Originally shared by Daniel Lemire

They grow live bones out of fat cells and transplant them in actual people. It works.

http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/12/05/lab-grown-bones-successfully-transplante?videoId=370635787&feedType=nl&feedName=Technology&videoChannel=6&utm_term=US+Technology+Report&utm_content=buffere4639&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Sharing to read later.

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

UBI – Universal Basic Income. Think it’s too socialistic? What if you add a free market on top of it? Thoughts?

Pro – article: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universal-basic-income/

Against – article: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436621/universal-basic-income-ubi-terrible-idea?client=safari

Historical – article: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mincome/

https://futurism.com/true-freedom-comes-with-basic-income/?utm_content=bufferfa57b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

Finally, quantum computing is getting less complicated rather than more complicated!

https://futurism.com/a-new-method-for-making-quantum-computers-has-arrived/

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

Peter Diamandis would like to introduce you to a new little company called Kernel.

http://suhub.co/2gIANKy

I think my favourite thing about this is that the solutions the algorithms come up with don’t look much like the ones that humans create – they look much more like natural objects.

Combine this with the extremely detailed modelling of reality that quantum computing is poised to make possible, and the world in a few years will look very different from the design future we’ve been imagining.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

“The evolutionary approach is particularly useful in areas where there are a large number of potential solutions — for example, designing new materials.”

http://suhub.co/2h2TvJJ

Making microorganisms produce the chemicals you want takes a lot of trials. So this lab has automated the testing process.

Story prompt: a lab like this produces something unexpectedly wonderful or terrible, and it causes chaos among the scientists.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/the-robot-revolution-comes-to-synthetic-biology

Originally shared by Arduino

Arduino-controlled wrist thrusters let snorkeler fly through the water effortlessly.

http://bit.ly/2gHYjVs

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

http://singularityhub.com/2016/12/02/new-ai-mental-health-tools-beat-human-doctors-at-assessing-patients/?utm_content=buffer1ea48&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter-hub&utm_campaign=buffer

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

Do we have a moral obligation to increase lifespan? If so, are there upper limits?

http://suhub.co/2gL1QoR