Transhumanist Times

Futurist Dr. Ian Pearson believes that if you live to 2050, you may never die. Here is why.

As researchers are racing to develop vaccines and antiviral therapies to treat the COVID-19 pandemic, one promising option is immunotherapy.

Things are not going to snap back to being exactly like they were before this crisis happened; we’re going to come out of this into a different world.

Renowned Australian scientist David Sinclair says we have all the information to be young again, "if we can just flip the switch".

Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction. But over the long haul all that really matters is progress in medicine: building new classes of therapy to repair and reverse the known root causes of aging. The sooner these treatments arrive, the more lives will be saved.

A new method to accurately record brain activity at scale has been developed. The technique could lead to new medical devices to help amputees, people with paralysis or people with neurological conditions such as motor neuron disease.

To some, these are apocalyptic times - the COVID-19 pandemic, the locust infestation in Africa ... the coming era of digital omnipresence and transhumanism. For transhumanists, these are times when a strong immune system depends on an optimistic attitude and remembrance to prioritize what's most important - OUR HEALTH - Transhumanists are taking over the war on the offensive against death and disease to redirect our focus towards the pursuit of public health, longevity, and mindful accelerated innovation. It is time to join the cause! IM's 3rd issue, "Suffer No More", focuses on the attainment of Ultimate Wellness - Physical and Mental. Why? We want to diminish suffering in the living world. IM's MAR-APR 2020 issue features the first of a series of interviews with Transhumanist Philosopher David Pearce -- a world-leading advocate for the re-engineering of sentient life to abolish unnecessary suffering. IM's 3rd issue opens with conversations on Neurohacking and Radical Life Extension,

The US significantly ramps up coronavirus testing and a brain-like chip learns to "smell" in this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.

HUMANS in the future could live for thousands of years with 'no fundamental ceiling' on how long they can last according to an Oxford University academic.

Think we’re far off from The Matrix? On the even of Half-Life: Alyx's launch, Valve's Gabe Newell says you should think again.

A new device enables researchers to observe hundreds of neurons in the brain in real-time. The system is based on modified silicon chips from cameras, but rather than taking a picture, it takes a movie of the neural electrical activity.

SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, is the result of natural evolution, a study shows, 'ending any speculation about deliberate genetic engineering.'

After a prolonged winter, artificial intelligence is experiencing a scorching summer mainly thanks to advances in deep learning and artificial neural networks.

With more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. On March 9, 2016, the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence collided in South Korea for an extraordinary best-of-five-game competition, coined The DeepMind Challenge Match. Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched as a legendary Go master took on an unproven AI challenger for the first time in history.

It could be argued that scientists create superpowers in their labs. If Aram Galstyan, director of the Artificial Intelligence Division at the USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute (ISI) had to pick just one superpower, ...

As humans, we have come a long way from the time when ideas like replicating human intelligence were quite distant. There was skepticism, on whether they will be fruitful or if all of this could…

Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, sat down with IGN for a chat about the company, the promise of VR, and Newell’s most bleeding edge project as of late, brain-computer interfaces (BCI). “Personally, the area I’m spending a lot of time on has been growing out of a bunch of research that occurred a while ago in brain-computer […]

Mark Zuckerberg denied Facebook will hand smartphone location data to the government.

If you want to feel like there’s hope for humanity instead of feeling like we’re about to snowball into terribleness as a species, look at these examples.

Overwatch’s newest hero is Echo, an evolutionary robot made by a creator trying to come to terms with the robots she’s built. The character was first teased at BlizzCon.

"Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it."--Mark cuban   Unfortunately, mass unemployment has apparently hit us without any help from automation.  But if there is a silver lining in the COVID-19 pandemic--and it's awfully hard to imagine one--it might be that this may prepare us for dealing with mass…

If you could see the efforts of companies, academic centers, and hospitals right now in the US, you’d walk away with optimism that we’re up to the task.

Elon Musk's Neuralink could eventually lead to human symbiosis with artificial intelligence.

A practical guide to staying healthy during COVID-19 | Nell Watson | Singularity University

Nell Watson serves on the Coronavirus Task Force at The American Association for Precision Medicine and is a Founding Council Member of the International Society of Digital Medicine.

Nell will outline simple yet important tips to keep ourselves and others healthy in body and mind in challenging times.

Amazon is hiring 100,000 warehouse workers and raising pay, and Elon Musk told Tesla employees they don't have to go to work if they're sick.

Mars polar researchers offer a shortcut to detecting life on the Red planet.

Question: Will human consciousness ever be transferable to a new body or a machine (e.g. a robot, cyborg, computer, or avatar)? Can you transfer your own consciousness and memory and leave your…

Uncertainty and fear about coronavirus’ spread and the course of the illness is causing shockwaves in our daily lives. A simple paper test could provide answers to basic questions and shape a sensible course forward.

Alphabet launched a COVID-19 triage website, President Trump muddled that website's launch, and some Apple engineers are still having to go into work.

The bestselling author of "Sapiens", Yuval Noah Harari tells Christiane Amanpour that the coronavirus is the worst global health threat we have faced in at least a century.

Biochemist Jennifer Doudna in her lab at the Innovative Genomics Institute in Berkeley in the documentary “Human Nature.” Doudna has tried to call public attention to…

Along with academic research departments around the world, private sector medical technology companies are getting in on the action, seeking ways to increase longevity

Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction. But over the long haul all that really matters is progress in medicine: building new classes of therapy to repair and reverse the known root causes of aging. The sooner these treatments arrive, the more lives will be saved.

Robots disinfect hospitals in China and quarantined Italians sing to each other from open windows in this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.

The building blocks of life can, and did, spontaneously assemble under the right conditions. That's called spontaneous generation, or abiogenesis. Of course, many of the details remain hidden to us, and we just don't know exactly how it all happene

60 Minutes climbs aboard for a look at the very near future of transportation and technology that could eliminate as many as 300,000 jobs, Sunday.

Today i had the pleasure of hosting Gennady Stolyarov II on the show in order to have Trans Humanism to myself and all of you. He is a well of highly interesting information and defiantly a sharp mind. I had an extremely fun time interacting with him and hope to do so again in the future.