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Jan 13, 2022

A UK Startup Released Test Flight Footage of Its Prototype Flying Car

Posted by in category: transportation

The startup thinks that aerial commuting is inevitable within the next 10 years.

New test flight footage shows that we are in the midst of the flying car revolution, propelled by new eVTOL designs that are taking to the skies with increasing frequency.

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Jan 13, 2022

Meet BAGO: A Seatbelt for Bags Can Help You Concentrate on the Road

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

It also shows you care for content in the bag.

In this age of technology, where everything connects to the cloud or needs an app, it takes a simple bit of engineering to stand out. A seatbelt for bags while you drive around like there’s no tomorrow, as reported by Gizmodo, clearly fits into this category.

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Jan 13, 2022

China Reportedly Wants to Separate NFTs from Crypto With State-Backed Blockchain

Posted by in categories: blockchains, business, cryptocurrencies, government

Allowing users to buy NFTs with fiat money.

Cryptocurrency might be illegal in China, but that doesn’t mean non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have to be.

China is planning to separate the infrastructure used for crypto from the one used to create NFTs so that its crackdown on cryptocurrencies doesn’t harm the country’s NFT industry, a report from South China Morning Post reveals.

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Jan 13, 2022

Can Humans Teach Robots To Think Like Us?

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Although robots are more than capable today of carrying out all kinds of business tasks efficiently and accurately, the concept of building machines that can think like humans has always been a dream for tech companies and smart city developers. However, the actual way in which the human mind works and processes information is up for debate, with several parties having conflicting opinions regarding the same. Once enough data is generated, simulation models can be created to build software that can think along the same rational or emotional lines as humans. Human thinking is generally influenced by a variety of factors—cognitive, behavioral, geometric, kinematic and physical. Using cognitive modeling, such factors can be considered while attempting to create robots that think and behave like humans.

The concept of human thinking is still too vague to be accurately replicated in robots. Even then, multiple types of approaches could be taken to reach the ideal end result—enabling AI and robotic tools to think like humans.

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Jan 13, 2022

Golden opportunity: Savvy business alliances propel the robotics sector

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The case for the symbiotic business partnership to scale in automation.

Jan 13, 2022

Are robotic kitchens the future of food?

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Restauranteurs are using robotic kitchens to cut real estate costs, opening up room in their budgets for higher quality ingredients.

Jan 13, 2022

CycleBoard Rover review: A strange yet exciting mashup of an electric scooter and a skateboard

Posted by in category: futurism

The CycleBoard Rover is unlike anything I’ve tested before. It looks like a scooter and handles more like a skateboard. It’s a wild ride that is hard to describe, but that’s what I’m here to try and do.

Having tested plenty of electric scooters and e-skateboards before, I thought I could just hop on the CycleBoard Rover and blast away.

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Jan 13, 2022

A treasure map for the realm of electrocatalysts

Posted by in categories: computing, materials

Efficient electrocatalysts, which are needed for the production of green hydrogen, for example, are hidden in materials composed of five or more elements. A team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the University of Copenhagen has developed an efficient method for identifying promising candidates in the myriad of possible materials. To this end, the researchers combined experiments and simulation.

They published their report in the journal Advanced Energy Materials (“Unravelling Composition–Activity–Stability Trends in High Entropy Alloy Electrocatalysts by Using a Data-Guided Combinatorial Synthesis Strategy and Computational Modeling”).

A view of the sputtering machine used to produce the material library counters. (Image: Christian Nielinger)

Jan 13, 2022

Digital influencers herald a new era of branding

Posted by in category: futurism

Digital influencers, or virtual humans, are the latest trend in social media marketing. Find out how the avant-garde Japanese start-up Aww Inc. is changing behaviors and powering tomorrow’s brands with its newly minted virtual humans.

Jan 13, 2022

Firefox browser goes down due to ‘infinite loop’ technical issue

Posted by in category: futurism

The Firefox browser has stopped working due to a technical issue, with sites failing to load and no status information being provided to users.

The issue appears to be due to a HTTP3 problem. It appears that a recent update to the browser triggers an infinite loop in the network thread that prevents any pages from loading, leaving the browser useless.

However, this is an issue that can be temporarily overcome.