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May 26, 2018
How to Overhaul Your Business to Take Advantage of the Internet of Things
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, internet, robotics/AI
If you’re not learning, you’re missing out on earnings.
It’s easy to write off the Internet of Things (IoT) as a great technology solution looking for a problem; yet another acronym clogging up the hype cycle.
High-performance organizations, however, see IoT very differently. For them, IoT is already on the front line, where data and machine learning combine to power them exponentially ahead. When these organizations look at IoT, they don’t see a new technology to connect things. Instead, they see a business decision—and a better way to inform it.
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May 26, 2018
SpaceX’s prototype internet satellites are good enough for gaming, Elon Musk says
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites
May 26, 2018
We want to declare ageing a disease
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism
This in depth story has recently been translated to English: https://ciencias.uautonoma.cl/…/we-want-to-declare-ageing-a…?
Zoltan Istvan is currently a Libertarian candidate for Governor in California, also former 2016’s US presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party and he is known around the world as someone that advocates for Transhumanism, a public figure in science and technology.
May 26, 2018
Epigenetic clock analysis of diet, exercise, education, and lifestyle factors
Posted by Alexander Rodionov in categories: education, genetics, life extension
Aging (Albany NY). 2017 Feb 14;9:419–446. doi: 10.18632/aging.101168.
Quach A, Levine ME, Tanaka T, Lu AT, Chen BH, Ferrucci L, Ritz B3 Bandinelli S, Neuhouser ML, Beasley JM, Snetselaar L, Wallace RB, Tsao PS9,10, Absher D11, Assimes TL, Stewart JD12, Li Y13,14, Hou L15,16, Baccarelli AA17, Whitsel EA12,18, Horvath S1,19.
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May 26, 2018
World’s first electrified road charges cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
May 26, 2018
These Drops Can Replace Contacts And Glasses
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
May 26, 2018
Why living near forests can benefit your mental health
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: health, neuroscience
It is rush hour and you are crammed inside a train carriage with a stranger’s armpit pressing against your face. Are you feeling relaxed?
Studies have shown that repeated infringement of personal space in cities can trigger the brain’s threat system, which makes us feel stressed.
Other factors such as constant contact with strangers and traffic noise all contribute to city dwellers being most likely to suffer from chronic stress.
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May 26, 2018
Seabubbles: It’s like Uber but with boats!
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
A lot can happen in a second; you could meet a stranger, snap your fingers, fall in love, fall asleep, sneeze. But what is a second, really — and is it as precise as we think it is?
Right now, the most-precise clocks used to tell global time have an error of about 1 second every 300 million years — so a clock that started ticking in the time of the dinosaurs wouldn’t be off by even a second today. But scientists think we can do better. [The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics]
So, they are looking to lutetium, a neglected rare-earth element that has been gathering dust at the bottom of the periodic table, according to a new study published April 25 in the journal Nature Communications.
