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Singularity Hub
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Singularity Hub is your place to keep informed about the daily advances mankind is making in nanotechnology, genetics, biology, artificial intelligence, aging, robotics, and various other fields as we work our way towards the singularity. The singularity is the point in mankind’s future when we will transcend current intellectual and biological limitations and initiate an intelligence and information explosion beyond imagining.
The impossible is becoming possible. The future that you thought would not come in your lifetime is coming sooner than you thought. Singularity Hub is here to tell you about it.
- Added on: Jan 9th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: kkleiner
- Listed in: Science Technology
- Tags: Robotics nanotechnology brain artificial intelligence longevity genetics
Recent Posts
Manipulating Just One Gene Makes a Smarter Rat
No, it wasn't smart enough to read, but genetically manipulated Hobbie-J was one smart rat. According to recently published results in PLoS One, researchers at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) and East China Normal University have genetically...
Brain Controlled Robot Follows Mental Commands (Video)
Ask any super villain and he’ll tell you – good robotic henchmen are hard to find. That’s why I love the robot from Rajesh Rao’s lab at the University of Washington. The little humanoid bot is controlled by the human brain. By...
Brainport Lets The Blind See With the Tongue (Video)
Put on the glasses, adjust the dials, put the white thing in your mouth...and presto! You can see with your tongue. Part of the reason I love my job is that I get to see things that I would never have dreamed of or even believed. Case in point: using...
Genome Study Reveals New Links to Parkinson’s
New studies in the US and Japan highlight important genetic links to Parkinson's disease. Good news for those suffering from the debilitating illness. Affordable genetic testing continues to enable scientists to find exciting new discoveries that...
Universal Translators Are All Around Us (Video)
Will the iPhone be the Universal Translator of the future? When watching Star Trek, I was always amazed that the aliens all spoke English. Writers explained this happy coincidence by the presence of a universal translator (UT), a portable device whic...
Swarm Bots Evolve Communications Skills and Deceit (Video)
Where's that food...oh, it's with my blue friends over there. Oh what a tangled web a robot weaves when it first practices to deceive. S-bots, the swarm bots developed in Lausanne, Switzerland at EPFL were shown to evolve communication skills...
