• Discussion of whether transhumanist R&D labor (especially biology bench work) could be off-shored to India or China; kanzure notes that U.S. biologists already work for <$15/hour, but a <$1 k/month overseas machine shop would be attractive.  
• Intel announced a new memory technology claimed to be “way faster and denser than NAND”; nmz787_i linked Intel’s interactive timeline for details.  
• nmz787_i shared a DIY peristaltic-pump design from the RSC “Chips and Tips” blog as an open-source lab-automation component.  
• gmaxwell (Bitcoin core dev) has donated to SENS Foundation; ParahSailin_, a former SENS insider, called it “a black hole of wasted money,” prompting debate on the foundation’s effectiveness.  
• kanzure highlighted two WebRTC-based, browser-to-browser file-transfer tools—Instant.io and FilePizza—as examples of decentralized tech useful for open-science data sharing.  
• m0b described an in-progress AI strategy-game competition framework inspired by Google’s Ants AI Challenge; he has built low-level networking, an Unreal-Engine visualizer, and plans to evolve neural-network agents with genetic algorithms, seeking strategic-design advice.