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Aug 1, 2018

The futuristic Naked 3D fitness tracker creates a model of your naked body

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=xJMMdcLEgbs

The Naked 3D fitness tracker is a new way to stay healthy. With a scale and a smart mirror, it creates a 3D model of your body, to help you get fitter.

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Aug 1, 2018

LG to open next AI research lab in Canada

Posted by in categories: business, habitats, robotics/AI

LG will build its next artificial intelligence (AI) research lab in Toronto, it announced Wednesday.

The South Korean electronics company said the Canadian lab is an extension of its newly expanded Silicon Valley AI Lab in Santa Clara, California. It also has AI labs in South Korea, India and Russia.

“Early implementations of AI in connected devices today are setting the stage for tomorrow’s smart cities, smart homes, smart businesses and smart devices, all with capabilities that no one has even dreamed of yet.” said LG President and Chief Technology Officer Il-pyung Park.

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Aug 1, 2018

Ancient Blue Crystals Trapped in Meteorite Reveal the Sun’s Violent Past

Posted by in category: space

According to a study released Monday in Nature Astronomy ancient blue crystals unearthed from meteorites are the key to understanding what the sun was like during it’s earliest days. Scientists removed these microscopic crystals, technically called hibonites, from the chunk of the Murchison meteorite.

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Aug 1, 2018

Killer Nanorobots Are Coming For Your Cancer

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

These are literally tiny metallic robots capable of attacking diseases at the cellular level. It’s mind-blowing.

It’s also the result of where we are in the current technology landscape. Scientists, engineers and software specialists are coming together to solve problems that most laypeople think are impossible.

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Aug 1, 2018

The ordinary people making medical breakthroughs via crowdsourcing – solving problems that have doctors beat

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

The WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases developed the guide to help boost public health by using crowdsourcing, where a group of experts and non-experts solve a problem and then share the solution with the public.


Researchers can get too close to their subject and a layman’s intuition can achieve medical breakthroughs, as World Health Organisation crowdsourcing initiatives continue to show.

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Aug 1, 2018

New video from Undoing Aging 2018: Nichola Conlon, Founder and CEO of Nuchido presenting: Systems pharmacology interventions in aging

Posted by in category: life extension

https://www.undoing-aging.org/videos/nichola-conlon-presenti…aging-2018

Btw: the facebook event page for Undoing Aging 2019 is already up fb.com/events/2044104465916196/

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Jul 31, 2018

Space Propulsion

Posted by in category: space

Is it possible to travel through Space at a speed 100 times greater than the speed of light? Scientist try to distort the space-time in order to achieve it.

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Jul 31, 2018

Neil deGrasse Tyson scolds cherry picking climate science

Posted by in categories: climatology, policy, science, sustainability

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says lawmakers and the media cherry pick scientific papers to reinforce political ideals on climate change and says it’s irresponsible to create public policy while ignoring the scientific community’s consensus.

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Jul 31, 2018

348-Year-Old Radioactive Molecule Spotted in Space

Posted by in categories: entertainment, space

“When Stars Collide” sounds like the title track of Barry Manilow’s latest album.

Unfortunately, Barry hasn’t released a single since 2012.

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Jul 31, 2018

This ‘flow battery’ could power green homes when the sun goes down and the wind stops blowing

Posted by in category: futurism

Long-lasting “Methuselah” molecule brings industrial organic flow battery closer to market.

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