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Mar 28, 2019
Some of my thoughts on the Kavanaugh hearings, sexual assault, and technology: #transhumanism #MeToo
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: neuroscience, transhumanism
Some of my thoughts on the Kavanaugh hearings, sexual assault, and technology: https://mavenroundtable.io/…/brain-implants-would-end-most…/ #transhumanism #MeToo
A brain implant that registers trauma could help prevent rape and violent crime — so why don’t we have it yet?
Mar 28, 2019
US Presidential hopeful plans to ABOLISH DEATH using technology — ‘We can live to 10,000’
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, transhumanism
Here’s a new interview I did in one of England’s largest newspaper online sites: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1106371/US-President-ca…technology #transhumanism
A FORMER US presidential candidate who could run again in 2020 has outlined a radical plan to abolish natural death using technology.
Mar 28, 2019
Facial Recognition Software Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers As Crime Suspects
Posted by Mary Jain in category: robotics/AI
The American Civil Liberties Union says that Amazon Rekognition, facial recognition software sold online, inaccurately identified lawmakers and poses threats to civil rights — charges that Amazon denies. Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images hide caption.
Mar 28, 2019
The Insane Plan to Build a Skyscraper Hanging Down from Space!
Posted by Mary Jain in category: space
I have a NEW channel ► “Meet, Arnold!” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsoJa2pm6Mo
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Mar 28, 2019
The Pursuit of Immortality, Regeneration & Longevity
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Join us at 7pm tonight!
Neal vanderee officiator at the church of perpetual life.
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Mar 28, 2019
Unusual galaxies defy dark matter theory
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
After drawing both praise and skepticism, the team of astronomers who discovered NGC 1052-DF2 – the very first known galaxy to contain little to no dark matter – are back with stronger evidence about its bizarre nature.
Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible substance that typically dominates the makeup of galaxies; finding an object that’s missing dark matter is unprecedented, and came as a complete surprise.
“If there’s one object, you always have a little voice in the back of your mind saying, ‘but what if you’re wrong?’ Even though we did all the checks we could think of, we were worried that nature had thrown us for a loop and had conspired to make something look really special whereas it was really something more mundane,” said team leader Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy at Yale University.
Mar 28, 2019
Office Depot pays $35 million over claims it lied to customers about malware infections
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cybercrime/malcode
Mar 28, 2019
20% of Industrial Control Systems Affected by Critical Vulnerabilities
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, security
Image: Business Wire
Over half of the 415 vulnerabilities found in industrial control systems (ICS) were assigned CVSS v.3.0 base scores over 7 which are designated to security issues of high or critical risk levels, with 20% of vulnerable ICS devices being impacted by critical security issues.
As detailed in Kaspersky’s “Threat landscape or industrial automation systems H2 2018”, “The largest number of vulnerabilities affect industrial control systems that control manufacturing processes at various enterprises (115), in the energy sector (110), and water supply (63).”
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Mar 28, 2019
Neural networks stop autonomous cars spinning out
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Staying at the ‘limit of friction’ is key to marrying speed and safety. Nick Carne reports.