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Apr 24, 2017
Fight Aging sees effective antiaging treatments for medical tourism within 5 years
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Fight aging is a site that is highly focused on radical life extension medicine and science. They have a forecast that within five years the first meaningful life extension treatments will exist.
Senescent cell clearing overseas within five years for $5K-25K .
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Apr 24, 2017
Elon Musk wants to enhance us as superhuman cyborgs to deal with superintelligent AI
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, business, cyborgs, Elon Musk, robotics/AI
It’s the year 2021. A quadriplegic patient has just had one million “neural lace” microparticles injected into her brain, the world’s first human with an internet communication system using a wireless implanted brain-mind interface — and empowering her as the first superhuman cyborg. …
No, this is not a science-fiction movie plot. It’s the actual first public step — just four years from now — in Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s business plan for his latest new venture, Neuralink. It’s now explained for the first time on Tim Urban’s WaitButWhy blog.
Apr 24, 2017
Ontario basic income pilot project to launch in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in category: economics
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fPx6ePRRWcs
Basic income pilot project in Ontario.
Premier Kathleen Wynne announced Monday a plan to study basic income in Ontario, in a three-year pilot project based in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay.
Apr 24, 2017
Five Weird Theories of What Lies Outside the Universe
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: space
The “outside the universe” question gets tricky right off the bat, because first you have to define the universe. One common answer is called the observable universe, and it’s defined by the speed of light. Since we can only see things when the light they emit or reflect reaches us, we can never see farther than the farthest distance light can travel in the time the universe has existed. That means the observable universe keeps getting bigger, but it is finite – the amount is sometimes referred to as the Hubble Volume, after the telescope that has given us our most distant views of the universe. We’ll never be able to see beyond that boundary, so for all intents and purposes, it’s the only universe we’ll ever interact with.
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Apr 24, 2017
Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk announces ultralight aircraft you don’t need a license to fly
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The fledgling “flying car” industry just received a major boost as Google cofounder Larry Page officially launched his new startup out of stealth.
Founded in 2015, Kitty Hawk has been known to exist for some time already, but we’ve hitherto had no real idea about what it was all about — beyond it having something to do with flying cars. But earlier this morning, company CEO Sebastian Thrun, who once headed up Google’s self-driving car efforts and later went on to found online learning platform Udacity, tweeted out a link to the company’s website and Twitter page. Kitty Hawk’s website now offers some clue as to what we can expect.
Apr 24, 2017
Researchers build a microprocessor from flexible materials
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: computing, materials
Researchers have built a primitive microprocessor out of a two-dimensional material similar to graphene, the flexible conductive wonder material that some believe will revolutionize the design and manufacture of batteries, sensors and chips.
With only 115 transistors, their processor isn’t going to top any benchmark rankings, but it’s “a first step towards the development of microprocessors based on 2D semiconductors,” the researchers at Vienna University of Technology said in a paper published in the journal Nature this month.
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Apr 24, 2017
Billionaire Jack Ma says CEOs could be robots in 30 years, warns of decades of ‘pain’ from A.I., internet impact
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: economics, education, employment, internet, robotics/AI
Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma warned on Monday that society could see decades of pain thanks to disruption caused by the internet and new technologies to different areas of the economy.
In a speech at a China Entrepreneur Club event, the billionaire urged governments to bring in education reform and outlined how humans need to work with machines.
“In the coming 30 years, the world’s pain will be much more than happiness, because there are many more problems that we have come across,” Ma said in Chinese, speaking about potential job disruptions caused by technology.
Apr 24, 2017
My pic (and one of Alex Jones) have been on the cover of Vice.com since yesterday
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in category: robotics/AI
Read my story on #robots: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/i-talked-to-four-humanoid…doornails1
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Apr 23, 2017
Artificial intelligence could build new drugs faster than any human team
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI
Artificial intelligence algorithms are being taught to generate art, human voices, and even fiction stories all on their own—why not give them a shot at building new ways to treat disease?
Atomwise, a San Francisco-based startup and Y Combinator alum, has built a system it calls AtomNet (pdf), which attempts to generate potential drugs for diseases like Ebola and multiple sclerosis. The company has invited academic and non-profit researchers from around the country to detail which diseases they’re trying to generate treatments for, so AtomNet can take a shot. The academic labs will receive 72 different drugs that the neural network has found to have the highest probability of interacting with the disease, based on the molecular data it’s seen.
Atomwise’s system only generates potential drugs—the compounds created by the neural network aren’t guaranteed to be safe, and need to go through the same drug trials and safety checks as anything else on the market. The company believes that the speed at which it can generate trial-ready drugs based on previous safe molecular interactions is what sets it apart.
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