With persufflation, helium is used to replace blood in a donated organ. This allows the organ to cool at a rapid rate, requiring less antifreeze. Since pockets of…

Beyond Meat closes in on the perfect fake chicken, turns heads, tastebuds I’ve had some Beyond Meat and it’s pretty good. Looking forward to it being rolled out…

In some application domains it is not enough to build reliable software systems, one wants proved-correct software. Andrew W. Appel’s lab at Princeton appears to be working on…

A new botulinum toxin poses a security risk because available treatments don’t work for it. Last year, researchers too greedy for academic prestige ignored warnings from advisory boards…

Facebook is developing deep learning software to understand what its users say and do online. “Following research breakthroughs about five years ago, leading tech companies, including Microsoft, IBM…

Predicting an end to Moore’s law sometime in the next 20 years is probably foolish right now. The next 3 manufacturing nodes are all down to engineering. So…

CFAR is a non-profit organization dedicated to harnessing breakthroughs in the study of cognition to improve human decision-making. If you’re in Pittsburgh, my friend Julia Galef will be…

Laser fusion experiment yields record energy at Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility. NEWS FLASH: Nuclear fusion tests are now net energy positive. LLNL has been working on this…

I wonder how well peer review works? Let’s see! 304 journals had bogus research papers submitted to them in a recent sting operation. Over 150 happily accepted the…

Friendly AI isn’t meant to give 100% guarantees.  See on intelligence.org

Not everyone cares how they look. But if you’re going to use a skin cream to reduce wrinkles or blemishes, at least review the medical literature and then get…