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Doctors from Yale University used bacteria-killing viruses collected from a Connecticut pond to successfully treat a man with a bacterial infection.

Materials that conduct electricity without resistance might mimic black hole physics.

This enhanced Hubble Telescope image show two galaxies in the starting phases of merging into one. Here’s what this cosmic collision is doing to them.

More than 200 artificial intelligence startups applied for Nvidia’s Inception contest, which seeks to identify the best AI startups. The company created the program to find new uses for its graphics processing units (GPUs), but it’s also hoping these startups will change the world.

So far, the company has identified more than 2,800 AI startups over the years through Inception. I listened to pitches from 12 finalists in a Shark Tank styled judging event last week. Each is competing to be one of three finalists to share the $1 million prize pool.

“We’re trying to enable our ecosystem of deep learning neural networks,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, as he introduced a panel of four judges. The 12 semi-finalists gave their 8-minute pitches, six finalists were selected, and the final winners will be picked at the company’s GPU Technology Conference on March 27 in San Jose, California. They ranged from AI for bionic arms to faster, cheaper, and more accurate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.

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Pioneering biologist best known for his work on the human genome who was a fierce advocate of free access to scientific data.

Georgina Ferry

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Those that win in this new age will not be the ones who can do old things faster, but those who can imagine new possibilities.

By Greg Satell

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NEW RELEASE OF PANGEA (v.0.3.3) ON ANDROID_

“The latest release has been published. v.0.3.3 includes bug fixes and UI/UX upgrades since the last release, and the ability to create, join and leave nations. The chat feature is working so now you can also have “Nation Group Chats” to speak with other Citizens of your Nation(s).”

Gateway to your decentralized world & P2P services.

Online pornography is going to some new and very bizarre places, according to the neural network YouPorn used to predict future porn searches.

MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. CosmoCourse, a private Russian company that is designing a reusable spacecraft for suborbital flights, plans to make its first commercial launch with tourists onboard in 2025, CosmoCourse Director General Pavel Pushkin told TASS in an interview.

“The first flight of the prototype (a missile and a space vessel — TASS) is due in 2023, and the first tourist flight is expected in 2025,” Pushkin said.

CosmoCourse’s director general specified that the operational testing for the missile and the launched capsule would kick off in 2022. “The hardware is to be finished in 2021, and in 2022 test operations will begin,” he said.