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85da ROBOTICS
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85da Google’s New Robotic Realized to 85da Take Orders by Scraping the 85da Net
85da Will Knight | Wired
85da “Probably the most spectacular factor 85da about [the] demonstration, held in 85da Google’s robotics lab in Mountain 85da View, California, was that no 85da human coder had programmed the 85da robotic to know what to 85da do in response to Xia’s 85da command. Its management software program 85da had discovered the right way 85da to translate a spoken phrase 85da right into a sequence of 85da bodily actions utilizing tens of 85da millions of pages of textual 85da content scraped from the online.”
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85da FUTURE
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85da The Future May Be Blissful—If 85da People Don’t Go Extinct First
85da Matt Reynolds | Wired
85da “In a brand new e 85da book referred to as 85da What We Owe the Future 85da , the thinker William MacAskill 85da argues that…we within the twenty 85da first century are uniquely positioned 85da to form the long-term future 85da for higher or for worse. 85da If we will keep away 85da from extinction and determine a 85da extra morally harmonious technique to 85da stay, then a blissful future 85da awaits the trillions of people 85da poised to exist in centuries 85da to come back. However to 85da get there we now have 85da to take the philosophical leap 85da that we should always care 85da strongly in regards to the 85da lives and welfare of future 85da people.”
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85da BLOCKCHAIN
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85da Ethereum’s ‘Merge’ Is About to 85da Put Each Ether Miner Out 85da of Work
85da Tim Lee | Ars Technica
85da “Subsequent month’s change to a 85da brand new technique referred to 85da as ‘proof-of-stake’ is predicted to 85da chop Ethereum’s vitality consumption by 85da an element of 1,000. …However 85da the change to proof-of-stake is 85da rather more than simply an 85da energy-saving measure—it’s a serious overhaul 85da of the Ethereum community. Ethereum 85da founder Vitalik Buterin believes the 85da Merge will lay the inspiration 85da for a collection of future 85da upgrades that may permit the 85da community to deal with a 85da a lot bigger quantity of 85da transactions within the coming years.”
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85da COMPUTING
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85da This Man Set the Report 85da for Carrying a Mind-Laptop Interface
85da Emily Mullin | Wired
85da “ 85da Nathan Copeland considers 85da himself a cyborg. The 85da 36-year-old has lived with a 85da brain-computer interface for greater than 85da seven years and three months. 85da As of at this time—August 85da 17—that’s the longest anybody has 85da had an implant like this. 85da …That Copeland’s implant remains to 85da be working—and hasn’t brought on 85da any main unwanted side effects 85da or issues—is promising for the 85da sphere. It’s an indication that 85da the units, which have been 85da in growth because the Sixties 85da however are nonetheless experimental, are 85da transferring nearer to business actuality 85da for sufferers with extreme disabilities.”
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85da LONGEVITY
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85da Epigenetic ‘Clocks’ Predict Animals’ True 85da Organic Age
85da Ingrid Wickelgren | Quanta
85da “However these had been merely 85da steps towards the completion of 85da Horvath’s formidable moonshot of a 85da mission: a common clock that 85da would measure the organic age 85da of any mammal. …Horvath and 85da his colleagues accomplished a model 85da of the pan-mammalian clock earlier 85da this 12 months. Now he 85da and different researchers are hoping 85da to establish the molecular processes 85da widespread to numerous creatures that 85da make such a clock doable. 85da Understanding why clocks like this 85da one work, Horvath believes, may 85da assist lead us to what 85da he calls ‘the true root 85da explanation for getting old.’ 85da i 85da ”
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85da ROBOTICS
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85da Q&A: Marc Raibert on the 85da Boston Dynamics AI Institute
85da Evan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum
85da “Final week, Hyundai Motor Group and 85da Boston Dynamics introduced an preliminary 85da funding of over US $400 85da million to launch the brand new Boston 85da Dynamics AI Institute. The Institute 85da was conceptualized (and shall be 85da led) by Marc Raibert, the founding 85da father of Boston Dynamics, with 85da the objective of ‘fixing a 85da very powerful and troublesome challenges 85da going through the creation of 85da superior robots.’ …And happily, 85da IEEE Spectrum 85da was in a position 85da to communicate with Marc Raibert 85da himself to get a greater 85da understanding of what the Institute 85da shall be all about.”
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85da SPACE
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85da Rocket Lab will self-fund a 85da mission to seek for life 85da within the clouds of Venus
85da Eric Berger | Ars Technica
85da “Assuming a Might 2023 launch—there’s 85da a backup alternative in January 85da 2025—the spacecraft would attain Venus 85da in October 2023. …The objective 85da is to seek for natural 85da chemical compounds within the clouds 85da and discover their habitability. ‘The 85da mission is the primary alternative 85da to probe the Venus cloud 85da particles straight in practically 4 85da a long time,’ states a 85da paper, printed this week, describing 85da the mission structure. ‘Even with 85da the mass and information fee 85da constraints and the restricted time 85da within the Venus environment, breakthrough 85da science is feasible.’ 85da i 85da ”
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