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Mar 9, 2016

Death Reversal — The Reanima Project — Research Whose Time Has Come

Posted by in categories: aging, biotech/medical, business, cryonics, health, life extension, neuroscience, posthumanism, science, scientific freedom

I have spent the last 30 years in various aspects of the biopharmaceutical industry, which for the most part has been a very rewarding experience.

However, during this time period, having been immersed many different components of therapeutic development and commercialization, one thing has always bothered me: a wide array of promising research never makes it off the bench to see the translational light of day, and gets lost in the historical scientific archives.

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I always believed that scientific progress happened in a very linear narrative, with each new discovery supporting the next, resulting ultimately in an eventual stairway of scientific enlightenment.

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Mar 7, 2016

A transgender, biotech-running cybercreator debates artificial intelligence

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, robotics/AI

I find this all amusing. However, wide spread adoption is a hurdle that has to be addressed first around AI; and at it’s core is the lack of trust by consumers & businesses around technology that still has not eradicated and blocked cyber hacking and attacks.


Martine Rothblatt takes on the notion that AI is dangerous to humanity.

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Mar 7, 2016

Google Ventures‘ Bill Maris Investing in Idea of Living to 500

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, life extension

This article is a year old, but it is the first I’ve seen it. This guy has access to hundreds of millions of dollars per year and has this wonderful quote to go with it: “If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes,” Bill Maris says.


Bill Maris has $425 million to invest this year, and the freedom to invest it however he wants. He’s looking for companies that will slow aging, reverse disease, and extend life.

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Mar 5, 2016

Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates Was Caught Hacking 45 Years Ago

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode

World’s most famous hackers: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.

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Mar 5, 2016

The Dark Web Hacking Forum ‘Hell’ Is Back Online

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode

I missed posting this in earlier; however, better late than never.

Hell is back up and in business again.


An old moderator has relaunched the hacking forum “Hell.”

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Mar 3, 2016

Ask Ray | Ethan Kurzweil debates the role of tech firms in personal privacy

Posted by in categories: business, energy, government, law enforcement, mobile phones, Ray Kurzweil

https://youtube.com/watch?v=b28Pquo54ek

Dear readers,

My son Ethan Kurzweil — who is a partner at Bessemer Ventures Partners — tracks the future of web innovation, social and legal concerns about privacy, and start-ups who have an edge with their business or consumer applications, like team sourcing or software-as-a-service.

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Mar 2, 2016

Coke and McDonald’s Are Now in the Virtual Reality Business

Posted by in categories: business, virtual reality

Both companies have new packaging that transforms into VR headsets.

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Mar 2, 2016

Here’s What Happened When We Asked Elon Musk About Equal Pay For Women — By Emily Peck | Huffington Post

Posted by in categories: business, Elon Musk

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 25: Elon Musk attends The Dinner For Equality co-hosted by Patricia Arquette and Marc Benioff on February 25, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.  (Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Weinstein Carnegie Philanthropic Group)

“The SpaceX CEO’s answer was encouraging.”

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Feb 28, 2016

Lab-grown beef will save the planet—and be a billion-dollar business

Posted by in categories: business, food

Startups around the world are racing to become the globe’s premier source of “cultured meat.”

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Feb 26, 2016

Illumina, the Google of Genetic Testing, Has Plans for World Domination

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, genetics, internet

You could say that Illumina is to DNA sequencing is what Google is to Internet search, but that would be underselling the San Diego-based biotech company. Illumina’s machines, the best and cheapest on the market, generate 90 percent of all DNA sequence data today. Illumina is, as they say, crushing it.

But as lucrative as that 90 percent slice is for Illumina now, the whole pie is likely to get even bigger in the future. Less than 0.01 percent of the world’s population has been sequenced so far. So recently, Illumina has made bold moves positioning itself for the future: The company is consolidating its core hardware business—this week, it sued an upstart competitor, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, for patent infringement—while moving into the genetic testing business with new ventures like the liquid cancer biopsy spinoff, Grail.

The company is a looking toward a future in which a lot more people gets genetic tests—and a lot more often. “Grail’s business will be very different than Illumina’s core business,” Eric Endicott, Illumina’s director of global public relations, said in an email. “We are at a tipping point in genomics, where a broad community of scientists and researchers continue to translate the potential of the genome from science to discoveries and applications.”

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