Wedding Date!
Lifeboat President Eric Klien will be marrying Genevieve O’Hagan in
Reno, Nevada, USA. Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.eric.klien
and https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.genevieve.ohagan
Proposed date is Sunday, August 25th. If you can make it, or would
prefer a different date, send an email with the subject “Lifeboat
Foundation Wedding” to
When Fire Flies: Movie
Lifeboat Foundation is supporting the production of the scifi short film
“When Fire Flies” through Indiegogo at the Associate Producer level. This
film is about a quiet, fugitive scientist who takes measures into his
own hands to save the world from extinction. Lifeboat Foundation and its
directors have granted $7,500 to this movie.
Learn more at https://igg.me/p/2499091/twtr/1108220
Cybofree: Book
Read the free book “Cybofree: Posthuman Bioethics for a Sustainable Humanity” by our V.R. Manoj at http://www.eubios.info/yahoo_site_admin...5652.pdf
Robocup2019
RoboCup2019 will be held July 2–8 in Sydney, Australia.
The goal of RoboCup is that by the middle of the 21st century, a team of
fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game,
complying with the official rules of FIFA, against the winner of the
most recent World Cup.
Learn more at https://2019.robocup.org
11th Beyond Humanism Conference
The 11th Beyond Humanism Conference will be held July 9–12 in Lille,
France. Our Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is on the Organizing Committee.
This conference aims to intensify the debates between transhumanists and
posthumanists on the impact of emerging technologies on our lifeworld.
Learn more at http://beyondhumanism.org
Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019
Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019 will be held July 11–12 in New York
City. This conference will focus on aging research and biotech
investment.
Our María A. Blasco, Judith Campisi, Keith Comito, Aubrey de Grey, Greg
Fahy, Peter Fedichev, Kristen Fortney, Vadim Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova,
Michael Greve, Morgan Levine, João Pedro de Magalhães, Paul A. Spiegel,
and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
Learn more!
International Workshop on Satellite Constellations & Formation Flying
The International Workshop on Satellite Constellations & Formation
Flying will be held July 16–19 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Our Edmondo Minisci and Massimiliano Vasile will be speaking.
Learn more at https://www.strath.ac.uk/engineering/iwscff
AFM 2019
The 5th International Conference on Advances in Functional Materials
(AFM 2019) will be held July 22–24 in Washington, D.C. Our Lijie Grace
Zhang is Conference Co-Chair.
This conference is an ideal platform to understand the past, present,
and future goals of functional materials research.
Learn more at https://functionalmaterials.org/afm2019
AGI 2019
AGI 2019 will be held August 6–9 in Shenzhen, China. As the AI field
becomes increasingly commercialized and well accepted, maintaining and
emphasizing a coherent focus on the AGI (Artificial General
Intelligence) goals at the heart of the field remains more critical than
ever.
Our Joscha Bach, Antonio Chella, Suzanne Gildert, Ben Goertzel, Marcus
Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Alexey Potapov, Rafal Rzepka, Bas Steunebrink,
Julian Togelius, Harri Valpolla, Pei Wang, and Byoung-Tak Zhang will be
participating.
Learn more at http://agi-conf.org/2019
RAADfest 2019
RAADfest 2019 will be held October 3–6 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the
largest event in the world where practical and cutting-edge methods to
reverse aging are presented for all interest levels, from beginner to
expert.
Our Bill Andrews, Nichola Conlon, José Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian
Delaney, Greg Fahy, Bill Faloon, Rudi Hoffman, Ben Goertzel, Sandra
Kaufmann, David Kekich, Ray Kurzweil, Liz Parrish, and Natasha Vita-More
will be speaking.
Learn more at http://raadfest.com
Blog
Joseph Barney joins our blog team with the post “Boston Dynamics: New
Robots Now Fight Back” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/bosto...ght-back
Roger Dufur joins our blog team with the post “A New Industrial Base Is
Taking Shape. Call It the Military-AI Complex” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/a-new...-complex
Fyodor Rouge joins our blog team with the post “Bladeless Wind Generator
Is The Future” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/05/blade...e-future
Richard Christophr Saragoza joins our blog team with the post “The
Quatron Transistor” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/the-q...ansistor
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“Adobe Shows Off First Research for Tools to Detect Manipulated Photos”
by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/adobe...d-photos
“A new way to travel space” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/a-new...el-space
“Are Humans Really On The Brink Of Achieving Immortality?” by Mike Ruban
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/are-h...ortality
“Beewolves use a gas to preserve food” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/beewo...rve-food
“Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Law: A Distributed Disruption” by Alexandra
Whittington at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/block...sruption
“Breaking Down alpha-Synuclein Aggregates” by Steve Hill at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/break...gregates
“China’s new ‘social credit system’ is a dystopian nightmare” by Fyodor
Rouge at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/china...ightmare
“‘Cold Quasars’ May Be at the End of Their Lives, But They Can Still
Birth Stars” by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/cold-...th-stars
“Earth Is Now Approaching The Same ‘Meteor Swarm’ That Wiped-Out A
Siberian Forest” by Michael Lance at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/earth...n-forest
“European Rover To Probe The ‘Third Dimension’ Of Mars” by Bill
Retherford at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/europ...-of-mars
“Evolutionary discovery to rewrite textbooks” by Xavier Rosseel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/evolu...extbooks
“Fembots vs. HAL: Who are the people of AI?” by Alexandra Whittington at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/05/fembo...le-of-ai
“The Genomics Future & The Future of Sci-Fi: A Transhumanist
Perspective” by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/the-g...spective
“Gut microbes eat our medication” by Xavier Rosseel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/gut-m...dication
“How A.I. Could Be Weaponized to Spread Disinformation” by Müslüm Yildiz
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/how-a...ormation
“How fast is Earth traveling through space?” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/how-f...gh-space
“India hopes to become fourth country on the moon in September” by
Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/india...eptember
“Let’s take an interstellar journey into a Black Hole” by Michael Lance
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/lets-...ack-hole
“Lunar-Polar Propellant Mining Outpost (LPMO): Affordable Exploration
and Industrialization” by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/lunar...lization
“Microsoft Is Building an All-In-One DNA Data Storage Device” by Quinn
Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/micro...e-device
“MIT Used a Laser to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person’s Ear” by
Mike Ruban at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/mit-u...sons-ear
“NAD+ and Cellular Senescence Pathways Interact” by Steve Hill at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/nad-a...interact
“NASA is opening the space station to $35,000-a-night visits. A tourist
who paid Russia $30 million to get there a decade ago says it’s a
‘seismic shift’.” by Heather Blevins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/nasa-...ic-shift
“New evidence from LHC shows pentaquark has a molecule-like structure”
by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/new-e...tructure
“New Laser Zaps and Destroys Cancer Cells in Real Time” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/new-l...eal-time
“New Tech Could Allow Blind People To See Through The Eyes Of Others” by
Carse Peel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/new-t...f-others
“Origins of Saturn’s rings are uncovered thanks to NASA’s Cassini probe”
by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/origi...ni-probe
“Researchers find synapse-boosting factors in young blood” by Mike Ruban
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/resea...ng-blood
“Scientists Reverse The Age of White Blood Cells In A Female Human Being
— They’re Now 20 Years Younger” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/scien...-younger
“Stem Cell Dental Implants Grow New Teeth In 2 Months!” by Paul Battista
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/stem-...2-months
“Stephen Hawking Was Right: Black Holes Can Evaporate, Weird New Study
Shows” by Xavier Rosseel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/steph...dy-shows
“Telescope designed to study mysterious dark energy keeps Russia’s space
science hopes alive” by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/teles...es-alive
“Terrifying AI Matches DNA to Facial Recognition Databases” by Quinn
Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/terri...atabases
“This Harvard Prof Is Listing Genes That Could Make You Superhuman” by
Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/this-...perhuman
“Transplanting Gut Microbes from Young to Old Mice Reverses Immune
Decline” by Steve Hill at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/trans...-decline
“Uber Air announces first international city to trial flying taxis” by
by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/uber-...ng-taxis
“Upgrade Your Memory With a Surgically Implanted Chip” by Paul Battista
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/upgra...ted-chip
“When Will Quantum Computers Outperform Regular Computers?” by Genevieve
O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/when-...omputers
“Why Nuclear Fusion Really is Coming Soon” by Joseph Barney at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/why-n...ing-soon
“Why the singularity is certain to happen in my own lifetime” by Paul
Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/why-t...lifetime
“Wild New Discovery Shows How We Can Switch Majorana Fermions On And
Off” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/wild-...-and-off
“Wireless devices go battery-free with new communication technique” by
Richard Christophr Saragoza at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/wirel...echnique
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