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Oct 2, 2017

MouseAge Longevity Month Updates — Extension, Matching Funds and More!

Posted by in category: life extension

To coincide with our initiatives for Longevity Month, we are happy to announce some exciting updates for the MouseAge campaign to create a visual biomarker for mouse aging and speed the pace of longevity-focused mouse trials.

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Oct 2, 2017

We are celebrating Longevity Month and what better way to do so than to share each other’s stories about why we care about research to end the diseases of aging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

This year we want to continue this tradition by doing something special, making a video to showcase you, our community, as it is only with your outstanding help that we have been able to accomplish so much in such a short period of time.

To learn more visit our website today: https://www.leafscience.org/longevity-month-2017-tell-us-your-story/

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Oct 2, 2017

Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

Posted by in category: futurism

“Facebook has grown so big, and become so totalizing, that we can’t really grasp it all at once. Like a four-dimensional object, we catch slices of it when it passes through the three-dimensional world we recognize. In one context, it looks and acts like a television broadcaster, but in this other context, an NGO.”

- “Not even Zuckerberg himself seemed prepared for the role Facebook has played in global politics this past year.”

- “In which case, how can we be assured that Facebook is really safeguarding democracy for us and that it’s not us who need to be safeguarding democracy against Facebook?”

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Oct 2, 2017

The New Monopolists

Posted by in category: innovation

While innovations in information technology have transformed how people live, work, and connect, the IT industry’s growth pattern has contributed to a widening gap between rich and poor. Addressing it will require new taxation schemes and modernization of antitrust legislation.

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Oct 2, 2017

The ability to create designer babies is here thanks to the gene therapy called CRISPR via Nameless.tv

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, electronics

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Oct 2, 2017

Color-changing tattoos monitor blood glucose at a glance

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, privacy, wearables

Tattoos are fast becoming more than just a means of self-expression: soon they could be used for more practical applications, like tracking blood alcohol levels or turning the skin into a touchscreen. Now, a team from Harvard and MIT has developed a smart ink that could make for tattoos that monitor biometrics like glucose levels, and change color as a result.

Currently, bodily biomarkers can be monitored through a wardrobe-load of wearables, but they usually need batteries for power and wireless communication systems to transmit data. Using biosensitive inks (bio-inks), the Harvard and MIT design is self-contained, and since it works on simple chemical reactions it doesn’t require power for any data processing or transmission.

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Oct 2, 2017

Rio Tinto Steams Ahead With First Driverless Ore Train

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Trains autonomously hauling iron ore across Australia’s arid Pilbara region were meant to transform the mining industry, but the technology proved trickier than expected. Now, Rio Tinto says it has completed a driverless pilot run, operated by people hundreds of miles away.

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Oct 1, 2017

How Mozart Might Have Played Metallica, According to Artificial Intelligence

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

This system applies subtle stylistic techniques gleaned from a musician’s work to samples of another artist, suggesting how one musician would likely have played another’s music.

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Oct 1, 2017

Scientists have found a way to potentially stop us ageing

Posted by in category: life extension

A study by a team from the Houston Methodist Research Institute showed the potential of a treatment that targets telomeres in chromosomes to reverse cellular aging.

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Oct 1, 2017

The Senate Is About to Approve Commercial Sale of Self-Driving Cars (But Not Trucks)

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Senators John Thune and Gary Peters reach a bipartisan deal.

By Minda Zetlin

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