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Jul 16, 2015

What Competing In An Ironman Taught Me About Entrepreneurship — By Brandon Weber | Fast Company

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Between starting a real estate technology company, Hightower, and completing in an Ironman, I’ve had my fair share of feeling in over my head. However, each of these adventures has taught me how to overcome an overwhelming challenge. Here are four humble pieces of advice for all of you crazy enough to do the same.

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Jul 16, 2015

Robots Can’t Kill You—and Claiming They Can is Dangerous — Ron Chrisley | Gizmodo

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

“Since robots don’t have responsibility, humans are the ones responsible for what robots do. However, as robots become more prevalent, it will increasingly appear as if they actually have their own autonomy and intentions, for which it will seem they can and should be held responsible.” Read more

Jul 16, 2015

Here’s the Home-Made Gun-Toting Quadcopter Nightmares Are Made Of — Chris Mills Gizmodo

Posted by in categories: drones, weapons

I’m not normally of the school of thought that quadrotors should be terminated with a shotgun, but then again, I’ve never seen a DIY drone just casually flying around with a handgun. Until now. Read more

Jul 15, 2015

IBM’s Watson supercomputer is learning Arabic in move to Middle East

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IBM supercomputer and Jeopardy champion Watson is setting up shop in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Jul 15, 2015

Organovo CEO: 3D bioprinting organs will help us get people off transplant waiting lists

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical

Keith Murphy discusses the challenge in going from 3D printing tissue to entire organs.

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Jul 15, 2015

Luna: Open Source Artificial Intelligence Demo

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The worlds most advanced chatbot?

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Jul 15, 2015

One day soon, amputees will be able to control their prosthetic limbs with their minds.

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs

One day soon, amputees will be able to control their prosthetic limbs with their minds. http://voc.tv/1cRrjAQ.

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Jul 15, 2015

A jet engine powered by lasers and nuclear explosions?

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, transportation

Lasers vaporize radioactive material and cause a fusion reaction — in effect, a small thermonuclear explosion (credit: Patent Yogi/YouTube)

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Jul 15, 2015

Declare Your Independence…from Evolution! Here Comes The Singularity and Transhumanism — Nick Gillespie Reason.com

Posted by in categories: singularity, transhumanism

Independence Day weekend seems like a good time to push the envelope on what is possible for human beings to achieve. Hell, if a rag-tag band of colonists could kick the mighty Brits’ butts so long ago, how hard can it be for today’s people to live to 150, use 3D printers to create new organs, and develop superpowers? Read more

Jul 14, 2015

How to plan the ultimate long-term project, from the team who got us to Pluto — By Daniel Terdiman | Fast Company

Posted by in categories: space, space travel

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One thing you don’t expect when planning a nine-year mission to the most distant planet in our solar system is the eventuality that Pluto might not be a planet once you got there.

Yet that’s exactly what went down in 2006. That January, NASA launched its unmanned New Horizons probe, a baby grand piano-sized, 1,054-pound spacecraft, on the first-ever route to Pluto. Then, in August 2006, the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to the diminutive status of “dwarf planet.”

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