Lifeboat Foundation

Anders Sandberg, a member of the advisory board for the Lifeboat Foundation, recently took part in a panel debate on the future of human cloning produced by the Institute of Art and Ideas.

Debate blurb:

Human cloning is anathema to most of us conjuring up Metropolis visions of identical humans serving tyrannical masters. But might this be a mistaken horror story? Could human cloning instead lead to medical breakthroughs and the end to infertility?

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Five reasons HarperCollins’ ecommerce is just part of a clever anti-Amazon strategy http://www.publishingtechnology.com/2014/07/five-reasons-har…-strategy/

Italy gives Google 18 months to comply with European privacy regulations http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/italy-goog…egulations

Yahoo buys mobile analytics firm Flurry http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/yahoo-buys…irm-flurry

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Written By: Jason Dorrier — Singularity Hub

Robots come in all shapes and sizes—some are mechanical, and some aren’t. Last year, a team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made a seven-millimeter-long 3D printed robot powered by the heart cells of a rat.

The device, made of 3D printed hydrogel—a water-based, biologically compatible gel—had two feet, one bigger than the other. The smaller, longer foot was coated in heart cells. Each time the cells contracted, the robot would crawl forward a few millimeters.

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Written by Beverley Mitchell — The Mind Unleashed

“Tesla was right and we are ready to prove it!” So say the two Russian physicists who have just launched an Indiegogo campaign to rebuild Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower in Fall, 2014. Tesla believed that the tower could transmit power wirelessly but this was never definitively proven in his lifetime.

If he was right, and after extensive study the team are convinced he was, the project could provide an efficient, worldwide energy transmission system that would distribute all the clean energy we can use.

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Alex William — Bitcoin Vox

Michael Dell, founder and CEO of the big PC maker Dell, announced via Twitter on Friday that his eponymous company will start accepting bitcoin as a payment option for anything purchased on the company’s website.

For bitcoin, it’s one of the biggest signs yet of mainstream acceptance. With nearly $57 billion in sales in 2013, Dell would be by far the largest company to take bitcoin. Dish Network, which began accepting bitcoin in May, had $13.9 billion in 2013 sales.

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REUTERS: China appoints special envoy for Afghanistan http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/18/us-china-afghanist…1Z20140718

We know what you’re thinking: Researchers reveal mind-reading device that can monitor short term memory in real time http://dailym.ai/UjvthH

The ‘injectable foam’ that could stop soldiers bleeding to death on the battlefield www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2697428/The-injectab…field.html

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Written By: Jason Dorrier — Singularity Hub

In his latest video, host of National Geographic’s Brain Games and techno-poet, Jason Silva, explores the universe’s tendency to self-organize. Biology, he says, seems to have agency and directionality toward greater complexity, and humans are the peak.

“It’s like human beings seem to be the cutting edge,” Silva says. “The evolutionary pinnacle of self-awareness becoming aware of its becoming.”

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Future Phone Displays Could Take Your Temperature, Analyze DNA http://mashable.com/2014/07/18/future-smartphone-displays-co…-tech-link

Intranasal nerve growth factor repairs injured spinal cord neurons http://phys.org/wire-news/167134926/intranasal-nerve-growth-…neuro.html

Kingston, Jamaica hybrid project to harness sun and wind http://phys.org/news/2014-07-kingston-jamaica-hybrid-harness-sun.html

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