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Jun 18, 2019

For most of history, humans got smarter. That’s now reversing

Posted by in category: futurism

We were gaining three IQ points per decade for many, many years. Now, that’s going backward. Could this explain some of our choices lately?

Jun 18, 2019

In Japan, This Engineer Is Designing a Miniature Rover to Make the Moon Habitable

Posted by in categories: economics, space

By finding water on the moon, startup Ispace envisions a bustling lunar economy by 2040.

Jun 18, 2019

A New Global Currency

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, finance

Today, Facebook is coming together with 27 organizations around the world to start the non-profit Libra Association and create a new currency called Libra.


Libra is a global cryptocurrency built on blockchain to promote financial inclusion. Libra is digital, mobile, stable, fast, cheap and secure. Read the Libra White Paper.

Jun 18, 2019

UNITY Biotechnology Reports Promising Topline Data from Phase 1 First-in-human Study of UBX0101 in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

It’s a start. So far so good, senolytics.


SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — UNITY Biotechnology, Inc. (UNITY) [NASDAQ: UBX], a biotechnology company developing therapeutics to extend healthspan by slowing, halting or reversing diseases of aging, today announced promising results from its first-in-human Phase 1 study of UBX0101 in patients with moderate to severe osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. The study demonstrated that UBX0101 was safe and well-tolerated. Improvement in several clinical measures, including pain, function, as well as modulation of certain senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) factors and disease-related biomarkers was observed after a single dose of UBX0101.

Jun 18, 2019

Today, Facebook is coming together with 27 organizations around the world to start the non-profit Libra Association and create a new currency called Libra

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, finance, mobile phones

Libra’s mission is to create a simple global financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people around the world. It’s powered by blockchain technology and the plan is to launch it in 2020. You can read more about the association here: https://libra.org/&h=AT0Vpgfo9yMWI9A93aDq0V-7D3PwK9TiZGZ…la1VStESZA

Being able to use mobile money can have an important positive impact on people’s lives because you don’t have to always carry cash, which can be insecure, or pay extra fees for transfers. This is especially important for people who don’t have access to traditional banks or financial services. Right now, there are around a billion people who don’t have a bank account but do have a mobile phone.

Jun 18, 2019

Facebook confirms it will launch a cryptocurrency called Libra in 2020

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies

Facebook is finally ready to talk about its blockchain plans. Following numerous reports unraveling its upcoming announcement in detail, the company today said that its in-development global cryptocurrency, called Libra, will launch next year alongside the underlying blockchain-based network that will support it.

Jun 18, 2019

Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds

Posted by in categories: computing, physics

The trilogy’s success has been credited with establishing sci-fi, once marginalized in China, as a mainstream taste. Liu believes that this trend signals a deeper shift in the Chinese mind-set—that technological advances have spurred a new excitement about the possibilities of cosmic exploration. The trilogy commands a huge following among aerospace engineers and cosmologists; one scientist wrote an explanatory guide, “The Physics of Three Body.” Some years ago, China’s aerospace agency asked Liu, whose first career was as a computer engineer in the hydropower industry, to address technicians and engineers about ways that “sci-fi thinking” could be harnessed to produce more imaginative approaches to scientific problems.


A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.

Jun 18, 2019

Beyond Meat will start making plant-based ‘ground beef’

Posted by in category: food

WHERE’S THE BEEF? You won’t find it here. This new plant-based “ground beef” is supposed to marbleize and tenderize just like the real thing.


(CNN) — It looks like beef and it’s made to taste like beef, but it’s made from something else.

A company called Beyond Meat says it’s working to make products that are indistinguishable from beef, pork and poultry for folks who like meat but want to be a little more healthy and more environmentally conscious.

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Jun 17, 2019

Controlling genes with light

Posted by in category: futurism

New technique can rapidly turn genes on and off, helping scientists better understand their function.

Jun 17, 2019

Scientists Control CRISPR With Light

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

This could be used to also heal organs in a portable device.


Engineers show that near-infrared light can trigger the release of CRISPR-Cas9 to slow tumor growth.