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May 22, 2017

Weird energy beam seems to travel five times the speed of light

Posted by in categories: energy, space

The galaxy M87 emits a jet of plasma that looks like it’s breaking the cosmic speed limit – here’s how it manages the trick.

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May 22, 2017

Technology for Immortality

Posted by in categories: life extension, robotics/AI

I wonder if this will allow the body’s current healing abilities to remain robust or will the body’s healing abilities fall off as it will not have to work as hard.


In the near future, tiny microscopic robots will fix our cells so that they never get old or fall apart.

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May 22, 2017

Flyboard Air by Franky Zapata In Lake Havasu in Arizona

Posted by in category: futurism

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May 22, 2017

SDJ jacket is made with the future in mind

Posted by in category: futurism

This jacket can dry itself.

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May 22, 2017

Want To Hold An ICO? CoinList Makes It Easy — And Legal

Posted by in category: law

This new site, a cross between AngelList and Kickstarter — and developed with AngelList — will especially help developers who want to fundraise before launching a network.

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May 22, 2017

How Do You Code for a Quantum Computer?

Posted by in categories: computing, cosmology, quantum physics

The coders of tomorrow may be bug-checking the multiverse.

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May 22, 2017

I don’t want to live forever

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

A very simple reason why whether or not people want to live ‘forever’ doesn’t matter in the discussion about rejuvenation biotechnologies, plus a couple of thought experiments to better understand the wish to ‘die at some point’ of some.


You don’t want to live forever? Then don’t.

I’m not kidding. It is as simple as that, and I’ll tell you more. If you—or even the entire world, for that matter—don’t want to live forever, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t develop rejuvenation therapies.

Why? Because rejuvenation therapies do not make you immortal. Being forever young only means you don’t get age-related diseases and disabilities, not that you can’t be shot or run over by a truck, or that you can’t kill yourself. On top of that, you don’t have to undergo rejuvenation therapies if you don’t want to. However, while rejuvenation wouldn’t make you immortal, it would give you more control over you life. If you say you know for a fact you want to die at some point, I’m cool with that, but there is no guarantee ageing will kill you just at the right moment. Ageing could easily take you away when you still had tons of things you wanted to do. On the other hand, if you didn’t have to worry about the possibility of such an untimely death, you could very well decide for yourself when and how you want to go, and be relatively sure it’d happen that way.

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May 22, 2017

Moogfest Day Three Highlights: Robot Car, Immortality Bus & Particle Physics

Posted by in categories: life extension, particle physics, robotics/AI, transhumanism, transportation

Here’s a write-up of Moogfest that has a section dedicated to the Immortality Bus and transhumanism:


The ExitEvent team is all hands on deck for the next four days as we try to capture all the cool stuff going on in downtown Durham for Moogfest. We’ll post photos, videos, stories and soundbites as we get them. Feel free to submit your own captures as well!

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May 22, 2017

SoftBank, Saudis Launch $100 Billion Tech Fund

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI, virtual reality

Ahead of the fund’s launch on Saturday, Mr. Son said it would focus on investing in sectors including artificial intelligence, smart devices and semiconductors. “We already have lots in the pipeline,” he said. “We are investing into genome sequencing. We are investing in virtual-reality simulations, the games, and so on.”


Japan’s SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund on Saturday launched the world’s largest technology fund, a nearly $100 billion vehicle that will steer capital to cutting-edge technologies in U.S. startups and other global firms.

In a statement, SoftBank said the fund secured $93 billion of committed capital. The so-called SoftBank Vision Fund is targeting a total of $100 billion within 6 months. The fund’s creation coincides with U.S. President Donald Trump’s two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, where he is…

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May 22, 2017

Train-drone delivery system could bring packages to your balcony

Posted by in category: drones

The Iris concept would use modified metros and drones to deliver packages for online retailers.

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