Lifeboat News: The Blog – Safeguarding Humanity

Freezing And Storing Donated Organs Could Eliminate Some Transplant Waitlists

Posted by Nicholi Avery in biotech/medical, innovation

Oct 21
2018

Investigating a line of old, abandoned research led to Arigos’ innovation.

23 Charts And Maps That Show The World is Getting Much, Much Better

Posted by Montie Adkins in futurism

Oct 21
2018

These are bleak times — but a lot of things are improving.

Decentralized Last Mile Communication Using Mobile Mesh Networks

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in bitcoin

Oct 21
2018

Globally decentralized protocols like Bittorrent, Bitcoin and Tor provide users a remarkable level of censorship resistance, privacy and communication freedom. But highly centralized local communication networks can block, throttle and log users of these protocols and work with governments and private firms to surveil and harass users. Centralized communication networks historically tend toward rent-seeking behavior, do a poor job at serving last-mile communities, and are fragile during natural and manmade disasters. This talk will review decentralized alternatives for local communication and demonstrate a new open source solution called TxTenna for sending offline Bitcoin transactions over a mobile mesh network.

Institute of Cryptoanarchy.

Prostate cancer: radiotherapy could extend thousands of lives, study finds

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical

Oct 21
2018

Use alongside traditional treatment in advanced cases ‘could benefit 3,000 men in UK’.

Scientists Create Artificial Wood That Is Water- and Fire-Resistant

Posted by Genevieve Klien in materials

Oct 21
2018

The synthetic material is faster to make than natural wood.

Forest Organics — Regenerative And Rejuvenative Health And Wellness

Posted by Ira S. Pastor in aging, biotech/medical, disruptive technology, finance, genetics, health, life extension, posthumanism, scienceTagged anti-aging, beauty, bioquantine, bioquark, biotech, cosmetics, forest organics, health, skin, wellness

Oct 21
2018

Congratulations to the Forest Organics team and their awesome new site — https://www.myforestorganics.com/

Reshapes Itself to Shape The Future

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in futurism, robotics/AI

Oct 21
2018

MIT will reshape itself to shape the future, investing $1 billion to address the rapid evolution of computing and AI — and its global effects. At the heart of this effort: a $350 million gift to found the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing.

Photo: Christopher Harting

China to launch lunar lighting in outer space

Posted by Michael Lance in innovation, space

Oct 21
2018

China is planning to launch its own “artificial moon” by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday. Current latest trending Philippine headlines on science, technology breakthroughs, hardware devices, geeks, gaming, web/desktop applications, mobile apps, social media buzz and gadget reviews.

Silicon Valley’s Newest Venture Is The Search For Immortality

Posted by Derick Lee in biological, engineering, life extension

Oct 21
2018

The Silicon Valley mindset combines biology and engineering: The body is a machine to be hacked and improved.

Futurists at some of the biggest tech firms want to reshape the way we think about death.

Puranik CEO of Atlantic.Net validates space based cloud operations

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in business, computing, space

Oct 21
2018

Space could represent a new frontier for cloud infrastructure. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle battle for business from companies that are offloading their data center computing and storage needs.