Now
- 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?
- Enabling accessible and scalable eye tracking research
Last Update: February 20, 2019
A New Mind
Artificial
Intelligence
- 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
- 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
- It might be possible to treat diseases by giving aging tissues a signal to clean house
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