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Mar 21, 2021
Liz Parrish goes deep into gene therapies at the HackMyAge Podcast by Zora (March 2021)
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, computing, genetics, law, life extension, neuroscience
Long but annotated! Most important here is human data for specific treatments due out starting in May or June. And apparently they had a mouse study where they expected a paper due out already but other groups chimed in to help with more testing so there is a delay.
Liz Parrish, CEO of BioViva Science and patient zero of biological rejuvenation with gene therapies, is interviewed by Zora Benhamou on her fresh podcast “HackMyAge”.
Mar 21, 2021
The Emerging Paths Of Quantum Computing
Posted by Chuck Brooks in categories: computing, quantum physics
By Chuck Brooks
The world of computing has witnessed seismic advancements since the invention of the electronic calculator in the 1960s. The past few years in information processing have been especially transformational. What were once thought of as science fiction fantasies are now technological realties. Classical computing has become more exponentially faster and more capable and our enabling devices smaller and more adaptable.
Mar 21, 2021
Deep learning model advances how robots can independently grasp objects
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: information science, robotics/AI
Robots are unable to perform everyday manipulation tasks, such as grasping or rearranging objects, with the same dexterity as humans. But Brazilian scientists have moved this research a step further by developing a new system that uses deep learning algorithms to improve a robot’s ability to independently detect how to grasp an object, known as autonomous robotic grasp detection.
In a paper published Feb. 24 in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, a team of engineers from the University of São Paulo addressed existing problems with the visual perception phase that occurs when a robot grasps an object. They created a model using deep learning neural networks that decreased the time a robot needs to process visual data, perceive an object’s location and successfully grasp it.
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, in which computer algorithms are trained how to learn with data and to improve automatically through experience. Inspired by the structure and function of the human brain, deep learning uses a multilayered structure of algorithms called neural networks, operating much like the human brain in identifying patterns and classifying different types of information. Deep learning models are often based on convolutional neural networks, which specialize in analyzing visual imagery.
Mar 21, 2021
Argument technology for debating with humans
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
A fully autonomous computer system has been developed that can take part in live debates with people. The findings hint at a future in which artificial intelligence can help humans to formulate and make sense of complex arguments. An autonomous computer system that takes part in live debates.
Mar 21, 2021
Solar Foods — Cooking Up Future Food
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: food, futurism
Mar 21, 2021
Texas Roadhouse CEO ‘took his own life’ amid ‘unbearable’ COVID-19-related symptoms, family says
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: biotech/medical, business
Kent Taylor, the co-founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse Inc., has died from suicide, his family said, after suffering “unbearable” COVID-19-related symptoms.
Taylor’s family and the restaurant chain said in a statement to The Hill on Sunday that the business executive “took his own life this week” after “a battle with post-Covid related symptoms, including severe tinnitus.”
“Kent battled and fought hard like the former track champion that he was, but the suffering that greatly intensified in recent days became unbearable,” the statement read.
Mar 21, 2021
It looks like some kind of futuristic sound-weapon, but have no fear, it’s merely the latest in wave energy technology
Posted by Jeffery Pacheco in categories: energy, futurism
Mar 21, 2021
Meet Airspeeder, the flying car startup planning high-speed air races to bring its tech to market
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in category: transportation
Airspeeder wants to be the “first electric flying car race,” its CEO told Insider. It also wants you to know flying cars are closer than you think.
Mar 21, 2021
Humans are still evolving, and maybe faster now than ever
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in category: futurism
The sudden prevalence of an artery in the forearm is evidence that we’re still very much a work in progress.