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H+ < Sequence your genome for less than $1,000 and sell it via blockchain
MIT professor and godfather of the Human Genome Project George Church wants to put your genes on it.<p>His new startup Nebula Genomics plans to sequence …
GeneticsH+ < A biohacker injected himself with a DIY herpes treatment in front of a conference audience
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
The glasses are connected to an internal database of suspects, meaning officers can quickly scan crowds while looking for fugitives.<br>…<br>The sunglasses …
Artificial IntelligenceH+ < MIT launches Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence
At a time of rapid advances in intelligence research across many disciplines, the Intelligence Quest — MIT IQ — will encourage researchers to …
Artificial IntelligenceH+ < Ultimately we want a (neuromorphic) chip as big as a fingernail to replace one big (AI) supercomputer
Researchers in the emerging field of “neuromorphic computing” have attempted to design computer chips that work like the human brain. Instead of …
Artificial IntelligenceH+ < Undetectable mass social influence powered by artificial intelligence is an existential threat to humanity
The future of humanity is the struggle between humans that control machines and machines that control humans.<br>While the internet has brought about a …
Artificial IntelligenceH+ < Self-doubting AI vs certain AI
Researchers at Uber and Google are working on modifications to the two most popular deep-learning frameworks that will enable them to handle …
Deep LearningH+ < Improving brain-computer interfaces by decrypting neural patterns
Many human movements, such as walking or reaching, follow predictable patterns, too. Limb position, speed and several other movement features tend to …
Machine LearningH+ < "There are people alive today who will live for 1,000 years"
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
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 …
MedicineH+ < The US Air Force has a division dedicated to human performance enhancement
The 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW), headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, is the first human-centric warfare wing to …
MilitaryH+ < Smart diapers for the elderly - when smart monitoring is too much monitoring?
Pixie Pads will help incontinent adults, including Alzheimer’s and other dementia sufferers, for whom behavioral symptoms of UTI are often confused …
H+ < CRISPR might be employed to destroy entire species
Ironically, CRISPR might also enable the opposite: forcible extinction of unwanted animals or pathogens. Yes, someday soon, CRISPR might be employed …
GeneticsH+ < Using Artificial Intelligence to augment human intelligence
in one common view of AI our computers will continue to get better at solving problems, but human beings will remain largely unchanged. In a second …
Artificial IntelligenceH+ < UK company pioneers tissue engineering with 3D bioprinters
3Dynamic Systems is currently developing a range of 3D bioprinted vascular scaffold as part of its new product line. We have been developing 3D …
H+ < Ford testing exoskeletons for workers in final assembly plant
The vest that Paul Collins has been wearing at Ford is made by Ekso Bionics, a Richmond, California-based company. It’s an electronic-free …
Wearable TechH+ < Tomorrow’s replacement skin could be 3D printed from a new ink embedded with living bacteria
Bacteria are able to do everything from breaking down toxins to synthesizing vitamins. When they move, they create strands of a material called …
H+ < “We have entered the age where the human genome is a real drug target" - CRISPR stopped mice from going deaf
Although people can lose their hearing for a variety of reasons — old age, as well as exposure to loud noises — genetics are behind a little less …
GeneticsH+ < Limb reanimation through neuroscience and machine learning
A quadriplegic man who has become the first person to be implanted with technology that sends signals from the brain to muscles — allowing him to …
Machine LearningH+ < A growing number of artificial intelligence researchers focus on algorithmic bias
Kate Crawford, Distinguished Research Professor at New York University, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York, and a Visiting …
H+ < A task force to review New York City agencies’ use of algorithms and their bias
The New York City Council yesterday passed legislation that we are hopeful will move us toward addressing these problems. New York City already uses …
H+ < Importance of Artificial Intelligence to Department of Defense
That AI and—if it were to advance significantly—AGI are of importance to DoD is so self-evident that it needs little elucidation here. Weapons …
H+ < DARPA has become the world’s largest funder of “gene drive” research
A US military agency is investing $100m in genetic extinction technologies that could wipe out malarial mosquitoes, invasive rodents or other …
H+ < Defeating cancer costs $500,000
Cell Design Labs, founded by University of California, San Francisco, synthetic biologist Wendell Lim, creates “programs” to install inside T cells, …
H+ < In Vivo Target Gene Activation via CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Trans-epigenetic Modulation
Current genome-editing systems generally rely on inducing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). This may limit their utility in clinical therapies, as …
H+ < CRISPR can be repurposed to enable target gene activation
The technique is an adapted version of the powerful gene editing tool called Crispr. While the original version of Crispr snips DNA in precise …
H+ < Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
The blind application of machine learning runs the risk of amplifying biases present in data. Such a danger is facing us with word embedding, a …
H+ < Our machines can very easily recognise you among at least 2 billion people in a matter of seconds
Yitu’s Dragonfly Eye generic portrait platform already has 1.8 billion photographs to work with: those logged in the national database and you, if …
H+ < % Chinese researchers contribution to best 100 AI journals/conferences
The Eurasia Group and Sinovation Ventures released a report titled China embraces AI: A Close Look and A Long View with some interesting data.<p>The …
H+ < Google open source tool DeepVariant achieves unprecedented accuracy in human genome sequencing
On Monday, Google released a tool called DeepVariant that uses deep learning—the machine learning technique that now dominates AI—to assemble full …