At Yale University’s medical school, researchers have restored some brain and cellular functions in pigs that have been dead for as long as four hours. Within a minute or two of death, animal and human tissues lose their supply of oxygen and begin to break down. However, in 2019, Yale’s research team unveiled what they...
Author: Joe Doran
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CALCULATES STRUCTURES OF ALMOST ALL KNOWN PROTEINS
Every living thing from bacteria to weeds to humans is made of proteins. Last year, the artificial intelligence (AI) AlphaFold, created by researchers at Google parent Alphabet, fleshed out the catalog of human proteins by completing chemical structures that scientists had only been able to calculate in part. The way a protein is structured or...
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BATTERY WARS: A LIQUID REPLACEMENT FOR LITHIUM
Influit, a start-up spun off of the Illinois Institute of Technology, has unveiled the latest entry in the contest to replace lithium batteries. The company refers to its creation as “nanoelectrofuel.” It’s a version of a flow battery—a cell in which two chemical solutions flow past each other on opposite sides of a membrane, transmitting electrons and creating an...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
ETHEREUM DOMINANCE BECOMING A DONE DEAL If the upcoming Ethereum “merge” to a proof-of-stake consensus method comes off without any hitches, it’s likely to further cement the crypto network’s dominance—and that spells trouble for “Ethereum killer” rivals. So says Blockchain.com co-founder and CEO Peter Smith. “The challenge for all of those blockchains is that you...
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UPDATE: CAN STABLECOINS SAVE THE DOLLAR?
Last week we reported on the chances of Congress enacting regulations that would require crypto stablecoins to have reserves of dollars as backing. Investor Kevin O’Leary, among others, believe that such regulations would go a long way toward preserving the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. But as we’ve also previously reported on and predicted,...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
“WE DON’T FEEL HEARD”: HOW THE GOVERNMENT WILL USE AI SOCIAL LISTENING TO CONTROL PUBLIC SENTIMENT It’s couched as empowering technology. A group of elderly people gathered to talk about various problems regarding their living conditions, medical care, and / or state of the world, aren’t just speaking to each other, or even interviewers from...
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GREEN ENERGY TYCOONS READY TO LAY WASTE TO GREENLAND
They have to destroy the environment to save it. It’s one of those oh so inconvenient truths of the “green reset,” where the latest news is that Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other mega billionaires are funding rare earth projects in Greenland. Greenland, due to its formidably harsh climate and terrain, represents one of the...
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INNOVATING WITH AI OR BLOCKCHAIN TECH? EXPECT THE DOD TO KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR.
INNOVATING WITH AI OR BLOCKCHAIN TECH? EXPECT THE DOD TO KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR. Fresh-faced coders and cypher punks with start-ups working on AI (Artificial Intelligence) or blockchain innovations might soon find themselves “drafted” by the U.S. Department Of Defense (DOD). The military plans to step up a search and acquire approach to “technology at...
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THE SAD JOURNEY TO AMERICAN SUNSET WILL COME WITH A SURVEILLANCE COIN
Under the guise of preventing sanctions evasions and money laundering, the Federal government is setting the stage for tracking virtually every transaction of Americans—including anyone who uses cryptos and the likely forthcoming “digital dollar.” How did we end up in this financial surveillance state? Partly based on the fast evolving capabilities of technology. And partly...
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TJ Apr 12 Long Section Test – JD
TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT ECONOMIC OVERVIEW How low can we go? This isn’t ancient history. Go back to Chinese Lunar New Year 2020: The Year of the Rat In January, when the coronavirus was launched in the city of Wuhan, Beijing locked the city down, and others, to beat the virus. In lockstep,...