GOOD READS ABOUT GESDA'S PLATFORMS THEMES
GESDA Platform 1: Quantum revolution and advanced AI
> Ici commence la revolution quantique // 25.06.2020, El Pais (repris dans Le Figaro)
> Universities and tech giants back National Cloud Computing project // 30.06.2020, New York Times
> A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls // 01.07.2020, MIT Technology Review
> Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the foundations, benefits and possible existential threat of AI (audio discussion) // June 2020, Future of Life Institute
Also read: Open Letter: Foresight in AI Regulation
> Menten.AI’s combination of buzzword bingo brings AI and quantum computing to drug discovery // 30.06.2020, TechCrunch
> Recyclers turn to AI robots after waste import bans // 01.07.2020, Financial Times
> MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs // 01.07.2020, The Register
> The State of AI Ethics (report) // June 2020, by The Montreal AI Ethics Institute
> Disney Research neural face-swapping technique can provide photorealistic, high-resolution video // 29.06.2020, TechCrunch
> Tiny satellites could distribute quantum keys // 26.06.2020, IEEE Spectrum
> NASA's new Moon-bound space suits will get a boost from AI // 29.06.2020, WIRED
GESDA Platform 2: Human augmentation
> A gene-editing ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys // 27.06.2020, New York Times
> Research ethics codes and guidelines for human enhancement (report) // 02.07.2020, SIENNA (Technology, ethics and human rights) project
> An experiment in end-of-life care: Tapping AI’s cold calculus to nudge the most human of conversations // 01.07.2020, STATNews
> Concern following gene therapy adverse events // 02.07.2020, MedicalXpress
> A Worm’s Hidden Map for Growing New Eyes // 29.06.2020, New York Times
> How does our brain fold? Study reveals new genetic insights // 02.07.2020, RMIT Australia
> Shutting down RNA-targeting CRISPR // 03.07.2020, Science
> Wie Präzisionsmedizin bei einer seltenen Hormonerkrankung hilft // 30.06.2020, UniBern
GESDA Platform 3: Eco-regeneration and geoengineering
> Earth's final frontier: the global race to map the entire ocean floor // 30.06.2020, The Guardian
> The future of batteries (new report) // 01.07.2020, C&EN by ACS
In relation: Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow's Solar Farms // 10.06.2020, IEEE Spectrum
> House Democrats call for ‘Negative Emissions’ in climate plan // 30.06.2020, Bloomberg Green
> If biology can build it, they will come: Gingko Bioworks is laying the foundation for the $4 trillion bioeconomy // 25.06.2020, Forbes
> USA seeking support for recovery and use of space resources // 02.07.2020, SpaceWatch.global
> Seasteading – a vanity project for the rich or the future of humanity? // 24.06.2020, The Guardian
In relation: This tiny house is 3D printed, floats, and will last over 100 years // 01.07.2020, SingularityHub
> Geoengineering reports chart research and governance approaches // 29.06.2020, Science Policy News
The National Academies released two reports this month on research directions and governance approaches for solar geoengineering methods that involve reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth, such as stratospheric aerosol injection.
> Berlin mise sur l’hydrogène // 29.06.2020, Le Temps
> ESA selects prime contractors for six new Copernicus missions // 01.07.2020, SpaceNews
> Top 200 - Operational Floating Solar Projects (Data analysis free, report to purchase if needed) // 30.06.2020, SolarPlaza
Following the trends of recent years, floating solar has continued to gain popularity in 2019. As the technology matures and becomes cheaper, more and more countries start to develop their own floating PV (FPV) systems in different freshwater and marine environments. Today, there are operational projects on hydropower dams, water reservoirs, flooded mining subsidences, rivers, fishery lakes as well as on seawater near-shore and even off-shore.
> The biodiversity leader who is fighting for nature amid a pandemic // 30.06.2020, Nature
Earlier this month, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema was appointed executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. She is the first woman from Africa to lead the intergovernmental body, and will oversee the creation of a global biodiversity agreement for the next decade
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