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Here’s a very in depth, approximately 6,000 word story (broken into 5 articles) with many pictures on transhumanism–from one of the world’s leading tech sites: The Verge.

Zoltan Istvan is very worried about the superintelligent machines.

He says the war over artificial intelligence will be worse than the Cold War nuclear arms race — much worse. It will be far more deadly, and whoever wins will control the world, eternally. This artificial intelligence might be being developed right now, he says, for all we know. At a government facility in the middle of the Arizona desert, perhaps.

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The new sexy beast on the block.

To fulfill its revolutionary promise, the gene-editing technique will need to be edited.

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Is the fountain of youth lurking somewhere in the code of life?

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While we can’t build a time machine, we can simulate one with beams of light.

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“In her new book Mathematics and Art, historian Lyn Gamwell explores how artists have for thousands of years used mathematical concepts — such as infinity, number and form — in their work. Here she choses ten stunning images from her book that reveal connections between maths and art.”

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Non-invasive telomeres length testing by-mail and longevity genotyping. Custom longevity R&D and telomere protocols, bulk orders.

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An emerging class of atomically thin materials known as monolayer semiconductors has generated a great deal of buzz in the world of materials science. Monolayers hold promise in the development of transparent LED displays, ultra-high efficiency solar cells, photo detectors and nanoscale transistors. Their downside? The films are notoriously riddled with defects, killing their performance.

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Another big break in the communication barrier: Researchers created a wearable device that translates sign language on the fly. http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh

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