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Jan 12, 2016
Google chairman Eric Schmidt: Artificial intelligence platforms can ‘change the world’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
The Google billionaire believes companies need to start working together on developing artificial intelligence.
Jan 12, 2016
Humans 2.0: How the robot revolution is going to change how we see, feel, and talk
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Robots aren’t going to replace us, but by working hand in hand with us they will redefine what it means to be human.
The year is 2025. You’re sitting in a surgery watching your doctor carefully insert the tips of her fingertips into black thimble-like actuators.
Jan 12, 2016
15 of the best movies about AI, ranked
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
Avengers: Age of Ultron recently rocked its evil robot ways through theaters, but here are 15 other great artificial intelligence films that totally compute.
Jan 12, 2016
New rumours that gravitational waves have finally been detected
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: physics
Barely a week later, cosmologist Lawrence Krauss at Arizona State University tweeted a rumour that the detector had already picked up a signal.
Now Krauss claims that the original rumour has been confirmed by an independent source.
Barely a week later, cosmologist Lawrence Krauss at Arizona State University tweeted a rumour that the detector had already picked up a signal.
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Jan 12, 2016
Scientists develop a lithium-ion battery that shuts down at high temperatures to avoid explosions
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: particle physics, transportation
The primary reason hoverboards have become public enemy #1 in recent times is due to their unfortunate tendency to catch fire and explode due to their lithium-ion batteries overheating.
But a new lithium-ion battery developed by scientists in the US could put an end to such dramas. Researchers at Stanford University have made the world’s first lithium-ion battery that shuts off before it overheats, then restarts immediately when its temperature has cooled.
Conventional lithium-ion batteries comprise a pair of electrodes and a liquid or gel electrolyte that carries charged particles between them. However, if the battery’s temperature reaches around 150 degrees Celsius (300 degrees Fahrenheit) as a result of a defect or overcharging, the electrolyte can catch fire and trigger an explosion, as we’ve seen in many sad cases.
Jan 12, 2016
Marc Andreessen: ‘In 20 years, every physical item will have a chip implanted in it’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, internet
Star venture capitalist Andreessen’s new $25m bet heralds the dawn of Internet.
of Things 2.0
Jan 12, 2016
Elon Musk: It’s an ‘open secret’ that Apple is building an electric car
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
During an interview with BBC, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says it’s “obvious” and an “open secret” that Apple is building its own electric car.
Jan 12, 2016
More Than Just Editing: CRISPR Could Control Your Genes Too
Posted by Robert James Powles in category: biotech/medical
CRISPR, CRISPR, CRISPR. We’ve all heard about it’s gene editing capability, but it has potential to do so much more — controlling genes and offering a precise delivery system.
More than an editing platform
The CRISPR-Cas9 system does a wonderful job, partly because it targets genes so specifically. It’s not the only system that does this, but it’s the cheapest and easiest to create so far. For those with imagination however, this targeting quality means it could do so much more than simply snip away at sequences. Targeting promoter sequences, delivering a payload to a specific region of DNA…the platform has enormous potential.
Jan 12, 2016
Medgadget @ CES 2016: Profusa Unveils Long-Term Implanatable Biosensor
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: biotech/medical, electronics, health, materials, mobile phones
Last week at CES, South San Francisco based Profusa showed off an upcoming injectable sensor that can be used to continuously monitor oxygen levels in tissue. Measuring only five millimeters long and a tiny 250 microns in diameter, the biosensor can be injected into tissue with just a hypodermic needle. It consists of a soft hydrogel scaffold that allows it to be biologically compatible with the surrounding tissue without any foreign body response. The sensor also contains a special chemical marker that changes fluorescence depending on the amount of oxygen that reacts with it. An optical reader placed on the skin measures the fluorescence and relays the data to a smartphone. The biosensor can last as long as two years (at which point the chemical marker begins to lose its potency), and because it contains no electronics and is completely biocompatible there’s no need to remove it.
On stage at the CES Digital Health Summit, Profusa CEO Dr. Ben Hwang gave a live demonstration of how the sensor works in action. As two of his colleagues with the sensors implanted and using a blood pressure cuffs performed stretches to simulate changes in blood flow, a graph displayed the live view of the changing tissue oxygen levels at the site of the sensors.
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