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Engadget: Happy Holidays!
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Quoted from Richard Dawkins’ book “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”.The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (Official)
I am really pleased to announce that our mouse longevity program has finally begun. We have submitted our proposal for funding to Longecity and shortly will begin fundraising so we can begin testing.
You may enjoy our brand new podcast where our project lead explains what the project is about and how we can help develop longevity interventions.
We also have a website at www.majormouse.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MajorMouseMMTP
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Faraday Future: What if?
Posted in futurism, transportation
What if there was an electric car that not only helped preserve the environment — it actually made us look forward to the daily commute? What if such a car could redefine our relationship with the automobile itself? Our new short film — ‘What if?’ — explores the cleaner, better world we’re building at Faraday Future, and the big questions that drive us. http://faradayfuture.com
For the first time, researchers have used existing manufacturing technology to make a complex processor that uses energy-efficient optical connections.
ORNL researchers successfully produced 50 gm of plutonium-238.
The quest for the stars just got a huge boost — for the first time in 27 years, the United States produced plutonium-238.
How bad is your handwriting? A startup from NYC has made a robot that can write your holiday cards — legibly.
Full video » http://cnnmon.ie/1S6oFhX w/ Bond.
With a reported tie-up between Google’s self-driving car efforts and the automaker Ford, the era of autonomous vehicles is getting closer. The impact is likely to shake up the balance of power in the global auto industry and among the technology elite. At stake is nothing less than trillions of dollars.