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Feb 10, 2018
TAE Technologies pushes plasma machine to a new high on the nuclear fusion frontier
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: climatology, nuclear energy, sustainability
TAE Technologies, the California-based fusion company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, said its latest and greatest plasma generator has exceeded the headline-grabbing performance of its previous machine.
“This announcement is an important milestone on our quest to deliver world-changing, clean fusion energy to help combat climate change and improve the quality of life for people globally,” Michl Binderbauer, the company’s president and chief technology officer, said in a news release. “This achievement further validates the robustness of TAE’s underlying science and unique pathway.”
Feb 10, 2018
Sound waves may be able to trigger earlier tsunami warnings
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
When an earthquake sets off a tsunami, it releases speedy sound waves that could give us early warning. But they still can’t predict the size of the tsunami.
Feb 10, 2018
What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, ethics
The creation of monkey clones is a big breakthrough, but making a copy of an adult is still not possible and the ethics of cloning remain unchanged.
Feb 10, 2018
How Artificial Intelligence can Bring on a Second Industrial Revolution
Posted by Müslüm Yildiz in category: robotics/AI
Over the next 20 years, he says, our penchant for making things smarter and smarter will have a profound impact on nearly everything we do. Kelly explores three trends in artificial intelligence we need to understand in order to embrace it and steer its development. “The most popular AI product 20 years from now that everyone uses has not been invented yet,” Kelly says. “That means that you’re not late.”
Feb 10, 2018
The world in 2384: Is it possible to achieve immortality?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: life extension
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9mcCs3dhE
Netflix’s new original series Altered Carbon explores a world where, in just a few centuries, humans can live forever. WIRED asks the experts if that’s true, then how do we get there?
In partnership with NETFLIX
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Feb 10, 2018
Is Anti-Aging Technology Creating A Life Worth Living?
Posted by Dave Holt in categories: biotech/medical, education, life extension, philosophy
Eliminating disease is an admirable ambition but it seems it’s the lack of education, environment and lifestyle that is really holding people back and causing them to lose interest in life.
Is anti-aging technology and increasing the human mortality rates helping to create a more fulfilled, life worth living. Let’s look at this question…
Feb 10, 2018
Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: drones, media & arts, robotics/AI
A personal drone that i could eventually see as something that will follow you around all day and be rigged up as an AI assistant. Have it equipped with solar power skin so it could operate indefinitely. The video has the music cranked so it is probably super loud. Drones need to solve noise and power issues before this becomes practical, no one will want something as loud as a vacuum cleaner buzzing around their head.
This donut-shaped drone, not technically known as a dronut, offers a tasty combination of safety and ease of use.
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Feb 10, 2018
U.S. transportation agency calls March 1 ‘summit’ on autonomous cars
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: government, law, policy, robotics/AI, transportation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Auto manufacturers, technology companies, road safety advocates and policy makers will attend a March 1 conference over potential government actions that could speed the rollout of autonomous cars, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Friday.
Last month, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said the Trump administration plans to unveil revised self-driving car guidelines this summer as the government sets out to rewrite regulations that pose legal barriers to robot vehicles.
Next month’s “summit” is to help “identify priority federal and non-federal activities that can accelerate the safe rollout” of autonomous vehicles, the department said. It will also be open to the public.
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Feb 10, 2018
Second Sight touts 1st-in-human Orion cortical implant
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs
Second Sight Medical (NSDQ: EYES) today announced the first trial implantation of its Orion cortical visual prosthesis system and updated on implantations of its Argus device and enrollment in an upcoming study.
The first implantation procedure was performed late last month by Dr. Nader Pouratian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the Sylmar, Calif.-based company said, as part of an FDA-cleared feasibility trial it won approval to launch last November.
The Orion cortical visual prosthesis system is designed to convert images captured by a miniature video camera, mounted on a patient’s glasses, into a series of electrical pulses which are transmitted wirelessly to an array of electrodes on the surface of the individual’s visual cortex.
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