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Dec 8, 2019

Russian APT Hackers Attack Government Network via malicious Word Doc

Posted by in categories: government, law enforcement, military

Researchers discovered a new malicious activity that involved by Russian APT hackers to attack Government and Military officials in Ukrainian entities.

The attacker’s targets are not limited but they also infect various individuals who is part of the government and Law enforcement, Journalists, Diplomats, NGO and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Researchers believe that the campaign attributed to Gamaredon activity in which attackers using Dynamic Domain Name Server as C2 server, VBA macro, and VBA script as a part of this attack.

Dec 8, 2019

Sickle Cell Anemia Patient Becomes First Person in the U.S. to Have Her Genes Edited With CRISPR

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Last week, a woman named Victoria Gray became the first person in the U.S. to have her cells edited with CRISPR. The 41-year-old patient was suffering from sickle cell anemia.

RELATED: FIRST HUMAN TRIAL USING CRISPR GENE-EDITING IN US BEGINS

The condition, caused by a genetic mutation that messes with the shape of red blood cells, causes havoc on patients, and to make things even worse, the options for treatment are very limited and ineffective. The only current treatment for sickle cell anemia patients is a donor transplant that works for just 10% of patients, but all that is about to change.

Dec 8, 2019

This Roleplaying AI Makes a Great Dungeon Master

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

But for some reason it named every character “Dan.”

Dec 8, 2019

Dr Aubrey de Grey | Investing in the Age of Longevity 2019

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, finance, life extension

Rejuvenation Biotechnology: on track to be the biggest industry ever.

Dr Aubrey de Grey, CSO at the SENS Research Foundation speaking at Master Investor’s Investing in the Age of Longevity 2019 event. Aubrey discusses Rejuvenation biotechnology and how it’s on track to become the biggest industry ever.

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Dec 8, 2019

3 Aging Experts Tell How They Decided on Where to Grow Older

Posted by in category: life extension

One of the most vexing questions many of us face once we hit our 60s is: Where should we live as we get older? I’m not talking about those “Best Places to Live” rankings. I mean what kind of home, and type of community, would be most suitable. That’s why I was eager to hear what several gerontologists had to say in their session at last week’s Gerontological Society of America conference about how they decided where they’d live in later life.


What kind of home and community is most suitable? The answer isn’t always rational.

Dec 7, 2019

Reason | Investing in the Age of Longevity 2019

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, finance, life extension

Gene therapies to reverse immunosenescence and atherosclerosis.

CEO of Repair Biotechnologies speaking at Master Investor’s Investing in the Age of Longevity 2019 event. Reason discusses gene therapies to reverse immunosenescence and atherosclerosis.

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Dec 7, 2019

How does time dilation affect aging during high-speed space travel?

Posted by in categories: life extension, space travel

Your space questions, answered.

Dec 7, 2019

Internal brain timers linked with motivation and behavior

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Time can be measured in many ways: a watch, a sundial, or the body’s natural circadian rhythms. But what about the sexual behavior of a fruit fly?

“If you ask a bunch of scientists whether animals can keep time, many would say they cannot, that things happen over time—but time itself is not measured,” says Michael Crickmore, Ph.D., a researcher in Boston Children’s Hospital’s F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center whose laboratory studies motivation. But in new research published in the journal Neuron in collaboration with the lab of Dragana Rogulja, Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School, he shows that the mating of fruit flies is not haphazard. Instead, motivation and behavior are under the control of that track time.

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Dec 7, 2019

Antivirals for the Gut? Study Points To Potential New Gut (and Brain) Treatment

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government, neuroscience

A Gulf War Illness study finds a connection between dysregulated gut flora, leaky gut and neuroinflammation – and a new way to potentially resolve it.

It’s nice when the government has your back. After years of neglect, the federal government finally appears, at least regarding medical research, to have Gulf War Illness (GWI) veterans’ backs.

Dec 7, 2019

Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Mass Surveillance and Artificial General Intelligence

Posted by in categories: business, education, robotics/AI, security, surveillance

AI is Pandora’s box, s’ true…

On the one hand we can’t close it and on the other hand our current direction is not good. And this is gonna get worse as AI starts taking its own ‘creative’ decisions… the human overlords will claim it has nothing to do with them if and when things go wrong.

The solution for commercialization is actually quite simple.

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