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Oct 11, 2017
Modifying Your Own Genes Is Just An Injection Away–If You’re Feeling Lucky
Posted by Paul Gonçalves in category: biotech/medical
Biohacker Josiah Zayner wants to create a world where anyone is free and able to experiment on their own DNA.
Oct 11, 2017
This automated CPR chest band could save lives in remote places
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Oct 11, 2017
Immortality is the new IT: Tech moguls chase longevity
Posted by Derick Lee in category: life extension
They made their money by harnessing tech to transform life. Now, they want to use their wealth to extend the limits of life. Longevity is the new frontier for these Silicon Valley barons and they hope to again do what they do best, transform life as we know it and make a killing off it.
Oct 11, 2017
Intel Accelerates Its Quantum Computing Efforts With 17-Qubit Chip
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, information science, quantum physics
Intel says it is shipping an experimental quantum computing chip to research partners in The Netherlands today. The company hopes to demonstrate that its packaging and integration skills give it an edge in the race to produce practical quantum computers.
The chip contains 17 superconducting qubits—the quantum computer’s fundamental component. According to Jim Clarke, Intel’s director of quantum hardware, the company chose 17 qubits because it’s the minimum needed to perform surface code error correction, an algorithm thought to be necessary to scaling up quantum computers to useful sizes.
Intel’s research partners, at the TU Delft and TNO research center Qutech, will be testing the individual qubits’ abilities as well as performing surface code error correction and other algorithms.
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Oct 10, 2017
Massive Chinese Telescope Discovers Two Pulsars While Still in Trial Stage
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: space
After one year of trial operations, China’s 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), a 30-football-field-large radio telescope that is currently the world’s largest, recently discovered two pulsars 16,000 and 4,100 light years from Earth, respectively.
Pulsars are magnetized and rotating collapsed stars that emit electromagnetic beams. Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) confirmed Tuesday that the new pulsars J1859-01 and J1931-01 were discovered on August 22 and 25 while the telescope was scanning the southern galactic plane. Australia’s Parkes radio telescope confirmed the discovery in September, state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
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Oct 10, 2017
Alibaba to Launch a Robotic Gas Station
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Reminds me of that scene from Back to the Future 2, only in China lol.
Alibaba is gearing up to build a new gas station that is staffed with robotic arms.
Oct 10, 2017
Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D.: Rejuvenation biotechnology: Why Age May Soon Not Mean Aging
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Recorded Oct 4th, 2017
Link to the interview, goo.gl/8rQ6YS
Oct 10, 2017
Deceptively Cunning Cancer Cells Force Healthy Cells to Make Fake Viruses
Posted by Yugal Agrawal in category: biotech/medical
A new study suggests that cancer cells trick normal cells to produce virus-like particles that help tumor cells to grow and spread.
Oct 10, 2017
‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: internet, mobile phones
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster.