This past week multiple governments including the U.S. and the U.K. actually pressured corporations like Rumble and TikTok to deplatform political commentator Russell Brand.
Category: 26 September 2023
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COMPUTER SUSSES OUT THREE NEW ANTI-AGING COMPOUNDS
Elderly cells in our bodies stop functioning but live on, after a fashion, causing inflammation and emitting waste and other damaging chemicals into the bloodstream.
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3-D PRINTED LIVING BRAIN CELLS SEND AND RECEIVE INFORMATION
Using “bio-inks,” researchers at Australia’s Monash University have 3D-printed living neurons—brain cells—that continue growing in a lab and are able to send and respond to nerve signals.
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GOODBYE, GRAY CEMENT. HELLO, GREEN CEMENT.
Making cement—the main ingredient in concrete—is estimated to be responsible for producing 8 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, at a rate of a ton of CO2 per ton of cement.
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A NATION OF SNITCHES: DHS IS GROOMING AMERICANS TO REPORT ON EACHOTHER
If you believe in and exercise your rights under the Constitution (namely, your right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share your political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), you have just been promoted to the top of the government’s terrorism watch list.
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MORE MASK MASQUERADES
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, health experts have been unable to unify around a cohesive message about face masks. A virtuoso of contradiction, Dr. Anthony Fauci—then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and a prominent face of the White House COVID-19 response team—publicly flip-flopped on the usefulness and need for masks multiple times.
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U.K. WILL PLACE THIRD IN GLOBAL AI SWEEPSTAKES, STUDY SAYS
Britain’s AI sector will grow from £1.36 trillion (about $1.7 trillion) to £2.4 trillion ($3 trillion) by 2027, making it the world’s third-largest AI economy behind the U.S. and China, according to an analysis by the information clearinghouse Global AI Ecosystem.
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AHEAD OF AI SAFETY SUMMIT, U.K. REGULATORS LIST GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR AI DEVELOPMENT
“The speed at which AI is becoming part of everyday life for people and businesses is dramatic,” Sarah Cardell, CEO of the CMA, said in a statement listing the principles.
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NEW INTEL CHIP BRINGS AI TO LAPTOP COMPUTERS
In December, chip-making giant Intel will unveil its new “Meteor Lake” chip able to run a generative AI program on a notebook computer instead of forcing users to connect to data centers to muster enough computing power for the task, the company announced last week at a Silicon Valley developers conference.
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U.S. SCHOOLS ARE ‘FAILING’ COVID GENERATION, REPORT SAYS
A nonpartisan research organization in Arizona released a damning report last week that said public schools in the U.S. are failing the “COVID generation” who have already struggled under unnecessary lockdowns and in-person class cancellations during the lockdown years.