"Functions of her 52 implants include opening locks, finding metal objects, calling phone numbers, and performing magic tricks, while one in her hand even vibrates."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12729397/Meet-worlds-ultimate-cyborg-California-woman-52-implants-body-allow-open-locks-turn-computers-one-causes-hand-vibrate.html

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- “The singularity,” the moment where AI is no longer under human control, is less than a decade away—according to one AI expert.
- More resources than ever are being poured into the pursuit of artificial general intelligence and speeding the growth of AI.
- Development of AI is also coming from a variety of sectors, pushing the technology forward faster than ever before.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a45780855/when-will-the-singularity-happen/

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China has unveiled the world's first living 'chimeric' monkey - an animal created in a lab using special cells - which has glowing yellow fingertips and fluorescent green eyes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12730653/Scientists-report-live-birth-chimeric-monkey.html

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https://allinmedianews.wordpress.com/2023/11/12/china-unveils-bold-plan-to-mass-produce-humanoid-robots-by-2025/

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“We will have a digital currency […] A working group is creating a bill to regulate cryptocurrencies because the function of the Bank of Colombia as the primary issuer cannot be lost” - Ricardo Bonilla, Colombia’s Minister of Finance, October 25, 2023

https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/digital-currency-colombia-cbdc-regulate-cryptocurrency/

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12775945/The-creepy-technologies-bringing-dead-celebrities-life-AI-used-revive-Edith-Piaf-John-Lennons-voices-Tupac-Robert-Kardashian-returned-holograms.html

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https://www.biometricupdate.com/202311/vietnam-makes-iris-biometrics-a-requirement-in-revised-digital-id-draft-law

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https://www.science.org/content/article/materials-predicting-ai-deepmind-could-revolutionize-electronics-batteries-and-solar

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Digital yuan is known to be programmable to have an expiry date attached. 🤔

"According to the Nov. 27 announcement, Standard Chartered, through its partner City Bank Clearing Services Co, will allow its clients to purchase, exchange and redeem e-CNY within its bank accounts. “As an international bank rooted in the Chinese market for 165 years, Standard Chartered is optimistic about the development prospects of digital Renminbi,” said Xiaolei Zhang, president of Standard Chartered China.

The bank will also join China’s e-CNY CBDC pilot testing program, which is currently ongoing in 26 cities and provinces. Standard Chartered stated that its areas of exploration include cross-border merchant payments, trade financing and supply chain financing."

Standard Chartered joins China’s CBDC pilot testing
https://cointelegraph.com/news/standard-chartered-joins-china-cbdc-pilot-testing

Digital Currency: Yuan comes with an expiry date: Spend or it will vanish
https://bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/policy/digital-currency-yuan-comes-with-an-expiry-date-spend-or-it-will-vanish/82059471

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https://www.straitstimes.com/business/singapore-banks-make-headway-on-programmable-digital-money-trials

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"A team of researchers working on DARPA’s Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program has created the first-ever quantum circuit with logical quantum bits (qubits), a key discovery that could accelerate fault-tolerant quantum computing and revolutionize concepts for designing quantum computer processors."

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-12-06

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- "Project Ellmann" is an internal Google proposal to use AI to help users get a "bird's-eye view" of their life stories.
- The idea would to use LLMs like Gemini to ingest search results, spot patterns in a user's photos, create a chatbot, and "answer previously impossible questions" about a person's life.
- The team also demonstrated "Ellmann Chat," with the description "Imagine opening ChatGPT but it already knows everything about your life."

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/08/google-weighing-project-ellmann-uses-gemini-ai-to-tell-life-stories.html

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“Shoring up trust will be a key goal of cybersecurity efforts over the next decade. The online spread of mis- and disinformation are now core cybersecurity concerns”

https://sociable.co/social-media/online-misinformation-disinformation-cybersecurity-wef/

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https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/11/investigative-reports/5-ways-to-prepare-for-the-online-privacy-crackdown/

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"Artificial intelligence is unlikely to make us smarter even as it helps us generate unimaginable terabytes of new text. It will prove a valuable tool for the intellectual elite to work faster to produce texts that will, increasingly, be unread by the nouveau éduqué who will come to their credentials in the era of AI."

https://www.theblaze.com/return/artificial-intelligence-may-not-ruin-civilization-but

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How an arcane philosophical rift in Silicon Valley is shaping the race to build artificial general intelligence.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/effective-accelerationism-and-the-pursuit-of-cosmic-utopia/

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ITOA posits that aging is primarily driven by the progressive loss of epigenetic information, leading to the erosion of cellular identity and function. This theory contrasts with the traditional view that aging is predominantly driven by genetic mutations.

The Information Theory of Aging
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-023-00527-6.epdf

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https://ipvm.com/reports/hangzhou-uyghur-student

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Parents and students are concerned about the growing use of artificial intelligence technologies in the classroom, according to a survey by the Center for Democracy and Technology. Privacy experts warn the technologies are about “manipulating and controlling behavior by instilling fear” in children.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/surveillance-kids-school-artificial-intelligence-facial-recognition/

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"Ultimately, crypto players’ elite composition, affiliations and publicly-expressed intentions to set digital financial industry standards showcase their intense interest in obtaining power over the financial system. As such, their participation in CBDC development only suggests an effort to ensure their infrastructure is cemented in the tech facilitating the worlds’ financial transactions. This must be understood as a power grab in its own right.

What’s more, CBDC pilots, where private players’ technologies are being utilized for critical CBDC infrastructure, demonstrates that CBDCs are fundamentally public-private concoctions, where sketchy, elite-gilded groups facilitate the tech underpinning the digital currency partially or fully imposed on the wider population in the event of global CBDC rollouts: a full fledged, perhaps permanent union of the state and the corporate world. Crypto players in the CBDC race are only driving the point home, with payments giant Stripe encouraging the US Federal Reserve “to fully leverage the expertise of the private sector” in the process of CBDC development.

Critically, major crypto players’ intense interest in CBDCs, even though a widespread CBDC rollout could theoretically jeopardize their future, forces speculation as to whether cryptocurrencies were developed as a kind of precursor to, or testing ground for, CBDCs, where the technologies needed for a central bank-issued digital currency could first be tested out and perfected in the private sector before coming under the complete dominion of central banks.

Even in the event that CBDCs don’t go ahead, adjacent technologies, like stable coins, are also being advanced by crypto players for similar purposes. Indeed, country-led stablecoin pilots like Palau’s and adjacent efforts, including fintech company Circle’s United States Dollar-pegged USD Coin (USDC), signal that, rather than facilitating CBDCs themselves, governing bodies could collaborate with private companies that instead issue and facilitate stablecoins on their behalf. Such stablecoins could ultimately enable the same programmability and surveillance concerns CBDCs pose to the public, but would instead be operated by the world’s wealthiest bankers and financiers rather than the central banks. "

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/12/investigative-reports/as-cbdcs-roll-out-elite-backed-digital-payment-systems-vie-to-build-the-global-payment-standard/

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