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A Protein Has Been Caught Conducting Electricity, And Scientists Are Really Excited
Proteins, the building blocks in every cell, have usually been thought of as blobs of inert organic matter. Now scientists have caught one particular protein doing something incredible: conducting electricity. The research has been published in Nano Futures.
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Organized Crime Has a New Tool in Its Belts - Artificial Intelligence
As new technologies offer a world of opportunities and benefits in many sectors, so too do they offer new avenues and for organized crime. It was true at the advent of the internet, and it’s true for the growing field of artificial intelligence and machine learning, according to a new joint report by Europol & the United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Center.
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“Experience remains, of course, the sole criterion of the physical utility of a mathematical construction. But the creative principle resides in mathematics.” - Albert Einstein 1934
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Apple patent filing details new biometric authentication sensors for wearable devices
A new patent application filed in April by Apple has been published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, describing new biometric authentication sensors for wearable devices, Patently Apple reports. Apple’s patent application notes the new sensors would be able to recognize user inputs like voiced commands or silent gestures.
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China bans all imports of solid waste (2020)
The Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment last week announced details about the country’s upcoming ban on all materials it classifies as “solid waste,” including recovered fiber. The new announcement puts the new ban details in writing, but industry insiders have anticipated the policy for over a year. And shipping companies have moved away from accepting shipments of recyclables bound for China.
Through September of this year, the U.S. exported 1.86 million short tons of recovered fiber to China, suggesting potential challenges in 2021 for brokers looking to move this material to alternative markets.
China’s ban on imported waste to have huge impact on global recycling industry (2018)
China has officially banned its four-decade long practice of importing foreign garbage in 2018, a move experts believe will promote more sustainable ways to dispose of and recycle waste worldwide. “This ban will send shockwaves around the world, and force many countries to tackle the ‘out of sight, out of mind’ attitude we’ve developed towards waste,” said Liu Hua, Greenpeace East Asia plastic campaigner.
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Jamoca - a robot dog newly released by Tencent's Robotics X Lab
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"The world’s first Psiloscoby" "We can genetically engineer a kombucha SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) to produce psilocybin while it ferments. We can do this by printing genes from magic mushrooms and embedding them into the SCOBY’s DNA. Once we make a single psiloscoby, it can grow and divide and be shared among friends, to brew their own psilobucha."
#Comment: Why engineer stuff, if it grows super low tech in your room? It does not make any sense what so ever - except for techno-fetishist control-freaks who should just learn to relax.
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Narrative: Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough
Reality: Heliogen Is Bill Gates’ Latest Venture That Is Only Good For Oil & Gas - Part1 & Part 2
#Comment: This story is indicative of the mindset of global "elites" which suddenly proclaim to care about climate change et cetera: Tech-fetishist control-freaks can't seem to accept, that in reality "we have solutions already that are much easier to integrate" is true in most cases.
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There’s a revolution happening in global mental health
Global mental health is still controlled by an elite club of funders, researchers, practitioners located in high-income countries. [...] In other words, global mental health has ended up becoming exactly what it sought to resist: a neo-colonial echo chamber. [...] But there's a revolution happening.
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Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt. Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby
“The same organizations that promise to protect artists and culture are the ones screwing them over; always fiscally (like with Hollywood Accounting), sometimes physically (Harvey Weinstein is not the first nor last one).” ... “These organizations are willingly putting our global democracy in jeopardy. The legislation brought forward by their lobbying, to protect one business model affected by the internet, is also being used for stopping people in opposition from overthrowing dictators.” ... “As long as these mafia-esque organizations are allowed free reign over the immaterial rights discourse, they will never relinquish their power nor money to the intended recipients,”
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Come on, Mike! I'm losing control! - Art by Chinese "keyboard warrior" "乌合麒麟 Wuheqilin"
Some more of the artists controversial pieces:
After the Australian officials "demanded China to apologise for posting 'repugnant' fake image" and the entire western media completely ignored the very real report on atrocious Australian military war crimes in Afghanistan, the Chinese social media reacted with the following image:
