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Sub $1,000 smart glasses are a reality now
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From North is trying to become the Warby Parker of augmented reality glasses – The VergeThe glasses show wearers a bunch of information from their …
What if we could cure people of inherited diseases before they were born?
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From Pioneering Stem Cell Trial Seeks to Cure Babies Before BirthElianna has a rare inherited blood disorder called alpha thalassemia major, which …
Enabling accessible and scalable eye tracking research
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From Pupil LabsWe develop open source software and build accessible hardware for eye tracking. Our mobile eye tracking headsets have research grade …
There is an increasing ‘lifestyle use’ of cognitive-enhancing drugs by healthy people
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From Use of ‘smart drugs’ on the riseThe use of drugs by people hoping to boost mental performance is rising worldwide, finds the largest ever study …
Someday, maybe, we could regrow limbs
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From Axolotl Genome Slowly Yields Secrets of Limb Regrowth | Quanta MagazineSalamanders are champions at regenerating lost body parts. A flatworm …
National AI Strategies Around the World
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From An Overview of National AI Strategies – Politics + AI – MediumIn the past fifteen months, Canada, Japan, Singapore, China, the UAE, Finland, …
What happens if humans get external or prosthetic nerves?
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From Juan Enriquez: What will humans look like in 100 years? | TED TalkAnd four of the smartest people that I’ve ever met — Ed Boyden, Hugh Herr, Joe …
3D-printed organs within the next five years
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From Implantable 3D-printed organs could be coming sooner than you think | TechCrunchPrellis Biologics have just taken a big step on the path toward …
Intelligent prosthetic ankles, so you can wear a dress shoe, a running shoe, a flat
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From “Smart” prosthetic ankle takes fear out of rough terrain, stairs | Vanderbilt News | Vanderbilt UniversityProsthetic ankles available now are …
Instantly correct robot mistakes with nothing more than brain signals and the flick of a finger
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From How to control robots with brainwaves and hand gestures | MIT NewsBy monitoring brain activity, the system can detect in real-time if a person …
Combine passive blocking of sleep-disturbing sounds with sounds engineered to mask what gets past the blocking
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From Bose gets into the business of sleep | TechCrunchSleep deprivation costs the US economy $411 billion a year. It’s bad for your health and …
It is the end of the poker face
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From Poppy Crum: Technology that knows what you’re feeling | TED TalkYour pupil doesn’t lie. Your eye gives away your poker face. When your brain’s …
Longevity-as-a-service, via deep learning
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From With strategic investment, Insilico Medicine is using deep learning to defeat aging | TechCrunchIn the classical model used by pharmaceutical …
There’s nothing you can do with a chip in your brain that we can’t do better
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From Testing the CTRL-Labs wristband that lets you control computers with your mind – The VergeCTRL-Labs’ work is built on a technology known as …
From Augmented Reality to Altered Reality
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From Dehumanization of Warfare: Legal Implications of New Weapon Technologies:However, where soldiers are equipped with cybernetic implants …
Our results are nearly indistinguishable from the real video
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From Forget DeepFakes, Deep Video Portraits are way better (and worse) | TechCrunchDeep Video Portraits is the title of a paper submitted for …
Instead of replacing one damaged cornea with one healthy one, you could grow enough cells from one donated cornea to print
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From Scientists have 3D printed the most advanced artificial cornea ever using human cells – The VergeIt was tricky to find the right recipe for an …
US Department of Defense has 592 projects powered by Artificial Intelligence
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From Pentagon developing artificial intelligence centerSpeaking at the House Armed Services Committee April 12, Mattis said “we’re looking at a joint …
A brain-scanner could be an instrument of explicit coercion
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From TED 2018: Thought-Reading Machines and the Death of Love | WIREDThe San Francisco startup is developing an optical imaging system—sufficiently …
Wearable device picks up neuromuscular signals saying words “in your head”
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From Computer system transcribes words users “speak silently” | MIT NewsMIT researchers have developed a computer interface that can transcribe words …
H+ < Sequence your genome for less than $1,000 and sell it via blockchain
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MIT professor and godfather of the Human Genome Project George Church wants to put your genes on it. His new startup Nebula Genomics plans to sequence …
H+ < A biohacker injected himself with a DIY herpes treatment in front of a conference audience
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Aaron Traywick, 28, who leads biotech firm Ascendance Biomedical, used an experimental herpes treatment that did not go through the typical route of …
H+ < Police in China have begun using sunglasses equipped with facial recognition technology
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The glasses are connected to an internal database of suspects, meaning officers can quickly scan crowds while looking for fugitives. … The sunglasses …
H+ < MIT launches Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence
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At a time of rapid advances in intelligence research across many disciplines, the Intelligence Quest — MIT IQ — will encourage researchers to …
H+ < Ultimately we want a (neuromorphic) chip as big as a fingernail to replace one big (AI) supercomputer
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Researchers in the emerging field of “neuromorphic computing” have attempted to design computer chips that work like the human brain. Instead of …
H+ < Undetectable mass social influence powered by artificial intelligence is an existential threat to humanity
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The future of humanity is the struggle between humans that control machines and machines that control humans. While the internet has brought about a …
H+ < Self-doubting AI vs certain AI
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Researchers at Uber and Google are working on modifications to the two most popular deep-learning frameworks that will enable them to handle …
H+ < Improving brain-computer interfaces by decrypting neural patterns
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Many human movements, such as walking or reaching, follow predictable patterns, too. Limb position, speed and several other movement features tend to …
H+ < "There are people alive today who will live for 1,000 years"
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Most approaches aimed at combating ageing focus on arresting the harmful byproducts of metabolism, he says. These cause cellular damage and decay, …
H+ < Infusions of blood plasma from young donors to rejuvenate the body
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So it’s a bit odd that this is the epicentre of a phenomenon rocking Silicon Valley: young blood treatments. JR is one of about 100 people who have …