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Oct 26, 2016
Worried about rights for cyborgs? There’s a write-in candidate for that
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: cyborgs, geopolitics, health, life extension, transhumanism
Politico: Write a transhumanist in in New York! http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2016/10…-in-106729 #transhumanism #Election2016 #ScienceCandidate
ALBANY — While Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have debated issues such as immigration, gun control, and health care, neither of them has weighed in on the topic of a bill of rights for cyborgs.
Voters chagrined by that oversight do, however, have another option.
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Oct 26, 2016
EU Commission’s new space policy to invest in startups to boost private investment
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: policy, satellites, space
PARIS — The European Union’s executive commission on Oct. 26 unveiled a new space strategy that promises public investment to stimulate the creation of space start-up companies.
The Brussels, Belgium-based commission, which acts on behalf of the 28 European Union members — still including Britain for a couple of years — is already the biggest single customer for Europe’s Arianespace launch-service provider and for Europe’s satellite manufacturers.
The EU plans to launch some 30 satellites in the coming decade for the Galileo navigation and Copernicus environment-monitoring programs, which are the major beneficiaries of the commission’s space budget of 12 billion euros ($13.5 billion) between 2014 and 2020.
Oct 25, 2016
The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, robotics/AI
I have heard many good things over the recent years on Zymergen.
Identifying high-probability, high-profit opportunities among small-cap stocks all over the world is the reason for Wall Street Daily’s existence.
That’s a big universe of companies to track.
Oct 25, 2016
As In The Days Of Noah—New Synthetic Biology Factory Will Design, Build, And Test Exotic New Lifeforms
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: bioengineering, biological, genetics, robotics/AI
Why compliance exist.
Gingko Bioworks launched their new laboratory last month—an automated “factory” that mass-produces genetically modified organisms. The organism company’s tagline is “Biology By Design,” and it aims to deliver just that in their second foundry, which is equipped with numerous robots that mash together huge batches of genes to churn out new and exotic lifeforms […] Gingko is ambitiously working through the complexities of biology and genetics to create these experimental organisms. The company boasts of a design-build-test cycle: gene-enzyme mixes designed from the company’s scientific database is put together in a hundred different ways, and the “mashup” that services a client’s needs best is accepted as the new organism’s genetic profile. Their new liquid-handling robots like the Echo 525 make large-scale experimentation possible. (READ MORE)
Oct 25, 2016
Russia unveils first images of Satan 2 missile
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: military
Russia has unveiled chilling pictures of its largest ever nuclear missile, capable of destroying an area the size of France.
The RS-28 Sarmat missile, dubbed Satan 2 by Nato, has a top speed of 4.3 miles (7km) per second and has been designed to outfox anti-missile shield systems.
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Oct 25, 2016
Russian military build impenetrable closed internet – and mocks US technology
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, internet, military
For my CISO/ CSO friends.
It is believed that Russia has the Internet that is considered as impenetrable. Such technology protects Russia from hacking attempts.
The World Wide Web (WWW) is prone to hacking, as shown in the recent cyber attacks on the US which led to outages on giants including Twitter, Amazon and Spotify, for which Russia has been largely blamed, so the Eastern European powerhouse has upped its security measures.
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Oct 25, 2016
Can A Brain Computer Interface Convert Your Thoughts to Text?
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience
Summary: Brain-to-text system could help people with speech difficulties to communicate, researchers report.
Source: Frontiers.
Recent research shows brain-to-text device capable of decoding speech from brain signals.
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Oct 25, 2016
Can the brain feel it? The world’s smallest extracellular needle-electrodes
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: neuroscience
A research team in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) at Toyohashi University of Technology developed 5-μm-diameter needle-electrodes on 1 mm × 1 mm block modules. This tiny needle may help solve the mysteries of the brain and facilitate the development of a brain-machine interface. The research results were reported in Scientific Reports on Oct 25, 2016.
The neuron networks in the human brain are extremely complex. Microfabricated silicon needle-electrode devices were expected to be an innovation that would be able to record and analyze the electrical activities of the microscale neuronal circuits in the brain.
However, smaller needle technologies (e.g., needle diameter 10 μm) are necessary to reduce damage to brain tissue. In addition to the needle geometry, the device substrate should be minimized not only to reduce the total amount of damage to tissue but also to enhance the accessibility of the electrode in the brain. Thus, these electrode technologies will realize new experimental neurophysiological concepts.
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