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UBC researchers train computers to predict the next designer drugs

They have trained computers to predict the next designer drugs before they are even on the market, technology that could save lives.

Law enforcement agencies are in a race to identify and regulate new versions of dangerous psychoactive drugs such as bath salts and synthetic opioids, even as clandestine chemists work to synthesize and distribute new molecules with the same psychoactive effects as classical drugs of abuse. Identifying these so-called “legal highs” within seized pills or powders can take months, during which time thousands of people may have already used a new designer drug.

But new research is already helping law enforcement agencies around the world to cut identification time down from months to days, crucial in the race to identify and regulate new versions of dangerous psychoactive drugs.

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New Lie Detector Can Read Facial Muscles You Don't Even Know You're Using

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Just in time for METAverse launch researchers from MIT Media Lab presented their new invention. From a VR mask they made a sleep mask that records EEG, EOG, EMG, heart rate, head movement and skin temperature. While a person is sleeping, facial expressions and emotions are displayed in real time on their avatar in virtual reality.

Research has shown that facial muscle tension is consistent with the emotional content of the dream. Thus the dreamer is simultaneously in two quasi-realities: in his dream and in the metaverse, as an avatar.

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Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices

The company announced today that its Everyday Robots Project — a team within its experimental X labs dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved some of its prototype machines out of the lab and into Google’s Bay Area campuses to carry out some light custodial tasks.
“We are now operating a fleet of more than 100 robot prototypes that are autonomously performing a range of useful tasks around our offices,” said Everyday Robot’s chief robot officer Hans Peter Brøndmo

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A Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago Seems to Have Had Multiple Causes

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Do Babies Cry in The Womb? Ultrasounds Show Something Strange Going On

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Meta AI + Google AI create a unified model for understanding all human languages.
In 2021, this is no longer a fantasy, but a purely engineering challenge.

XLS-R is a neural network for speech recognition, language detection and translation. It uses 2 billion parameters and nearly half a million hours of public available speech audio in 128 languages, nearly 10 times more than the previous Facebook system. The result is already impressive - a decrease in the error rate by an average of 14-34%.



The business goal of the planned breakthrough:
• The final solution for the simultaneous translation of human speech using mobile gadgets (the dream of science fiction writers of the 20th century)
• Voice communication of human-machine entities in the virtual environments (Metaverse, science fiction writers did not have enough imagination for that, but BigTech has)

Cancer: Key factor sustaining malignant tumor state identified

In a study published in Nature Cancer, researchers led by Prof. Cedric Blanpain, WELBIO investigator, Director of the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Cancer and Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, demonstrated that NR2F2 is an essential regulator of malignant tumor state by controlling cancer stem cell and tumor maintenance in mouse and human cancers.

It seems that in the future people will be able to control their dreams. Researchers at the MIT conducted several studies on this topic. For example, they created a "smart" sleep glove. When you wear it while sleeping sensors record your muscle movements, heartbeat and electrical activity in your skin.

Then this device analyzes all the incoming data and accurately determines which sleeping phase you are in. At the right moment, the device emits a quiet sound signal - for example, the word "bunny"... And a bunny will suddenly appear in your dream. And it really works! The glove has been tested on 50 volunteers.

Is it good or not? Time will tell. Just imagine how they'll use that technology in an advertisement industry. The companies will get a chance to interfere your dream with «drive only BMW» - and you will.

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/targeted-dream-incubation/publications/


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To better understand the coronavirus’s journey from one person to another, a team of 50 scientists has for the first time created an atomic simulation of the coronavirus nestled in a tiny airborne drop of water.

To create the model, the researchers needed one of the world’s biggest supercomputers to assemble 1.3 billion atoms and track all their movements down to less than a millionth of a second. This computational tour de force is offering an unprecedented glimpse at how the virus survives in the open air as it spreads to a new host.

Robots from https://www.engineeredarts.co.uk/
you can rent them for your event... Looks.. creepy?
just immagine combination of AI and this appearance

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Telemedicine achievements: a surgeon from London remotely performed an operation on a banana in California.

This is just a demonstration of the remote surgery possibilities; thanks to 5G communication, which works with minimal delays, such operations will become a reality for surgeons

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