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Humai wants to resurrect humans using AI

Regina Pazvakavambwa
By Regina Pazvakavambwa, ITWeb portals journalist.
Johannesburg, 27 Nov 2015

In this edition of the worldwide wrap, Los Angeles-based Humai wants to bring people back from the dead using artificial intelligence and an inventor with motor neurone disease has developed a wheelchair he controls with his eyes.

Humai wants to resurrect humans using AI

Los Angeles-based Humai wants to bring people back from the dead using artificial intelligence. The firm plans to use artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to store data of conversational styles, behavioural patterns, thought processes and information on a person's body functions from the inside-out.

Details about the technology are scarce, and it's not entirely clear whether it is a hoax or not, but the plans would involve freezing a person's brain before fitting it with a 'personality' chip.
Via: Daily Mail

Wheelchair driven by eye movements

In a bid to give paralysed and disabled people more freedom, an inventor with motor neurone disease has developed a wheelchair he controls using just his eyes.

Patrick Joyce, 46, created the Eyedrivomatic technology after he began to lose the use of his muscles due to the disease.
Via: Daily Mail

Temporary health Tattoos

A company called Chaotic Moon has rolled out a temporary tattoo that serves as an embeddable fitness tracker.

Called "the new wearable" by company CEO Ben Lamm, the Tech Tat comes complete with a micro controller and LED lights, and is essentially a FitBit you never have to take off.
Via: Tech Times

Apple acquires Faceshift

Apple has purchased the company behind motion-capture technology used in the latest Star Wars film.

Faceshift, a Zurich based start-up, specialises in software that allows 3D animated characters to mimic the facial expressions of an actor.
Via: BBC

World's first biofuel plant

California-based biofuel and bioenergy company, Biodico is introducing its Westside Facility, the first-ever facility of its kind to use renewable heat and clean power generated onsite.

The facility will use that power to produce a total of 20 million gallons of biodiesel each year. Biodico's plant is set to go live with a launch party in Fresno.
Via: Inhabitat

Gene-edited mosquito

Researchers have succeeded in breeding a malaria-resistant form of mosquito using gene-editing.

The genetically modified Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes - normal versions of which are a common carrier of malaria in India and the Middle East - can't carry or pass on the disease.
Via: Wired

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