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Latest A sewing machine-like robot that can implant ultrathin threads deep into the brain The US FDA is officially warning consumers that buying young blood infusions to improve their health is not a good idea Do the Chinese gene-edited babies actually exist? Experts say the Verily contact lens program was misguided from the beginning Sub $1,000 smart glasses are a reality now What if we could cure people of inherited diseases before they were born?
Last Update: January 6, 2020
A New Mind
Neural Interfaces	National AI Strategies Around the World Instantly correct robot mistakes with nothing more than brain signals and the flick of a finger It is the end of the poker face There’s nothing you can do with a chip in your brain that we can’t do better From Augmented Reality to Altered Reality Our results are nearly indistinguishable from the real video US Department of Defense has 592 projects powered by Artificial Intelligence Wearable device picks up neuromuscular signals saying words “in your head” MIT terminates collaboration with Nectome MIT Intelligence Quest Launch Event Videos Research Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings What is consciousness, and could machines have it? AVA: A Video Dataset of Spatio-temporally Localized Atomic Visual Actions Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge Continuous Adaptation via Meta-Learning in Nonstationary and Competitive Environments “Be careful; things can be worse than they appear”: Understanding Biased Algorithms and Users’ Behavior around Them in Rating Platforms The hippocampus as a predictive map Why Does the Neocortex Have Columns, A Theory of Learning the Structure of the World PathNet: Evolution Channels Gradient Descent in Super Neural Networks

On The Body
Augmented Reality	Sub $1,000 smart glasses are a reality now It is the end of the poker face From Augmented Reality to Altered Reality Our results are nearly indistinguishable from the real video AR glasses further augmented by human assistants Eye Tracking For AR Devices? Why Augmented-Reality Glasses Are Ugly Police in China have begun using sunglasses equipped with facial recognition technology Our machines can very easily recognise you among at least 2 billion people in a matter of seconds AR glasses competition starts to get real
Bionic Prosthetics	What happens if humans get external or prosthetic nerves? Intelligent prosthetic ankles, so you can wear a dress shoe, a running shoe, a flat From Augmented Reality to Altered Reality Instead of replacing one damaged cornea with one healthy one, you could grow enough cells from one donated cornea to print 50 artificial ones What It’s Like Having to Charge Your Arm Improving brain-computer interfaces by decrypting neural patterns UK company pioneers tissue engineering with 3D bioprinters Tomorrow’s replacement skin could be 3D printed from a new ink embedded with living bacteria Limb reanimation through neuroscience and machine learning A deeper look into Kernel’s plan to create a brain prosthetic Research Upper limb cortical maps in amputees with targeted muscle and sensory reinnervation 149 research papers on brain augmentation Cardiac tissue engineering: from matrix design to the engineering of bionic hearts High-Performance Piezoresistive Electronic Skin with Bionic Hierarchical Microstructure and Microcracks
Wearable Technology	Experts say the Verily contact lens program was misguided from the beginning Sub $1,000 smart glasses are a reality now Enabling accessible and scalable eye tracking research Instantly correct robot mistakes with nothing more than brain signals and the flick of a finger Combine passive blocking of sleep-disturbing sounds with sounds engineered to mask what gets past the blocking There’s nothing you can do with a chip in your brain that we can’t do better A brain-scanner could be an instrument of explicit coercion Wearable device picks up neuromuscular signals saying words “in your head” An exoskeleton for athletes and older skiers Smart glasses designed to help dyslexic people to read words Research A Textile Dressing for Temporal and Dosage Controlled Drug Delivery Inflammation-free, gas-permeable, lightweight, stretchable on-skin electronics with nanomeshes

Inside The Body
Biohacking	A sewing machine-like robot that can implant ultrathin threads deep into the brain The US FDA is officially warning consumers that buying young blood infusions to improve their health is not a good idea There is an increasing ‘lifestyle use’ of cognitive-enhancing drugs by healthy people Someday, maybe, we could regrow limbs 3D-printed organs within the next five years Longevity-as-a-service, via deep learning From 3D Printing to Bioprinting and Precision Medicine A biohacker injected himself with a DIY herpes treatment in front of a conference audience “There are people alive today who will live for 1,000 years” Infusions of blood plasma from young donors to rejuvenate the body Research Nutritional Ketosis Alters Fuel Preference and Thereby Endurance Performance in Athletes Multi-functional Flexible Aqueous Sodium-Ion Batteries with High Safety Bioresorbable silicon electronic sensors for the brain 149 research papers on brain augmentation
Genetic Engineering	Do the Chinese gene-edited babies actually exist? What if we could cure people of inherited diseases before they were born? Someday, maybe, we could regrow limbs CRISPR pioneers now use it to detect infections like HPV, dengue, and Zika Sequence your genome for less than $1,000 and sell it via blockchain A biohacker injected himself with a DIY herpes treatment in front of a conference audience CRISPR might be employed to destroy entire species “We have entered the age where the human genome is a real drug target” – CRISPR stopped mice from going deaf DARPA has become the world’s largest funder of “gene drive” research Defeating cancer costs $500,000 Research In Vivo Target Gene Activation via CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Trans-epigenetic Modulation Cancer incidence increasing globally: The role of relaxed natural selection Development of an Intrinsic Skin Sensor for Blood Glucose Level with CRISPR-mediated Genome Editing in Epidermal Stem Cells RNA targeting with CRISPR–Cas13 Elimination of Toxic Microsatellite Repeat Expansion RNA by RNA-Targeting Cas9 Genome editing reveals a role for OCT4 in human embryogenesis U.S. attitudes on human genome editing Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos Comparing sequencing assays and human-machine analyses in actionable genomics for glioblastoma The Slippery Slope Argument in the Ethical Debate on Genetic Engineering of Humans
Nanorobotics	Nanorobots have potential as intelligent drug delivery systems Nanochannelled device could “regrown” damaged organs with a single touch Scientists have developed nanomachines that can drill into cancer cells and kill them within minutes Researchers Find A Way To Move Tiny, Foldable Robots Without Batteries Ray Kurzweil on augmenting the human brain through AI, nanorobotics and cloud computing Nanoswimmers target brain tumors and deliver anticancer drugs to them What Does Nanotechnology Actually Mean? Nanorobotic agents can navigate through the bloodstream to administer a drug Research Topical tissue nano-transfection mediates non-viral stroma reprogramming and rescue Molecular machines open cell membranes

The Big Picture
Transhumanism*	The US Air Force has a division dedicated to human performance enhancement Cancer treatment is a ‘double-edged sword’ by allowing survivors to pass on their tumour-causing genes Levandowski founds a religion What does it mean to be a human? Fernand Léger and the Rise of the Man-Machine The Social Pressure To Become Transhuman Are You Living in a Simulation? The Spiritual Side of Transhumanism