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Feb 12, 2018
How the United States Plans to Reclaim Its Supercomputer Dominance
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: neuroscience, supercomputing
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oLamZ1RbTrM
It’s a tight race between the U.S. and China for who will build the next supercomputer, set to be as powerful as the human brain.
Because of how much it impairs the ability to breathe, a seemingly simple injury—a broken rib—is the second leading cause of trauma deaths. A team of Penn State surgeons and a biomedical engineer have invented a better way to help broken ribs heal.
Feb 12, 2018
The libraries of the future will be made of DNA
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
There are 6,000 tweets sent a second. In the time you have read this sentence, 42,000 tweets will have been sent. At an average of 34 characters per tweet that’s 1,428,000 characters.
Feb 12, 2018
Edible QR Codes Could Deliver Exactly What Your Body Needs to Heal
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, food, mobile phones
A new study suggests that printing drugs on a QR code that patients can scan with their phones could pave the way for personalized medicine.
Feb 12, 2018
How Swarm Intelligence Is Making Simple Tech Much Smarter
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, bitcoin, food, robotics/AI
As a group, simple creatures following simple rules can display a surprising amount of complexity, efficiency, and even creativity. Known as swarm intelligence, this trait is found throughout nature, but researchers have recently begun using it to transform various fields such as robotics, data mining, medicine, and blockchains.
Ants, for example, can only perform a limited range of functions, but an ant colony can build bridges, create superhighways of food and information, wage war, and enslave other ant species—all of which are beyond the comprehension of any single ant. Likewise, schools of fish, flocks of birds, beehives, and other species exhibit behavior indicative of planning by a higher intelligence that doesn’t actually exist.
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Feb 12, 2018
This new company wants to sequence your genome and let you share it on a blockchain
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, bitcoin, cryptocurrencies
Rewriting Life
This new company wants to sequence your genome and let you share it on a blockchain.
People will be able to earn cryptocurrency in exchange for letting pharma companies use their data.