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Dec 28, 2017

AI Researchers Create Video to Call for Autonomous Weapons Ban at UN

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

In response to growing concerns about autonomous weapons, a coalition of AI researchers and advocacy organizations released a fictitious video on Monday that depicts a disturbing future in which lethal autonomous weapons have become cheap and ubiquitous.

The video was launched in Geneva, where AI researcher Stuart Russell presented it at an event at the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons hosted by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

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Dec 28, 2017

Data From 14 Million Papers Is Now Available for Free

Posted by in category: futurism

A new initiative, I4OC, is working towards making reliable, structured data of authors, reference lists, and citations accessible to the public. Their launch marks the availability of 14 million scholarly works, with more to come.

The Initiative of Open Citations (140C) announced today that science papers’ reference lists will now be accessible to anyone.

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Dec 27, 2017

What’s Love got to do with Education?

Posted by in categories: complex systems, education, ethics, evolution, futurism, health, homo sapiens, human trajectories, innovation, philosophy, sustainability

[This article is drawn from Ch. 8: “Pedagogical Love: An Evolutionary Force” in Postformal Education: A Philosophy for Complex Futures.]

“There is nothing more important in this world than radical love” as Paolo Freire told Joe Kincheloe over dinner.

- Joe Kincheloe. Reading, Writing and Cognition. 2006.

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Dec 26, 2017

Bioquark Inc. — The Becoming SuperHuman Podcast

Posted by in categories: aging, bioengineering, biological, biotech/medical, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, science

https://becomingasuperhuman.com/mother-nature-superhuman-ira-pastor-bioquark/

Dec 22, 2017

A Baby Spent 24 Years as a Frozen Embryo Before Being Born Last Month

Posted by in category: futurism

When Tina Gibson got married seven years ago, the 26-year-old knew it was unlikely that she would have children naturally. Her husband, 33-year-old Benjamin Gibson, had cystic fibrosis, a condition that can make men infertile, the couple told CNN.

The East Tennessee pair decided they would eventually adopt a child instead — and that they would foster several children in the meantime, until they were ready.

Then, last year, during a break between foster children, her father told them about something he’d heard on the news — embryo adoption, according to CNN. Gibson couldn’t get the idea out of her head.

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Dec 22, 2017

Facebook Can Now Find Your Face, Even When It’s Not Tagged

Posted by in category: futurism

A new Facebook tool deploys facial-recognition to identify users in photos, even when they’re not tagged.

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Dec 22, 2017

Electronically-smooth ‘3D graphene’: A bright future for trisodium bismuthide

Posted by in categories: futurism, materials

Researchers have found that the topological material trisodium bismuthide (Na3Bi) can be manufactured to be as ‘electronically smooth’ as the highest-quality graphene-based alternative, while maintaining graphene’s high electron mobility.

Na3Bi is a Topological Dirac Semimetal (TDS), considered a 3D equivalent of in that it shows the same extraordinarily high electron mobility.

In graphene, as in a TDS, electrons move at constant velocity, independent of their energy.

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Dec 22, 2017

The Las Vegas Resort Using Microwaves to Keep Guns Out of its Casino

Posted by in category: futurism

The technology uses a discreet microwave radar system to scan people for guns, knives, and bombs—without forcing them to walk through metal detectors.

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Dec 21, 2017

Bioquark Inc. — Beyond Confidence — Biotechnology and Human Health

Posted by in categories: aging, bioengineering, biological, biotech/medical, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, life extension, neuroscience

https://www.spreaker.com/user/talk4media/beyond-confidence-12-18-2017

Dec 20, 2017

World’s First Flying Car Race Could Predict The Future of Sports

Posted by in categories: drones, futurism

after two years of development in a secret location in sydney, australian start-up alauda reveals the airspeeder mark 1, a new class of airborne racing vehicle – a flying car that could predict the future of sports. the company’s turning to kickstarter to not only help build the final product but the beginnings of a community that could usher in a new age of sport.

future of sports flying car alauda the body is modelled after a 1960’s Formula V images courtesy of alauda.

coining it ‘airspeeder sport’, the alauda is hoping to push the technology to the mainstream whilst looking ahead to their first official test race which will see two of their vehicles racing against one another next year. in the lead-up alauda has test raced with drones, developing a flight-control system before creating their much larger ‘speeders’.

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