Feb 15, 2023
VRChat Sex Worker Denied Entry To US Over โProstitutionโ
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UK-based Hex wanted to visit friends in the U.S. but was barred from entering due to her virtual work.
UK-based Hex wanted to visit friends in the U.S. but was barred from entering due to her virtual work.
๐๐ก๐ ๐ง๐๐จ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ค๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ. ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐ง๐จ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ ๐ง๐๐จ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ฑ, ๐ฌ๐๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ก ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฑ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐๐.
The brains of reptiles seemed to offer a clue. Not only are reptiles the closest living relatives of mammals, but their brains have a three-layered structure called a dorsal ventricular ridge, or DVR, with functional similarities to the neocortex.
The neocortex stands out as a stunning achievement of biological evolution. All mammals have this swath of tissue covering their brain, and the six layers of densely packed neurons within it handle the sophisticated computations and associations that produce cognitive prowess. Since no animals other than mammals have a neocortex, scientists have wondered how such a complex brain region evolved.
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An international team of scientists has found a way to regenerate kidneys damaged by disease, restoring function and preventing kidney failure. The discovery could drastically improve treatments for complications stemming from diabetes and other diseases.
Diabetes causes many problems in the body, but one of the most prevalent is kidney disease. Extended periods of elevated blood sugar can damage nephrons, the tiny filtering units in the kidneys, which can lead to kidney dysfunction and eventually failure.
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Meta, formerly known as Facebook, today showed off a prototype of an AI system that enables people to generate or import things into a virtual world just by using voice commands. The company sees the tool, which is called โBuilder Bot,โ as an โexploratory conceptโ that shows AIโs potential for creating new worlds in the metaverse. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the prototype at the Meta AI: Inside the Lab event on Wednesday in a pre-recorded demo video.
In the video, Zuckerberg explained the process of building parts of a virtual world by describing them. He begins with the prompt, โletโs go to a park.โ The bot then creates a 3D landscape of a park with green grass and trees. Zuckerberg then says โactually, letโs go to the beach,โ after which the bot replaces the current landscape with a new one of sand and water. He then says he wants to add clouds and notes that everything is AI-generated. Zuckerberg then changes up the landscape by saying heโd rather have altocumulus clouds, which is meant to demonstrate how specific the voice commands can be.
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Injury to the spinal cord often leads life changing disability, with decreased or complete loss of sensation and movement below the site of injury. From drugs to transplantation, there are many scientific advances aiming to restore function following spinal cord injury.
One promising approach is the use of stem cell derived neurons to replace those damaged. New research from the Centre for Gene Therapy & Regenerative Medicine and Centre for Neurodevelopment at Kingโs College London hopes to improve on this approach by providing pure populations of neurons made from stem cells.
The spinal cord is a delicate structure, with neurons carry messages from your brain to the rest of your body to allow movement and sensation. Integral to this system are interneurons, or the cells that relay information between your brain and other neurons. Research has previously shown that transplanting a class of interneurons, ventral spinal interneurons, to treat spinal cord injury in animal models provides promising recovery of sensory and motor function.
Age catches up with us all eventually, but in some people the right genes can make that chase into our twilight years a relatively leisurely one.
A few years ago Italian researchers discovered something special about people who live well into their 90s and beyond: they commonly have a version of a gene called BPIFB4 that protects against cardiovascular damage and keeps the heart in good shape for a longer period of time.
By introducing the mutated gene into older mice, the scientists have now seen how the variant rewinds markers of biological heart aging by the equivalent of more than 10 human years.
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space. Waves that originated in the early universe could carry important information about the phenomena that occurred there.
I am proud to announce that today came out probably my most important scientific paper. I propose a whole new paradigm in neuroscience. To understand the mind, synapses are not so important any more. Instead, critical are some other type of proteins on the neural membrane. These proteins have the capability to transiently select subnetworks that will be functional in the next few seconds or minutes. The paradigm proposes that cognition emerges from those transient subnetwork selections (and not from network computations of the classical, so-called connectionist paradigm). The proteins in question are metabotropic receptor and G protein-gated ion channels. Simply put, we think with those proteins. A result of a thought is a new state of network pathways, not the activity of neurons.
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Perhaps the most important question posed by brain research is: How the brain gives rise to the mind. To answer this question, we have primarily relied on the connectionist paradigm: The brainโs entire knowledge and thinking skills are thought to be stored in the connections; and the mental operations are executed by network computations. I propose here an alternative paradigm: Our knowledge and skills are stored in metabotropic receptors (MRs) and the G protein-gated ion channels (GPGICs). Here, mental operations are assumed to be executed by the functions of MRs and GPGICs. As GPGICs have the capacity to close or open branches of dendritic trees and axon terminals, their states transiently re-route neural activity throughout the nervous system. First, MRs detect ligands that signal the need to activate GPGICs. Next, GPGICs transiently select a subnetwork within the brain. The process of selecting this new subnetwork is what constitutes a mental operation โ be it in a form of directed attention, perception or making a decision. Synaptic connections and network computations play only a secondary role, supporting MRs and GPGICs. According to this new paradigm, the mind emerges within the brain as the function of MRs and GPGICs whose primary function is to continually select the pathways over which neural activity will be allowed to pass. It is argued that MRs and GPGICs solve the scaling problem of intelligence from which the connectionism paradigm suffers.
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, it carbonized a book on rulers who followed Alexander the Great. Now, machine learning is deciphering the โlost book.โ
๐ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐, ๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐ฆ ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐๐ก ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐งโ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ญ๐๐ซ. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐๐ญ๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ.
During a research trial, the results of which are published in the journal Biology, healthy volunteers were given a functional MRI (fMRI) scan immediately after bathing in cold water. These scans revealed changes in the connectivity between the parts of the brain that process emotions.
For the first time, a team of researchers has observed changes in how different parts of the brain interact with each other after a personโs body is immersed in cold water. The findings explain why people often feel more upbeat and alert after swimming outside or taking cold baths.
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