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Aug 18, 2016

I’m the presidential candidate who wants us to live forever

Posted by in categories: geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism

My new article on transhumanism in New Scientist. Look for it in the print edition too:


Forget Trump and Clinton, I’m campaigning for the US to embrace technology with the potential to make us immortal, says White House contender Zoltan Istvan.

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Aug 18, 2016

Can An Algorithm Diagnose Better Than A Doctor?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hbqDknMc_Bo

Will artificial intelligence solve doctor shortages? Will it be able to replace the art of making a correct diagnosis? Not anytime soon.

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Aug 18, 2016

New Startup Aims to Commercialize a Brain Prosthetic to Improve Memory

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience

Kernel wants to build a neural implant based on neuroscientist Ted Berger’s memory research.

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Aug 18, 2016

Why This Company Is Betting That Reddit Can Make Artificial Intelligence Smarter

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

Stephen Hawking’s AI company is letting its new supercomputer read huge collections of messages.

By Kevin J. Ryan.

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Aug 18, 2016

Aubrey de Grey Announces Progress in MitoSENS

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=16&v=-teTeyUPsJM

More Progress for the SENS approach.


Filmed August 16th 2016.

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Aug 18, 2016

Artificial Gravity In Space For Mice? Multi-Generational Study Concept

Posted by in categories: health, space travel

NASA’s Multigenerational Independent Colony for Extraterrestrial Habitation, Autonomy, and Behavior Health (MICEHAB) would give scientists the ability to study the effects of long-duration space exploration on mice.

Credit: NASA Langley Research Center

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Aug 17, 2016

The silicon dreamer who’s difficult to doubt

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

She is showing the world how QC really works. Hoping; Science and Tech finally gives her the recognition she deserves; and history reflects just how key to QC she is. She is to QC as Tesla was to energy (breaking the boundaries).


They said a silicon based quantum computer couldn’t be built. Professor Michelle Simmons and her team are proving otherwise.

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Aug 17, 2016

“Super-Babies to a Quantum Portal to the Cosmos” –China’s 2016 Headlines Foreshadow Control of the Planet & Beyond

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, space

As I highlighted earlier, we now understand more about the telescope announcement 3 months ago and its tie with the Quantum Satellite. Also, we are aware of China’s efforts to be the world leader of tech as they have proven in Pharmaceuticals (namely the generic brand market). Space is another area they have passion due to the opportunities in mining rare and raw materials, etc. Things are getting extremely interesting for sure.

BTW — the balance of tech power is changing; and we could see soon a day that folks look towards China stating the future of tech v. SV.

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Aug 17, 2016

Exploring the promise of the quantum realm

Posted by in categories: engineering, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum physics, security, terrorism, transportation

Nice work; understanding the quantum effects in nanomechanical systems is closer to reality in being achieved. Imagine a nanobot or microbot with quantum mechanic properties.


Rob Knobel is probing the ultimate limits of nanomechanical systems to develop and build tiny vapour sensors, which could be used as airport security tools to prevent terrorism or drug smuggling.

He and his students are using highly specialized equipment in the $5-million Kingston Nano Fabrication Laboratory (KNFL), which opened a year ago in Innovation Park, to fabricate nanosensors made from graphene, a form of carbon a single atom thick.

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Aug 17, 2016

DARPA’s EXTREME Program will Manipulate Light to Strengthen US National Security

Posted by in categories: materials, security

It aims to introduce engineered optical materials (EnMats) and associated design tools for creating innovative optical systems with improved performance, new functionality, and drastically reduced size and weight.

It will do this by finding ways to manipulate light in ways beyond the conventions of classical reflection and refraction, delivering optical systems the size of a sugar cube.

If successful, EXTREME could introduce a new era in optics and imagers for national defense.

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