Doing lots of exercise in older age can prevent the immune system from declining and protect people against infections, scientists say. They followed 125 long-distance cyclists, some now in their 80s, and found they had the immune systems of 20-year-olds.
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News and analysis One day in January, Linda Tannenbaum opened an email that would radically change her small, medical-research charity almost overnight. The note said that her organization would soon receive a gift of $1 million, to use as it saw fit.
Since its founding by Elon Musk and others nearly two years ago, nonprofit research lab OpenAI has published dozens of research papers. One posted online Thursday is different: Its lead author is still in high school. The wunderkind is Kevin Frans, a senior currently working on his college applications.
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Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, of has confounded linguists and cryptographers. Using artificial intelligence, Canadian researchers have taken a huge step forward in unravelling the document's hidden meaning.
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Thinning and graying hair, wrinkles, arthritis, cataracts, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and maybe dementia. The list of age-related maladies is both familiar and intimidating. On the microscopic level, cells also show characteristic signs of aging. They become loaded with debris. The neatly packaged bundles of DNA lose organization.
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Video: Cloudflare provides security and domain name services for millions of the most prominent sites on the web. The company has built a solid reputation for its secure encryption, and one of the key factors in its system is a wall of 100 lava lamps in the lobby of its San Francisco headquarters.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/11/one-of-the-se...
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I thought I'd make Furby a little less annoying and give him an upgrade with a real brain. Step aside, Tin Man. By combining a Raspberry Pi Zero W (a tiny computer), Amazon's (mostly) open-source Alexa Voice Service software, and a few other electrical components, I converted my normal Furby into an Amazon Echo.
The latest test of the University of Sydney's Red Belly Blockchain shows it can process financial transactions 50% faster than first anticipated, outperforming market leaders - including VISA - for worldwide payments. Blockchain is a public ledger allowing secure and almost instantaneous digital transfer of virtual currencies across the world.
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24-year-old Khallil Mangalji is a happy guy. He just closed a $US1.8 million round of venture funding for his two-year-old startup, Fiix, and got some good news about his health. The cancer tumour he's been fighting for the past year while launching his startup is in retreat and the prognosis for a full recovery is good, he told Business Insider.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/fiix-cofoudne...
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Medical experts call the march of the superbug a "slow tsunami". Currently it kills an estimated 700,000 people a year, 230,000 of them newborn babies. The overuse and miss use of antibiotics have led to Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on such a scale that it has become one of the biggest threats to global health.
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