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Nov 13, 2017

Boeing 757 controls remotely HACKED while on the runway

Posted by in categories: government, security, transportation

A group of security researchers has remotely hacked a Boeing 757 aircraft without the knowledge of the pilots, a US government official has claimed.

Robert Hickey, a Homeland Security cyber investigator, managed to take over the passenger jet on the runway at Atlantic City airport, New Jersey.

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Nov 13, 2017

New Study: US state hit with up to 200 times more Fukushima fallout than expected

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, sustainability

Dr. Holger #Strohm – #Negative #HealthEffect Of #Radioactive #Heavy #Metal #Plutonium #Poison From #Fukushima; #BioConcentration Into #Humans, Then #Recycling Through #Cremation And Medical #Waste #Incineration Through DNA Of Future #Generations http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2013/08/dr-holger-strohm-fu…12000.html

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Nov 13, 2017

Aerial images reveal the closest ever look at Saudi stone structures

Posted by in category: futurism

The structures were uncovered in the Harrat Khaybar region in Saudi Arabia in the 1920s and were referred to as the ‘Works of the Old Men’ by the region’s Bedouin population.

Most of them were discovered through satellite surveys and no archaeological fieldwork has yet been carried out.

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Nov 13, 2017

America troops at risk of LOSING a war to North Korea, commander warns

Posted by in category: futurism

American troops would find themselves badly outnumbered and at risk of defeat if war suddenly broke out with North Korea.

That is the stark warning issued by Lieutenant General Jan-Marc Jouas, the former deputy commander of U.S. Forces in Korea, in a letter to Democrats this month.

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Nov 13, 2017

The New SpotMini

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

New Boston Dynamics robot, pretty awesome. I hope they roll out an upgraded ATLASoftBank is supposedly doing a big robotics event later this month.


For more information… stay tuned.

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Nov 13, 2017

An Astonishing Video Shows CRISPR Editing DNA in Real Time

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

In June, several dozen scientists flew to Big Sky, Montana, to discuss the latest in CRISPR research. They had a lot to talk about, given that CRISPR—a tool that allows scientists to cut DNA to disable genes or insert new ones—is currently the hottest topic in biology, mentioned in the same breath as pronouncements like “changing the world” and “curing humanity of disease.”

On the second day in Big Sky, a Japanese researcher named Osamu Nureki got up to play a short movie clip. “I was sitting in the front, and I just heard this gasp from everyone behind me,” says Sam Sternberg, who worked in the CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California, Berkeley. It was, he says, the biggest reaction to data he’s ever seen at a conference.

Nureki’s paper was published in Nature Communications Friday, and by early morning, the video that astonished the room in Big Sky was making the rounds on science Twitter, too. I watched it, still bleary-eyed from sleep, and I jolted awake immediately.

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Nov 13, 2017

Overwhelming Support for Life Extension

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Well, it has been a super busy month due to the popularity of the new Kurzgesagt videos about aging, and we have seen a massive positive response from the audience to the ideas presented there.

At the time of writing, 116,000 people have liked the video so far, and a mere 963 people have disliked it, with almost 2 million total views to date. Once again, as in the previous video, the ratio of support versus opposition is massively in favor of doing something about aging.

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Nov 13, 2017

Check out China’s remarkable progress

Posted by in category: futurism

China is showing the world how things should be done.

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Nov 13, 2017

What Happens If China Makes First Contact?

Posted by in categories: alien life, satellites

As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.

Last January, the Chinese Academy of Sciences invited Liu Cixin, China’s preeminent science-fiction writer, to visit its new state-of-the-art radio dish in the country’s southwest. Almost twice as wide as the dish at America’s Arecibo Observatory, in the Puerto Rican jungle, the new Chinese dish is the largest in the world, if not the universe. Though it is sensitive enough to detect spy satellites even when they’re not broadcasting, its main uses will be scientific, including an unusual one: The dish is Earth’s first flagship observatory custom-built to listen for a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence. If such a sign comes down from the heavens during the next decade, China may well hear it first.

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Nov 13, 2017

Soviet children in 1967 dreamt of space travel, free ice-cream & robots doing homework in 2017 World News

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI, space

Letters from a time capsule opened in the Russian city of Novorossiysk have revealed that Soviet students in 1967 believed their peers in 50 years time would be living on other planets and eating ice cream for free, while their homework will be done by machines.

Hundreds of time capsules were laid across the USSR in 1967 as the country celebrated half a century since the Russian Revolution, which eventually led to the creation of the Soviet state. Those messages, containing the accounts of Soviet people’s lives and their messages to descendants, are being opened in Russia this year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the events of 1917.

READ MORE: Cruiser Aurora fires at Winter Palace 100 years ago, signals peak of Russian Revolution.

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