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Sep 24, 2017
British supermarket offers ‘finger vein’ payment in worldwide first
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: electronics
A UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the veins in their fingertips.
Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunel University in London, can now pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves.
The firm behind the technology, Sthaler, has said it is in “serious talks” with other major UK supermarkets to adopt hi-tech finger vein scanners at pay points across thousands of stores.
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Sep 24, 2017
Navy Will Start Using Xbox Controllers For Periscope Operation
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
According to a newsletter from The James Altucher Report, Amazon will soon begin accepting Bitcoin, which they will officially announce as early as October 26th during their earnings conference call.
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James Altucher has (co)founded more than 20 companies, authored 11 books, and has been a contributor to several major publications.
Sep 24, 2017
Transhumanism: Could we live forever? BBC News
Posted by Lily Graca in categories: genetics, life extension, nanotechnology, robotics/AI, transhumanism
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Sep 24, 2017
Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb
Posted by Lily Graca in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs
Sep 24, 2017
Scientists create world’s first ‘molecular robot’ capable of building molecules
Posted by Paul Gonçalves in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
Scientists at The University of Manchester have created the world’s first ‘molecular robot’ that is capable of performing basic tasks including building other molecules. The tiny robots, which are a millionth of a millimetre in size, can be programmed to move and build molecular cargo, using a tiny robotic arm.
Each individual robot is capable of manipulating a single molecule and is made up of just 150 carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen atoms. To put that size into context, a billion billion of these robots piled on top of each other would still only be the same size as a single grain of salt. The robots operate by carrying out chemical reactions in special solutions which can then be controlled and programmed by scientists to perform the basic tasks.
In the future such robots could be used for medical purposes, advanced manufacturing processes and even building molecular factories and assembly lines. The research will be published in Nature on Thursday 21st September.
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Thankfully, no one’s out there systematically murdering lawyers. But advances in artificial intelligence may diminish their role in the legal system or even, in some cases, replace them altogether. Here’s what we stand to gain—and what we should fear—from these technologies.
How legal representation could come to resemble TurboTax.
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Sep 23, 2017
Malicious code written into DNA infects the computer that reads it
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, computing, security
In a mind-boggling world first, a team of biologists and security researchers have successfully infected a computer with a malicious program coded into a strand of DNA.
It sounds like science fiction, but I assure you it’s quite real — although you probably don’t have to worry about this particular threat vector any time soon. That said, the possibilities suggested by this project are equally fascinating and terrifying to contemplate.
The multidisciplinary team at the University of Washington isn’t out to make outlandish headlines, although it’s certainly done that. They were concerned that the security infrastructure around DNA transcription and analysis was inadequate, having found elementary vulnerabilities in open-source software used in labs around the world. Given the nature of the data usually being handled, this could be a serious problem going forward.
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