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ByteDance Ltd. will be required to seek Chinese government approval to sell the U.S. operations of its short-video TikTok app under new restrictions Beijing imposed on the export of artificial intelligence technologies, according to a person familiar with the matter.

AI interface technologies such as speech and text recognition, and those that analyze data to make personalized content recommendations, were added to a revised list of export-control products published on the Ministry of Commerces website late Friday. Government permits will be required for overseas transfers to safeguard national economic security, it said.

The new restrictions cover technologies ByteDance uses in TikTok and will require the company to seek government approval for any deal, according to the person, asking not to be identified because the details arent public. The new rule is aimed at delaying the sale and is not an outright ban, the person said.

President Donald Trumps administration has said ByteDance must sell the U.S. operations of its popular video-sharing app because of alleged national security risks. Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. have submitted rival bids to ByteDance to acquire TikToks U.S. business, while Centricus Asset Management Ltd. and Triller Inc. were said to have made a last-minute pitch on Friday to buy TikToks operations in several countries for $20 billion.

Chinas foreign ministry and commerce ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

ByteDance said in a statement the company was aware of the new restrictions and would strictly comply with the Chinese regulations on technology exports. The companys executives are working to understand the new rule, and the attempt to please two governments that are already at odds could make logistics for any deal more challenging, according to a person familiar with the situation.

ByteDance should study the new export list and seriously and cautiously consider whether it should halt negotiations, Cui Fan, a trade expert and professor at Beijings University of International Business and Economics, told the official Xinhua News Agency.

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Additional approval in Beijing is likely to delay and could undermine any transaction. Because the Chinese government review will take time, the TikTok deal may be delayed until after the U.S. elections in November, the person familiar said.

The revised rules would cover cross-border transfers of restricted technologies even within the same company, while the impact and consequences of failing to make appropriate applications would be very different if an international business is spun off, Cui said separately in an interview with Bloomberg.

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Technologies related to drones and to some genetic engineering methods and procedures were also added to the revised export-control list while others in areas like medical equipment were removed. The revisions are meant to promote Chinas technological advancement and international cooperation, and safeguard national economic security, a commerce ministry representative said in a separate statement on Friday.

Technology exports encompass various transfers out of China including via trade, investment and patents, according to the statement. Any export of restricted technology will require letters of export permit intentions from Chinese authorities before negotiations can be held, while final permits are required before any transfer happens.

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Rage Against the Algorithm: the Risks of Overestimating Military Artificial Intelligence – Chatham House

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AI holds the potential to replace humans for tactical tasks in military operations beyond current applications such as navigation assistance. For example, in the US, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently held the final round of its AlphaDogfight Trials where an algorithm controllinga simulated F-16 fighter was pitted against an Air Force pilot in virtual aerial combat. The algorithm won by 5-0. So what does this mean for the future of military operations?

The agencys deputy director remarked that these tools are now ready for weapons systems designers to be in the toolbox. At first glance, the dogfight shows that an AI-enabled air combat would provide tremendous military advantage including the lack of survival instincts inherent to humans, the ability to consistently operate with high acceleration stress beyond the limitations of the human body and high targeting precision.

The outcome of these trials, however, does not mean that this technology is ready for deployment in the battlefield. In fact, an array of considerations must be taken into account prior to their deployment and use namely the ability to adapt in real-life combat situations, physical limitations and legal compliance.

First, as with all technologies, the performance of an algorithm in its testing environment is bound to differ from real-life applications such as in the case of cluster munitions. For instance, Google Health developed an algorithm to help with diabetic retinopathy screening. While the algorithms accuracy rate in the lab was over 90 per cent, it did not perform well out of the lab because the algorithm was used to high-quality scans in its training, it rejected more than a fifth of the real-life scans which were deemed as being below the quality threshold required. As a result, the process ended up being as time-consuming and costly if not more so than traditional screening.

Similarly, virtual environments akin to the AlphaDogfight Trials do not reflect the extent of risks, hazards and unpredictability of real-life combat. In the dogfight exercise, for example, the algorithm had full situational awareness and was repeatedly trained to the rules, parameters and limitations of its operating environment. But, in a real-life dynamic andbattlefield, the list of variables is long and will inevitably fluctuate: visibility may be poor, extreme weather could affect operations and the performance of aircraft and the behaviour and actions of adversarieswill be unpredictable.

Every single eventuality would need to be programmed in line with the commanders intent in an ever-changing situation or it would drastically affect the performance of algorithms including in target identification and firing precision.

Another consideration relates to the limitations of the hardware that AI systems depend on. Algorithms depend on hardware to operate equipment such as sensors and computer systems each of which are constrained by physical limitations. These can be targeted by an adversary, for example, through electronic interference to disrupt the functioning of the computer systems which the algorithms are operating from.

Hardware may also be affected involuntarily. For instance, a pilotless aircraft controlled by an algorithm can indeed undergo higher accelerations, and thus, higher g-force than the human body can endure. However, the aircraft in itself is also subject to physical limitations such as acceleration limits beyond which parts of the aircraft, such as its sensors, may be severely damaged which in turn affects the algorithms performance and, ultimately, mission success. It is critical that these physical limitations are factored into the equation when deploying these machines especially when they so heavily rely on sensors.

Another major, and perhaps the greatest, consideration relates to the ability to rely on machines for legal compliance. The DARPA dogfight exclusively focused on the algorithms ability to successfully control the aircraft and counter the adversary, however, nothing indicates its ability to ensure that strikes remain within the boundaries of the law.

In an armed conflict, the deployment and use of such systems in the battlefield are not exempt from international humanitarian law (IHL) and most notably its customary principles of distinction, proportionality and precautions in attack. It would need to be able to differentiate between civilians, combatants and military objectives, calculate whether its attacks will be proportionate against the set military objective and live collateral damage estimates and take the necessary precautions to ensure the attacks remain within the boundaries of the law including the ability to abort if necessary. This would also require the machine to have the ability to stay within the rules of engagement for that particular operation.

It is therefore critical to incorporate IHL considerations from the conception and throughout the development and testing phases of algorithms to ensure the machines are sufficiently reliable for legal compliance purposes.

It is also important that developers address the 'black box' issue whereby the algorithms calculations are so complex that it is impossible for humans to understand how it came to its results. It is not only necessary to address the algorithms opacity to improve the algorithms performance over time, it is also key for accountability and investigation purposes in cases of incidents and suspected violations of applicable laws.

Algorithms are becoming increasingly powerful and there is no doubt that they will confer tremendous advantages to the military. Over-hype, however, must be avoided at the expense of the machines reliability on the technical front as well as for legal compliance purposes.

The testing and experimentation phases are key during which developers will have the ability to fine-tune the algorithms. Developers must, therefore, be held accountable for ensuring the reliability of machines by incorporating considerations pertaining to performance and accuracy, hardware limitations as well as legal compliance. This could help prevent incidents in real life that result from overestimating of the capabilities of AI in military operations.

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U of I to lead two of seven new national artificial intelligence institutes – University of Illinois News

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agricultures National Institute of Food and Agriculture are announcing an investment of more than $140 million to establish seven artificial intelligence institutes in the U.S. Two of the seven will be led by teams at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. They will support the work of researchers at the U. of I. and their partners at other academic and research institutions. Each of the new institutes will receive about $20 million over five years.

The USDA-NIFA will fund the AI Institute for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management and Sustainability at the U. of I. Illinois computer science professor Vikram Adve will lead the AIFARMS Institute.

The NSF will fund the AI Institute for Molecular Discovery, Synthetic Strategy and Manufacturing, also known as the Molecule Maker Lab Institute. Huimin Zhao, a U. of I. professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of chemistry, will lead this institute.

AIFARMS will advance AI research in computer vision, machine learning, soft-object manipulation and intuitive human-robot interaction to solve major agricultural challenges, the NSF reports. Such challenges include sustainable intensification with limited labor, efficiency and welfare in animal agriculture, the environmental resilience of crops and the preservation of soil health. The institute will feature a novel autonomous farm of the future, new education and outreach pathways for diversifying the workforce in agriculture and technology, and a global clearinghouse to foster collaboration in AI-driven agricultural research, Adve said.

Computer science professor Vikram Adve will lead the AI Institute for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management and Sustainability at the U. of I.

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The Molecule Maker Lab Institute will focus on the development of new AI-enabled tools to accelerate automated chemical synthesis to advance the discovery and manufacture of novel materials and bioactive compounds, the NSF reports. The institute also will train a new generation of scientists with combined expertise in AI, chemistry and bioengineering. The goal of the institute is to establish an open ecosystem of disruptive thinking, education and community engagement powered by state-of-the-art molecular design, synthesis and spectroscopic characterization technologies all interfaced with AI and a modern cyberinfrastructure, Zhao said.

Huimin Zhao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of chemistry, will lead the new Molecule Maker Lab Institute at Illinois.

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The National Science Foundation and USDA-NIFA recognize the breadth and depth of Illinois expertise in artificial intelligence, agricultural systems and molecular innovation, U. of I. Chancellor Robert Jones said. It is no surprise to me that two of seven new national AI institutes will be led by our campus. I look forward to seeing the results of these new investments in improving agricultural outcomes and innovations in basic and applied research.

Adve is a co-director of the U. of I. Center for Digital Agriculture with crop sciences bioinformatics professor Matthew Hudson. AIFARMS will be under the CDA umbrella. Zhao and Hudson are affiliates of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, where Zhao leads the Biosystems Design theme. The Molecule Maker Lab Institute will be associated with two campus institutes: IGB and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

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To reach Vikram Adve, email vadve@illinois.edu.

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Holocaust survivors will be able to share their stories after death thanks to a new project – 60 Minutes – CBS News

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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of that war and of the liberation of concentration camps across Europe. Most of the survivors who remain are now in their 80s and 90s. Soon there will be no one left who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand, no one to answer questions or bear witness to future generations. But as we first reported earlier this year, a new and dramatic effort is underway to change that. Harnessing the technologies of the present and the future, it keeps alive the ability to talk to, and get answers from, the past.

Correspondent Lesley Stahl's interview with Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster, who spent two years of his childhood hidden in a neighbor's attic, was unlike any interview she had ever done.

"Aaron, tell us what your parents did before the war," Stahl asked Elster.

"They owned and operated a butcher shop," Elster said.

It wasn't the content of the interview that was so unusual.

"Where did you live?" Stahl asked.

"I was born in a small town in Poland called Sokolw Podlaski," Elster said.

It's the fact that this interview was with a man who was no longer alive. Aaron Elster died two years ago.

"What's the weather like today?" Stahl asked.

"I'm actually a recording," Elster said. "I cannot answer that question."

Heather Maio came up with the idea for this project. She had worked on exhibits featuring Holocaust survivors for years and wanted future generations to have the same opportunity to interact with them as she'd had.

"I wanted to talk to a Holocaust survivor like I would today," Maio said. "With that person sitting right in front of me and we were having a conversation."

She knew that back in the 90s, after making the film "Schindler's List," Steven Spielberg created a foundation named for the Hebrew word for the Holocaust Shoah to film and collect testimonies from as many survivors as possible. They have interviewed nearly 55,000 of them so far and have stored them at the University of Southern California. But Maio dreamed of something more dynamic, being able to actively converse with survivors after they're gone. And she figured, in the age of artificial intelligence tools like Siri and Alexa, the technology had to be creatable.

She brought the idea to Stephen Smith, executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, and now her husband. He loved it, but some of his colleagues weren't so sure.

"One of them looked at me," Maio said. "She was, like, 'You wanna talk to dead people?'"

"And you said, '"Yes, because that's the point,'" Stahl said.

"That's the point," Maio said.

"Well maybe people thought you're turning the Holocaust into something maybe hokey?" Stahl asked.

"Yeah," Maio said. "They said that, 'You're gonna Disney-fy the Holocaust.'"

"We had a lot of pushback on this project," Smith said. "'Is it the right thing to do? What about the wellbeing of the survivors? Are we trying to keep them alive beyond their deaths?' Everyone had questions except for one group of people, the survivors themselves, who said, 'Where do I sign up? I would like to participate in this project.' No barriers to entry."

The first survivor they signed up to do a trial run was a man named Pinchas Gutter, who was born in Poland and deported to the Majdanek concentration camp with his parents and twin sister Sabina at the age of 11. He is the only one who survived. They flew Gutter from his home in Toronto to Los Angeles, and asked him to sit inside a giant lattice-like dome.

"Yeah, I call it a sphere," Gutter said. "They call it a dome. And then eventually, it was called a bubble."

A bubble surrounding him with lights and more than 20 cameras. The goal was to future-proof the interviews so that as technology advances and 3D, hologram-like projection becomes the norm, they'll have all the necessary angles.

"So the very first day we went to film Pinchas, we had these ultra high speed cameras," Smith said. "They were all linked together and synced together to make this video of him. So we sit down and they press record. Nothing happens. So Pinchas is sitting there with 6,000 LED lights on him and cameras that don't work."

Sunglasses shielded his eyes.

"I was bored sitting in that chair, So I started singing to myself," Gutter said. "So suddenly, Steven had this idea, 'Oh, he's singing. We're gonna record some songs of his.'"

Both Smith and Maio said Gutter was a good sport. Eventually the cameras rolled and Gutter was asked to come back to the bubble for the real thing.

"How long were you in that chair?" Stahl asked him.

"A whole week from 9:00 to 5:00," Gutter said. "We were there with breaks for lunch. And-- but I was there from 9:00 to 5:00 answering questions."

It took so long because they asked him nearly 2000 questions. The idea was to cover every conceivable question anyone might ever want to ask him.

"Did you have to look exactly the same?" Stahl asked.

"I had to wear the same clothes and I had three pairs of the same jackets, the same shirts, the same trousers, the same shoes," Gutter said.

Gutter can now be seen -- in those shirts, trousers, and shoes -- at Holocaust museums in Dallas, Indiana, and at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, outside Chicago, where visitors can ask him their own questions.

"What kept you going," one girl asked, "or what gave you hope while you were experiencing hardship in the camps?"

"We did hope that the Nazis would lose the war," Gutter's digital image responded.

Gutter's image is projected onto an 11-foot high screen. Smith explained how the technology works.

"So what's happening is all of the answers to the questions that Pinchas gave go into a database," Smith said. "And when you ask a question, the algorithm is looking through all of the database, 'Do I have an answer to that.' And then it'll bring back what it thinks is the closest answer to your question."

Stahl then asked Gutter's digital image a question.

"Did you have a happy childhood?" Stahl asked.

"I had a very happy childhood," Gutter's digital image said. "My parents were winemakers. My father started teaching me to become a winemaker when I was 3-and-a-half years old. By the age of 5, I could already read and I could already write."

"Wow," Stahl said. "You're very smart."

"Thank you," Gutter's digital image said with a laugh.

"I've noticed there's a little jiggle right before Pinchas starts to talk," Stahl said. "What is that?""What you're seeing here isn't a human being," Smith said. "It's video clips that are-- that are being butted up to each other and played. And as it searches and brings the clip in, you just-- you're seeing a little bit of a jump cut."

The jump cuts stopped being distracting once Stahl asked about the fate of Gutter's family.

"Tell us what happened when you got to the camp," Stahl said.

"As soon as we arrived there, we were being separated into different groups," Gutter's digital image said. "And my sister was somehow pushed towards the children. And I saw her, she must have spotted my mother. So she ran towards my mother. I saw my mother. And she hugged her. And since that time, all I can remember whenever I think of my sister is her long-- big, long, blonde braid."

That was the last time he saw his twin sister, Sabina. He learned later that day that she and both his parents had been killed in the gas chambers. Pinchas Gutter was alone at age 11, put to work as a slave laborer.

"Did you ever see anybody killed?" Stahl asked.

"Unfortunately, I saw many people die in front of my eyes," Gutter's digital image said.

Stahl wasn't sure how a recording would handle what she wanted to ask him next.

"How can you still have faith in God?" Stahl asked.

"How can you possibly not believe in God?" Gutter's digital image said.

"Well," Stahl said, "how did he let this happen?"

"God gave human beings the knowledge of right and wrong and he allowed them to do what they wished on this earth, to find their own way," Gutter's digital image said. "To my mind, when God sees what human beings are up to, especially things like genocide, he weeps."

"Wow. Stephen, I could ask him questions for ten hours," Stahl said.

Since Pinchas Gutter was filmed, the Shoah Foundation has recorded interviews with 21 more Holocaust survivors, each for a full week. And they've shrunk the set-up required, so they can take a mobile rig on the road to record survivors close to where they live. They've deliberately chosen interview subjects with all different wartime experiences. Survivors of Auschwitz, hidden children, and as we saw last fall in New Jersey, 93-year-old Alan Moskin, who isn't a holocaust survivor. He was a liberator.

"Entering that camp was the most horrific sight I've ever seen or ever hope to see the rest of my life," Moskin said.

Moskin was an 18-year-old private when his Army unit liberated a little-known concentration camp called Gunskirchen.

"There was a pile of skeleton-like bodies on the left," Moskin said. "There was another pile of skeleton-like bodies on the right. 'Those poor souls.' That's the term my lieutenant kept screaming, 'Oh my God, look at these poor souls.'"

"I remember the expression and the attitude of all of us," Moskin continued. "'What in the freak? What is this? God almighty'"

Each of Alan Moskin's answers is then isolated by a team of researchers at the Shoah Foundation Office. They add into the system a variety of questions people might ask to trigger that response.

"For every question that we asked, there are 15 different ways of asking the same question," Maio said. "And that's all manual."

Editors rotate the image, turn the green screen background into black and then a long process of testing begins, some of it in schools.

Students are asked to try it out. Ask whatever questions they want and see if the system calls up the correct answer.

"How did you find out that your city was getting invaded by Germany?" One student asked.

"How did you feel about your family?" Another asked.

Pinchas Gutter's digital image responded to one student by asking, "Can you rephrase that, please?"

Every question and response is then reviewed.

"We log every single question that's asked of the system," Maio said. "And see if there is a better response that addresses that question more directly."

As Stahl's crew discovered, it's still a work in progress.

"Tell us about your family when you were a little boy," Stahl asked Gutter's digital image.

"How about you ask me about life after the war?" The digital image answered back.

"So, couple of things about artificial intelligence," Smith said. "It is mainly artificial and not so intelligent."

"Just yet, for now," Maio said.

"But the beauty of artificial intelligence is it develops over time," Smith said. "So we aren't changing the content. All the answers remain the same. But over time, the range of questions that you can ask will be enhanced considerably."

Questions to draw out what it was like for Aaron Elster hiding in that attic 75 years ago.

"I used to pray to God to let me live 'til I was 25," Elster's digital image said. "I wanted to taste what adulthood would be like. So, am I a lucky guy? Yes I am."

The whole point of the Shoah Foundation's project is to allow meaningful conversations with Holocaust survivors to continue even after the survivors themselves are gone. And of the more than 20 men and women who've participated so far, four have passed away already. We wanted to share conversations with two of them -- conversations that at times felt so normal we could almost forget we were talking to the digital image of someone who was no longer living.

First, a spunky 4'9" woman named Eva Kor, an identical twin who, together with her sister, survived Auschwitz and the notorious experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele. Kor spent her life after the war in Terre Haute, Indiana. She died last summer at the age of 85.

"Hi, Eva. How are you today?" Stahl asked.

"I'm fine, and how are you?" Kor's digital image said back.

"I'm good," Stahl asked.

Stahl said it felt natural to answer Kor's question before posing her own.

"So how old were you when you went to Auschwitz?" Stahl asked.

"When I arrived in Auschwitz, I was ten years old," Kor's digital image said. "And I stayed in Auschwitz until liberation, which was about nine months later when we were liberated."

"So we made a little announcement about the fact we were starting this project," Smith said. "I get a call the next day from a lady called Eva Kor. I didn't know her at that point in time. And she says, 'I want to be one of those 3D interviews.'"

"'I wanna be a hologram,'" Maio recalled Kor saying.

"I said, 'Well, I'm traveling, I'm very sorry,'" Smith said. "'Where're you going?' 'Oh, well, I've got to go to New York. I'm going to D.C.' 'When are you gonna go to D.C.? I'm going to D.C.' Turns out we were going to the same event in D.C. I arrive at my hotel, she's sitting in the lobby, waiting for me."

When Eva, on the right, and her twin sister, Miriam arrived at Auschwitz, they were pulled away from their parents and older sisters and taken to a barrack full of twins. They never saw their family again.

60 Minutes reported on Mengele's twin experiments in a story back in 1992, and Stahl actually interviewed the living Eva Kor at her home in Terre Haute. Eva told Stahl then about becoming extremely sick after an injection.

"Mengele came in every morning and every evening, with four other doctors," Kor said in 1992. "And he declared, very sarcastically, laughing, 'Too bad. She's so young. She has only 2 weeks to live.'"

"When I heard that, I knew he was right and I immediately made a silent pledge that I would prove you, Dr. Mengele, wrong," Kor's digital image said in the present.

Imagine, picking up a conversation almost 30 years later -- and after Eva Kor's death.

"Eva, tell us about Dr. Mengele," Stahl asked. "What was he like?"

"He had a gorgeous face, a movie star face, and very pleasant, actually. Dark hair, dark eyes," Kor's digital image said. "When I looked into his eyes, I could see nothing but evil. People say that the eyes are the center of the soul, and in Mengele's case, that was correct."

Eva and Miriam are visible in footage taken by the Soviet forces that liberated Auschwitz 75 years ago.

They went back to the camp many times, Eva continuing to go even after Miriam's death in 1993. It was on one of those visits that Eva made a stunning announcement that she had decided to forgive her Nazi captors.

"I, Eva Moses Kor, hereby give amnesty to all Nazis who participated," Kor said at the time.

She came under blistering attack from other survivors.

"How can you forgive? How is that possible?" Stahl asked Kor's digital image.

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Artificial Intelligence Identifies 80,000 Spiral Galaxies Promises More Astronomical Discoveries in the Future – SciTechDaily

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Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding and classifying spiral galaxies in those images. This technique, in combination with citizen science, is expected to yield further discoveries in the future.

A research group, consisting of astronomers mainly from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), applied a deep-learning technique, a type of AI, to classify galaxies in a large dataset of images obtained with the Subaru Telescope. Thanks to its high sensitivity, as many as 560,000 galaxies have been detected in the images. It would be extremely difficult to visually process this large number of galaxies one by one with human eyes for morphological classification. The AI enabled the team to perform the processing without human intervention.

Automated processing techniques for extraction and judgment of features with deep-learning algorithms have been rapidly developed since 2012. Now they usually surpass humans in terms of accuracy and are used for autonomous vehicles, security cameras, and many other applications. Dr. Ken-ichi Tadaki, a Project Assistant Professor at NAOJ, came up with the idea that if AI can classify images of cats and dogs, it should be able to distinguish galaxies with spiral patterns from galaxies without spiral patterns. Indeed, using training data prepared by humans, the AI successfully classified the galaxy morphologies with an accuracy of 97.5%. Then applying the trained AI to the full data set, it identified spirals in about 80,000 galaxies.

Now that this technique has been proven effective, it can be extended to classify galaxies into more detailed classes, by training the AI on the basis of a substantial number of galaxies classified by humans. NAOJ is now running a citizen-science project GALAXY CRUISE, where citizens examine galaxy images taken with the Subaru Telescope to search for features suggesting that the galaxy is colliding or merging with another galaxy. The advisor of GALAXY CRUISE, Associate Professor Masayuki Tanaka has high hopes for the study of galaxies using artificial intelligence and says, The Subaru Strategic Program is serious Big Data containing an almost countless number of galaxies. Scientifically, it is very interesting to tackle such big data with a collaboration of citizen astronomers and machines. By employing deep-learning on top of the classifications made by citizen scientists in GALAXY CRUISE, chances are, we can find a great number of colliding and merging galaxies.

Reference: Spin Parity of Spiral Galaxies II: A catalogue of 80k spiral galaxies using big data from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey and deep learning by Ken-ichi Tadaki, Masanori Iye, Hideya Fukumoto, Masao Hayashi, Cristian E Rusu, Rhythm Shimakawa and Tomoka Tosaki, 2 July 202, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1880

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Funding boost for artificial intelligence in NHS to speed up diagnosis of deadly diseases – GOV.UK

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Patients will benefit from major improvements in technology to speed up the diagnosis of deadly diseases like cancer thanks to further investment in the use of artificial intelligence across the NHS.

A 50 million funding boost will scale up the work of existing Digital Pathology and Imaging Artificial Intelligence Centres of Excellence, which were launched in 2018 to develop cutting-edge digital tools to improve the diagnosis of disease.

The 3 centres set to receive a share of the funding, based in Coventry, Leeds and London, will deliver digital upgrades to pathology and imaging services across an additional 38 NHS trusts, benefiting 26.5 million patients across England.

Pathology and imaging services, including radiology, play a crucial role in the diagnosis of diseases and the funding will lead to faster and more accurate diagnosis and more personalised treatments for patients, freeing up clinicians time and ultimately saving lives.

Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said:

Technology is a force for good in our fight against the deadliest diseases it can transform and save lives through faster diagnosis, free up clinicians to spend time with their patients and make every pound in the NHS go further.

I am determined we do all we can to save lives by spotting cancer sooner. Bringing the benefits of artificial intelligence to the frontline of our health service with this funding is another step in that mission. We can support doctors to improve the care we provide and make Britain a world-leader in this field.

The NHS is open and I urge anyone who suspects they have symptoms to book an appointment with their GP as soon as possible to benefit from our excellent diagnostics and treatments.

Today the government has also provided an update on the number of cancer diagnostic machines replaced in England since September 2019, when 200 million was announced to help replace MRI machines, CT scanners and breast screening equipment, as part of the governments commitment to ensure 55,000 more people survive cancer each year.

69 scanners have now been installed and are in use, 10 more are being installed and 75 have been ordered or are ready to be installed.

The new funding is part of the governments commitment to saving thousands more lives each year and detecting three-quarters of all cancers at an early stage by 2028.

Cancer diagnosis and treatment has been an absolute priority throughout the pandemic and continues to be so. Nightingale hospitals have been turned into mass screening centres and hospitals have successfully and quickly cared for patients urgently referred by their GP, with over 92% of urgent cancer referrals being investigated within 2 weeks, and 85,000 people starting treatment for cancer since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

In June, 45,000 more people came forward for a cancer check and the public are urged if they are concerned about possible symptoms to contact their GP and get a check-up.

National Pathology Imaging Co-operative Director and Consultant Pathologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Darren Treanor said:

This investment will allow us to use digital pathology to diagnose cancer at 21 NHS trusts in the north, serving a population of 6 million people. We will also build a national network spanning another 25 hospitals in England, allowing doctors to get expert second opinions in rare cancers, such as childhood tumours, more rapidly. This funding puts the NHS in a strong position to be a global leader in the use of artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of disease.

Professor Kiran Patel, Chief Medical Officer and Interim Chief Executive Officer for University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, said:

We are delighted to receive and lead this funding. This represents a major capital investment into the NHS which will massively expand the digitisation of cellular pathology services, driving diagnostic evaluation to new heights and increasing access to a vast amount of image information for research.

As a trust were excited to be playing such a major part in helping the UK to take a leading role in the development and delivery of these new technologies to improve patient outcomes and enhance our understanding and utilisation of clinical information.

Professor Reza Razavi, London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare Director, said:

The additional funding will enable the London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare to continue its mission to spearhead innovations that will have significant impact on our patients and the wider NHS.

Artificial intelligence technology provides significant opportunities to improve diagnostics and therapies as well as reduce administrative costs. With machine learning, we can use existing data to help clinicians better predict when disease will occur, diagnosing and treating it earlier, and personalising treatments, which will be less resource intensive and provides better health outcomes for our patients.

The centres benefiting from the funding are:

Alongside the clinical improvements, this investment supports the UKs long-term response to COVID-19, contributing to the governments aim of building a British diagnostics industry at scale. The funding will support the UKs artificial intelligence and technology industries, by allowing the centres to partner with new and innovative British small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), boosting our economic recovery from coronavirus.

As part of the delivery of the governments Data to Early Diagnosis and Precision Medicine Challenge, in 2018, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) invested 50 million through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to establish 5 digital pathology and imaging AI Centres of Excellence.

The centres located in Leeds, Oxford, Coventry, Glasgow and London were originally selected by an Innovate UK competition run on behalf of UKRI which, to date, has leveraged over 41.5 million in industry investment. Working with their partners, the centres modernise NHS pathology and imaging services and develop new, innovative ways of using AI to speed up diagnosis of diseases.

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Magnetic seizure therapy (MST) appears to be a viable alternative to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in reducing suicide risk in patients with treatment resistant depression (TRD), early research suggests.

In a single-center, open-label study, MST produced complete remission from suicidality in almost half of the patients who received the treatment.

"The results are promising," lead author Cory R. Weissman, MD, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, told Medscape Medical News.

"The field needs new ways of approaching suicidality because it's becoming a bigger issue and a major concern, especially now with COVID. These are early but promising results that need to be followed up," Weissman said.

The study was published online August 18 in JAMA Network Open.

MST is similar to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which is an effective treatment for suicidality in mood disorders. However, ECT is underutilized fewer than 1% of patients with TRD receive the treatment because of stigma and/or a perceived risk of cognitive adverse effects, he said.

"MST is a focal magnetic pulse that leads to discharge or depolarization within the frontal lobe of the brain with the goal of inducing a seizure. It works quite similarly to ECT, which we know is quite a good anti-suicidal treatment, especially in depression," Weissman explained

However, MST has fewer side effects, particularly on cognition, and less stigma compared to ECT. It also has a different mechanism of action, with a "more focal treatment target in the brain than ECT to induce seizures," Weissman said.

The Toronto group has been studying MST in various mood disorders for several years. As previously reported by Medscape Medical News, MST is effective in reducing suicidal thoughts in treatment-resistant bipolar disorder.

The current study is a post hoc secondary analysis of data from the group's original trial of MST as a treatment for treatment resistant depression in patients initially referred for ECT. The trial ran from February 2012 through June 2019 and with a post-treatment 6-month follow-up.

The secondary analysis was performed from January 2019 to November 2019.

The secondary analysis included 67 patients who underwent MST 2 to 3 times per week until they achieved remission from a depressive episode or until they reached a maximum of 24 sessions. All had baseline suicidality, as defined by a score greater than 0 on the Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (Beck SSI).

MST was administered using the MagPro MST device with Twin Coil-XS (MagVenture) applied over the frontal cortex at 100% machine output with low (25 Hz), moderate (50 or 60 Hz), or high (100 Hz) frequency.

"It's very similar to ECT. The actual seizure lasts about a minute or two, and patients recover in about 10 to 15 minutes and they go home afterwards," Weissman said.

The main outcome was remission from suicidality as measured by an end-point score of 0 on the Beck SSI. Of the 67 patients, 32 (47.8%) achieved remission from suicidality.

Low and moderate frequencies appeared to be more effective for suicidality; 16 of 29 patients (55.2%) receiving low frequency MST achieved remission, as did 12 of 22 patients (54.5%) receiving moderate frequency MST. Four of 16 patients (25%) who received high frequency MST achieved remission from suicidality.

Commenting on the findings for Medscape Medical News, Manish K. Jha, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, said there is an urgent need to develop safe and effective treatment for patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD).

"The Sequenced Treatment Alternative to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) trial showed that after inadequate improvement with 2 antidepressants, the likelihood of improvement with a third or fourth antidepressanttrial was very low. Therefore, we need effective treatment for TRD," noted Jha, who was not involved in the research.

The current study represents a "valuable contribution, as it shows improvement in suicidal ideation with magnetic seizure therapy," he added.

The study's findings suggest that MST may offer a "viable new treatment" for patients with TRD. He added that the upcoming results of anongoingclinical trial testing MST against ECT are of "great interest to the field."

Although the findings are compelling, Jha also noted the study had several limitations, include a relatively "modest" sample size and no sham or active comparator.

In addition, he said, the level of suicidality in this study was limited because of eligibility restrictions, such as exclusion of individuals who had attempted suicide in the prior 6 months.

"While authors use a broad term of 'suicidality,' their study is focused on suicidal ideation. Future studies that target suicide behavior are urgently needed. This may mean that we need to study individuals with recent suicide attempts in settings such as emergency rooms and inpatient units," said Jha.

The study had no specific funding. Weissman has disclosed no relevant financial relationships. Several other study authors reported relationships with industry. The full list can be found with the original article.

Jha has received contract research grants from Acadia Pharmaceuticals and Janssen Research & Development, and honoraria for CME presentations from North American Center for Continuing Medical Education and Global Medical Education.

JAMA Network Open. Published online August 18, 2020. Full text

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Im Working With a Reiki Healer Instead of a Therapist and Its Doing Wonders for My Mental Health – Well+Good

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Ive started listening to podcasts during my morning workouts. One of my favorites has been Michelle Obamas. This week, I tuned in to the second episode, where she shares how shes experiencing a form of low grade depression, which she believes is a result of the pandemic and the racial unrest that continues to exist in this country. Low grade depression. Is that what I had been experiencing earlier in the pandemic? I asked myself. As someone who occasionally struggles with anxiety but doesnt normally experience depression, Ive found the COVID-19 pandemic to be particularly taxing on my mind and spirit, and thats why Ive been making sure to prioritize my mental health.

To say Americans are more stressed and anxious than usual right now would be the biggest understatement of the year. Data shows that were suffering from increased levels of mental distress as a result of the pandemic. Not only is there a paralyzing fear surrounding the virus itself, but many of usmyself includedhave lost our jobs. Some of us have had to move out of our homes or back in with family, and some have even lost loved ones to this terrifying disease. The self-isolation and lack of personal interaction alone are enough to get the perkiest and most hopeful people down. According to a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than half of Americans report that the coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on their mental health. Pretty much everybody I know is struggling with some degree of anxiety or depression right noweven if they havent gotten the virus, lost loved ones, or lost their jobs or homes.

I barely slept the first few months after the stay-at-home order was enacted in New York in late March. Ive never struggled with sleep before. My mother often says I sleep like a rock. But for months I couldnt sleep at all, not even with the help of light-blocking curtains and melatonin gummies. (I wasnt alone; insomnia has become quite common during the pandemic.) It didnt help that I was no longer working with my therapist.

When I lost my job in late March, I also lost my health insurance and, with it, the therapist I had been seeing for more than a year. Fortunately, I qualified for Medicaid, but the process of trying to find a therapist who accepted my new health coverage and was a woman of colorpreferably Latina like myselfwas so taxing that it triggered even more anxiety. So, I paused my search and tried to distract myself with other activities. My roommates and I threw fancy dinner parties for one another. I began to pick up freelance writing jobs while I looked for a full-time position. I read a ton of booksnovels mostly. And I continued to work out every morning, not just to remain in good shape but to help with my mental health.

But then evening would come, Id hit the bed, and my worries would take over. Things got worse when I learned that our landlord wouldnt let me and my two roommates renew our lease (all three of us were unemployed) and I was going to have to move in with my folks. Sometimes I was able to cry myself to sleep. Other times, Id experienced what felt like mini panic attacks.

Then, in May, I got a call from my friend Yaqui Rodriguez, a spiritual practitioner who specializes in reiki therapy and is the founder of Wave of Healing. She told me that she was offering free reiki sessions to people who had lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic and were in need of psychological and spiritual support. Because I have always trusted her intentions and her energy, I said yes. But I had no idea what to expect.

Reiki is a form of energy healing that is believed to have originated in Japan. (The form thats the basis of many U.S.-based Reiki practitioners dates back to the 1920s, though some say different types of Reiki healing date back earlier.) Like other alternative therapies, including acupuncture, its thought to work by improving the bodys energy flow and removing blocks that can lead to pain or distress. Some practitioners place their hands on their patients, while others just lay their palms close to their patients bodies. Even though the treatments are normally done in person, certain practitioners, like Rodriguez, have the ability to do whats referred to as distance reiki, where they send the energy remotely.

Soon after we first spoke, we had our first session via FaceTime. Rodriguez asked me how I was doing, and I let her know that I was overwhelmed with anxiety and worry. We fell into a discussion that felt a lot like the talk therapy I used to do with my therapist. Rodriguez isnt a psychologist or licensed therapist, so she refers to this as coaching. The call eventually progressed into a type of guided meditation. I shared a lot and cried a lot. But by the end, I felt like she helped me let go of fears that may have taken years to address in talk therapy.

The flow of our sessions is never the same. During some calls, Rodriguez asks me to sit with her in silence while she works on my energy. When that happens, I close my eyes and often feel a sense of peace. But Ive also had colors appear in my minds eye. In one of our first sessions I experienced the color green as Rodriguez worked, and she said it meant that growth, safety, and harmony were on the way. Sometimes she can even tell if Im experiencing pain or discomfort in certain areas of my body, like my stomach.

Rodriguez says she feels these imbalances in my energy, even over the phone, and then she works with me to resolve them. Energy work is where we move the misplaced or absorbed energy, she explains. Misplaced energy can have its origin from many different sources, ancestral lineage, childhood trauma, negative thought forms or life experienceslike trauma.

Misplaced energy can have its origin from many different sources, ancestral lineage, childhood trauma, negative thought forms or life experienceslike trauma Yaqui Rodriguez

Some sessions, Rodriguez adds in activities like dance therapy, where shell put on some ambient music and well put our phones down and just dance in our rooms, using movement to process whatever feelings arise. Other times its like shes guiding me on a journey of self-discovery. As we talk, she coaches me to be more introspective, and often leads me to useful conclusions. One thing that came up during our sessions was how Ive often associated my value with my work, and I realized I was struggling to feel worthy while being unemployed. But Rodriguez helped me discover that I have so much to offer the world beyond the scope of my career.

Since our first session, weve been working together every other week and Ive noticed a drastic difference in my mood. Ive been living with my folks for a little over a month and I havent experienced any anxiety or insomnia so far. I find it hard to believe, but Rodriguez is not surprised by my improvements. She says she often does reiki healing for people who struggle with anxiety, and many of them experience a decrease or complete shift in symptoms. Still, she encourages everyone she works with to seek professional help or medical assistance if they need it.

Although Reiki is an alternative therapy, many hospitals are embracing energy healing as a complement to traditional allopathic medicine. And these types of practices are becoming more mainstream, too. According to a 2017 study by Pew Research Center, half of Americans report having tried some form of alternative medicine, like herbal remedies, acupuncture, chiropractic treatment, or energy therapies, at some point in their lives. And these therapies that address whole-body health are not new: Many cultures have healers that work simultaneously on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellness to help individuals and restore wholeness, Rodriguez explains.

Reiki may be replacing my therapist for now, but that doesnt mean Im done with traditional talk therapy for good. If anything, my sessions with Rodriguez have inspired me to look into how I can combine traditional Western medicine with alternative forms of healing moving forward. Even when I do go back to seeing a therapistwhenever that may beI plan to make reiki and guided meditation a part of my life and my regular self-care practice. They dont necessarily have to be competing things. Instead they can work in conjunction to ensure my mind, body, and spirit are all healthy and aligned.

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A comprehensive cancer center is a facility that has received special recognition from the National Cancer Institute. Founded in 1971, the designation from the NCI means that a facility has met certain rigorous standards for both patient care and research. The network of comprehensive cancer centers is essential for advancing the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of all types of cancer.

You are more likely to find a mesothelioma specialist at one of these facilities than at a non-designated cancer center. Not every state has a comprehensive cancer center, but there are 51 across the country in most states.

Veterans with mesothelioma can get free healthcare through the VA. Any hospital in the system can provide cancer care, but there are a couple of VA locations that are staffed by mesothelioma specialists and with related research and clinical trials: Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, and Houston.

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To get treatment through a clinical trial, you will first need to discuss it with your medical team and determine if you meet eligibility requirements. Trials are run all over the country, so you may need to travel to participate, or you may be able to find an appropriate study near you.

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Each year about 3000 US citizens will be diagnosed with mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is caused by exposure to asbestos. High -risk work groups for exposure to asbestos include US Navy Veterans, power plant workers, shipyard workers, oil refinery workers, steel mill workers, miners, manufacturing workers, pulp or paper mill workers, millwrights, welders, plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, machinists, construction workers, rail road workers, and firemen. Typically, the exposure to asbestos for these types of workers occurred in the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, or 1980's.https://MesotheliomaVictimsCenter.Com

According to the CDC the states indicated with the highest incidence of mesothelioma include Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Louisiana, Washington, and Oregon.

However, based on the calls the Mesothelioma Victims Center receives a person with confirmed mesothelioma could live in any state including New York, Florida, California, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, or Alaska.www.karstvonoiste.com/

For more information about mesothelioma please refer to the National Institutes of Health's web site related to this rare form of cancer:https://www.cancer.gov/types/mesothelioma.

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HOUSTON, Aug. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The Mesothelioma Compensation Center is urging the wife, son or daughter of a former plumber or electrician who has just been diagnosed with diagnosed with mesothelioma in any state to please call attorney Erik Karst of the law Karst von Oiste anytime at 800-714-0303. Erik Karst is one of the nation's leading mesothelioma attorneys and he will be able to advise a person like this or their family about compensation and what will be involved in getting the best possible financial settlement results. Frequently mesothelioma compensation for a plumber or an electrician can exceed a million dollars.

Some of the key factors in mesothelioma compensation include how, where and when a person with mesothelioma was exposed to asbestos-as well as having a very skilled attorney to create a pathway. Erik Karst of the law firm of Karst von Oiste is such an attorney. For direct access to attorney Erik Karst of the law firm of Karst von Oiste please call 800-714-0303 anytime.www.karstvonoiste.com

The Mesothelioma Compensation Center says, "We know that because of the Coronavirus many people with mesothelioma or their family members might conclude that hiring a local car accident attorney might sound like a better option than hiring one of the nation's top mesothelioma compensation law firms. Please don't-do this or settle for a 'free' generic book about this rare cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Before a plumber or an electrician with mesothelioma hires a lawyer to assist with mesothelioma compensation in any state please call attorney Erik Karst of the law firm of Karst von Oiste at 800-714-0303 anytime. We think you will be glad you did."www.karstvonoiste.com

For a state by state list of requirements for electrical contractors please review the following website:https://www.harborcompliance.com/information/electrical-contractor-license.

For a state by state list of requirements for a plumber please review the following website:https://www.harborcompliance.com/information/plumbing-contractor-license.

The Mesothelioma Compensation Center specializes in assisting specific types of people who have been diagnosed with mesothelioma. These people include the US Navy Veterans, oil refinery workers, power plant workers, nuclear power plant workers, public utility workers, hydro-electric workers, chemical plant workers, plumbers, electricians, welders, or oil and gas production workers. In most instances these people were exposed to asbestos in the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, or 1980's.https://MesotheliomaCompensationCenter.com

The states with the highest incidence of mesothelioma include Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Louisiana, Washington, and Oregon.

However, an electrical worker or electrician with a confirmed mesothelioma could live in any state including California, New York, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, or Alaska.www.karstvonoiste.com

For more information about mesothelioma please refer to the National Institutes of Health's web site related to this rare form of cancer:https://www.cancer.gov/types/mesothelioma.

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HOUSTON, Aug. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate is urging the family of a Navy Veteran who now has lung cancer and who had heavy exposure to asbestos in the service in the 1960's or 1970's to please call the lawyers at the law firm of Karst von Oiste at 800-714-0303. Financial compensation for person like this might exceed $100,000-especially if the Navy Veteran's exposure to asbestos occurred on a submarine. The typical Navy Veteran the group is trying to identify is well over 60 years old and it does not matter if they smoked cigarettes. Most Navy Veterans or people with lung cancer and who had significant exposure to asbestos prior to 1982 do not realize the $30 billion dollar-asbestos trust funds were set up for them too.

The Advocate says, "If your husband or dad has lung cancer and he is a Navy Veteran who served on a navy submarine or ship-please ask him if he was constantly being exposed to asbestos. Again, the person we are trying to identify is over 60 years old-and we are certain he will recall the exposure. If he answers-yes-he was exposed to asbestos-please call the lawyers at the law firm of Karst von Oiste at 800-714-0303.

"The law firm of Karst von Oiste is one of the nation's leading law firms that specializes in compensation for asbestos exposure lung cancer and mesothelioma and they will know exactly how to help a person like this. The person's compensation does not involve a lawsuit against the navy. For direct access to the lawyers at Karst von Oiste please call 800-714-0303 anytime. We think you will be glad you did."www.karstvonoiste.com/

High-risk workplaces for asbestos exposure include the US Navy, shipyards, power plants, public utilities, manufacturing factories, chemical plants, oil refineries, mines, smelters, pulp and paper mills, aerospace manufacturing facilities, offshore oil rigs, demolition construction work sites, railroads, automotive manufacturing facilities, or auto brake shops. With lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure the lung cancer may not show up until decades after the exposure.https://USNavyLungCancer.Com

According to the American Cancer Society for nonsmokers who have been exposed to asbestos in their workplace the risk of lung cancer is five times that of unexposed workers. https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/statistics/index.htm.

States with the highest incidence of lung cancer include Kentucky, West Virginia, Maine, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Alabama, and Delaware.

However, asbestos exposure lung cancer can happen in any state including California, New York, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Washington, Oregon or Alaska. http://www.karstvonoiste.com/

For more information about asbestos exposure lung cancer and mesothelioma please visit the CDC's website on these topics:https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/asbestos/health_effects_asbestos.html.

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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently conducting a chemical risk evaluation of asbestos. The EPAs 310-page Draft Risk Evaluation for Asbestos (the Draft) identified risks for a variety of potential asbestos exposures. The Draft found that acceptable cancer risks were exceeded for much work with automotive brakes and clutches. If these findings are adopted in the final evaluation, defendants can expect asbestos plaintiffs counsel to trumpet the evaluation to juries, even though (as described below and detailed in the attached article) the analysis is flawed and inconsistent with both the scientific literature and legal standards regarding cancer causation.

The Draft looked at exposures to occupational mechanics, bystanders, and do-it-yourself mechanics. The only asbestos fiber type the EPA evaluated was commercial chrysotile, and the only potential causative diseases the EPA evaluated were mesothelioma and lung cancer. The EPA chose to evaluate acceptable cancer risks to individuals based on an Inhalation Unit Risk of 0.16 per fiber/cc.

The Draft found that acceptable cancer risks were exceeded for brake and clutch installation and removal for occupational mechanics at both high-end and central tendency exposure levels and for occupational non-users at all high-end levels. For brake repair and replacement performed indoors with compressed air, the Draft found that acceptable risk levels were exceeded for do-it-yourself mechanics and bystanders of do-it-yourself mechanics at high-end and central tendency levels. For brake work performed outdoors, the Draft found that acceptable risks levels were exceeded for do-it-yourself mechanics at high-end tendency levels when mechanic work was performed 30 minutes per day with 62 years of cumulative exposure starting at age 16.

While the final risk assessment has not been published, the conclusions found in the current Draft lead to concern that these findings will cause confusion or even improperly influence jurors in future asbestos trials. A finding by the EPA that working with and around asbestos-containing brakes and clutches leads to an unacceptable risk of mesothelioma and lung cancer would be used in the opening statements of every asbestos plaintiffs attorney in the country. Although the assessment is based on many assumptions that are not realistic, excludes large swaths of relevant scientific and medical studies, and makes conclusions regarding cancer causation that are entirely out of line with all current legal standards, it would be complicated and difficult to explain in necessary detail to a jury. It would simply be another factoid that will be used to persuade jurors that there is no safe level of chrysotile asbestos exposure and that all exposures cause disease. Surely, many hours of drafting and many tons of ink will be spilt in attempts to keep the findings of the EPA out of the courtroom through pre-trial motions to exclude and motions in limine. This is a future that will soon become all too real if there are not considerable changes made between the current Draft and the EPAs final risk evaluation.

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Age49

Source of WealthTesla, SpaceX, Self Made

ResidenceLos Angeles, California

CitizenshipUnited States

Marital StatusIn Relationship

Children7

EducationBachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania

Musk was accepted to a graduate program at Stanford, but deferred attendance to launch his first business, software company Zip2.

As a kid Musk taught himself to code; he sold his first game, Blastar, for about $500.

$13.3B

Forbes 400 September 2015

$10.7B

Billionaires March 2016

$11.6B

Forbes 400 October 2016

$13.9B

Billionaires March 2017

$20.8B

Forbes 400 October 2017

$19.9B

Billionaires March 2018

$19.6B

Forbes 400 October 2018

$22.3B

Billionaires March 2019

$19.9B

Forbes 400 October 2019

$24.6B

Billionaires April 2020

I operate on the physics approach to analysis. You boil things down to the first principles or fundamental truths in a particular area and then you reason up from there.

3 hours ago

The unconventional serial entrepreneur joins the centibillionaire club, alongside Mark Zuckerberg, Bernard Arnault, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.

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Aug 18, 2020

Its the companys largest fundraising round yet.

Aug 17, 2020

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With a device surgically implanted into the skull of a pig named Gertrude, Elon Musk demonstrated his startup Neuralink's technology to build a digital link between brains and computers. A wireless link from the Neuralink computing device showed the pig's brain activity as it snuffled around a pen on stage Friday night.

The demonstration shows the technology to be significantly closer to delivering on Musk's radical ambitions than during a 2019 product debut, when Neuralink only showed photos of a rat with a Neuralink connected via a USB-C port. It's still far from reality, but Musk said the US Food and Drug Administration in July granted approval for "breakthrough device" testing.

Musk also showed a second-generation implant that's more compact and fits into a small cavity hollowed out of the skull. Tiny electrode "threads" penetrate the outer surface of the brain, detecting an electrical impulse from nerve cells that shows the brain is at work. In line with Neuralink's longer-term plans, the threads are designed to communicate back, with computer-generated signals of their own.

"It's like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires," Musk said of the device.

It communicates with brain cells with 1,024 thin electrodes that penetrate the outer layer of the brain. Then there's a Bluetooth link to an outside computing device, though the company is looking at other radio technology it can use to dramatically increase the number of data links.

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Though the pig demonstration showed neural activity being broadcast wirelessly to a computer, it didn't reveal any of Neuralink's long-term ambitions, like a computer usefully communicating back to a brain or a computer understanding what the spikes of neural activity actually mean.

Neuralink has a medical focus to start, like helping people deal with brain and spinal cord injuries or congenital defects. The technology could, for example, help paraplegics who've lost the ability to move or sense because of spinal cord injury, and the first human uses will aim to improve conditions like paraplegia or tetraplegia.

"If you can sense what people want to do with their limbs, you can do a second implant where the spinal injury occurred and create a neural shunt," Musk said. "I'm confident in the long term it'll be possible to restore somebody's full body motion."

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But Musk's vision is far more radical, including ideas like "conceptual telepathy," where two people can communicate electronically by thinking at each other instead of writing or speaking. The long-term goal is to head off a future whereartificial intelligence vastly smarter than humans exterminates us.

Musk envisions people using Neuralink to connect to their own digital AI incarnations so "the future is controlled by the combined will of the people of Earth," Musk said. "It's going to be important from an existential threat perspective to achieve a good AI symbiosis."

"The future is going to be weird," Musk said, discussing sci-fi uses of Neuralink. "In the future you will be able to save and replay memories," he said. "You could basically store your memories as a backup and restore the memories. You could potentially download them into a new body or into a robot body."

He's aware some people are going to see trouble in Neuralink, too. "This is increasingly sounding like a Black Mirror episode," Musk said, referring to the dystopian TV series.

Musk also discussed seeing in infrared, ultraviolet or X-ray using digital camera data. "Over time we could give somebody super vision," Musk said.

Gertrude the Neuralink-enabled pig roots through straw during a demonstration of the brain-computer link technology. Brain activity shows as blue spikes.

Neuralink is building a robotic installer that ultimately is designed to handle the full surgical installation process. That includes opening up the scalp, removing a portion of the skull, inserting the hundreds of "thread" electrodes along with an accompanying computer chip, then closing the incision. The installer is designed to dodge blood vessels to avoid bleeding, Musk said.

As with Fitbit, Apple Watch and other wearable technology, Musk sees a health benefit for Neuralink besides direct brain-computer communications. Neuralink chips can measure temperature, pressure and movement, data that could warn you about a heart attack or stroke, Musk said.

Computers need power, and Neuralink's in-skull chip gets it by charging wirelessly through the skin, Musk said.

Since the Neuralink launch event last year, Musk and Neuralink have published one scientific paper, in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, in October. The paper described the development of their robotic device, an arm able to delicately insert hundreds of thin threads, about a tenth of the width of a human hair, into the brain. It's sometimes dubbed the "sewing machine" and is capable of inserting around six threads per minute, each one composed of flexible plastics and featuring 192 electrodes.

The company's early research focused on interfacing with the rodent brain. In the October paper, Musk and Neuralink detailed two Neuralink systems, A and B, tested on rats. The former can insert more than 1,500 electrodes and the latter, 3,000. The paper describes a free-moving rat attached to system B, with a USB-C slot sticking out of its head, but there's no clear indication of Neuralink having settled on the best place for electrodes.

In the paper, Musk and Neuralink acknowledge that "significant technological challenges must be addressed before a high-bandwidth device is suitable for clinical application."

This diagram shows Neuralink's Link v0.9, the device that can be embedded in a hole bored in a skull. At left are the "threads" that lead to electrodes in the brain.

The rodent work is impressive, but what caught people's attention last year was Musk's assertion that a monkey had been "able to control a computer with his brain." No evidence was provided in the JMIR paper to support that assertion, and Musk didn't mention it Friday.

On Tuesday, medical industry news site Stat detailed turmoil at Neuralink, with five former employees coming forward to describe "a chaotic internal culture" and describing it as a "pressure cooker" environment.

The report also detailed accelerated timelines, noting that the push to move the technology forward resulted in failures in animal experiments. One former employee said Neuralink moved from rodent experiments into primates faster than expected in medical science.

Neuralink responded to Stat's assertions in the article, suggesting some of them were "either partially or completely false."

Neuralink's success will hinge on convincing us to install chips in our brains and tamper with the very nerve impulses that make us who we are. That's a hard sell -- particularly in view of Neuralink competitors who prefer noninvasive headsets.

"There's a segment of people who are enthusiastic about invasive BMI," including members of the Transhumanist movement, Max Newlon, CEO of BrainCo, said, referring to brain-machine interface. "Noninvasive BMI technology could be a bridge to the future that people will accept today."

"The safety and health risks of invasive implants are significant," added Sid Kouider, founder and CEO of NextMind, a Neuralink competitor. Problems include infection, inflammation and follow-up surgery to adjust electrode positioning, he said. He credits Neuralink for stimulating interest in neural interfaces, though.

In addition to leading Neuralink, Musk is chief executive of Tesla, which is ramping up a global electric vehicle business; SpaceX, which is launching spacecraft and piloting the launch rockets back to Earth for reuse; and the Boring Company, which aims to route vehicle traffic through tunnels.

Musk is stretched thin, but he's also delivered on key promises like producing compelling electric vehicles and lowering satellite launch costs. Musk has a knack for picking business problems that are difficult but attainable. To succeed, though, Neuralink will have to convince scientists and doctors along with the rest of us.

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Elon Musk and singer Grimes welcomed a son on Monday, but the world puzzled over the baby's name. Musk said it was "X A-12," but it wasn't until Thursday, when the Tesla and SpaceX founder appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, that he confirmed the name's pronunciation.

"How do you say the name?" Rogan asked. "Is it a placeholder?"

Apparently not. Musk says the name is pronounced "X Ash A Twelve," pretty much just as it looks. ("" is a character used in some languages, including Danish and Norwegian. It's often pronounced "ash," but some people pronounce each letter, saying "A E.")

"First of all, my partner's the one that mostly came up with the name," Musk said of Grimes. "I mean it's just X, the letter X, um, and the '' is pronounced, 'Ash,' and then, A-12 is my contribution." He went on to say that A-12 stood for "Archangel 12, the precursor to the SR-71, coolest plane ever."

If you want to hear Musk say it, you don't have to fast-forward through much of the video. Rogan asks him to pronounce it just 37 seconds in to the podcast.

Grimes herself tweeted out a more detailed explanation of why the various name parts were chosen. She called X "the unknown variable," and said that was "my elven spelling of Ai," which she explained as "love and/or artificial intelligence."

As for the A-12, she called the plane "our favorite aircraft," going on to tout its "no weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent." Grimes also noted that the A in A-12 stood for "Archangel," which she said was "my favorite song." She didn't specify which song -- numerous songs are titled "Archangel" -- but some music sites are guessing she could mean the song by the band Burial. Grimes once cited Burial's "Archangel" song as a favorite on her Tumblr.

She ended her tweet with the words "metal rat" and emoji of crossed swords and a rat. 2020 is the year of the "metal rat" according to the Chinese zodiac, although of course it can also simply mean "fan of heavy metal music."

Grimes mistyped SR-17 instead of SR-71, but Musk corrected her in another tweet, writing, "SR-71, but yes."

To which she replied, "I am recovering from surgery and barely alive so may my typos b forgiven but, damnit. That was meant to be profound."

Whatever the name means, it's possible it won't appear on the baby's official California birth certificate -- at least not in the spelling that's been shared so far. A California family-law attorney told People magazine that while the name isn't illegal, the state doesn't allow symbols on birth certificates. Apostrophes, such as in a last name like O'Connor, are allowed, and it would seem that the hyphen might also make it through, but the "" might cause the certificate to be rejected, and the parents would have to submit it again.

Musk also noted that he was happy the baby was born on May 4, commonly known as Star Wars Day for the saying "May the fourth (Force) be with you."

This wasn't Musk's only memorable appearance on Rogan's podcast. In 2018, he appeared on the show and apparently took one puff of a marijuana cigarette. Recreational marijuana is, and was then, legal in California, but it remains illegal at the federal level.

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