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Monday, April 3, 2017

How humans will lose control of artificial intelligence

How humans will lose control of artificial intelligence: "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but with a paper clip. In this scenario, the designers of the world's first artificial superintelligence need a way to test their creation. So they program it to do something simple and non-threatening: make paper clips. They set it in motion and wait for the results — not knowing they've already doomed us all."

Elon Musk Just Confirmed That He's Making Tech To Merge Human Brains and Computers

Elon Musk Just Confirmed That He's Making Tech To Merge Human Brains and Computers: "Elon Musk is a very future-oriented tech entrepreneur, as evidenced by Tesla and SpaceX. Even so, Musk has always been vocal about his fear of a world take over by artificial intelligence (AI). Curiously enough, his solution to keep the AI doomsday away is to merge the human brain with machines."

‘Your animal life is over. Machine life has begun.’ The road to immortality

‘Your animal life is over. Machine life has begun.’ The road to immortality | Science | The Guardian: "The animal life is over now. The machine life has begun."

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Quadriplegic man's arm and hand brought back to life by thought-control tech

Quadriplegic man's arm and hand brought back to life by thought-control tech: "During trials Bill Kochevar grasped and lifted objects after having dozens of electrodes implanted in his brain and right arm."

Goodbye boarding pass, hello fingerprints: How biometrics is changing travel

Goodbye boarding pass, hello fingerprints: How biometrics is changing travel: "Vision-Box, a provider of biometric-based solutions, recently introduced Seamless Gateway technology at the Passenger Terminal Expo. The system uses facial recognition to enable contactless and seamless movement through airport checkpoints. The state-of-the-art eGates capture facial images on the fly, matching them against an existing database."

Scientists have turned spinach into human heart tissue

Scientists have turned spinach into human heart tissue | FOX6Now.com: "Scientists inMassachusetts have converted a spinach leaf into a tiny, beating human heart muscle in an eerie experiment that might one day help doctors repair damaged organs."

Monday, March 27, 2017

Elon Musk firm to make computers implanted into the BRAIN | Daily Mail Online

Elon Musk firm to make computers implanted into the BRAIN | Daily Mail Online: "Elon Musk has set up a new firm to develop Matrix-style 'neural computers'.

Neuralink will work on what Musk calls the 'neural lace' technology, implanting tiny brain electrodes that may one day upload and download thoughts. Pictured, Keanu Reeves plugging into 'The Matrix'

Called Neuralink, it will work on what Musk calls the 'neural lace' technology, implanting tiny brain electrodes that may one day upload and download thoughts, according to the Wall Street Journal."

Get Ready for Drug-Delivering Tattoos and Bones That Can Harvest Energy

Get Ready for Drug-Delivering Tattoos and Bones That Can Harvest Energy: "Everywhere you go, you can find scientists and engineers doing 3-D printing. They may be using it to print bridges over water, or buildings and houses, or even hearts and livers and skull parts. In fact, we’re hearing so much about 3-D printers creating the normal and ordinary stuff all over again, that it’s becoming pretty boring."

Venus Rover to be Powered by 2,300-Year-Old Mechanism

Venus Rover to be Powered by 2,300-Year-Old Mechanism | Mysterious Universe: "After lying on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea for over 2,000 years — an ignominious end for the first analog computer which was used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses — the Antikythera mechanism is back in business with a new mission … to Venus. NASA announced that a group of engineers is designing a new rover around the ancient computer as a way to keep it working in the harsh Venusian climate. In simple terms, it’s a “automata.”"

Mars' Arsia Mons and Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time

Mars' Arsia Mons and Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time - Astrobiology: "New NASA research reveals that the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity.

The last volcanic activity there ceased about 50 million years ago -- around the time of Earth's Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, when large numbers of our planet's plant and animal species (including dinosaurs) went extinct."

Monday, March 20, 2017

Real-life Robocops will soon replace human police

Real-life Robocops will soon replace human police: "Robot police were once sci-fi fantasy, but soon the real thing will be patrolling the streets of Dubai."

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pilots a giant robot

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pilots a giant robot | Daily Mail Online: "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos piloted a giant robot at a secret conference on Monday, excitedly describing the experience later as 'awesome'."

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Self-Replicating "DNA Computers” Are Set to Change Everything

Self-Replicating "DNA Computers” Are Set to Change Everything: "DNA computers can create more storage as-needed through self-replication, and their computing potential is almost unfathomable."


UK ALIEN INVASION? Upsurge in UFO sightings ROCKS Somerset and Gloucestershire

UK ALIEN INVASION? Upsurge in UFO sightings ROCKS Somerset and Gloucestershire | Weird | News | Express.co.uk: "HAVE aliens suddenly taken a renewed interest in the renowned paranormal hotspot of the West Country?"

NASA plan to turn the SUN into a giant telescope

NASA plan to turn the SUN into a giant telescope | Daily Mail Online: "Scientists have devised a radical plan to use the sun as a massive telescope, tapping into an effect known as gravitational lensing to view alien worlds in ultra-high resolution."

It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language

It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language | WIRED: "IGOR MORDATCH IS working to build machines that can carry on a conversation. That’s something so many people are working on. In Silicon Valley, chatbot is now a bona fide buzzword. But Mordatch is different. He’s not a linguist. He doesn’t deal in the AI techniques that typically reach for language. He’s a roboticist who began his career as an animator. He spent time at Pixar and worked on Toy Story 3, in between stints as an academic at places like Stanford and the University of Washington, where he taught robots to move like humans. “Creating movement from scratch is what I was always interested in,” he says. Now, all this expertise is coming together in an unexpected way."

Singularity will create super humans, Google expert claims

Singularity will create super humans, Google expert claims | Daily Mail Online: "Technological singularity will turn us into super humans some time in the next 12 years, according to a Google expert. Ray Kurzweil says future cyborg generations will be sexier, smarter and stronger "

Technological singularity will turn us into super humans some time in the next 12 years, according to a Google expert. Ray Kurzweil says future cyborg generations will be sexier, smarter and stronger 

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Terminal cancer patients in complete remission after one gene therapy treatment 

Terminal cancer patients in complete remission after one gene therapy treatment : "A groundbreaking gene therapy treatment which boosts a patient's own immune cells has been shown to clear disease from one third of terminal patients."

’Who's in control?' Scientists gather to discuss AI doomsday scenarios

’Who's in control?' Scientists gather to discuss AI doomsday scenarios — RT News: "Artificial intelligence has the capability to transform the world - but not necessarily for the better. A group of scientists gathered to discuss doomsday scenarios, addressing the possibility that AI could become a serious threat."

’Who's in control?' Scientists gather to discuss AI doomsday scenarios

Netflix Movie 'Okja' Teases Uncontrolled Genetic Modification

Netflix Movie 'Okja' Teases Uncontrolled Genetic Modification | Inverse: "The potential and power of genetic engineering looms over the first trailer released for the upcoming Netflix film Okja. Directed by Snowpiercer’s Bong Joon-ho, the film’s star is a genetically modified animal who is friends with a young girl and is being hunted by a multinational company. This company’s business is genetic modification, and it’s headed by an icy-blond Tilda Swinton. While Okja is being pegged as science fiction, the fictional part of this film is actually pretty slim: The science that it would take to make such a creature is already in the works."

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Artificial human life could soon be grown in lab after embryo breakthrough

Artificial human life could soon be grown in lab after embryo breakthrough: "Artificial human life could soon be grown from scratch in the lab, after scientists successfully created a mammal embryo using only stem cells."

Get ready for robots made with human flesh

Get ready for robots made with human flesh | Ars Technica: "Two University of Oxford biomedical researchers are calling for robots to be built with real human tissue, and they say the technology is there if we only choose to develop it. Writing in Science Robotics, Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy and Andrew Carr argue that humanoid robots could be the exact tool we need to create muscle and tendon grafts that actually work."




Congress told to brace for 'robotic soldiers'

Congress told to brace for 'robotic soldiers' | TheHill: "House lawmakers were warned Wednesday that artificial intelligence could soon be used by potential adversaries in military operations."

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Oldest fossil ever found on Earth dating back 4.2bn years shows alien life on Mars is likely

Oldest fossil ever found on Earth dating back 4.2bn years shows alien life on Mars is likely: "The discovery is the strongest evidence yet that similar organisms could also have evolved on Mars, which at the time still had oceans and an atmosphere, and was being bombarded by comets which probably brought the building blocks of life to Earth."

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Boston Dynamics unveils 'nightmare-inducing' hybrid robot

Boston Dynamics unveils 'nightmare-inducing' hybrid robot | Technology | The Guardian: "Google-owned robotics firm and “nightmare” factory Boston Dynamics has released video of its latest creation: a two-wheeled, four-legged hybrid robot named Handle."

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Research suggests some people could have alien DNA

Research suggests some people could have alien DNA: "The new blood type in question is known as RH-negative. It’s so rare that scientists claim people who have it could have alien DNA! After performing studies, researchers found that RH blood does not carry the evolutionary gene found in rhesus monkeys that most other humans have. Meaning, they didn’t evolve from the same lineage as other people."

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

50,000 seeds added to DOOMSDAY deposit in Arctic Circle

50,000 seeds added to DOOMSDAY deposit in Arctic Circle | Daily Mail Online: "The doomsday seed vault in the Arctic Circle which protects our global food security just got even bigger."

Fifty thousand seed samples from collections in Benin, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, the U.S, Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and the U.K have travelled to the Doomsday Vault (pictured) for safe-keeping in the event of a global disaster


Hackers can steal data through LED lights on your computer

Hackers can steal data through LED lights on your computer | Daily Mail Online: "A new hack has been discovered that gathers sensitive information from a desktop computer's tiny blinking LED lights."

NASA Finds 7 Earth-Like Planets

NASA Finds 7 Earth-Like Planets | Coast to Coast AM: "At a NASA press conference on Wednesday afternoon, the space agency announced that astronomers have discovered an amazing seven Earth-like planets orbiting a nearby star."

Discoverer of the Bosnian Pyramids: I have found Tesla's 'TORSION FIELDS' at the Bosnian Pyramids

Discoverer of the Bosnian Pyramids: I have found Tesla's 'TORSION FIELDS' at the Bosnian Pyramids | Ancient Code: "Dr. Semir Osmanagić, the discoverer of the Bosnian Pyramids explains he has made another fascinating discovery which not only changes the history of the European Continent, but that of the entire planet. The discovery of Tesla’s standing waves at the top of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun—which are believed to travel faster than the speed of light, while not losing strength as they pass through cosmic bodies—prove the existence of something referred to as a cosmic web or cosmic internet which allow for a immediate intergalactic communication throughout the universe, writes Dr. Osmanagić."

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Monday, February 13, 2017

Remains of a 'Giant' Discovered Alongside Ancient Treasure Trove in Iran

Remains of a 'Giant' Discovered Alongside Ancient Treasure Trove in Iran: "Archeologists in western Iran have discovered a treasure trove of ancient artifacts, including the remains of an extremely tall man who lived more than 1,500 years ago."

Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age

Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age: ""Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence," Musk told an audience at the World Government Summit in Dubai, where he also launched Tesla in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)."

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Behold Bat Bot, the Flying First Robot Bat

Behold Bat Bot, the Flying First Robot Bat: "A team of scientists has just built the first robot that looks and flies like a bat. They named it, of course, Bat Bot."

Monday, January 30, 2017

Super volcano Italy: Campi Flegrei eruption could kill millions

Super volcano Italy: Campi Flegrei eruption could kill millions | Daily Star: "A SUPERVOLCANO on the brink of blowing threatens to wipe out Europe, kill millions “immediately” and bring the world economy to its knees."

Synthetic Cells Convince Living Bacteria That They're Alive

Synthetic Cells Convince Living Bacteria That They're Alive: "The artificial cells are so lifelike that natural cells can't tell the difference during a chemical "conversation.""

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Distressing footage shows 'possessed' girl kicking and screaming as locals 'exorcise demon from her'

Distressing footage shows 'possessed' girl kicking and screaming as locals 'exorcise demon from her' - Mirror Online: "At least seven students began fitting and kicking out on the floor earlier this month after some nearby graves were disturbed at their school"

Friday, January 27, 2017

Amputee cats given bionic paws in groundbreaking surgery

Amputee cats given bionic paws in groundbreaking surgery: "Two cats have been given a new lease of life in what is thought to be a surgery first for Europe aside from Britain."

NASA 'cuts live feed from international space station' after mysterious object appears on camera

NASA 'cuts live feed from international space station' after mysterious object appears on camera - Independent.ie: "He told the Mirror: "I've been watching it [the live feed] for years but never seen any UFOs on it before."

Thursday, January 26, 2017

It's real: Metallic hydrogen has been created for the first time

It's real: Metallic hydrogen has been created for the first time - ScienceAlert: "More than 80 years after it was first predicted, physicists have created metallic hydrogen - a mysterious form of hydrogen that could be capable of superconducting electricity without resistance at room temperature."

New Prospects for Growing Human Replacement Organs in Animals

New Prospects for Growing Human Replacement Organs in Animals - The New York Times: "For the first time, biologists have succeeded in growing human stem cells in pig embryos, shifting from science fiction to the realm of the possible the idea of developing human organs in animals for later transplant."

Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises risk of human pandemic

Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises risk of human pandemic: "The global spread of bird flu and the number of viral strains currently circulating and causing infections have reached unprecedented levels, raising the risk of a potential human outbreak, according to disease experts."

US Navy ships to be fitted with SUPER LASERS

US Navy ships to be fitted with SUPER LASERS | Daily Mail Online: "While the US Navy unveiled a 30-kilowatt laser weapon in 2014, it now looks set to reveal an even more powerful weapon - a 150 kw 'super laser'. "

Is a doomsday asteroid on its way to Earth?

Is a doomsday asteroid on its way to Earth? | Daily Mail Online: "Last year Nasa detected an object, that could be a comet or an asteroid, on a path towards Earth."

Last year Nasa detected an object, that could be a comet or an asteroid, on a path towards Earth. One self-proclaimed astronomer has come up with an alternative theory, suggesting the asteroid will crash into Earth and trigger a mega-tsunami

Human-pig HYBRID? Scientists hoping to create part man, part pig organs

Human-pig HYBRID? Scientists hoping to create part man, part pig organs | Science | News | Daily Express: "A HYBRID human-pig embryo has been injected into a sow’s womb as scientists push the ethical boundaries of science in the hope that they can create lifesaving donor organs."

The GM cyborg dragonflies that can spy on you

The GM cyborg dragonflies that can spy on you | Daily Mail Online: "A genetically modified cyborg dragonfly that can spy on anyone has been unveiled."

A genetically modified cyborg dragonfly that can spy on anyone has been unveiled. Dubbed the DragonflEye, the half-insect, half-machine is fitted with a fingernail-sized backpack, powered by a solar panel and remotely controlled by an operator


Monday, January 23, 2017

First GMO apple slices to go on sale in Midwest

First GMO apple slices to go on sale in Midwest - - Capital Press: "SUMMERLAND, B.C. — The first genetically modified apples to be sold in the U.S. will debut in select Midwestern stores next month."

Organisms created with synthetic DNA pave way for entirely new life forms

Organisms created with synthetic DNA pave way for entirely new life forms | Science | The Guardian: "E coli microbes have been modified to carry an expanded genetic code which researchers say will ultimately allow them to be programmed"

Friday, January 20, 2017

Lasers Could Generate Shields Out Of Thin Air

Lasers Could Generate Shields Out Of Thin Air - D-brief: "Lasers could turn Earth’s atmosphere into a defensive, or offensive, tool in the future of warfare."




Thursday, January 19, 2017

MIT Invented a New Material That's 10 Times Stronger Than Steel

MIT Invented a New Material That's 10 Times Stronger Than Steel - RealClearLife: "Researchers at MIT have successfully 3-D–printed graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon, into a functional, lightweight material that’s 10 times stronger than steel and way less dense."

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Facebook's mind-control social network: The science behind brain-computer interfaces

Facebook's mind-control social network: The science behind brain-computer interfaces: "Social network Facebook is currently hiring neuroscientists to help build brain-computer interfaces, ostensibly to pursue founder Mark Zuckerberg's keen interest in telepathy, but mind control doesn't exist, so what is Zuckerberg really up to?"

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Antibiotic apocalypse accelerating say scientists

Antibiotic apocalypse accelerating say scientists | South Burnett Times: "THE antibiotic apocalypse is accelerating, with US scientists warning treatment-resistant bacteria is spreading faster than expected, and with increasing stealth."

Was Einstein Right, Is Time Travel Possible? Scientists Tested it

Was Einstein Right, Is Time Travel Possible? Scientists Tested it | TrendinTech: "The University of Queensland Australia has done subsequent studies on time travel, its possibility aspects, and components. According to in-depth studies from the University, time travel is a possibility."

China to develop prototype super, super computer in 2017

China to develop prototype super, super computer in 2017 - Yahoo Singapore Finance: "China plans to develop a prototype exascale computer by the end of the year, state media said Tuesday, as it seeks to win a global race to be the first to build a machine capable of a billion, billion calculations per second."

Saturday, January 14, 2017

US woman dies of infection resistant to all 26 available antibiotics

US woman dies of infection resistant to all 26 available antibiotics: "Miami (AFP) - A US woman has died from an infection that was resistant to all 26 available antibiotics, health officials said this week, raising new concerns about the rise of dangerous superbugs."

Friday, January 13, 2017

Scientists race to develop vaccine for the PLAGUE amid fears terrorists could use the Medieval disease to kill millions

Scientists race to develop vaccine for the PLAGUE amid fears terrorists could use the Medieval disease to kill millions: "A leading researcher has warned the disease could be weaponized to deadly effect should it fall into the wrong hands"

Catholic priest who inspired The Exorcist died from a fall after a ‘possessed’ child spoke to him

Catholic priest who inspired The Exorcist died from a fall after a ‘possessed’ child spoke to him | Daily Mail Online: "A Catholic priest who inspired The Exorcist died from a fall after what he claims was a possessed child spoke to him, it has emerged."

William Peter Blatty dead aged 89 as tributes pour in for The Exorcist author

William Peter Blatty dead aged 89 as tributes pour in for The Exorcist author: "William Peter Blatty’s death was confirmed on social media by the film’s director William Friedkin this afternoon."

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Robot kill switches & legal status: MEPs endorse AI proposal

Robot kill switches & legal status: MEPs endorse AI proposal — RT Viral: "A European Parliament committee has voted in favor of a draft report that proposes granting legal status to robots, categorizing them as “electronic persons”."

Babies made without mothers 'will come sooner than we think', leading scientists warn

Babies made without mothers 'will come sooner than we think', leading scientists warn | Daily Mail Online: "Babies made without mothers could come sooner than we think, leading biologists claim."

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Artificial Human: Scientists Grew a Beating Human Heart from Stem Cells

Artificial Human: Scientists Grew a Beating Human Heart from Stem Cells: "Scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School used adult skin cells to regenerate functional human heart tissue, bringing humanity one step closer the creating an artificial human."

On the trail of Bigfoot in North Dakota?

On the trail of Bigfoot in North Dakota? | News | KFGO-790: "DICKEY COUNTY, N.D. (KFGO) -- Chris Bauer of Ellendale, North Dakota has been a trapper all his life. He knows the outdoors and is now a true believer in Bigfoot. He tracked a creature he's certain is the legendary Sasquatch."

Seven new unexplained images of SOMETHING floating in Loch Ness emerged in 2016

Seven new unexplained images of SOMETHING floating in Loch Ness emerged in 2016  | Daily Mail Online: "For more than eight decades we've known that there is something mysterious in Loch Ness. And a series of photographs has revealed that this is  definitely the case - although we're no clearer about what it is."

There's something in the water: A photograph taken by a Mr Smith was one of the entries considered for the prize




China's secret 'humpback' stealth nuclear sub surfaces with missiles that could reach ANYWHERE in the US

China's secret 'humpback' stealth nuclear sub surfaces with missiles that could reach ANYWHERE in the US | Daily Mail Online: "New photos of China's latest secret stealth submarine have emerged - and it is believed could soon carry missiles powerful enough to reach America."

The Type 094A, China's newest nuclear missile submarine, is currently based at Hainan Island, in the underground submarine base at Yulin. The new variant has a curved tower and front, making it more aerodynamic underwater.

'Demon possessed doll' blinks and nods head before entire room shakes leaving young girl terrified

'Demon possessed doll' blinks and nods head before entire room shakes leaving young girl terrified - Mirror Online: "The 'haunted doll' is filmed twisting its head from side to side before objects fly across the room in the creepy video"

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Mysterious GIANT Coffins Discovered in Egypt Near Pyramid of Giza May Prove Existence of The Biblical Nephilim

Mysterious GIANT Coffins Discovered in Egypt Near Pyramid of Giza May Prove Existence of The Biblical Nephilim: "The 24 boxes, or tombs, were re-discovered in Egypt in 2012, and they were once originally discovered by Ramesses II some 3300 years ago. The mainstream theory regarding the boxes is that Ramesses II built the burial site, but it is more likely that the early Egyptians only discovered this burial site. Just how could the Egyptians move over 24 tombs that weigh roughly 100 tons each?"