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Mar 5, 2019
Journalists Reported a News Story Using Machine Learning
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Quartz’s Lyft story isn’t the most groundbreaking work of journalism in the world, but it’s an interesting proof of concept about how reporters can leverage new tools to pull interesting takeaways from otherwise dry public records — and, perhaps, a preview of things to come.
“This is taking [data journalism] to the next level where we’re trying to get journalists comfortable using computers to do some of this pattern matching, sorting, grouping, anomaly detection — really working with especially large data sets,” John Keefe, Quartz’s technical architect for bots and machine learning, told Digiday back when the Quartz AI Studio first launched.
READ MORE: Here’s what Lyft talks about as risk factors that other companies don’t [Quartz].
Mar 5, 2019
Record-breaking device uses sunlight to produce hydrogen at 15% efficiency
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
After a decade of research, scientists at KU Leuven in Belgium have developed a device that can uses sunlight to produce a record-breaking 250 liters (66 gal) of hydrogen a day.
Mar 5, 2019
Advances in stem cell treatment give hope to millions with ‘incurable’ diseases
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
The announcement that a London man has become the second in the world to be “functionally cured” of HIV is a major advance in stem cell transplant therapy.
The man — who wishes to remain anonymous — was given stem cells from a donor with genetic resistance to the disease and he has now been in long term remission for 18 months without medication.
The breakthrough comes ten years after the first such case of a patient with HIV going into sustained remission, known as the ‘Berlin Patient.’
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Mar 5, 2019
Israel’s first moon mission spacecraft sends back selfie
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
An Israeli spacecraft on its maiden mission to the moon has sent its first selfie back to Earth, mission chiefs said on Tuesday.
The image showing part of the Beresheet spacecraft with Earth in the background was beamed to mission control in Yehud, Israel – 23,360 miles (37,600km) away, the project’s lead partners said.
The partners, NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries, launched the unmanned Beresheet – Hebrew for Genesis – from Cape Canaveral in Florida on 22 February.
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Mar 5, 2019
Goodyear’s New Concept Tire Doubles as a Flying Car Propeller
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: futurism, transportation
Mar 5, 2019
Epigenetic Alterations and Reprogramming Potential in Aging
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
The role of epigenetics, which determine how your genes are expressed, is being increasingly implicated in aging, as is the potential of therapies that revert epigenetics back to those of a younger person.
What are epigenetic alterations?
The DNA in each of our cells is identical, with only some small variations, so why do our various organs and tissues look so different, and how do cells know what to become?
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Mar 5, 2019
Coinbase Preventing Account Closures as #DeleteCoinbase Movement Spreads
Posted by Steve Nichols in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies
Multiple users are reporting on social media that they are currently unable to delete their Coinbase accounts. This news comes as some cryptocurrency enthusiasts continue to clamor for a boycott of the exchange giant over its recent acquisition of Neutrino.
Amid the clamor for a boycott on Coinbase, some users are saying that the company is preventing them from closing down their accounts. Respondents say they followed the fairly easy account closing procedure only to be met with error messages.
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Mar 5, 2019
H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first long-term remission 12 years ago. With the so-called London patient, they seem to have succeeded.
Mar 5, 2019
How Much Of The Unobservable Universe Will We Someday Be Able To See?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
As more time passes since the Big Bang, more of the Universe comes into view. But how much?