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John.Banister writes:
Teleoperated robot workers are here! No more worries about immigrants taking jobs, as the jobs themselves can be exported. Anything that isn't done by the cheapest labor can be exported to where the skilled labor is cheap. And, what better way to train AI replacements than the encoded stimulus and response of teleoperation?
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John.Banister writes:
SUSE announces that they're spending $10 million on maintaining a fork of RHEL, the source code of the fork to be freely available to all. I don't know that people who want to copy RHEL source will necessarily see copying the source of a fork as furthering their goals, but it could be that SUSE will build a nice alternative enterprise Linux to complement their current product. And, I reckon, better SUSE than Oracle, since I keep reading comments on people getting screwed by Oracle, but not so many on people getting screwed by SUSE.
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John.Banister writes:
I saw this SciTechDaily story Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Food in Complete Darkness. First I checked to see if acetate is currently being used to supplement plant growth in hydroponics, but the closest thing I found essentially said "vinegar kills shit." The actual report in Nature Food said that they grew lettuce cuttings in liquid media containing 0.691M acetate: 1M KOH and found that exogenous acetate was converted to acetyl-CoA which entered the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) cycle.
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John.Banister writes:
The Guardian reports of early success in the trial of a synthetic DNA based drug, Ionis-HTTRx, at University College London’s Huntington’s Disease Centre . Bionews explains that this gene silencing drug binds to the RNA transcript of the faulty huntingtin gene, triggering its destruction before it can go on to make the huntingtin protein. There's much excited speculation that the same technique could be used versus Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, once people know which genes to target.
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John.Banister writes:
Jolla, founded by former Nokia employees to continue where Nokia left off developing Linux based mobile devices has spun off its hardware division with the intent to focus more strongly on its Sailfish Operating System.
