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Global night-time lights provide unfiltered data on human activities and socio-economic factors
March 29, 2017

Night-time lights from space correlate to everything from electricity consumption and CO2 emissions, to gross domestic product, population and poverty. (credit: Image courtesy of NASA) Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have developed an online tool that incorporates 21 years of night-time lights data to understand and compare changes in human activities in countries around the world. The research is published in PLOS One. The tool compares the brightness … more…


Graphene-based neural probe detects brain activity at high resolution and signal quality
March 29, 2017

16 flexible graphene transistors (inset) integrated into a flexible neural probe enable electrical signals from neurons to be measured at high resolution and signal quality. (credit: ICN2) 
Potentially relevant to "neural lace" research
Researchers from the European Graphene Flagship* have developed a new microelectrode array neural probe based on graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) for recording brain activity at high resolution while maintaining excellent signal-to-noise ratio (quality). The new neural probe could lay the foundation for a future generation of in vivo neural recording implants, for patients with epilepsy, for … more…

NEW EVENTS

BICA-2017 BICA 2017

Dates: Aug 1 – 6, 2017
Location: Moscow, Russia

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NEW BOOKS

The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory
author | Kariappa Bheemaiah

the-blockchain-alternative-cover Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, … more…


The Most Human Human: what artificial intelligence teaches us about being alive
author | Brian Christian

The-Most-Human-Human-Paperback-Front-Cover summary from publisher: Each year, the artificial intelligence community convenes to administer the famous — and famously controversial — Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange … more…

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