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In his talk at Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019, Estimating the True Complexity of Comprehensive Rejuvenation, SENS founder Aubrey de Grey talks about the intricacies of creating a complete rejuvenation biotechnology framework, including the differing rates of age-related damage and the ramifications of the extensive crosstalk between different types of this damage. The reason for grouping aging damage into seven categories was to group them based upon the likely mechanism for repair. Immune therapy work against Alzheimer’s amyloid. The same immune therapy should work against amyloid in heart’s and the cardiac system. The amyloid problem for the cardiac system is a

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Yes, yes, the Marvel universe is full of people bitten by radioactive spiders , humanoid subspecies enhanced by mysterious gases born of interstellar rocks , and more cosmic rays and kinds of radiation than you could shake a whole lab’s worth of scientists at. It’s weird . But it’s also so much weirder than you think—and… Read more...

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For those hoping to see George R.R. Martin return to A Song of Ice and Fire on the small screen, there’s hope. Read more...

Hey, do you have a creeping sense that some people are actually ruthless, homicidal androids merely posing as humans? I have some bad news. According to the documentary film Blade Runner , which takes place in November 2019, replicants have already arrived on Earth. Read more...

China’s first Big Fund to invest in semiconductors was made in 2014 with around $19-22 billion. The Phase 2 fund is being put together now and is already at $28.9 billion and could reach $47 billion. The fund is called the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Phase II Co., Ltd. (National Big Fund Phase II). At a September semiconductor industry summit, the Big Fund’s manager revealed that Phase II will focus on etching machines and film, test and cleaning equipment. The goal is to build an independent, self-sufficient and “controllable” industrial chain for the Chinese IC industry. By the

In June 2019 at the Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019, James Peyer of Kronos BioVentures gave a talk about the investment aspects of rejuvenation biotechnology. He explained the effects of the population pyramid, showing the audience why cures for age-related diseases are such a necessity, and comparing population projections. One hundred years ago, the three leading causes of death for humanity were influenza, tuberculosis, and pneumonia. Today they are dementias, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. The old-age dependency ratio is the number of people 65 and older divided by the number of people younger than 65, the working-age adults 15-64. These ratios

Halloween is the perfect time for horror , gore, and blood—but most of us are sadly limited to around five liters, which is not nearly enough supply to decorate a spooky party. That’s where the fake stuff comes in! Read more...

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Star Wars fans know how the Jedi fell ( damn you, Order 66 ) and soon may see some kind of resurrection ( hello, Rey! ). But where did they come from in the first place? We almost found out and now, may never know. Read more...

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Spider-Man and Venom usually get together under extremely dramatic circumstances (see: the current Absolute Carnage event), but a new miniseries offers a brighter, more playful take on the dynamic between these archnemeses. Spider-Man/Venom: Double Trouble gives the two characters the Freaky Friday treatment courtesy… Read more...

Top Gear claimed to have drag race times comparing a Porsche Taycan Turbo S versus a Tesla Model S. However, the times for the Model S appear to be from 2017 data. Elon Musk says that the DragTimes analysis is correct regarding Top Gear race. Elon Musk indicates an upcoming software update will give Model S an additional 50hp and this should beat the Porsche Taycan Turbo S both in 0-60 mph and quarter mile. This would be an increase of nearly 10% in peak power capability. Elon: DragTimes analysis is correct regarding Top Gear race. Says software update will

We’ve had spooks, we’ve had scares, but we’ve made it to the end of October, and it’s finally Halloween! That means its time to put on your best viewing lenses, get up right to the screen, and sear your eyes in awe at all the fantastic Halloween costumes io9 readers showed off this year! Read more...

The idea of fate is central to Terminator mythology . Is it Sarah Connor’s fate to save the world? Or is there “No fate but what we make,” like characters so often say? It’s a question that once again comes up in Terminator: Dark Fate, and  rightfully so . The word is right there in the title. But what exactly is the “d… Read more...

US Secretary Richard V. Spencer blames new multi-year delays for the next-generation Gerald Ford carrier on the budget cap limiting the spending to just over $13 billion. This is $2.5 billion over the original $10.5 billion budget. On 10 September 2008, the U.S. Navy signed a $5.1 billion contract with Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia, to design and construct the carrier. As of 2013, construction costs were estimated at $12.8 billion, 22% over the 2008 budget, plus $4.7 billion in research and development costs. The ship was originally scheduled for launch in July 2013 and delivery in 2015.

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Yesterday, the World Series ended with a stunning Game 7 victory by the Washington Nationals over the Houston Astros. It’s the sort of thing you watch sports for, a dramatic finish to a long, beautiful season. Read more...

Horror movies have a long history of sneaking commentary about real-world issues into their tales of slashers and ghouls —and even those that aim only to entertain help us escape our actual fears by letting us shriek at terrors that never leave the screen. Read more...

You know how it is in dark times—it’s not just the monsters that are capable of being monstrous. Read more...

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It’s been an absolutely bonkers month for social media companies like Facebook and Twitter, with Facebook admitting that it  allows politicians to lie in ads on the platform and Twitter opening the floodgates to show users more ads than ever . Just yesterday, Twitter even announced that it was banning all political ads ,… Read more...

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The Amell brothers team up for an indie superhero showdown. Netflix has its fangs out for a new vampire series. Pennyworth , Another Life , and Creepshow will all return. Plus, Krypto rides into action in new Titans pictures and Riverdale gets way into genetics. Happy spoiloween, everybody! Read more...

Universal stem cells that would not need anti-rejection drugs would be transformative for regenerative medicine. New research by AgeX and Juvenescence brings us much closer to Universal stem cells. They are getting success modifying the immune signaling molecule that protects the fetus from rejection during pregnancy. Nextbigfuture interviewed Greg Bailey and Nafees Malik. Gregory Bailey, M.D., is CEO of Juvenescence Ltd., a biotechnology and investment company focused on longevity therapeutics, and Chairman of AgeX Therapeutics (AGE), a biotech startup focused on extending human healthspan. Dr. Bailey has been starting and financing life science companies since 1995, with a total combined

It’s Halloween week, so let me break down your need for a night cream this way: Premature signs of aging are spooooky ! Crow’s feet? Bird ghosts. Laugh lines? Pennywise from IT -level evil. Wrinkles? Witches’ favorite curse to cast, duh. Read more...

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The cryptosphere is suffering from a talent drought. Despite all the entrepreneurs, visionaries, gurus, whizkids, architects, and pioneers who have piled in over the past decade, there is still one critical area where the industry is underserved: developers. There is a desperate shortage of skilled blockchain developers capable of operating at the protocol and application level. These engineers of base layer protocols and the decentralized applications built atop them are the drummers of the blockchain world: the backbone that holds the band together. Without the ability to attract and retain the next generation of blockchain devs, the industry’s ability to

BrainNet is the first multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem-solving. The interface combines electroencephalography (EEG) to record brain signals and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to deliver information noninvasively to the brain. The interface allows three human subjects to collaborate and solve a task using direct brain-to-brain communication. Two of the three subjects are designated as “Senders” whose brain signals are decoded using real-time EEG data analysis. The decoding process extracts each Sender’s decision about whether to rotate a block in a Tetris-like game before it is dropped to fill a line. The Senders’ decisions are transmitted via the

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We’re only two episodes in, but there’s already a lot going on in Watchmen in the moments between Regina King kicking ass to sick music . But perhaps one of the most fascinating things is whatever the hell Jeremy Irons is getting up to in that manor of his—and one of his accomplices in that weirdness, Tom Mison, is… Read more...

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Any normal person might be angry if they were making a movie that straight-up ignored several previously-connected projects they’d worked on. Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a normal person . Read more...

Computer scientists at DeepMind have developed an artificially intelligent bot capable of defeating the world’s best players at StarCraft II, the popular real-time strategy video game. Read more...

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power may center around She-Ra, the show’s namesake, but season four  is really Glimmer’s story. Showrunner Noelle Stevenson talked with io9 about why Glimmer is at the heart of this latest season, and how her new position affects her life and friendships. Read more...

Florida had over 2 million acres of prescribed (aka controlled) burns in 2017 and California had 87,000 acres of controlled burns in 2018. Georgia has 1.25 million acres of controlled burns and Alabama had 944,000 acres of controlled burns. California had 1.9 million acres of forests burned from wildfires in 2018 against the 87,000 acres burned in controlled fires. State and federal firefighting agency experts say California should allow more fires that don’t threaten the public to run their natural course. What’s more, they say fire agencies should conduct more “prescribed” burns. Controlled fires are deliberately set, under carefully controlled

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Last year, Ahoy Comics’ horror anthology Snifter of Terror kicked off a wonderfully silly tradition : re-imaging the beloved icons of America’s favorite (and seasonally appropriate) breakfast cereals as gothic figures. Since those early days of Count Chocula—ahem, sorry, the Marquis de Cocoa —things have only gotten… Read more...

The x-ray image above shows one of the Milky Way’s neighbors, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This image contains fuzzy emissions from gas, intervening stars and distance galactic cores, and the remnants of a supernova first spotted from Earth 32 years ago right at the center, all orbiting our galaxy 158,200 light years… Read more...

If remaking a classic movie is the worst idea, an unnecessary sequel is a close second. Sometimes it’s just better to leave well enough alone. And while that may be your first reaction when you think about Doctor Sleep , a sequel to both Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining , check that sentiment right now. … Read more...

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s latest story can be summed up in one word: tense. Season four throws our heroes and villains into the lion’s den, tearing friendships apart without offering easy solutions, and leaves us to figure out whether we’re okay with it. It may be hard to watch, but it’s worth it. Read more...

Hollywood producer Tom DeSanto has dismissed his $30 million lawsuit against Gail Gygax, the widow of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gyagx, Kotaku has learned. Read more...

Nicolas Cage signs up for another bonkers movie. Colin Trevorrow believes that Jurassic World 3 really is just Jurassic Park 6 . The team behind Netflix’s Castlevania is cooking up a futuristic new animated series. Plus, The Flash goes black-and-white, new footage from Terminator: Dark Fate , and what’s to come on Arrow … Read more...

The best thing about Terminator: Dark Fate is you don’t need to be a Terminator expert to enjoy it. Though the franchise is best known for its first and second installments, released in 1984 and 1991 respectively , Hollywood has made three subsequent sequels/reboots as well as a television show about the characters.… Read more...

Last night we got another look at The Mandalorian , Lucasfilm and Disney’s intriguing entry in the realm of live-action Star Wars TV. While it still left us with plenty of questions about what the titular mercenary will actually get up to in the series, it did give us a few sneaky connections to the wider world of Star … Read more...

Sean Hodgins has come up with the perfect solution for anyone struggling to choose just one costume for Halloween. He designed and engineered a face-changing projection mask that allows you to disguise yourself as anyone or anything—at least until the battery in your back pocket runs out. Read more...

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Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's regular column all about the latest in board games and tabletop roleplaying games. We’re fresh off the weekend’s Essen Spiel, which brought a bunch of new releases and surprises. In addition, we’ve got a new Star Trek Adventures campaign, a shocking story of Kickstarter fraud, and a… Read more...

I am currently living in a zone with regular multi-day power outages in California. I have already experienced three multi-day power outages in the last month and will likely have another one later this week. Any time there are winds with gusts over 30-45 mph in the napa area and into the east bay of the San Francisco bay area then PG&E will cut power because their equipment is dangerous. I have determined that the best option for me is to get a Honda EU2200 generator. One gallon of gasoline can operate it at about 400-watt power for 8 hours.

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Greg Autry – Director, SoCal Commercial Spaceflight Center debated Robert Zubrin about the Lunar Gateway. Greg Autry says that the Lunar Gateway will be part of a larger space infrastructure effort for going to moon, Mars and Deep Space. Autry bemoans the fast that NASA no longer has 5% of the US federal budget like it did during the peak of the Apollo era. Zubrin indicates that we can accomplish great things with a purpose-driven space program that has engineering rationality. NASA has more inflation-adjusted dollars from 1998 to 2018 than it did from 1958 to 1978. The reason for

How big a deal was the success of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy? In 2010, NASA and the Augustine commission determined that it would cost $36 billion and 12 years to develop a heavy-lift vehicle. This meant that the Bush moon program was deemed to be too costly and not practical. SpaceX created a heavy-lift vehicle in six years for less than a billion dollars and it is over 75% reusable. Entrepreneurial space companies are now completing development in one-third the time for one-tenth the cost. This seems to demonstrate that reusable rocket technology development previously failed not for technical reasons

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Robert Zubrin indicates there is a need to stage the SpaceX Starship from low earth orbit or injection orbits for the moon and Mars. Missions to the moon would be far more efficient with a ten-ton lunar lander. This could be a mini-starship. Mars mission should stage from the TMI (Trans Mars Injection) or low earth orbit. The mini-Starship would look similar in size and shape to the Small Falcon Rocket. The Small Falcon Rocket was imagined a couple of years ago when Super Heavy Starship was called BFR. It would be similar size and possibly a bit smaller. It

It’s that time of year—leaves are turning, pumpkins are being carved, and costumes are being prepped . But among all the usual Halloween festivities is another tradition: watching scary movies . However, if you were scarred from watching one when you were too young—or perhaps when you had Scarlet freakin’ fever —you may… Read more...

Nearly 50 years ago—before Interstellar , A Brief History of Time , and certainly the Event Horizon Telescope —postdoctoral researcher William Unruh was attempting to explain black holes to a crowd at an Oxford University colloquium. There were no reference points with which to compare an object so dense that light… Read more...

Everything we’ve seen of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order so far has shone a spotlight on its light side protagonist, Cal Kestis—a Padawan survivor of Order 66 trying to hide who he is in the rise of the Empire. Our latest look at the game gives Cal a very good reason to be doing that. Read more...

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Paul Darrow, best known for playing the unscrupulous anti-hero of the British sci-fi cult classic Blake’s 7 , Kerr Avon, passed away earlier this year , leaving behind a legacy as one of the most beloved charismatic assholes of classic sci-fi . Now, his final contribution to that legacy is about to be released. Read more...

Unlike humans living today, our distant ancestors exerted a very small footprint on the planet, leaving barely anything behind to chronicle their time on Earth. With the discovery of each new skull fragment, femur, and stone tool, however, archaeologists are methodically piecing together the fractured history of our… Read more...

Edgar Wright reveals a timey-wimey twist to his new horror movie . Bill Condon is making a Christmas Carol adaptation for Disney. Lucifer ’s final season will come in two parts. Plus, David Leitch waxes lyrical about the chance to work on The Matrix 4 , what’s to come on Black Lightning , and new Mandalorian posters.… Read more...

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