“Two Tesla Motors veterans want to build a European counterpart to Elon Musk’s “gigafactory”, in an effort to stake out a dominant position in the fast-evolving supply chain for makers of electric vehicles.”
World Drone Prix, Dubai — Anniversary
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First anniversary of the World Drone Prix, that determined the first world champion in drone racing, Luke Bannister. Watch this amazing recap of the WDP, which was proudly organized by IDRA in Dubai, UAE on March 11–12, 2016.
We are extremely thankful to have worked with Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, on this world class event!
#droneracing #IDRA #WDP2016 #WorldDronePrix #Dubai #UAE #drones #racing #fpvracing #esports #anniversary
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Futurist event Moogfest’s line-up in these stories, including a cover pic of the transhumanist Immortality Bus on Cool Hunting:
http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/moogfest-2017 &
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/michael-stipe-premiering-first-…-moogfest/ & https://thump.vice.com/en_ca/article/moogfest-keynote-speakers-announcement #futurist
Physicist Dr Kate Shaw, MIT Media Lab’s Joe Davis and an art installation from Michael Stipe take the stage at this year’s boundary-pushing celebration of technology by Karen Day.
Inside a Boston lab just a few miles away from MIT, a team of PhDs is building tools for a future where factories are powered by biology, not traditional manufacturing. The startup, Ginkgo Bioworks, currently helps clients design flavors and fragrances by modifying the DNA of microbes like yeast. Once the yeast have been tweaked to produce a particular scent as a byproduct, they can be brewed like beer and the smell can be extracted and bottled — which reduces the client’s need to depend on natural resources for ingredients. (video by: Alan Jeffries, Victoria Blackburne-Daniell, Drew Beebe) (Source: Bloomberg)
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Part man, part machine: Researchers at the University of Oxford are making The Terminator a reality.
Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy and Andrew Carr, of the Oxford Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, test medical technology by dressing robots in human flesh.
The cyborgs “wear” tissue grafts to help develop artificial muscles and tendons before transplantation.
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