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Nov 15, 2022

Effective Philanthropy: That’s what Jeff Bezos wants to do with his $122 billion fortune

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

Bezos thinks that there are many ineffective ways of philanthropy and wants to avoid them as he prepares to give away all his wealth.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told during a short interview with CNN

With this announcement, Bezos joins the list of other billionaires in the world, such as Bill Gates, who have decided to give away their wealth during their lifetimes. After expressing his desire to remove himself from the list of billionaires, Gates donated $6 billion to his Foundation, which runs programs across the world.

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Nov 15, 2022

Scientists Created a Black Hole in The Lab, And Then It Started to Glow

Posted by in categories: cosmology, mathematics, particle physics, quantum physics

A new kind of black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing.

Using a chain of atoms in single-file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists has observed the equivalent of what we call Hawking radiation – particles born from disturbances in the quantum fluctuations caused by the black hole’s break in spacetime.

This, they say, could help resolve the tension between two currently irreconcilable frameworks for describing the Universe: the general theory of relativity, which describes the behavior of gravity as a continuous field known as spacetime; and quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of discrete particles using the mathematics of probability.

Nov 15, 2022

Wormholes May Already Have Been Detected, Physicists Say

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Hypothetical bridges connecting distant regions of space (and time) could more or less look like garden variety black holes, meaning it’s possible these mythical beasts of physics have already been seen.

Thankfully however, if a new model proposed by a small team of physicists from Sofia University in Bulgaria is accurate, there could still be a way to tell them apart.

Play around with Einstein’s general theory of relativity long enough, it’s possible to show how the spacetime background of the Universe can form not only deep gravitational pits where nothing escapes – it can form impossible mountain peaks which can’t be climbed.

Nov 15, 2022

How we travelled beyond infinity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, mathematics, quantum physics

Circa 2011 face_with_colon_three


By Amanda Gefter.

Frank Close tells the human story of how we solved The Infinity Puzzle – once the bane of physics

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Nov 15, 2022

New Artificial Eye Mimics a Retina’s Natural Curve

Posted by in category: cyborgs

Circa 2020 face_with_colon_three


Researchers have crafted a device that replicates the shape of the eye’s sensory membrane.

Nov 15, 2022

The unimon, a new qubit to boost quantum computers for useful applications

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

A group of scientists from Aalto University, IQM Quantum Computers, and VTT Technical Research Center have discovered a new superconducting qubit, the unimon, to increase the accuracy of quantum computations. The team has achieved the first quantum logic gates with unimons at 99.9% fidelity—a major milestone on the quest to build commercially useful quantum computers. This research was just published in the journal Nature Communications.

Of all the different approaches to build useful quantum computers, are in the lead. However, the designs and techniques currently used do not yet provide high enough performance for practical applications. In this noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, the complexity of the implementable quantum computations is mostly limited by errors in single-and two-qubit quantum gates. The quantum computations need to become more accurate to be useful.

“Our aim is to build quantum computers which deliver an advantage in solving real-world problems. Our announcement today is an important milestone for IQM, and a significant achievement to build better superconducting quantum computers,” said Professor Mikko Möttönen, joint Professor of Quantum Technology at Aalto University and VTT, and also a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at IQM Quantum Computers, who was leading the research.

Nov 15, 2022

Roger Penrose: “Consciousness must be beyond computable physics”

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, quantum physics

The mathematician shares his latest theories on quantum consciousness, the structure of the universe and how to communicate with civilisations from other cosmological aeons.

Nov 15, 2022

‘Russia missiles’ kill two in Nato member Poland claims US official

Posted by in category: futurism

Russian missiles hit Poland.


The timing of this fresh wave of Russian attacks is not lost on anybody, coming hours after President Zelenskyy addressed world leaders meeting in Bali for the G20.

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Nov 15, 2022

Intel detection tool uses blood flow to identify deepfakes with 96% accuracy

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A counter to deepfakes.


Deepfakes, which usually involve superimposing someone’s face and voice onto another person, started gaining attention a few years ago when adult websites began banning videos where the technique was used to add famous actresses’ faces to porn stars’ bodies.

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Nov 15, 2022

Dr. Michael Hufford, PhD — Advancing Novel Therapeutic Interventions For Unmet Medical Needs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Advancing Novel Therapeutic Interventions For Unmet Medical Needs — Dr. Michael Hufford, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO, LyGenesis; Interim CEO, Morphoceuticals; Scientific Advisor, Juvenescence.


Dr. Michael Hufford, Ph.D. is the Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of LyGenesis (https://www.lygenesis.com/), a clinical-stage cell therapy company that transforms patient’s lymph nodes into bioreactors capable of growing functioning ectopic organs. He also serves as the Interim CEO of Morphoceuticals (https://www.morphoceuticals.com/) a company focused on modifying electric potentials in cells and tissues for a variety of applications in regenerative medicine, from improving amputation stump health and limb regeneration, to organogenesis, to creating a bioelectric atlas where numerous disease indications may be corrected.

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