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Jan 8, 2022

The Case Against the Case Against AI

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

A review of The Age of AI and Our Human Future by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher. Little, Brown and Company, 272 pages (November, 2021).

Potential bridges across the menacing chasm of incompatible ideas are being demolished by a generation of wannabe autocrats presenting alternative facts as objective knowledge. This is not new. The twist is that modern network-delivery platforms can insert, at scale, absurd information into national discourse. In fact, sovereign countries intent on political mischief and social disruption already do this to their adversaries by manipulating the stories they see on the Internet.

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Jan 8, 2022

AgeX 2021 Corporate Update

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

An AgeX update. How iTR works starting at 12:14 and how it may be delivered.


Corporate update presentation from AgeX’s annual stockholder meeting in 2021, presented by Dr. Michael West and Dr. Nafees Malik.

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Jan 8, 2022

Mystery ‘moon hut’ is actually an adorable rabbit-shaped rock

Posted by in category: space

When China’s lunar rover first discovered it, the rock appeared cube-shaped.


A mysterious “moon hut” spotted by China’s lunar Yutu 2 rover is actually … an adorable rabbit-shaped rock.

The rock has been nicknamed “jade rabbit” by the Yutu 2 team, which announced its rover’s closer inspection of the object on Friday (Jan. 7). The nickname is apt, as the rover’s name, Yutu, also translates to “jade rabbit.”

Jan 8, 2022

China livestreams New Year’s view from new space station

Posted by in category: space

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Zk9N1ViGjc

China welcomed the New Year with a live stream from cameras outside the new Tianhe space station module.

In a new video from the China National Space Administration, livestreamed on New Year’s Day (Jan. 1), you can now see the beauty of the Earth below from the Tianhe module on China’s Tiangong space station. China Central Television began the stream (you can also watch it on Youtube) on the Sina Weibo social media platform, delivering three hours of live footage from the module.

Jan 8, 2022

KhalifaSat beams back impressive pictures of Dubai from space

Posted by in category: habitats

KhalifaSat, the first entirely Emirati-made satellite, captured the impressively clear image, along with an array of other shots of some of Dubai’s most popular destinations.

Among the images released on Twitter included a full view of Downtown Dubai, with the shadow of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, cast over the Dubai Mall.

Several images of the Dubai Canal also featured among the snaps shared online on Friday.

Jan 8, 2022

Keeping an #infrared telescope at very cold operating temperatures isn’t an option, it’s an absolute necessity

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics, singularity

JWST operating temperature is less than 50 degrees above absolute zero (−223° C or-370° F) and will be the largest telescope ever placed at that cold temperature (50 Kelvin).

Webb will be able to see what the universe looked like around a quarter of a billion years (possibly back to 100 million years) after the #BigBang, when the first stars and galaxies started to form. JWST will change our view of the cosmos by taking Baby Pictures of #Universe, looking back to big bang.

#JWST is going to be like “Magic spectacles” that allow you to see things that you can’t normally see.
which is the pictures of the infant universe.

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Jan 8, 2022

Astronomers Spot Radio Emission Coming From Planet in the Boötes Constellation

Posted by in category: space

Astronomers believe they have found the first-ever radio emission coming from a planet in the Boötes constellation.

Jan 8, 2022

NZ scientists in ‘game-changing’ plant cloning discovery

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

Kiwi scientists have helped discover a new gene described as a potential game-changer for cloning in global agriculture.

The gene allows natural reproduction by cloning in plants, enabling highly desirable traits to be carried through to the next generation rather than lost when the plants reproduce through pollination.

Named PAR, the new gene has been found to control parthenogenesis, a process whereby plant egg cells spontaneously grow into embryos without fertilisation.

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Jan 8, 2022

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Makes Surprising Discoveries Program

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

The findings by rover scientists highlight the diversity of samples geologists and future scientists associated with the agency’s Mars Sample Return program will have to study.

Scientists with NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover mission have discovered that the bedrock their six-wheeled explorer has been driving on since landing in February likely formed from red-hot magma. The discovery has implications for understanding and accurately dating critical events in the history of Jezero Crater – as well as the rest of the planet.

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Jan 8, 2022

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, genetics

“The potential to deliver ‘one shot cures’ is one of the most attractive aspects of gene therapy, genetically-engineered cell therapy and gene editing. However, such treatments offer a very different outlook with regard to recurring revenue versus chronic therapies,” analyst Salveen Richter wrote in the note to clients Tuesday. “While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.”

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Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.

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