Aleksandar Vukovic – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 02 Oct 2018 23:42:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 First woman Physics Nobel winner in 55 years https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/10/first-woman-physics-nobel-winner-in-55-years Tue, 02 Oct 2018 23:42:20 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/10/first-woman-physics-nobel-winner-in-55-years

Only the third woman to win Nobel in Physics.


The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to a woman for only the third time since the award began.

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Lol Photo https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/07/lol-photo Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:22:29 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/07/lol-photo

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Here’s who’s going to win the World Cup, according to A.I. https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/06/heres-whos-going-to-win-the-world-cup-according-to-a-i Sun, 17 Jun 2018 01:22:20 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/06/heres-whos-going-to-win-the-world-cup-according-to-a-i

Robots aren’t playing professional soccer just yet, but they can certainly help predict it! With the FIFA World Cup kicking off, San Francisco-based tech firm Unanimous A.I. has used its considerable artificial intelligence expertise to predict the outcome of the 32-team men’s soccer tournament. Given that the startup has previously predicted the Super Bowl results successfully right down to the exact final score, we totally think this is worth taking seriously.

“These predictions were generated using swarm A.I. technology,” Louis Rosenberg, founder and CEO of Unanimous A.I., told Digital Trends. “This means it uses a unique combination of human insights and artificial intelligence algorithms, resulting in a system that is smarter than the humans or the machines could be on their own. It works by connecting a group of people over the internet using A.I. algorithms, enabling them to think together as a system, and converge upon predictions that are the optimized combination of their individual knowledge, wisdom, instincts, and intuitions.”

The technology is modeled on the remarkable abilities of swarms in nature, such as swarms of bees, schools of fish, or flocks of birds. These natural swarms combine the insights of large groups in optimized ways. Unanimous’ swarms utilize this same principle to answer complex questions — such as giving precise probability-based outcomes on each game in the World Cup.

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Estonia To Offer Free Genetic Testing, And Other Nations May Follow https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/04/estonia-to-offer-free-genetic-testing-and-other-nations-may-follow Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:22:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/04/estonia-to-offer-free-genetic-testing-and-other-nations-may-follow

The initiative, which launched on March 20, will start by providing 100,000 of its 1.3 million residents with information on their genetic risk for certain diseases. Genetic information from the project will first be delivered to a family doctor, so that patients will receive counseling about what their results actually mean and how they can better adapt their lifestyle to avoid illness.


The nation of Estonia is establishing a program that provides both free genetic testing and health advice to all citizens based on their results.

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China says its space station re-entered earth, broke up over South Pacific https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/04/china-says-its-space-station-re-entered-earth-broke-up-over-south-pacific Mon, 02 Apr 2018 03:22:47 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/04/china-says-its-space-station-re-entered-earth-broke-up-over-south-pacific

“China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burnt up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said.

The craft re-entered the atmosphere around 8:15 a.m. Beijing time (0015GMT) and the ”vast majority” of it had burnt up upon re-entry, the authority said in a brief statement on its website.

It had said shortly before that it was expected to re-enter off the Brazilian coast in the South Atlantic near the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

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Oxygen disappearing from world’s oceans, including Canada’s https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/01/oxygen-disappearing-from-worlds-oceans-including-canadas Sat, 06 Jan 2018 01:02:32 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/01/oxygen-disappearing-from-worlds-oceans-including-canadas

All animals need to breathe oxygen and we know that regions of the ocean that are losing oxygen are becoming more and more common. We’re seeing the marine animals leaving those areas.


Almost two dozen marine scientists from around the world have issued a warning about an often-overlooked side effect of climate change and pollution.

In a paper published this week in Science, they say oxygen is disappearing from increasingly large areas of ocean and threatening marine life.

The research, sponsored by an international body affiliated with UNESCO, finds the problem has been growing since the 1950s. Over the last 50 years, the amount of affected ocean has expanded by 4.5 million square kilometres to 32 million square kilometres of coastal and deep-sea water.

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