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Feb 22, 2016

The internet is losing its mind over this photo of Mark Zuckerberg walking through a sea of people in VR headsets

Posted by in categories: internet, virtual reality

Welcome to the future.

On Sunday, Facebook CEO and virtual reality enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg shared the image above on his Facebook profile.

The photo was taken this past weekend at the Mobile World Congress, a big tech conference in Spain.

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Feb 22, 2016

High-Tech Stovetop

Posted by in category: futurism

Meet one of the most remarkable stovetops ever invented.

Neither its surface nor the pans ever get hot!

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Feb 22, 2016

Visa thinks your car should pay for its own fuel

Posted by in categories: energy, internet, robotics/AI, transportation, wearables

The jury may still be out on the usefulness of the Internet of Things, but payments giant Visa is 100 percent sure that it doesn’t want to miss out. Today, it announced plans to push Visa payments into numerous fields. We’re talking “wearables, automobiles, appliances, public transportation services, clothing, and almost any other connected device” — basically anything that can or will soon connect to the internet.

Visa imagines a future where you’ll be able to pay for parking from your car dashboard or order a grocery delivery from your fridge. It makes sense, then, that Samsung is one of the first companies to sign up to the Visa Ready Program, alongside Accenture, universal payment card company Coin and Fit Pay. Chronos and Pebble are also working to integrate secure payments inside their devices.

To show off the technology, which works with any credit card, Visa or otherwise, the company has teamed up with Honda to develop an in-car app that helps automate payments. Right now they have two demos, the first of which concerns refueling. It warns the driver when their fuel level is low and directs them to the nearest gas station. Once the car arrives at the pump, the app calculates the expected cost and allows the driver to pay for the fuel without having to leave the vehicle.

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Feb 22, 2016

CNNMoney: A Tricopter

Posted by in category: innovation

Is this the ultimate flying bike? A Hungarian company hopes to sell this flying device as soon as sometime this year.

More of our innovation stories: http://cnnmon.ie/1KQJYCZ

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Feb 22, 2016

Samsung Galaxy S7 first look

Posted by in categories: energy, mobile phones

Our first look at Samsung’s new Galaxy S7 with a bigger battery, better camera — and waterproofing.

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Feb 22, 2016

If You Do Any Of These 7 Things, You Might Naturally Be A Genius

Posted by in category: futurism

There’s truth behind the “absent-minded professor.”

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Feb 22, 2016

Tech and Facts

Posted by in category: futurism

#1 Facebook Page for all the Sci/Tech Facts and Stories. Keep Liking…Keep Sharing!!

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Feb 21, 2016

100-foot asteroid to zoom past Earth in two weeks; no chance of collision, scientists say

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

An article for the “Dooms Day” fans.


An asteroid roughly 100 feet long and moving at more than 34,000 mph is scheduled to make a close pass by Earth in two weeks.

But don’t worry, scientists say. It has no chance of hitting us, and may instead help draw public attention to growing efforts at tracking the thousands of asteroids zooming around space that could one day wipe out a city — or worse — if they ever hit our planet.

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Feb 21, 2016

DigitalGlobe Partners with TAQNIA and KACST to Develop Constellation of Small Imaging Satellites

Posted by in categories: business, satellites

TAQNIA and KACST signed an agreement on February 21, 2016, to form a joint venture that will be responsible for developing six or more sub-meter resolution imaging satellites.

KACST will construct, integrate, and launch the satellites, and it will own 50% of the satellites’ imaging capacity inside of KACST’s communication cone, which includes Saudi Arabia and the surrounding region. And, DigitalGlobe will have rights to the other 50% of the capacity inside this region and 100% of the satellites’ capacity outside of the region.


WESTMINSTER, Colo.–()– DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced the formation of a joint venture with TAQNIA, a firm dedicated to accelerating technology development for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in partnership with KACST to develop a constellation of highly capable small imaging satellites to support the needs of customers around the world.

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Feb 21, 2016

Scientists redefine animal classification system; Change confirmed

Posted by in categories: biological, genetics

Scientists have redefined the classification of animals due to genetics; 1st time in 300 years. I wonder how the Vets and the Vet Colleges will respond?


The classification system for animals has been hotly debated and frequently changed since it was created 300 years ago, but now researchers have actually found a genetic basis which confirms that part of the system we use today is actually pretty accurate—and they think this part can be defined even more specifically down to the genetic level.

An international team led by Professor Itai YanaAi of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Department of Biology made the discovery after using an extraordinarily powerful technique known as CEL-Seq. CEL-Seq monitors individual cells for their gene activity (as detected via mRNA)—and they applied it across 10 different species, with CEL-Seq being applied to 70 embryos per species.

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