African Killifish may hold the secret to an aging-free future

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This week, we are discussing how killifish may hold the secret to anti-aging, how a Bill Gates-backed technology could be the future of solar power and why a UN AI adviser is warning about the destructive use of deepfakes.

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It is human to not want to age. We are known to seek “remedies” to slow aging, from creams to fillers to superfoods to even tales of the Resurrection stone.

Although most of these remedies sell tales of a young front, there’s been little stopping Sarcopenia— the aging of our muscles. Perhaps that’s about to change.

Researchers at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) at Monash University studied the African killifish and revealed our muscles reverse to an “early-life” state towards the end of our lives, essentially slowing mortality.

A company backed by Bill Gates is aiming to commercialize perovskite panels in order to make solar energy extremely viable. CubicPV, based in Massachusetts and Texas, is supported by Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

The firm is currently engineering new solar panels consisting of a bottom silicon layer and a top perovskite layer resulting in an efficiency of 30 percent.?

Speaking to CTVNews.ca on Friday, a United Nations artificial intelligence (AI) adviser warned about the dangers of emerging more realistic-looking deepfakes.

"A digital twin is essentially a replica of something from the real world… Deepfakes are the mirror image of digital twins, meaning that someone had created a digital replica without the permission of that person, and usually for malicious purposes, usually to trick somebody," Neil Sahota, a California-based AI expert who has served as an adviser to the United Nations, told the news outlet.

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