Internet giants have found they need established specialist companies to turn their vast data into profit in areas such as medicine
"The chances that, in a few years’ time, people will be able to receive basic healthcare without interacting with a technology company became considerably smaller after recent announcements of two intriguing but not entirely unpredictable partnerships."
"One is between Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline. The two have agreed to form a $715m company to focus on the new field of bioelectronics, which involves developing miniature electrical implants capable of treating a number of chronic diseases."
"The other announcement was the results of a major new study of genetic markers associated with depression. It was the product of collaboration between 23andme, a Google-backed personal genetics company, and Pfizer, yet another pharmaceuticals giant. It was the largest study of its kind, drawing on DNA data from more than 450,000 23andMe customers, and this scale comes in handy for companies such as Pfizer."
"Technology firms are the seemingly innocent gateways through which that crony capitalism can penetrate those parts of our lives – and bodies – that were previously out of bounds, for ethical or political reasons." Evgeny Morozow
The tech giants thought they would beat old businesses but the health and finance industries are using data troves to become more, not less, resilient
In a section on ethical and legal issues arising from deploying AI, the [UK parliamentary ]committee points to decision-making transparency as one of the core challenges, noting that it is “currently rare” for AI systems to be set up to provide a reason for reaching a particular decision. So, in other words, AI systems are not typically being built to show their workings — which therefore makes extracting a rationale for an AI-powered decision problematic.
Am 3. Februar 2016 wurde in der Fusionsanlage Wendelstein 7-X im Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) in Greifswald das erste Wasserstoff-Plasma erzeugt. Damit hat – nach dem Start der Anlage mit einem Helium-Plasma Anfang Dezember 2015 – der wissenschaftliche Experimentierbetrieb begonnen. Wendelstein 7-X, die weltweit größte Fusionsanlage vom Typ Stellarator, soll die Kraftwerkseignung dieses Bautyps untersuchen.
Reportage från Rongcheng. Orwellian? "The party is using both coercion and cooperation to integrate the scheme into people’s lives and have it bring benefits to them. “To me, that’s what makes it Orwellian,” says Hoffman of IISS. The social credit system provides incentives for people to not want to be on a blacklist. “It’s a preemptive way of shaping the way people think and shaping the way people act,” she says. And to the extent that people believe they can benefit socially and economically from the Communist Party staying in power, the system is working."
Safiirilasi, kehittynyt akku ja huipputehoa. Siinäpä joitakin Canonicalin Ubuntu Edge -puhelimen ominaisuuksia. Mutta Linux-luuria ei tule, jos netin joukkorahoittajat eivät lähde mukaan. I t-viikko 23.7.2013 14:43
By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Alan Katz - March 12, 2008 "From a windswept corner of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, Japan Steel Works Ltd. controls the fate of the global nuclear-energy renaissance. There stands the only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, reducing the risk of a radiation leak."
Aamulehti 20.2.2012: "Keinolihaa jo vuosia kehittänyt hollantilaistutkija Mark Post kertoi sunnuntaina, että ensimmäinen keinolihasta leivottu hampurilaispihvi on tarkoitus nauttia lokakuussa. Missä ja milloin tämä tapahtuu, on vielä tarkkaan varjeltu salaisuus. Myöskään sitä Post ei kertonut, kuka saa ensimmäisenä maistaa synteettistä lihaa. Mark Post puhui toimittajille sunnuntaina Vancouverissa Kanadassa järjestettävällä Yhdysvaltain tiedeviikolla."
Publit Sweden AB gör det ständigt enklare att publicera böcker. Publit samarbetar idag med flera av Sveriges ledande bokförlag. Iceberg är utvecklat av det amerikanska företaget ScrollMotion. Till skillnad från till exempel Stanza, som använder kataloger, ligger läsaren i själva boken. Iceberg har snabbt vunnit marknadsandelar och ägnades särskild uppmärksamhet på Apples årliga utveckarkonferens i augusti.
"The Boeing X-37 (Advanced Technology Demonstrator) is an American unpiloted spaceplane operated by the U.S. Air Force for orbital spaceflight missions. It is a reusable robotic spacecraft that is a 120 percent–scaled derivative of the X-40A." Also htt