At an international tech conference in Barcelona, Melbourne-based startup Cortical Labs has launched CL1, the world’s first commercial biological computer. The system, which operates in a cloud-based "Wetware-as-a-Service" model, contains lab-grown human neurons capable of learning from inputs.
CL1 builds on the company’s earlier success in teaching neurons to play Pong in 2022. Dr. Brett Kagan, Cortical Labs' chief science officer, envisions disease modeling, drug testing, and AI development applications that leverage neurons' efficiency and learning speed.
While researchers acknowledge the potential of biological AI, they also highlight its limitations. Unlike traditional AI models, CL1 uses significantly less power and can process small amounts of data more efficiently. Scientists continue to explore how these lab-grown neurons could revolutionize computing and medical research.
CL1 builds on the company’s earlier success in teaching neurons to play Pong in 2022. Dr. Brett Kagan, Cortical Labs' chief science officer, envisions disease modeling, drug testing, and AI development applications that leverage neurons' efficiency and learning speed.
While researchers acknowledge the potential of biological AI, they also highlight its limitations. Unlike traditional AI models, CL1 uses significantly less power and can process small amounts of data more efficiently. Scientists continue to explore how these lab-grown neurons could revolutionize computing and medical research.
THE BEST WAY TO BE A FATHER
1. BE THERE:
✅The biggest failure as a man is having a child and rejecting that child, abdicating your responsibility as a father, being quick to have sex and quicker to run away when pregnancy comes. Too many children are hurting because of a father who is alive but has disowned them, it makes the child grow feeling unwanted and unloved, it dents the child's self esteem and some become adults with a constant feeling of rejection. If you have a child, be there; no matter how bad things are between you and the mother of the child- be there; you owe it to your young one.
2. TELL YOUR DAUGHTER SHE IS BEAUTIFUL:
✅The first man to compliment a girl should be her father, the first man to take note of her beauty should be her dad. A girl should grow up convinced she is beautiful and feeling like a king's princess that even when boys and men try to woo her saying she's beautiful she responds "I know, dad has been telling me that for years". Too many girls fall for preying men because they are desperately looking for affection, they have daddy issues and had no encounter with a male figure who genuinely loved them before the preying men noticed their boobs and hips; so they fall prey to men who use compliments and give attention as a carrot to lure to a trap that leads to hurt.
3. MODEL MANHOOD TO THE SONS:
✅A boy comes into the world as a naive student who will absorb what the male figures around him teach. He can be taught the right way to be a man or be misled. He learns how to treat females whether good or bad from the men around him. He should learn proper manhood from the father. The father should model how best to treat and respect females, how to love as a man, how to work, how to provide, how to be a man of integrity.
4. EAT WITH YOUR FAMILY:
✅ Food brings people together, one of the greatest show of security to a child is when the dad makes time to share meals.
5. BE THE SPIRITUAL LEADER:
✅ The father should be the High Priest. He should lead the child/ children towards living a Godly life, he should be seen praying, reading God's word, living out a Godly life, loving. The child should be given a Godly foundation that will shape a stable future and the father should be seen submitting to the God who gave the child life and who makes parenthood possible.
6. LISTEN:
✅ A child with a father who loves to listen grows in confidence. When a child feels he/she can tell daddy anything, no battle will intimidate the child. Sometimes you don't have to say much, just sit back and pay attention. The first need of love is to be listened to, to be treated like how you feel and what you have to say is important.
7. GIVE ADVICE:
✅ A father should be there to offer counsel whether solicited or not. Children cry for direction. As a father, be involved in the process of the seeking of answers. Be open about your mistakes, your childhood, your lessons and your expectations of the child. Give advice not as a dictator whose word is final lest you isolate yourself from the child because the child can do what you ask yet fear and despise you; but help the child understand why you are insisting on your way, help the child understand your reasons, train your child to think through solutions; this way, he/ she will grow up with the self-sufficient capacity of making sound and wise decisions.
8. BE PRESENT:
✅ The father's presence should be felt, too many fathers have left parenting to the wife. The best test of love is the giving of time, do not fail this test.
9. REFRAIN FROM THROWING MONEY AT THE PROBLEM:
✅ No matter how rich you are, fatherhood is not done by throwing money at issues. When your child complains of your absence, when problems arise, when dealing with your child becomes a handful and you feel you have no time; don't use money to silence or appease the child. Fatherhood is a hands on approach, it will not be easy but its fruits are sweet. Don't escape through your ATM.
1. BE THERE:
✅The biggest failure as a man is having a child and rejecting that child, abdicating your responsibility as a father, being quick to have sex and quicker to run away when pregnancy comes. Too many children are hurting because of a father who is alive but has disowned them, it makes the child grow feeling unwanted and unloved, it dents the child's self esteem and some become adults with a constant feeling of rejection. If you have a child, be there; no matter how bad things are between you and the mother of the child- be there; you owe it to your young one.
2. TELL YOUR DAUGHTER SHE IS BEAUTIFUL:
✅The first man to compliment a girl should be her father, the first man to take note of her beauty should be her dad. A girl should grow up convinced she is beautiful and feeling like a king's princess that even when boys and men try to woo her saying she's beautiful she responds "I know, dad has been telling me that for years". Too many girls fall for preying men because they are desperately looking for affection, they have daddy issues and had no encounter with a male figure who genuinely loved them before the preying men noticed their boobs and hips; so they fall prey to men who use compliments and give attention as a carrot to lure to a trap that leads to hurt.
3. MODEL MANHOOD TO THE SONS:
✅A boy comes into the world as a naive student who will absorb what the male figures around him teach. He can be taught the right way to be a man or be misled. He learns how to treat females whether good or bad from the men around him. He should learn proper manhood from the father. The father should model how best to treat and respect females, how to love as a man, how to work, how to provide, how to be a man of integrity.
4. EAT WITH YOUR FAMILY:
✅ Food brings people together, one of the greatest show of security to a child is when the dad makes time to share meals.
5. BE THE SPIRITUAL LEADER:
✅ The father should be the High Priest. He should lead the child/ children towards living a Godly life, he should be seen praying, reading God's word, living out a Godly life, loving. The child should be given a Godly foundation that will shape a stable future and the father should be seen submitting to the God who gave the child life and who makes parenthood possible.
6. LISTEN:
✅ A child with a father who loves to listen grows in confidence. When a child feels he/she can tell daddy anything, no battle will intimidate the child. Sometimes you don't have to say much, just sit back and pay attention. The first need of love is to be listened to, to be treated like how you feel and what you have to say is important.
7. GIVE ADVICE:
✅ A father should be there to offer counsel whether solicited or not. Children cry for direction. As a father, be involved in the process of the seeking of answers. Be open about your mistakes, your childhood, your lessons and your expectations of the child. Give advice not as a dictator whose word is final lest you isolate yourself from the child because the child can do what you ask yet fear and despise you; but help the child understand why you are insisting on your way, help the child understand your reasons, train your child to think through solutions; this way, he/ she will grow up with the self-sufficient capacity of making sound and wise decisions.
8. BE PRESENT:
✅ The father's presence should be felt, too many fathers have left parenting to the wife. The best test of love is the giving of time, do not fail this test.
9. REFRAIN FROM THROWING MONEY AT THE PROBLEM:
✅ No matter how rich you are, fatherhood is not done by throwing money at issues. When your child complains of your absence, when problems arise, when dealing with your child becomes a handful and you feel you have no time; don't use money to silence or appease the child. Fatherhood is a hands on approach, it will not be easy but its fruits are sweet. Don't escape through your ATM.
Material things can contain a child for a while, but soon the child will look around and see empty things but no love from dad.
10. SHOW UP:
✅ Make daddy appearances; show up at your child's sports day, birthday, parent's day, graduation or any other special day. Make random visits to what your child cares alot about even if for a few minutes. Meet your child's friends briefly, let your child feel daddy's loving eyes are watching over me.
10. SHOW UP:
✅ Make daddy appearances; show up at your child's sports day, birthday, parent's day, graduation or any other special day. Make random visits to what your child cares alot about even if for a few minutes. Meet your child's friends briefly, let your child feel daddy's loving eyes are watching over me.
Shoji Morimoto, a 41-year-old from Japan, earns around $80,000 a year by renting himself out to “do nothing” 🤔
Charging between $65 and $195 per session, he has conducted over 4,000 sessions in four years, offering silent companionship for those who need a nonjudgmental presence.
Clients hire him for various reasons, from sharing a meal to attending important life events, often to combat loneliness. Morimoto sets clear boundaries, refusing requests involving labor, long-distance travel, or anything inappropriate.
Previously working in publishing, he found fulfillment in embracing his passivity as a service, bringing joy to both himself and those who seek his presence.
Charging between $65 and $195 per session, he has conducted over 4,000 sessions in four years, offering silent companionship for those who need a nonjudgmental presence.
Clients hire him for various reasons, from sharing a meal to attending important life events, often to combat loneliness. Morimoto sets clear boundaries, refusing requests involving labor, long-distance travel, or anything inappropriate.
Previously working in publishing, he found fulfillment in embracing his passivity as a service, bringing joy to both himself and those who seek his presence.
A desert lynx (caracal) was captured on Tuesday night, March 18, 2025, after reportedly biting several Israeli soldiers near Mount Harif in the al-Nagab (Negev) desert, where an Israeli military base is located near the border with Egypt. A Nature and Parks Authority supervisor caught the animal and described its behavior as unusual.
Japan's educational system is so revolutionary that it currently trains children as "Citizens of the world," not as Japanese.
A revolutionary pilot plan called "Brave Change" (Futoji no henko) is being tested in Japan, based on the Erasmus, Grundtvig, Monnet, Ashoka and Comenius educational programs.
It is a conceptual change. They will understand and accept different cultures and their horizons will be global, not national.
The 12-year program is based on the concepts:
- Zero filler subjects.
- Zero homework.
- And it only has 5 subjects, which are:
1. Business Arithmetic.
Basic operations and use of financial calculators.
2. Reading.
They start by reading a page a day from the book that each child chooses and end by reading a book a week.
3. Civics.
Understanding this as total respect for the laws, civil value, ethics, respect for the rules of coexistence, tolerance, altruism and respect for ecology and the environment.
4. Computing.
Office, Internet, social networks and online business.
5. Languages.
4 or 5 alphabets, cultures, religions, including Japanese, Latin, English, German, Chinese, Arabic; with social exchange visits to families in each country during the summer.
What will be the result of this program?
Young people who at 18 years old speak 4 languages, know 4 cultures, 4 alphabets.
- They are experts in using their computers and cell phones as work tools.
- They read 52 books a year.
- They respect the law, ecology and coexistence.
- They handle business and financial arithmetic perfectly.
A revolutionary pilot plan called "Brave Change" (Futoji no henko) is being tested in Japan, based on the Erasmus, Grundtvig, Monnet, Ashoka and Comenius educational programs.
It is a conceptual change. They will understand and accept different cultures and their horizons will be global, not national.
The 12-year program is based on the concepts:
- Zero filler subjects.
- Zero homework.
- And it only has 5 subjects, which are:
1. Business Arithmetic.
Basic operations and use of financial calculators.
2. Reading.
They start by reading a page a day from the book that each child chooses and end by reading a book a week.
3. Civics.
Understanding this as total respect for the laws, civil value, ethics, respect for the rules of coexistence, tolerance, altruism and respect for ecology and the environment.
4. Computing.
Office, Internet, social networks and online business.
5. Languages.
4 or 5 alphabets, cultures, religions, including Japanese, Latin, English, German, Chinese, Arabic; with social exchange visits to families in each country during the summer.
What will be the result of this program?
Young people who at 18 years old speak 4 languages, know 4 cultures, 4 alphabets.
- They are experts in using their computers and cell phones as work tools.
- They read 52 books a year.
- They respect the law, ecology and coexistence.
- They handle business and financial arithmetic perfectly.