Dec 7, 2015
Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, transportation
The future of delivery, where drones bring your package in 30 minutes or less. http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
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Dec 7, 2015
Modular Robotic Car
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Dec 7, 2015
Largest destroyer built for Navy headed to sea for testing
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: futurism, military
BATH, Maine (AP) — The largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy headed out to sea for the first time Monday, departing from shipbuilder Bath Iron Works and carefully navigating the winding Kennebec River before reaching the open ocean where the ship will undergo sea trials.
More than 200 shipbuilders, sailors and residents gathered to watch as the futuristic 600-foot, 15,000-ton USS Zumwalt glided past Fort Popham, accompanied by tugboats.
Kelley Campana, a Bath Iron Works employee, said she had goose bumps and tears in her eyes.
Dec 7, 2015
Deep learning, machine learning advancements highlight Microsoft’s research at NIPS 2015
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, robotics/AI
Dec 7, 2015
China Aims to Retool Its Manufacturing Industry with Robots
Posted by Phillipe Bojorquez in categories: economics, robotics/AI
China needs advanced robotics to help balance its economic, social, and technological ambitions with continued growth.
Dec 7, 2015
Tiny dark matter stars would harbour particles that act as one
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, particle physics
A certain dark matter candidate could clump into stars where it would behave like the Borg race in Star Trek – and this might make it observable.
Dec 7, 2015
The PlayStation VR Games Sony Announced Today Look Amazing — By Drew Olanoff | TechCrunch
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, virtual reality, wearables
“Sony unveiled some new information about the PlayStation VR and showed off some new titles. Unfortunately we’ve gotten no more information on dates aside from early 2016. However, the games we saw during today’s keynote look fantastic.”
Dec 7, 2015
Gene Editing Progress: Newly Engineered System Slashes Error Rate
Posted by Robert James Powles in category: biotech/medical
After recent good news regarding the accuracy of famed CRISPR-Cas9, a new form has been engineered that’s even more accurate than the original.
A string of positive developments
If you’ve been reading the news lately, you may know recent analysis of the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 has had a string of positive updates. We found out it’s surprisingly more accurate than we first believed, which bodes well as scientists across the world start thinking about the move into human models.
Dec 7, 2015
Life in the Robot Age: When We’re All Unemployed
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
“You’ll never get a good job, son, if you’re smoking pot all the time!”
That’s a scolding you won’t hear in the future. Besides the fact that pot smokers can become president, the future will not require you to get a good job. The traditional motivation to keep your mind orderly and bourgeois will be gone, so let your mind fly its freak flag and wander the Technicolor pathways already cleared by St. John of Patmos, Salvador Dali, and Carl Sagan.
In the near future, we may all be unemployed. We are entering what is generally called the “second machine age.” And, optimistically speaking, it may become the best thing that ever happened to the human being.
Dec 7, 2015
Drivers Race In Virtual Reality Using Real Cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: transportation, virtual reality
We hear about virtual reality all the time, but what if your driving in *real life* actually controlled a virtual car? http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
