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Jun 14, 2018

Why a 19-year-old Bitcoin millionaire built a working Dr. Octopus suit

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, bitcoin, cyborgs, education

What would you do if you were a 19-year-old kid with $3.3 million? There are few people more equipped to answer that than teenaged bitcoin millionaire Erik Finman. His answer? You use some of that cash to build a Doctor Octopus-style exosuit and try and shake up the education system.

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Jun 14, 2018

This conveyor belt can move in any direction

Posted by in category: futurism

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Jun 14, 2018

The power of prosthetics

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs

Artificial fingers for doing everything naturally.

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Jun 14, 2018

A Dutch City Is 3D Printing The First Habitable Houses

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, habitats

A Dutch construction company is about to 3D print five actually habitable homes near the city of Eindhoven. But can the technique replace brick and mortar?

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Jun 14, 2018

Parts of your brain take short naps during wakefulness

Posted by in category: neuroscience

#Microsleep

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Jun 14, 2018

Hover camera follows you and takes selfies

Posted by in categories: drones, electronics

This flying camera drone will put your selfie skills to shame. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2xvPgDp

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Jun 14, 2018

This Device Could Produce Unlimited Clean Energy

Posted by in category: energy

Could this device produce unlimited clean energy?

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Jun 14, 2018

Help Wanted: An Engineer to Build SpaceX’s Rocket to Mars

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

The BFR spaceship that Elon Musk wants to build for carrying mankind to Mars and beyond has posted its first job listing for an engineer.

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Jun 14, 2018

How Ada Lovelace’s notes on the Analytical Engine created the first computer program

Posted by in category: computing

She may be one of the most famous women in science history, but what is it that Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace achieve to gain such eminence?

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Jun 14, 2018

We have hints of a theory beyond quantum physics

Posted by in category: quantum physics

If you think our best theory of reality is weird you ain’t seen nothing yet, says physicist Ciarán Lee – it could be a fuzzy version of something bigger.

By Ciarán Lee

I HAVE a confession to make: I’m bored of quantum mechanics. This is an odd thing for a physicist to admit, but the most successful theory of modern physics has started to leave me cold. Perhaps I have just grown too used to its spooky predictions and its love of randomness. Or it might be the fact that, despite its many successes and the way it has captured popular imagination, there are hints that quantum mechanics isn’t as accurate a picture of reality as some would have you believe.

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