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Sep 2, 2019
Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: law, neuroscience
Human rights law isn’t ready to protect your brain’s privacy in the neurotechnology era, says Marcello Ienca.
Sep 2, 2019
Physicists Have Finally Built a Quantum X-Ray Device
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, quantum physics
A team of researchers has just demonstrated quantum enhancement in an actual X-ray machine, achieving the desirable goal of eliminating background noise for precision detection.
The relationships between photon pairs on quantum scales can be exploited to create sharper, higher-resolution images than classical optics. This emerging field is called quantum imaging, and it has some really impressive potential — particularly since, using optical light, it can be used to show objects that can’t usually be seen, like bones and organs.
Quantum correlation describes a number of different relationships between photon pairs. Entanglement is one of these, and is applied in optical quantum imaging.
Sep 2, 2019
Could a Rusty Bridge Generate Electricity?
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: futurism
DARPA-funded researchers led by Northwestern University recently demonstrated that running saltwater over very thin films of rust (10−20 nanometers) can generate electricity!
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Sep 2, 2019
The problem with wanting to reverse aging that no one talks about
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: life extension, robotics/AI, transhumanism
In its most hubristic and unquestioning form, bolstered by unapologetic and brash advanced capitalist logics, transhumanism poses myriad threats: from automation unemployment to the end of democracy, to the risk that humans will branch into different species, making questions of inequality infinitely more urgent. Even if immortality arrives it will be accompanied by crimes, wars, and accidents—as Cantona states.
Technology is on the brink of making it possible to live forever—but should we?
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Sep 1, 2019
Artifical-Death (maintaining a signal from the living person using MVT aware circuits) is possible using current technology
Posted by Steve Nichols in categories: cryonics, life extension, robotics/AI, sustainability
There are good technical reasons why prototypes use the ancient game of Zenet as the interface. Although I do not rule out alternative approaches using the underlying designs and principles, there are unique reasons to choose Zenet — the only method recorded in ancient Egypt whereby the dead and living could communicate. Notwithstanding my background in neural net and hybrid AI in game software development, especially active divination systems; Zenet is the most elegant solution to bridge the worlds (between living and dead) since the rules and objectives vary slightly between the two, and smooth transition between these perspectives can occur in real-time. An objection to Cryogenics is the dead take energy and resources from the living. By making the Zenet boxes solar powered this will not impact on resources of the living, and also will provide a more authentic experience of sun rise and solar changes, important in solar theology of Ra and in Zenet. The game concerns movement of the solar b(ark). On a pragmatic note — the range of awareness can extend just to events and moves in the Zenet game. Even this task is far from trivial using silicon technology, and I don’t envisage anything like “full resurrection” or retention of current memories and so on as feasible for some time.
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Sep 1, 2019
Scientists isolate drought-resistant gene in barley
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: food
Research led by Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, will help crops resist global heating.
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Sep 1, 2019
Cambridge scientists reverse ageing process in rat brain stem cells
Posted by Roderick Reilly in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
New research reveals how increasing brain stiffness as we age causes brain stem cell dysfunction, and demonstrates new ways to reverse older stem cells to a younger, healthier state.
Sep 1, 2019
Astronomers capture rare cosmic collision that’s a chance to ‘understand the chemistry of the universe’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: chemistry, cosmology
It’s a cosmic collision that has astronomers rethinking one of the universe’s most colossal events: the collision of massive stars.
In a new paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers reveal the finding of a kilonova produced by the collision of two massive stellar objects called neutron stars. The collision is roughly 1,000 times brighter than the death of a massive star called a supernova. And they say it produced several hundred planets’ worth of gold and platinum.
But astronomers almost missed it.