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Understanding The Metaverse

Posted in Business, Online, Reviews, Software on 7th Nov, 2021
by Alex Muller

The metaverse is undoubtedly an exciting new platform that will evolve and take shape rapidly over the next few years and perhaps be a transformative change to our global society.

Cosmos Blockchain Project Interview

Posted in Interviews, Online, Software on 29th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

Cosmos is a blockchain building toolkit to help crypto entrepreneurs build their own blockchain projects, find out all about it in this interview with the creator of Cosmos director Jack Zamplin:

Terra CEO Discusses The Company's Blockchain Projects In This Interview

Posted in Business, Interviews, Online, Software on 18th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

These projects Include, Terraswap, Luna, Mirror Protocol, Chai, and Anchor. In this interview we go over some of these projects.

Anti-aging Drug Acts As A "smart Bomb" To Take Out Dysfunctional Cells

Posted in Medicine on 16th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

Senolytic drugs have been shown to rejuvenate old cells in rodents and also increase their lifespan, while promising advances have also been made in using them to improve healthspan, or the amount of our lives we spend healthy.

DeepMind Is Developing One Algorithm To Rule Them All

Posted in Science, Software on 16th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

They are doing some transfer learning, chaining a couple of algorithms together and seeing if they can transfer between one algorithm, making it easier to learn a separate related algorithm.

Space Perspective Raises $40M For Balloons That Can Take People Into Space

Posted in Business, Science on 16th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

Space Perspective hopes to gently take you into space.

Aspirin Has Long Been Prescribed To Prevent Heart Attacks. Now Experts Say It Shouldn't.

Posted in Medicine on 16th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

The side effects are not worth the potential benefits, especially for older adults.

FDA Expert Panel Recommends All J&J Vaccine Recipients Get A Booster

Posted in Medicine on 16th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

The one-shot vaccine might have always been meant to be a two-dose regimen.

A Quarter Of Sun-Like Stars Consume Their Own Planets, According To New Research

Posted in Science on 13th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

This study opens the possibility of using chemical analysis to identify stars that are more likely to host true analogues of our calm solar system. There are millions of relatively nearby stars similar to the sun.

Moonshot Project Aims To Understand And Beat Cancer Using Protein Maps

Posted in Medicine, Science on 13th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

A very promising area of study that could lead to breakthrough treatments, that could be combined with other therapies.

The World's Largest Direct Air Capture Plant Is Now Pulling CO2 From The Air In

Posted in Science on 13th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

A plant about four times as large as the Zurich facility has started operating in Iceland, joining 15 other direct air capture plants that currently operate worldwide.

New Study Finds A Single Neuron Is A Surprisingly Complex Little Computer

Posted in Science, Software on 13th Oct, 2021
by Alex Muller

Engineers should try replacing the simple artificial neurons in today's algorithms with a mini five-layer network simulating a biological neuron.