#434611 This Week’s Awesome Stories From ...

Posted on February 9, 2019 by Android

AUTOMATION
The Rise of the Robot ReporterJaclyn Paiser | The New York Times“In addition to covering company earnings for Bloomberg, robot reporters have been prolific producers of articles on minor league baseball for The Associated Press, high school football for The Washington Post and earthquakes for The Los Angeles Times.”
ROBOTICS
Penny-Sized Ionocraft Flies With No Moving PartsEvan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum“Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) thrusters, sometimes called ion thrusters, use a high strength electric field to generate a plasma of ionized air. …Magical, […] Continue Reading…

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#434599 This AI Can Tell Your Age by Analyzing ...

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Android

The plethora of bacteria and other tiny organisms that live in your gut, often referred to as the gut microbiome, don’t just help you digest food and fight disease. As detailed in a new study, they also provide a very accurate biological clock that shows your physical age—a fact that may open up wide-ranging possibilities for health and longevity studies.
Combining Machine Learning and Your Gut
The link between the gut biome and age is described by longevity researcher Alex Zhavoronkov […] Continue Reading…

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#434592 Caltech Building Agile Humanoid Robot by ...

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Android

Leonardo augments humanoid legs with thrusters to help it run and jump[Read more…]

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#434585 This Week’s Awesome Stories From ...

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Android

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Breaks an AI RecordTom Simonite | Wired“Summit, which occupies an area equivalent to two tennis courts, used more than 27,000 powerful graphics processors in the project. It tapped their power to train deep-learning algorithms, the technology driving AI’s frontier, chewing through the exercise at a rate of a billion billion operations per second, a pace known in supercomputing circles as an exaflop.”
ROBOTICS
iRobot Finally Announces Awesome New Terra Robotic LawnmowerEvan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum“Since the […] Continue Reading…

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#434580 How Genome Sequencing and Senolytics Can ...

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Android

The causes of aging are extremely complex and unclear. With the dramatic demonetization of genome reading and editing over the past decade, and Big Pharma, startups, and the FDA starting to face aging as a disease, we are starting to find practical ways to extend our healthspan.
Here, in Part 2 of a series of blogs on longevity and vitality, I explore how genome sequencing and editing, along with new classes of anti-aging drugs, are augmenting our biology to further […] Continue Reading…

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