Posted by in categories: electronics, materials

But researchers have a new way to keep the materials and their associated circuitry, including electrodes, intact as they’re moved to curved or other smooth surfaces.

The results of their work appear in the journal ACS Nano.

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Dec 7, 2018

Connecting The Dots: The Link Between Innovation And Open-Mindedness, With Insights From Science

Posted by in categories: innovation, science

Scientific study looks at how an open minded people think differently and how it influences their information processing. The study found this switch in thinking occurs on a pre-concious level. Read about the link between creativity, innovation and open mindedness.

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