Emerging Technologies....They Might Have Cured Cancer

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Called AT–121, it's more powerful than morphine in delivering pain relief, it doesn't produce dangerous side effects, and – importantly – it's not addictive.

"In our study, we found AT–121 to be safe and non-addictive, as well as an effective pain medication," explains pharmacologist Mei-Chuan Ko from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre.

"In addition, this compound also was effective at blocking abuse potential of prescription opioids, much like buprenorphine does for heroin, so we hope it could be used to treat pain and opioid abuse."

 

 

https://www.sciencealert.com/experimental-non-addictive-painkiller-solution-opioid-crisis-at-121

[FanboyOf91]

 

 

[FanboyOf91]

...at least it's not a subcutaneous microchip...

[FanboyOf91]

 

[TheGreatBuzz]

On 9/20/2018 at 12:28 PM, FanboyOf91 said:

 

Not sure if this is the thread for it but not sure it is worth it's own.  I'm curious if the pro-Obama care people (for lack of a better term) feel like affordable life insurance should be as available to the general masses as they think health insurance should be?

[Corcaigh]

On 9/20/2018 at 12:28 PM, FanboyOf91 said:

 

 

 

"John Han**** said customers would not have to log their activities to qualify for coverage - but they would not benefit from the discounts if they chose not to."

 

Sounds like someone in John Hand**** is getting a bribe from the wearables industry. 

 

And what does the math look like ... if you buy a wearable and do more exercise .... which extends your life ... do you end up buying (slightly cheaper) life insurance for more years, thus increasing revenue to John Hand****? 

 

 

 

[Riggo-toni]

I am so glad for software that protects us from words like Han****, sal****er, ****pit, and such.

 

Cazzo, sheise, merde, foutre, va te faire enculer, va fa' 'n culo, stronzo....

[PleaseBlitz]

On 9/20/2018 at 12:28 PM, FanboyOf91 said:

 

 

This is why my manic dog wears my FitBit.  

Edited September 22, 2018 by PleaseBlitz

[Corcaigh]

1 hour ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

This is why my manic dog wears my FitBit.  

 

There's a whole new highly efficient business model. Dog-walking services can also 'walk' your wearables.

Edited September 22, 2018 by Corcaigh

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The mockup of China’s CH-7 combat drone unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow this week looks a lot like one the U.S. Navy was developing — until it dropped the project, allowing China to position itself to beat the U.S. and other allies in fielding a long-range, high-altitude combat drone. That’s despite the fact that—in the words of one expert—the United States had a “ten-year head start.”

 

If the CH-7 makes its first flight next year and stays on track, it “will be the sole option for buyers wanting to field stealth combat drones” in 2022, crowed China Daily, citing “sources.” It will also be the sole option for buyers looking to purchase an aircraft carrier-capable combat drone (according to China’s state-run Global Times) that looks like the X-47B, an experimental drone that U.S. weapons-maker Northrop Grumman developed for the Navy.

 

Under a program originally called Joint Combat Air Strike and later Unmanned Combat Air System, the Navy sought a stealthy drone that could take off from an aircraft carrier, perform reconnaissance deep inside enemy territory and, if necessary, fight it out with enemy aircraft. The X-47B performed well in testing, but in 2015 the Navy decided it wanted an unmanned aerial refueling tanker instead, citing cost. Culture and technophobia may have played a role as well, said Paul Scharre, a senior fellow and director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security.

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[China]

That rideable drone in Dubai is insane.  I'm guessing it's just a prototype, otherwise it's designed to decapitate as many as 4 people at once, or potentially cut off the legs of its rider.  And good luck sneaking up on criminals, that thing is so loud it must break sound ordinances (if not windows).  Judging by the video, it is apparently not that easy to fly either.

[FanboyOf91]

oh ****

 

 

[China]

On 9/10/2018 at 11:00 AM, FanboyOf91 said:

 

 

 

Apparently you must be a flapper to telepathically communicate with drones.

Edited November 11, 2018 by China

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

2 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

This will be interesting to follow.  Their slow approach makes sense to work out any kinks and avoid any major problems with accompanying negative press.  Most of these are, of course, starting up in the SW US.  I want to see what happens when these cars have to deal with salt, slush, and nasty weather and road conditions in the winter in the Northeast US that will screw with the sensors.  I also want to know what happens when cars take people to the wrong place (which will inevitably happen), or when the map data is bad (I recently experienced this when google maps tried to route me on a road that was closed).

Edited November 13, 2018 by China

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But unlike its predecessors, which had tumbled to the ground, Version 2 sailed nearly 200 feet through the air at roughly 11 miles per hour (17 kilometers per hour). With no visible exhaust and no roaring jet or whirling propeller—no moving parts at all, in fact—the aircraft seemed silently animated by an ethereal source. “It was very exciting,” Barrett says. “Then it crashed into the wall, which wasn’t ideal.”

 

Still, Version 2 had worked, and Barrett and his colleagues published their results Wednesday in Nature. The flight was a feat others have tried but failed, says Mitchell Walker, an aerospace engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology who did not work on the new plane. “[Barrett] has demonstrated something truly unique,” he says. Ion thrusters are not a particularly new technology; they already help push spacecraft very efficiently—but they are a far cry from rockets or jets, and normally nudge spacecraft into place in orbit. They have also propelled deep-space probes such as Dawn on missions to the Asteroid Belt. In the near-vacuum of space, ion thrusters have to carry an onboard supply of gas that they ionize and fire off into the relative emptiness to create thrust. When it comes to moving through Earth’s thick atmosphere, however, “everyone saw that the velocity [from an ion thruster] was not sufficient for propelling an aircraft,” Walker says. “Nobody understood how to go forward.”

 

But Barrett and his team figured out three main things to make Version 2 work. The first was the ionic wind thruster design. Version 2’s thrusters consist of two rows of long metal strands draped under its sky blue wings. The front row conducts some 40,000 volts of electricity—166 times the voltage delivered to the average house, and enough energy to strip the electrons off ample nitrogen atoms hanging in the atmosphere.

 

 

 

Edited November 25, 2018 by FanboyOf91

[FanboyOf91]

 

[FanboyOf91]

Great, now Twitter is gonna be worse.

 

[China]

Team at MIT Invents Process to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale Sizes

 

It sounds like a project straight out of science fiction, but the technology is real and could signal that a paradigm shift in electronics and lenses is on the way. It's not a shrink ray, but a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has come up with the next best thing. 

 

Researchers at MIT announced this month that they've invented a process that "shrinks" objects to nanoscale - or smaller than what people can see using a microscope - using a laser. 

 

The process is known as "implosion fabrication" (what a cool name) and could be applied to a variety of industries, from developing better cell phone camera lenses to creating nanoscale electronics or even robots. 

 

"There are all kinds of things you can do with this,” Edward Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology and an associate professor of biological engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT says. "Democratizing nanofabrication could open up frontiers we can’t yet imagine."

 

The process doesn't run on Pym particles, instead, researchers found that by using a very absorbent material commonly found in diapers and placing it in a solution that contains fluorescein, they could essentially create a structure using laser light. Then, researchers attached materials such as metal, DNA or even a tiny "quantum dot" particles to the structure. 

 

Finally, they shrink the structure by adding an acid which blocks the negative charges in the polyacrylate gel so that they no longer repel each other. That causes the gel to contract and "shrink" the structure down to size. 

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Corcaigh]

Algorithm animates characters in still images, allowing them to walk out of photographs.

 

https://youtu.be/G63goXc5MyU?t=215

 

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612647/machine-vision-creates-harry-potter-style-magic-photos/

 

 

Edited December 29, 2018 by Corcaigh

[China]

2 hours ago, Corcaigh said:

Algorithm animates characters in still images, allowing them to walk out of photographs.

 

https://youtu.be/G63goXc5MyU?t=215

 

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612647/machine-vision-creates-harry-potter-style-magic-photos/

 

 

 

The ability to edit the images and re-work them in videos is scary.  All kinds of fake stuff will be put out there and it will be difficult to tell what is fake and what isn't.

[No Excuses]

On 12/18/2018 at 5:25 PM, China said:

There are all kinds of things you can do with this,” Edward Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology and an associate professor of biological engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT says. "Democratizing nanofabrication could open up frontiers we can’t yet imagine."

 

Ed Boyden is maybe the best scientists and engineers in the entire world that no one knows about. He’s going to create a ground breaking technology in his lifetime that will radically change how humans live and operate. 

 

In his previous work, he had developed this diaper material technology to radically expand the size of biological structures to examine them at a molecular scale. Incredible that he seems to have taken this concept and transformed it into something radically different and equally ground breaking.  

 

He recently also became the Chief Science person for a neurotechnology company. He’s one of the few people in the whole world who can actually pull off directly wiring the brain to the internet. 

Edited December 29, 2018 by No Excuses

[FanboyOf91]

 

[China]

The robot that learned how to skate on ice

 

Robots can walk, climb, and even open doors. But can they iceskate?

 

Well, it seems now they can.

 

Stelian Coros, a professor at the Computational Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, says the only thing his team did was to tell the robot how one skate behaved on the ice, and that it was free to move in the direction of the blade.

 

The modular robot can then work out where its legs need to be balanced in order to steer.

 

Click on the link for the full article and video