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Oct 31, 2017

Gene-editing tool CRISPR can now manipulate more types of genetic material

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

‘It’s another tool in the toolbox’

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Oct 31, 2017

Can artificial intelligence beat musicians at their craft?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence is automating tasks in many domains. Do musicians have reason to worry?

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Oct 31, 2017

Why tech giants are investing millions in AI that can play video games

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

For any AI people out there. I’d really like to see an AI get dropped into Ocarina of Time, and then Skyrim. The day an AI can be dropped into those, and complete the entire games, and go out and complete all the weird random tasks, it should be pretty close to human level.


AI just beat a top human professional in the game Dota 2, but the technology could help with much bigger strategic problems.

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Oct 31, 2017

The Huge Promise of Transparent Solar Cells—Turning the World’s Glass Surfaces Into Solar Panels

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

A long way to go but potentially well worth the R&D.


Transparent solar cells started to emerge in the last 5–6 years, but there are already some live installations of this tech with impressive performance.

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Oct 31, 2017

The carbon catchers of Climeworks

Posted by in categories: climatology, engineering, environmental, solar power, space, sustainability

I was thinking about this thing, and the one in Iceland. Maybe we could build giant blimps in the atmosphere of Venus, it would carry that machine on its belly, and on the back of the blimp super advanced solar panels. Then inside of the blimp the CO2 could be mixed into liquid crystals or something like that and be dropped like rain down on the surface, to eventually terraform it.


Global Engineering — a phrase that describes steadying the world’s climate with technical solutions. A Swiss company has received EU funding to develop a machine that captures CO2. Can it really make a difference?

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Oct 31, 2017

How China is using quantum physics to take over the world and stop hackers

Posted by in categories: encryption, quantum physics

China is leading the world in developing unbreakable encryption using quantum physics.

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Oct 31, 2017

In Self-Driving Race, Waymo Sets Its Own Terms

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Waymo, the self-driving vehicle unit of Alphabet, showed its latest advances at Castle, its test track in California’s Central Valley.

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Oct 31, 2017

Wind powered a record of nearly 200 million European households on Saturday

Posted by in category: energy

On Saturday, a record 24.6% of total electricity came from wind power sources in the 28 countries of the European Union. The majority of this wind electricity was generated offshore (91.3%) vs onshore (8.7%).

With Europe moving into the high wind production winter period, we expect a new season of records being broken. And with massive scale construction continuing for offshore wind farms, these records of 2017 will soon look quaint.

The amounts of electricity generated were enough to power 197 million European households or 68% of all industrial electricity needs. Europe has about 500 million total people, with a land mass very close to that of the USA.

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Oct 31, 2017

Serge Faguet – Interview with a Biohacker

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

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Oct 31, 2017

6 Ways to Talk to People about Ending Aging – Moscow Nov 4th

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, singularity

The Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, in collaboration with Singularity University Moscow Chapter and consulting group Deloitte, is hosting in Moscow an expert discussion on how to inform society about the potential and the advancement of gerontology and preventive medicine.


Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, in collaboration with Singularity University Moscow Chapter and consulting group Deloitte, are hosting in Moscow an expert discussion on how to inform society about the potential and the advancement of gerontology and preventive medicine. These experts believe that attracting people’s attention to the capabilities of medical technologies to prevent aging might help extend the healthy period of life and significantly decrease morbidity from age-related diseases.

The panel discussion “6 ways to talk to people about ending aging” will bring together famous futurists, scientists, science popularizers and public figures who foster the dissemination of the idea to prevent aging in Russia and other countries.

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