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Dec 15, 2018
SEC’s Crypto Czar Signals Some Flexibility on Token Offerings
Posted by Mark Larkento in category: cryptocurrencies
Finally some regulatory clarity. We can build something and ask the SEC if it’s going to be enforced.
No-action letters may be a way forward for crypto startups hoping to avoid securities classifications.
Dec 15, 2018
At least 15 central banks are serious about getting into digital currency
Posted by Mark Larkento in category: finance
Dec 15, 2018
Meet the People Trying to Live Long Enough to Live Forever
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: life extension, media & arts
For the most serious devotees, immortality-seeking is a full-time commitment to keeping abreast of the latest innovations—they speak of these “modalities” with the same reverence a Christian would of a blessing. A $250 billion industry of antiaging products and services is there for the collection—and many of their offerings are for sale at RAADfest.
Ivan Apers, center, surrounded by participants in the RAAD Challenge, a yearlong health and fitness regimen culminating at RAADfest. Members showed off their results with a choreographed workout set to music.
This story appears in VICE Magazine’s Burnout and Escapism Issue. Click HERE to subscribe.
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Dec 15, 2018
Technology will kill the 9-to-5 work week, says Richard Branson
Posted by Michael Lance in category: robotics/AI
With the rise of A.I., and studies that repeatedly suggest that workers’ productivity actually increases during shorter work days, the work week is poised to undergo a major transformation in the coming years.
The billionaire entrepreneur predicts the rise of technology will soon force society to rethink the modern work week.
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Dec 14, 2018
A cosmic fountain is just as cool as it sounds — and stunningly beautiful to match
Posted by Michael Lance in category: cosmology
When vast amounts of gas fall toward a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy cluster, gravitational and electromagnetic forces spray most of the gas away continuously for tens of millions of years. See for yourself: https://go.nasa.gov/2GfhvLd
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Dec 14, 2018
Anti-cancer virus fits tumor receptor like a ‘key in a lock’
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
Seneca Valley virus sounds like the last bug you’d want to catch, but it could be the next breakthrough cancer therapy. Now, scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and the University of Otago have described exactly how the virus interacts with tumors—and why it leaves healthy tissues alone.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on October 29, 2018, provides the first detailed images of how the complex Seneca Valley virus forms with its preferred receptor. The researchers used cryo-electron microscopy to capture images of over 7000 particles and rendered the structure in high resolution. They predict their results will help scientists develop the virus, and other viral drug candidates, for clinical use.
“If you have a virus that targets cancer cells and nothing else, that’s the ultimate cancer fighting tool,” said Prof. Matthias Wolf, principal investigator of the Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit at OIST and co-senior author of the study. “I expect this study will lead to efforts to design viruses for cancer therapy.”
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