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Jun 3, 2014

Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini

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Self-assembling printable robotic components http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140603202248&#4…components

Affordable precision 3D printing for pros http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140603202709&#4…g-for-pros

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Jun 2, 2014

Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update by Andres Agostini

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Self-assembling printable robotic components http://www.kurzweilai.net/self-assembling-printable-robotic-components

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Raptor robot runs at 28.58 mph, faster than any human http://www.kurzweilai.net/kaist-raptor-robot-runs-at-28-…-any-human

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Jun 2, 2014

Entrepreneurship At Oxford: Less Harry Potter, More Bitcoin

Posted by in category: bitcoin

Jessica Stillman — Forbes

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Think of Oxford University and the image that is most likely comes to mind initially is something out of a Harry Potter movie – ornate dining rooms, formal dress and, of course, outstanding academics. What probably doesn’t first occur to you is the tradition-crushing, fast-moving, hoodie-wearing world of startups. But the university’s Saïd Business School is trying to change that.

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Jun 2, 2014

Pentagon considers using electricity to stimulate troops’ brains

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, military

Globe Staff — The Boston Globe

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Keeping your attention

A growing body of research suggests noninvasive brain stimulation, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), may improve specific cognitive skills in healthy subjects. Put another way, a small intermittent shock to your brain might keep your attention from eroding throughout the day.

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Jun 2, 2014

Glasses-free 3-D projector

Posted by in category: media & arts

Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office

Over the past three years, researchers in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab have steadily refined a design for a glasses-free, multiperspective, 3-D video screen, which they hope could provide a cheaper, more practical alternative to holographic video in the short term.

Now they’ve designed a projector that exploits the same technology, which they’ll unveil at this year’s Siggraph, the major conference in computer graphics. The projector can also improve the resolution and contrast of conventional video, which could make it an attractive transitional technology as content producers gradually learn to harness the potential of multiperspective 3-D.

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Jun 2, 2014

Ageing: The girls who never grow older

Posted by in category: life extension

By Virginia Hughes — BBC Future

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Richard Walker has been trying to conquer ageing since he was a 26-year-old free-loving hippie. It was the 1960s, an era marked by youth: Vietnam War protests, psychedelic drugs, sexual revolutions. The young Walker relished the culture of exultation, of joie de vivre, and yet was also acutely aware of its passing. He was haunted by the knowledge that ageing would eventually steal away his vitality – that with each passing day his body was slightly less robust, slightly more decayed. One evening he went for a drive in his convertible and vowed that by his 40th birthday, he would find a cure for ageing.

Walker became a scientist to understand why he was mortal. “Certainly it wasn’t due to original sin and punishment by God, as I was taught by nuns in catechism,” he says. “No, it was the result of a biological process, and therefore is controlled by a mechanism that we can understand.”

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Jun 1, 2014

Is it possible to build an artificial superintelligence without fully replicating the human brain?

Posted by in categories: automation, computing, ethics, existential risks, futurism, hardware, human trajectories, neuroscience, robotics/AI, security

The technological singularity requires the creation of an artificial superintelligence (ASI). But does that ASI need to be modelled on the human brain, or is it even necessary to be able to fully replicate the human brain and consciousness digitally in order to design an ASI ?

Animal brains and computers don’t work the same way. Brains are massively parallel three-dimensional networks, while computers still process information in a very linear fashion, although millions of times faster than brains. Microprocessors can perform amazing calculations, far exceeding the speed and efficiency of the human brain using completely different patterns to process information. The drawback is that traditional chips are not good at processing massively parallel data, solving complex problems, or recognizing patterns.

Newly developed neuromorphic chips are modelling the massively parallel way the brain processes information using, among others, neural networks. Neuromorphic computers should ideally use optical technology, which can potentially process trillions of simultaneous calculations, making it possible to simulate a whole human brain.

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May 31, 2014

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini

Posted by in categories: education, engineering, finance, futurism

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White Paper — Market Research and Social Media in the 21st Century http://ciowhitepapers.com/owp/119/156

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May 31, 2014

Future Observatory, White Swan Update by Andres Agostini

Posted by in categories: futurism, innovation, physics, science, scientific freedom, singularity

FRAUD

What the future of work looks like http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/29/what-the-future-of-work-looks-like/

The first 21st Century Passenger Spacecraft – Dragon Version 2 is Unveiled http://www.21stcentech.com/21st-century-passenger-spacecraft…-unveiled/

Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests http://www.space.com/25100-multiverse-cosmic-inflation-gravitational-waves.html

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May 31, 2014

Amazon Awarded Bitcoin-Related Cloud Computing Patent

Posted by in category: bitcoin

— Coin Desk

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E-commerce giant Amazon has been awarded a bitcoin-related cloud computing patent that envisions the use of digital currencies as payment for cloud computing services on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Amazon’s cloud is by far the biggest remote computing service on the market. Market research firm Gartner estimates AWS annual revenue at upwards of $3bn, and it believes Amazon’s cloud has five times the capacity of its next 14 rivals.

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