Lifeboat Foundation

Take a deep dive with NFX into the hottest longevity startups, exploring the mindset of the Founders and why they’re on a mission to keep healthy people healthy, to redesigned healthcare that prevents us from falling into disability and disease over time.

Solving this holds incredible financial and societal value — we have only a few decades left.

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Researchers are trying to figure out what is making more young adults sick, and how to identify those at high risk.

A new way to experience adventure and challenge your limits.

Do you love exploring the great outdoors, but feel limited by your physical stamina or the weight of your backpack?

A robot startup, Hypershell from Y-Combinator China, has created an all-terrain exoskeleton that will take your outdoor adventures to the next level.

AI is going to change games in countless different ways, and it’s going to come at a cost too.

It doesn’t take a particularly keen eye to notice that AI is the star of CES 2024.

It doesn’t take a particularly keen eye to notice that AI is the star of CES 2024. At a certain point, every single conversation I had at the giant technology show led back to AI and how it’s going to change the way we use our computers and even play our games.

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The shift is indicative of the importance of new artificial intelligence technology to Silicon Valley and Wall Street investors.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sat down with Bill Gates to explore the positive potential and threats of artificial intelligence.

Forward-thinking designers are willing to embrace the technology — without relinquishing human creativity’s central role.

One of the most curious objects in last year’s Venice Glass Week was a milky white blown-glass vase.

An artificial intelligence model can discern whether fingerprints from different fingers come from the same person, which could make forensic investigations more efficient.

By Grace Wade

The language-learning app downplayed automation’s role in a recent offboarding of contractors, but translators worry it’s a harbinger of things to come.

Lost in translation?

A recent off-boarding of contractors at language-learning app Duolingo has raised concerns about quickening disruption from AI in the $65 billion translation industry.

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