RAADfest 2017
RAADfest 2017, the largest ever gathering of radical life extension
enthusiasts, will be held August 9-13, 2017 in San Diego, California.
Our José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Greg Fahy, William Faloon, Ben
Goertzel, Terry Grossman, Zoltan Istvan, David Kekich, Liz Parrish, Neal
VanDeRee, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
Learn more at http://raadfest.com
AgeMeter
Learn about AgeMeter: Physiological Biomarkers to Determine Functional
Age at https://www.lifespan.io/campaigns/ageme...ker-scan
This important project is $9,383 towards its $30,000 goal.
Blog
John Gallagher joins our blog team with the post "US nuclear arsenal
controlled by 1970s computers with 8in floppy disks" at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/07/us-nu...py-disks
Mary Jain joins our blog team with the post "Researchers shut down AI
that invented its own language" at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/07/resea...language
Müslüm Yildiz joins our blog team with the post "A Son Turned His Dying
Father Into An Artificial Intelligence" at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/a-son...lligence
Recent interesting blog posts include:
"10 predictions about the AI revolution" by Aleksandar Vukovic at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/10-pr...volution
"3 Exponential Techs to Watch" by Odette Gregory at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/3-exp...iversity
"4 Ways Tech Is Going To Improve And Enhance Humans" by Zoltan Istvan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/4-way...e-humans
"'Alexa, I'm ready to walk': Robotics company using Amazon's AI to help
control exoskeleton" by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/alexa...skeleton
"Amazon gets patent for a shipping label with a built-in parachute for
drone deliveries" by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/amazo...liveries
"An artificial eclipse for imaging extrasolar planets" by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/an-ar...-planets
"'Avoiding Andromeda Strain' — NASA Identifies 25 Gaps in Our Knowledge
to Guard Earth Against Alien Life & Biological Contamination" by Brett
Gallie II at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/avoid...mination
"Brain Computer Interface — Neural Lace" by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/brain...ral-lace
"Cancer Care in the Future" by Steven Curley at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/cance...e-future
"Chinese Chatbots Apparently Re-educated After Political Faux Pas" by
Bryan Gatton at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/chine...faux-pas
"David Krakauer on the Future of Humanity: An Interview with Rob
Walcott" by Odette Gregory at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/david...work-kin
"Elena Milova of LEAF asks whether senolytic therapies for senescent
cells could have an adverse effect on the number of functional stem
cells in the body" by Steve Hill at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/elena...the-body
"Elon Musk's First Tesla Solar Roof Is Here, and It Looks Amazing" by
Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/elon-...-amazing
"Halting Pulmonary Fibrosis" by Steve Hill at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/halti...fibrosis
"Here Are Some New Ideas for Fighting Botnets" by John Gallagher at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/here-...-botnets
"How to turn a crystal into an erasable electrical circuit" by Sean
Brazell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/how-t...-circuit
"If we can build a brain, what is the future of 'I'?" by Johnny Boston
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/if-we...ure-of-i
"LEAF President Keith Comito asks whether the CRISPR gene editing system
will help cure aging in the near term" by Steve Hill at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/leaf-...ear-term
"Microchipping Humans: First They Traded Freedom for Security, Now It's
Privacy for Convenience" by John Gallagher at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/micro...venience
"On 2 August, the first antiproton beam coming from CERN's Antiproton
Decelerator (AD) circulated in the Extra Low ENergy Antiproton (ELENA)
ring" by Roman Mednitzer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/on-2-...ena-ring
"A Powerful Energy Beam in Space Seems to Exceed the Speed of Light" by
Andreas Matt at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/a-pow...of-light
"Project RAMA: Reconstructing Asteroids Into Mechanical Automata" by
Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/proje...automata
"Russia's Banks Get Serious About Digital Currencies" by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/russi...rrencies
"Scientists have successfully carried out the first-known attempt at
creating genetically modified human embryos in the U.S." by Dan Kummer
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/scien...-the-u-s
"Silicon Valley luminaries are busily preparing for when robots take
over" by Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/silic...ake-over
"SoftBank is plowing billions into tech companies: Here's a list of
investments so far" by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/softb...s-so-far
"Some Nuclear Power Facts" by Yugal Agrawal at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/some-...er-facts
"Study Shows Injectable Electronic Neural Lace Melds With Neurons
Without Causing Immune Response" by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/study...response
"Tally the robot could be the stock boy of the future" by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/tally...e-future
"Thanks to a Novel Protein, We Could Bring an End to Obesity" by Shane
Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/thank...-obesity
"This FDA Approved Drug Could Permanently Repair Brain Damage in Stroke
Victims" by Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/this-...-victims
"Time to rethink our perspective on jobs and technology" by Odette Gregory at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/time-...an-times
"Today's Transformation, Tomorrow's Transportation" by Alexandra
Whittington at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/today...ortation
"Veritas Genetics Scoops Up an AI Company to Sort Out Its DNA" by Steve
Hill at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/verit...-its-dna
"With genetic morph, a weird type of anthrax has emerged—and it's on a
rampage" by Bryan Gatton at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/with-...-rampage
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