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9 days ago
Current Event drunkenninjaOh great, AI will apparently match humans in creativity and emotional intelligence soon
As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about when it comes to artificially intelligent machines being able to perform many tasks faster and better than humans can, potentially stealing our jobs in the future, and presenting what some technologists worry is an existential threat to humanity, now it appears AI will soon be able to match humans at being, well, human, too.
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10 days ago
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That thing looks like something straight out of The Thing!
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10 days ago
Current Event drunkenninja
New deep knowledge AI system could resolve bottlenecks in drug research
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new system that could significantly speed up the discovery of new drugs and reduce the need for costly and time-consuming laboratory tests.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event drunkenninja
Researchers Taught an AI to Give Really Good Head
According to a research paper on the project, entitled “Analysis of Movement in Oral Sex Performed Upon Men,” sixteen distinct motions were discovered.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event drunkenninja
MIT is giving you control of a real person on Halloween in a dystopian game that sounds like an episode of 'Black Mirror'
This Halloween, the creepiest event to attend might be a mass online social experiment hosted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT is famous for churning out some of the world's top engineers, programmers, and scientists. But the university's Media Laboratory is increasingly known for launching experimental projects in October that are designed to make us squirm.
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3 weeks ago
Comment drunkenninja
Never understood the fascination, but never say never I guess.
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3 weeks ago
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Reminder: Cars Don't Have Bumpers Anymore and That Sucks
I’m not sure if you saw this story this morning, but modern cars are absolutely outrageously expensive to fix after even a minor collision. Some of this has to do with all the cameras and sensors and robotic feely-bits crammed into the extremities of cars, but a big part of the blame needs to fall on the fact that modern automotive design has effectively eliminated the bumper. And that’s idiotic.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event drunkenninja
'Spectacular' diabetes treatment could end daily insulin injections
A potential medical breakthrough that could put an end to the daily insulin injections endured by people living with diabetes has been unveiled by Dutch scientists. By destroying the mucous membrane in the small intestine and causing a new one to develop, scientists stabilised the blood sugar levels of people with type 2 diabetes. The results have been described as “spectacular” – albeit unexpected – by the chief researchers involved.
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3 weeks ago
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Brain-eating amoebae halted by silver nanoparticles
Halloween is just around the corner, and some people will celebrate by watching scary movies about brain-eating zombies. But even more frightening are real-life parasites that feed on the human brain, and they can be harder to kill than their horror-movie counterparts. Now, researchers have developed silver nanoparticles coated with anti-seizure drugs that can kill brain-eating amoebae while sparing human cells. The researchers report their results in ACS Chemical Neuroscience.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event drunkenninja
Chicken nuggets lab-grown from feathers to go on sale by end of year, company says
Imagine if instead of raising a whole chicken for slaughter, it was possible to pop a feather in a machine, and grow a chicken nugget. That's basically what a San Francisco-based company says it has figured out how to do. It claims the process - from feather to nugget - takes about two days.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event drunkenninja
Russian Scientists Discover Bacteria That Neutralizes Nuclear Waste
The unique bacteria, discovered in a nuclear waste storage site in Siberia, shows promise as a tool for the creation of a natural barrier to the spread of radionuclides.
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1 month ago
Current Event drunkenninja
Scientists Create Artificial Wood That Is Water- and Fire-Resistant
A new lightweight substance is as strong as wood yet lacks its standard vulnerabilities to fire and water. To create the synthetic wood, scientists took a solution of polymer resin and added a pinch of chitosan, a sugar polymer derived from the shells of shrimp and crabs. They freeze-dried the solution, yielding a structure filled with tiny pores and channels supported by the chitosan. Then they heated the resin to temperatures as high as 200 degrees Celsius to cure it, forging strong chemical b...
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1 month ago
Comment drunkenninja
It's just like asking telemarketers to add me to the do not call list haha.
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1 month ago
Current Event drunkenninja
The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens
If investors at some of the biggest technology companies are right, the next big restaurant chain could have no kitchens of its own. These venture capitalists think the same forces that have transformed transportation, media, retail and logistics will also work their way through prepared food businesses.
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1 month ago
I find it particularly depressing that the only people that can truly be unaffected by the first wave of climate change based events will be the rich as they have the ability to relocate, build for, and adjust their surroundings. By the time climate change will be bad enough that even they will start to suffer, all of those assholes will be long dead. Actually, now that I think about it, it would almost be comically ironic if they did discover a way to live forever, this way they would be subjected to watching the world end and that would be the ultimate hell.
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1 month ago
Wouldn't be surprised, this is pure gold when it comes to the type of information that it not usually volunteered.
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1 month ago
Current Event drunkenninja
So many people have had their DNA sequenced that they've put other people's privacy in jeopardy
A new study argues that more than half of Americans could be identified by name if all you had to start with was a sample of their DNA and a few basic facts, such as where they live and how about how old they might be.
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1 month ago
Current Event drunkenninja
Fyre Festival Organizer Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison
Billy McFarland had pleaded guilty to wire-fraud charges in the Fyre debacle as well as two more fraud counts for running a sham ticket-selling business.
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1 month ago
Current Event drunkenninja
Magic Mushrooms May Be an FDA-Approved Drug for Anxiety and Depression in the Near Future
According to a new study, psilocybin found in “magic” mushrooms, could be useful in treating anxiety and depression.
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1 month ago
Current Event drunkenninja
Artificial intelligence: when humans coexist with robots
The human race is not on the scrapheap after all. Or at least not yet. There has been no shortage of predictions in recent years about how advances in artificial intelligence and robotics will see humans replaced in all kinds of jobs. But most AI experts see a less drastic outcome. In this version of the future, people will still have a role working alongside smart systems: either the technology will not be good enough to take over completely, or the decisions will have human consequences that...
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1 month ago
Comment drunkenninja
This was honestly one of the poorest social network concepts around, so I'm not sad that it's going although I am a bit disappointed just by the fact that a lot of people put a ton of time into it.
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1 month ago
Current Event drunkenninja
Google is shutting down Google+ for consumers following security lapse
Google is going to shut down the consumer version of Google+ over the next 10 months, the company writes in a blog post today. The decision follows the revelation of a previously undisclosed security flaw that exposed users’ profile data that was remedied in March 2018.