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One remote for all your devices

Dec 4
2018

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This may soon turn the many unsightly remotes in our living room obsolete.

Alibaba already has a voice assistant way better than Google’s

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in futurism, robotics/AI

Dec 4
2018

In May, Google made quite the splash when it unveiled Duplex, its eerily humanlike voice assistant capable of making restaurant reservations and salon appointments. It seemed to mark a new milestone in speech generation and natural-language understanding, and it pulled back the curtain on what the future of human-AI interaction might look like.

The Coldest Object in the World

Posted by Michael Lance in futurism

Dec 4
2018

What is the coldest object in the world?

Exclusive: Sparkly, opal-filled fossils reveal new dinosaur species

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism

Dec 4
2018

Australian miners uncovered the gem of a find—a dog-size herbivore named Weewarrasaurus pobeni.

Geminids meteor shower in PH skies from Dec. 14 to Dec. 17, says PAGASA

Posted by Michael Lance in futurism

Dec 4
2018

By Ellalyn de Vear-Ruiz

Amazing streaks of light from the Geminids meteor shower will be dazzling the Philippine night skies until December 17.

What If Time Is an Illusion?

Posted by Sidney Clouston in futurism

Dec 3
2018

What if the past, present and future all exist at once?

IdeaXme — Ambassadors — Ira Pastor

Posted by Ira S. Pastor in aging, astronomy, biotech/medical, business, disruptive technology, DNA, economics, finance, futurism, healthTagged anti-aging, bioquantine, bioquark, biotech, future, futurism, health, immortality, ira pastor, Life extension, longevity, reanima, regenerage, wellness

Dec 3
2018

Space, Oceans, Literature, Entertainment, Sports, Medicine, Fashion, Longevity — Honored to be among this group of thinkers, coming up with the innovative ideas that shape the future — http://radioideaxme.com

Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun’s north pole

Posted by Michael Lance in futurism

Dec 3
2018

The sun has a north pole but no spacecraft has ever photographed it. Now the European Space Agency has cleverly pieced a together picture of it using other images.

Transformer Toy — Optimus Prime

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in futurism

Dec 3
2018

Amazon is ramping up tests of cashierless stores, a move that could see the futuristic tech launched in Whole Foods

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in food, futurism

Dec 3
2018

Amazon is testing out its cashierless technology in bigger stores, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Amazon’s cashierless checkout tech tracks the items that shoppers take from shelves and charges them automatically.
The Journal reports Amazon could roll the tech out to Whole Foods.

Amazon is testing out its cashierless checkout technology in bigger stores — with one eye on Whole Foods, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Sources told the Journal that Amazon is testing out the futuristic tech — which tracks and charges for the items shoppers take from the shelves — in Seattle, in a space formatted like a large store.