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Lifeboat News #220

#220

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 11/01/20. Copyright 2020 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Special Report

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Undoing Aging 2021 Update

Undoing Aging 2020 has become Undoing Aging 2021 and has been moved to May 13–15, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Our Tamir Chandra, Ke Cheng, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Vera Gorbunova, Michael Greve, Adiv A. Johnson, Jamie Justice, Jeanne Loring, and Wenyu Zhou will be speaking/participating.
 
Undoing Aging 2021 is not only open to the scientific community, but also welcomes startups, investors, the general media, and all interested members of the broader rejuvenation movement. The conference will feature a student poster session showing the work of innovative undergraduate and graduate students in the field of damage repair.
 
Learn more at https://www.undoing-aging.org

CentOS 8 Comes to Lifeboat.com!

Building on scripts created by the great Chris Haley, we have now upgraded our main lifeboat.com machine from CentOS 6 to CentOS 8. CentOS is a version of Linux, the world’s most popular operating system which runs on everything from Android smartphones to supercomputers.
 
Besides increasing our security, our software is now running much faster than before with blog posts being generated 10 times as fast and our workload has been reduced by 5 times. As a side benefit, linode.com also changed us from an Intel chip to an AMD chip that is 25% faster than the Intel chip. (In each case we were assigned just 6 of the many cores of the chip we are running on.) Intel no longer makes the fastest CPUs and linode.com is slowly switching to AMD chips instead.
 
Our various support machines are all currently running CentOS 7. (Our older main machine fell behind them because it is very difficult to upgrade our main machine which is running a lot of programs.) Our next big upgrade will be to upgrade our support machines to CentOS 9 in a few years. Finally, when we mention “machines”, we are really talking about virtual instances in the cloud where we rent some of the cores, memory, and disk space of large servers.

Blog

Arzu Al Siam joins our blog team with the post “Fusion Will Probably Be More Expensive Than Wind and Solar” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/fusio...nd-solar
 
Julia Brodsky joins our blog team with the post “Why Children Need To Learn About Artificial Intelligence” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/why-c...lligence
 
Kiran Manam joins our blog team with the post “Gene-edited livestock ‘surrogate sires’ successfully made fertile” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/gene-...-fertile
 
J.P. Medved joins our blog team with the post “3 Essential Benefits of Genetic Testing for Longevity” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/3-ess...ongevity
 
Poopeh Morakkabati joins our blog team with the post “Coronavirus vaccines: Will any countries get left out?” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/coron...left-out
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“An Amazonian Tea Stimulates the Formation of New Neurons” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/an-am...-neurons
 
“A new candidate material for quantum spin liquids” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/a-new...-liquids
 
“Bengaluru Engineers Create World’s First Plastic As Strong As Steel, While Staying Lightweight” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/benga...htweight
 
“The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/the-b...o-an-end
 
“Breakthrough Shows Neuropilin-1 Drives SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/break...ectivity
 
“Brutal Chinese Weapon Launches Swarm of Explosive Suicide Drones” by Shane Hinshaw at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/bruta...e-drones
 
“Could cold water hold a clue to a dementia cure?” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/could...tia-cure
 
“DARPA Selects Teams to Further Advance Dogfighting Algorithms” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/darpa...gorithms
 
“Elon Musk’s Neuralink May Offer us Symbiosis With AI — Part 2” by Malak Trabelsi Loeb at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/elon-...i-part-2
 
“First passengers travel safely on a Hyperloop” by Future Timeline at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/first...yperloop
 
“‘He came back from the dead’: Lost Mount Rainier hiker starts to recover after rescue in whiteout conditions” by TJ Wass at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/he-ca...nditions
 
“Human ageing process biologically reversed in world first” by Sean Brazell at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/human...ld-first
 
“Incredible moment NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex makes touchdown on asteroid Bennu” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/incre...id-bennu
 
“Joe Biden COVID adviser under fire for ‘I hope to die at 75’ article” by Ira S. Pastor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/joe-b...-article
 
“Justin Trudeau, Silent Weapons & the Great Reset: The November 19th, 2020 Age of Ingenuity” by Chuck Black at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/justi...ngenuity
 
“LG set to launch world’s first rollable smartphone” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/lg-se...artphone
 
“Longevity Genes” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/longevity-genes
 
“Malaysian boy, 9, wins NASA competition with lunar toilet invention” by Muhammad Furqan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/malay...nvention
 
“NASA and SpaceX officials prepare for first ‘operational’ commercial orbital flight” by Sean Brazell at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/nasa-...l-flight
 
“NASA makes contact with Voyager 2 that is 11.6 BILLION miles away” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/nasa-...les-away
 
“NASA provides photos of rare metal asteroid worth more than entire world’s economy” by Muhammad Furqan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/nasa-...-economy
 
“NASA scientists spot ‘really unexpected’ molecule in atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/nasa-...on-titan
 
“NASA’s Perseverance rover is now halfway to Mars” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/nasas...-to-mars
 
“The Navy Just Sent A Drone To Deliver Cargo To One Of Its Ballistic Missile Submarines” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/the-n...bmarines
 
“New Zealand Is About to Test Long-Range Wireless Power Transmission” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/new-z...smission
 
“Pilot In A Real Aircraft Just Fought An AI-Driven Virtual Enemy Jet For The First Time” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/pilot...rst-time
 
“Prepare for Robocall Hell, Where Scam Bots Pretend to Be Your Mom” by Shane Hinshaw at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/prepa...your-mom
 
“Quantum-computing pioneer warns of complacency over Internet security” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/quant...security
 
“Robotic dogs to start patrolling Florida military base” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/robot...ary-base
 
“Scientists Develop Nasal Spray That Can Disable Coronavirus” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/scien...onavirus
 
“Scientists develop next-generation immunotherapy now entering early phase clinical trials” by Jeff Myers at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/scien...l-trials
 
“Synthetic biology crucial to human missions to Mars” by Lola Heavey at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/synth...-to-mars
 
“The Thermal Nuclear Engine That Could Get Us to Mars in Just 3 Months” by Eamon Everall at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/the-t...3-months
 
“This 14-year-old scientist has an award-winning idea to beat COVID-19” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/this-...covid-19
 
“Time Magazine notes ‘The Great Reset’ on it’s upcoming November 2nd, 2020 international cover…” by Chuck Black at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/time-...al-cover
 
“Tiny device enables new record in super-fast quantum light detection” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/tiny-...etection
 
“Touchdown! NASA makes touchdown on asteroid Bennu to collect samples” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/touch...-samples
 
“U.S. Army self-healing material” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/u-s-a...material
 
“US Navy SEALs Rescue American Hostage in Nigeria” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/us-na...-nigeria
 
“What 50 gravitational-wave events reveal about the Universe” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/what-...universe
 
“Why is Mars so important for humanity?” by Lola Heavey at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/why-i...humanity
 
“X-43A (Hyper-X)” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/x-43a-hyper-x

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