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."

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'.



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."

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."

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'."

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 "

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."

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."

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."

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."