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Feb 1, 2020

WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency

Posted by 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 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 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 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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Feb 1, 2020

The Real Thousand-Year Reich

Posted by in category: futurism

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.

By Aram Bakshian Jr.

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Feb 1, 2020

Iron Sky

Posted by in category: space

;-;


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 in category: robotics/AI

Kansas City Chiefs or San Francisco 49ers? Let the swarm decide.

Feb 1, 2020

Google issues coronavirus ‘SOS Alert’ in Search, here’s what that means

Posted by 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 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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Feb 1, 2020

Coronavirus Outbreak Emerged from Bats, Genomic Findings Suggest

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Sequencing multiple nCoV-2019 strains from patients, two teams from China has solved one piece of the outbreak puzzle—where the virus originated.