#altos labs

Recent articles in the New York Times about the pursuit of immortality through bioengineering have caught my attention. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/magazine/eternal-life-longevity-world-leaders.html The very rich have invested large sums into longevity research to try to beat or at least delay the great equalizer–death. Is this a fool’s errand or could it produce some fruit? I would first…

Jeff Bezos funds a start-up to reverse aging

A new start-up that aims to reverse aging is planning to open a lab in the UK, reportedly with funding from Jeff Bezos. Altos Labs is a biotech start-up that uses cell reprogramming (regenerative medicine) to develop therapeutic drugs for longevity. Altos Labs has raised at least $270 million to develop its cell reprogramming technology, a way of rejuvenating cells that some scientists believe…

Do You Want To Live Forever?

From Futurism.com is this recent headline: SUPER WEALTHY FUND MYSTERIOUS LAB TO UNLOCK IMMORTALITY A group of billionaire investors, led by Amazon founder and ex-CEO, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, are exploring the secret of living forever. Or at least, extending life well beyond our current expectations. Multiple new sources including the MIT Technology Review are reporting that Altos…

Leftist Feels Entitled to Jeff Bezos’s Personal Wealth

Marina Hyde of the Guardian writes Jeff Bezos is on a quest for eternal life – back on Earth, we’re searching for Amazon’s taxes. What has Bezos done this time? I will edit out some of Hyde’s snark out of kindness to my readers. On the one hand, it makes huge sense for Jeff Bezos to pour millions into a company seeking the secret to eternal life. Bezos was this month reported to be a significant…

मौत पर विजय पाकर इंसान बनेगा ‘मृत्युंजय’? लैब में ‘अमृत’ बनाने की तैयारी

नई दिल्ली: सोमरस के बारे में तो आपने सुना और पढ़ा ही होगा अब यह ‘ग्लोबल’ होने जा रहा है. सोमरस के बारे में शास्त्रों में लिखा है कि देवता इसे चिर-आयु के लिए पीते थे, यानी जो सोमरस पी लेता है वो अमर हो जाता है और सदा युवा ही बना रहता है. यहां स्पष्ट करना जरूरी है कि सोमरस का अर्थ मदिरा यानी शराब नहीं है बल्कि ये सोम नाम के पौधे से बनने वाला एक ऐसा रस है जिसे पीने वाले को कभी कोई रोग नहीं होता और…

Heute gibt es einmal die sehr kurze Version des Rückblicks.

Facebook kooperiert mit Ray-Ban und stellt eine Sonnenbrille mit zwei Kameras vor. Weil es Facebook ist, ist das mit den angebrachten Kameras schon irgendwie creepy. Ich erwarte einfach nichts wirklich Gutes von der Firma. Clive Thompson:

Big tech firms have no interest in building technology that actually helps you think, which was the original vision of wearable computers. They just want you to wear something that feeds content to their ad-supported social networks

Ja, ja, es wird nicht nach Facebook gestreamt. Steht bei Facebook irgendwo. Thompson:

If you put a camera on your wearable computer, it creeps people out.

Nicht vergessen: Drink responsibly, ähm, natürlich wear your smart glasses responsibly!

TikTok hat irgendwie, irgendwo YouTube überholt. Ganz grundsätzlich lässt sich das wohl nicht sagen. BTW, ich habe noch nie deren Webseite angeklickt oder die App auf das Smartphone geladen. Ich bin zu alt für den Scheiß. Glaube ich.

Apple Pay haben knapp 94% der Nutzer*innen in den USA aktiviert. Cool! Allerdings wird es nur von ca. 6% dieser Leute in Geschäften genutzt. Online sieht es etwas anders aus. Trotzdem buh! Das Fazit:

Seven years in, Apple Pay just hasn’t lived up to its potential for transforming the point-of-sale experience in the store.

Altos Labs oder Jeff Bezos und Yuri Milner investieren in den Highlander: Who wants to live forever? Sillicon Valley Milliardäre auf dem Weg in die Unsterblichkeit, Season 5, Episode 49.

Twitter baut Circles aus G+ nach. Oder eben Twitter Communities. Ich erwarte nichts. Oder wie es Johannes Klingebiel schreibt:

(anyway, I am looking forward to the number of substacks solely devoted to breaking down the weekly drama of a given twitter community)