Big Think
9 astonishing ways that living standards have improved around the world
8 min · · Despite the constant stream of bad news we see in the media, the reality is that living standards have improved dramatically across time. · Shared by 873, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rick Powell, Max Roser, Yann LeCun, Brian Ahier, John Hagel, Ines Bieler, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Howard Getson, Ross Dawson, Steven Pinker, Gerd Leonhard
MIT Technology Review
This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it.
7 min · · Greg Rutkowski is a more popular prompt than Picasso. · Shared by 90, including Rick Powell, John Nosta, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Allison Arieff, Stephanie A Kowalski
generated.photos
Generated.photos
· Get super realistic whole-body images. Use them wherever you want and don't worry about legal stuff. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Singularity Hub
NASA Can Now Reliably Produce a Tree's Worth of Oxygen on Mars
3 min · · A machine called MOXIE, stowed on NASA's Perseverence rover, is steadily breathing in the Martian atmosphere and breathing out oxygen. · Shared by 90, including Rick Powell
Ars Technica
With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again
9 min · · AI image synthesis goes open source, with big implications. · Shared by 2036, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ser Jeff Garzik, Bob E. Hayes, Howard Getson, Fabio Chiusi, Tim, Jennifer Ouellette, Martin Ford, Rick Powell, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social
thedonut.co
Of mice and men
1 min · · 🧑🔬🧬 A team of Chinese scientists successfully created the world’s first mammal with fully reprogrammed genes, a mouse called Xiao Zhu or "Little Bamboo," per a new peer-reviewed study published in… · Shared by 293, including Rick Powell
nature
Embryos with DNA from three people develop normally in first safety study
3 min · · Researchers in China show that a technique used to replace diseased mitochondria does not affect early development. · Shared by 133, including Roger Highfield, Rick Powell
simonwillison.net
Stable Diffusion is a really big deal
5 min · · If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on with Stable Diffusion, you really should be. Stable Diffusion is a new “text-to-image diffusion model” that was released to the … · Shared by 579, including Matt Shaffer, Marcel Salathé, Rick Powell, Edward Tufte
Singularity Hub
This AI Predicts Crime a Week in Advance—and Highlights Policing Bias
3 min · · Researchers say the AI shouldn't be used to allocate police resources but instead to investigate how law enforcement can improve policing strategies. · Shared by 88, including ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, John Hagel, Rick Powell, Matthew Turland
NBC News
Scientists have possibly cured HIV in a woman for the first time
7 min · · Following a cutting-edge treatment four years ago, the “New York patient” is now off of HIV medication and remains “asymptomatic and healthy,” researchers say. · Shared by 41, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Carlos del Rio, Rick Powell, Mark Birch AWS Startup Advocate, Cindy Krum 📱
gist.github.com
press statement.md
2 min · · GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell, Nils Hitze
WIRED UK
Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change
2 min · · Many young people feel like their future is in peril. To make progress on climate change we must move past doomsday scenarios. · Shared by 216, including Hannah Ritchie, John Hagel, Christo Meid, Reto Knutti, Chris Skinner, Martin Varsavsky, Rick Powell, Thomas Pleil, Max Roser, Rutger Bregman
Fast Company
Alphabet designed a low-cost device to make drinking water from air. Now it’s open-sourced
3 min · · The company’s “moonshot factory” is letting anyone build and tweak the design of its new atmospheric water harvester. · Shared by 40, including John Hagel, Rick Powell, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff
NPR
In a major scientific advance, a pig kidney is successfully transplanted into a human
3 min · · The kidney, which came from a genetically altered pig, worked normally and showed no signs of rejection. It's seen as a significant step toward using animal organs for life-saving transplants. · Shared by 20, including Perez Hilton, Zach Weinersmith, Rick Powell
Quanta Magazine
Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real
7 min · · Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy. Physicists claim to have built this new phase of matter inside a quantum computer. · Shared by 661, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Marius Bleuer, Nando de Freitas 🏳️🌈, John Hagel, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Eli Pariser | @elipariser@mastodon.social, Nicolas Babin, Rick Powell, Kyle Bunch, Jessy Lane, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Scott Santens, Andreas Staub, Dion Almaer, Jennifer Ouellette, Brian Ahier, Gabriele, Martin Recke, Mathew Ingram, Jeremiah Owyang
The Atlantic
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
20+ min · · Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning. · Shared by 302, including Boas Ruh, Carl Zimmer, Ashley Parker, Vaughan Bell, Virginia Hughes, l. ones, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Keith Frankish, Alice Wong 王美華, Stig Ørskov, Rick Powell, Steve Silberman