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Life-extending tech will force us to rethink punishment

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by on May 28, 2018 at 9:44 pm
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A few years ago, philosopher and academic Rebecca Roache published a provocative blog post about the future of punishment. At the time she was connected with Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, a group which includes noted transhumanists looking for ways to extend human life with drugs, robotics, and more out-there concepts like mind transfer – whereby a person’s brain is copied to a computer server in order to live on indefinitely, without a body. Roache argued that such developments might offer all kinds of efficiencies for the prison industry. Robots, for example, could be drafted in to do the often physically…

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Private companies are launching a new space race – here’s what that means

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by on May 28, 2018 at 8:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Space, syndication


The space race between the USA and Russia started with a beep from the Sputnik satellite exactly 60 years ago (October 4, 1957) and ended with a handshake in space just 18 years later. The handshake was the start of many decades of international collaboration in space. But over the past decade, there has been a huge change. The space environment is no longer the sole preserve of government agencies. Private companies have entered the exploration domain and are propelling the sector forward more vigorously and swiftly than would be the case if left to governments alone. It could be…

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Why London in 1854 was the world’s first smart city

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by on May 28, 2018 at 6:00 pm
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What’s the first name that comes to mind when you think about a smart city? Elon Musk? Jeff Bezos? Travis Kalanick? It’s natural that we should leap to the technologists. Smart cities are, after all, about technology: driverless cars, drone deliveries, and Minority Report-style signs that change depending on who’s looking at them. But I’ll tell you who I think of first: an English physician called John Snow. An unusual choice, perhaps, given that he died in 1858. The reason I mention him is that as we think about the future of our urban spaces, it’s important to recognize that…

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Here are some free ideas to help sex-up other toys for National Masturbation Day (I’m so, so sorry)

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by on May 28, 2018 at 3:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, distract, Gadgets, gear


Nothing’s sacred. You’d think that popular 90s toy the Bop It! would be free from Rule 43 (the idea that if it exists, there’s porn of it on the internet), but, once again, here we are. Today, in honor of National Masturbation Day (I know), Nutaku (I know) – an adult online games platform – has announced the the creation of the Flick N’ Jerk. Words can’t do this thing justice: Just like Wordsworth summed up humanity’s intimate connection with nature with the immortal lines: I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and hills,When all at…

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A Scottish addiction facility wants to help ‘cryptocurrency addicts’

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by on May 28, 2018 at 3:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Finance, Hard Fork, Insights


Are you one of those people whose eyes are fixed all day long at Coinmarketcap waiting for the right moment to buy/sell cryptocurrencies? Do you have a trading account on tens if not hundreds of cryptocurrency exchanges? Do you scoff at people who don’t know what HODL, bull, bear, whale, ATH, FUD, and FOMO mean? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then — I hate to tell you, but — you might have a problem: cryptocurrency addiction. Even though I couldn’t find any mention of this particular addiction in scientific literature, Castle Craig Hospital, Scotland’s largest addiction…

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