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Jul 15, 2017
Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: physics
Jul 15, 2017
Google Earth could become the next great social network — By Brett Williams | Mashable
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, space
“Google Earth could become your next go-to platform to share a story in the not-so-distant future — but your posts won’t be restricted to a timeline like other, less terrestrially-focused social networks.”
Jul 15, 2017
Advanced social technologies and the future of collaboration | McKinsey&Company
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: business
“After nearly a decade of research on the business uses of social technologies, executives say these tools are more integrated into their organizations’ work than ever before—and that the most sophisticated of these tools, message-based platforms, are gaining traction.”
Jul 15, 2017
Jack Boyd Talks About His 70 Years with NASA (and NACA) | NASA
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: space
Jul 15, 2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Behind The Scenes | Star Wars
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: fun
Jul 15, 2017
Mulder, it’s me: The InterPlanetary Project — By Casey Sanchez | Pasatiempo
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: space travel
“Should it ever occur, an encounter with interplanetary life will surely reorder our own society in ways that this new SFI initiative suggests that we ought to consider right now.”
Jul 15, 2017
Here’s the Future of Warfare Tech. Warning: it’s Not Pretty
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: military, robotics/AI, virtual reality
Warfare and technology make the perfect partners of destruction. Military innovations from wooden catapults to nuclear bombs have been transforming the way war is waged since prehistoric humans carved arrows from stones some 10,000 years ago.
The visions of futurists don’t always match the experiences of military personnel, but the battlefields of the future will bear little resemblance to the war zones of today.
The future of technology in warfare: From AI robots to VR torture.
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Jul 15, 2017
Alibaba, Tencent see AI as solution to China’s acute shortage of doctors
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI
The world’s most populous nation suffers from a shortage of medical practitioners, with the World Health Organisation estimating there are only 1.5 physicians available for every 1,000 people, compared with 2.4 in the US and 2.8 in the UK. That has led to deteriorating work conditions for doctors and radiologists who constantly work overtime to process huge amounts of patient data. As a consequence, the error rate is high.
Alibaba Health unveiled this week its first artificial intelligence service for disease diagnosis, offering hope that advanced technology will alleviate the workload of mainland Chinese physicians in a nation suffering from an acute shortage of doctors.
The AI solution, called Doctor You, can be used for medical image diagnosis of CT scans to identify inflammatory cells in human organs, which can be an early indicator of cancer.
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Jul 15, 2017
There’s No Harm in Fantasizing About a Better Future
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, transhumanism
My work is featured in Reason today via a review on book Radicals, which opens with a controversial chapter on my transhumanist presidential run: http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/12/theres-no-harm-in-fantasizing-about-a-be #transhumanism
In Radicals Chasing Utopia, transhumanist enthusiasm gets a bad rap.
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