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Mar 5, 2019

Journalists Reported a News Story Using Machine Learning

Posted by 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].

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Mar 5, 2019

Record-breaking device uses sunlight to produce hydrogen at 15% efficiency

Posted by 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.

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Mar 5, 2019

Advances in stem cell treatment give hope to millions with ‘incurable’ diseases

Posted by 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 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 in categories: futurism, transportation

Take a look at Goodyear’s vision for the future of transport.

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Mar 5, 2019

Epigenetic Alterations and Reprogramming Potential in Aging

Posted by 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 in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies

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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 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.

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Mar 5, 2019

How Much Of The Unobservable Universe Will We Someday Be Able To See?

Posted by in category: cosmology

As more time passes since the Big Bang, more of the Universe comes into view. But how much?

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Mar 5, 2019

Remembering ENIAC, and the Women Who Programmed It

Posted by in category: computing

ENIAC was the world’s first electronic digital computer, and though it was glossed over in the history books, it was programmed by a team of six women. Remembering their contributions could inspire young women looking to break into the male-dominated tech industry.

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