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This Desalination System Uses Waves To Create Drinking Water
The best of tech and science innovation, shaping our future.
If You Upload Your Mind to the Cloud—Would You Still Be You?
From time to time, the Singularity Hub editorial team unearths a gem from the archives and wants to share it all over again. It’s usually a piece that was popular back then and we think is still relevant now. This is one of those articles. It was originally published January 25, 2015. We hope you enjoy it!
Leaked Pentagon Video About The Future Of Megacities Is So Very Grim
The website The Intercept has obtained what they say is a leaked Pentagon video that glumly describes a hellish future of massive, chaotic megacities, and pretty much admits the U.S. Army is not remotely ready to deal with this particular manner of shit.
Who wants to live forever?
Bioquark Inc. (www.bioquark.com) Interview in MoneyWeek
Read whole story: http://moneyweek.com/who-wants-to-live-forever/
This Team of Scientists Is Working to Clone a Woolly Mammoth
We spoke with scientist Ben Novak, whose team is working to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth.
Scientists Target 2026 As The Year of The First Synthetic Genome
Less than 10 years.
In Brief:
- A human genome contains 3 billion base pairs, one project is seeking to write a complete human genome, besting current efforts able to produce 1 million pairs.
- The researchers are looking to the future in hopes that their work will spur even further growth in science and technology.
Is Marianas Web A Myth Or A Frightening Reality?
If you’ve been on the Internet for a long time, chances are that you’d be inclined to say you’ve seen it all. Well, let’s just say that you haven’t really seen it all until you’ve seen Marianas Web. Don’t get your keyboard and mouse ready just yet, though – that might prove a bit more difficult than you think. This is because it doesn’t even exist.
… Or does it?