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Are You Addicted To Social Media?

10 Mar 2020 1 minute read 1 comment NotFamousYet

Are you addicted to social media? How many of us are addicted to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and many others? If you don’t think you are, try going without them for a week—you might be surprised with the result! Ironically, while social m...

Stall Catchers: A Game that Speeds Up Alzheimer's Research

1 Mar 2020 2 minute read 2 comments orbithunter

Thumbnail: Logo by Stall Catchers / CC BY-SA 4.0 Some of you might have wanted to help in the progress of scientific research. However, you either need to be a scientist or donate your money for science. Both of these ways are a bit of a long shot fo...

Boinc: Computing for science and for a better world!

23 Feb 2020 2 minute read 2 comments pedrobrito2004

Recently, I was reviewing a post of @gbenga on Steem, entitled "Artificial Intelligence Discovers First Antibiotics (Halicin Antibiotics)", I found it very interesting and I was quite struck by the use of artificial intelligence for the research and...

New Antibiotic Discovered Using Artificial Intelligence

22 Feb 2020 1 minute read 4 comments AverageVancouverite

In a historical first, scientists have discovered a new type of antibiotic using artificial intelligence (AI) after analyzing over 107,000,000 chemical compounds in a matter of just days. The new antibiotic known as "Halicin" was able to kill Mycobac...

Debunking "fake news" and clickbait titles

15 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments PierreL

If you've been on social media this past week, you might have seen titles resembling "NASA Spots 'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid Rapidly Approaching Earth" or "Largest Planet-Killer Asteroid To Approach Earth This Month Arriving On Saturday" pop up...

The Billion Dollar Industry Crypto's Been Waiting For

30 Jan 2020 5 minute read 2 comments Bmcward

Since Bitcoin put cryptocurrency and blockchain on the map 10 years ago, the world has seen the technology transform, create, and recreate industries. Thousands of cryptocurrencies were launched with each uniquely aimed at disruption. While all indus...

Artificial Intelligence for photometric analysis in Archeology: New Discoveries in Nazca.

2 Jan 2020 3 minute read 2 comments pedrobrito2004

Recently I was reviewing news about the application of Artificial Intelligence to different fields, I could find news about its use in medicine, engineering, planning and management and even in possible uses in the evaluation of Human Resources withi...

(IJCH) "Hacking Reality" - Another Awesome Video from Quantum Gravity Research (or Why String Theorists Hate Garret Lisi and Klee Irwin)

14 Nov 2019 2 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

  Source IJCH - Inside JaiChai's Head (meaning: My Warped, Personal Opinions and Musings) Source (Base Source) From the Author: Salutations. I am JaiChai. And if I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you before, I'm delighted to make your acquainta...

Unibright - 11th of November 2019 - Updating Template Documentation, German Ministry Research Program, The Hague University

11 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Dan

The Unibright CTO Stefan Schmidt aims to post an update each week in the official Unibright telegram to keep the community informed. Here is this week's update: 11th of November 2019 - Updated Template Documentation, German Ministry Research Prog...

High energy consumption of BTC is justified

19 Aug 2019 1 minute read 1 comment ihodl25

According to a recent blog post by Unchained Capital (a financial company that offers cryptocurrency owners cash loans secured by their assets), in the long run, high energy consumption by bitcoin outweighs the negative impact on the climate and envi...