Reminds me of that scene from Back to the Future 2, only in China lol.
Alibaba is gearing up to build a new gas station that is staffed with robotic arms.
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Recorded Oct 4th, 2017
Link to the interview, goo.gl/8rQ6YS
Link to Aubrey de Grey’s SENS Research Foundation — http://www.sens.org/
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The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster.
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How the tech giant is trying to leverage the science of breakthroughs and resurrect the lost art of invention
A snake-robot designer, a balloon scientist, a liquid-crystals technologist, an extradimensional physicist, a psychology geek, an electronic-materials wrangler, and a journalist walk into a room. The journalist turns to the assembled crowd and asks: Should we build houses on the ocean?
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We want to hear your story too! https://www.leafscience.org/longevity-month-2017-tell-us-your-story/
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Scientists at The University of Manchester have created the world’s first ‘molecular robot’ that is capable of performing basic tasks including building other molecules.
The tiny robots, which are a millionth of a millimetre in size, can be programmed to move and build molecular cargo, using a tiny robotic arm.
Each individual robot is capable of manipulating a single molecule and is made up of just 150 carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen atoms. To put that size into context, a pile of a billion billion of these robots would still only be the same size (volume/weight) as a few grains of salt.
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According to India’s Frontline magazine, anecdotal evidence from Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and other cities suggests that a number of large IT service companies are shedding thousands of jobs as artificial intelligence, automation and deep learning technologies replace humans.
Bangalore’s outsourcing businesses may be on the wane, but cities like Hangzhou may indicate its best course for the future.
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 10 October, 2017, 10:00am.
UPDATED : Tuesday, 10 October, 2017, 10:00am.
