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Jul 7, 2017

Multitasking robot arms

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Need an extra arm?


Multitask like a pro with these robotic arm attachments.

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Jul 7, 2017

A future without phone chargers may be coming soon

Posted by in categories: futurism, mobile phones

No cords, no batteries, no outlets.

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Jul 7, 2017

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Again Calls for Basic Income

Posted by in categories: economics, government

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a trip to Homer, Alaska, this weekend to do characteristically Alaskan things, like catching fish, cutting fish, watching other people catch fish, oh, and thinking hard about the concept of basic income.

Zuckerberg visited Homer as part of his personal challenge to visit every state in America in 2017. While there, he took some time out of fishing to write a blog post about Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend, a state-sponsored form of basic income that redistributes profits from the state’s natural resources to its residents once a year, usually handing them around $1,000 per person (some years as much as $2,000).

“This is a novel approach to basic income in a few ways. First, it’s funded by natural resources rather than raising taxes,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Second, it comes from conservative principles of smaller government, rather than progressive principles of a larger safety net. This shows basic income is a bipartisan idea.

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Jul 7, 2017

Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat

Posted by in category: futurism

Teachers are being forced to adapt to Wolfram Alpha, which executes homework perfectly and whose use almost impossible to detect.

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Jul 7, 2017

One Man Is Raising $100 Billion to Build Computer Chips With an IQ of 10,000

Posted by in categories: computing, singularity

This $100 billion fund aims to help us reach the singularity.

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Jul 7, 2017

The world’s first glasses-free holographic phone is coming, and it’s not from Apple

Posted by in categories: entertainment, mobile phones

RED Digital Cinema has announced its first Android phone featuring the world’s first glasses-free holographic display.

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Jul 7, 2017

Robotics: Top 100 Influencers and Brands

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transhumanism

A fun list to check out on people influencing the global discussion on robots: http://www.onalytica.com/blog/posts/robotics-top-100-influencers-brands/ #transhumanism


A list of the top 100 robotics influencers & brands driving the most engagement in 2016, including quotes from the experts!

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Jul 7, 2017

This former Google[X] exec is building a high-tech hat that she says will make telepathy possible in 8 years

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

The first application of the technology will be medical, but Mary Lou Jepsen says within the decade it will enable instant thought sharing.

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Jul 7, 2017

World premiere of the Antarctic greenhouse EDEN-ISS

Posted by in categories: climatology, food, space travel, sustainability

Global food production is one of the key societal challenges of the 21st century. A growing world population with the simultaneous upheaval caused by climate change demand new methods of cultivating crops in regions with unfavourable climates. A closed greenhouse is a good way of growing food in deserts and low-temperature regions – as would be the case on missions to the Moon and Mars – as it permits harvesting regardless of the weather, the Sun and specific seasons. In a closed greenhouse, water consumption is immensely reduced and there is no need for pesticides and insecticides. This kind of model greenhouse will set off for the Antarctic at the end of 2017 for a year of long-term testing under extreme conditions as part of the EDEN-ISS project. Unparalleled elsewhere in the world, this Antarctic greenhouse was presented to the public for the first time at the Bremen site of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on 7 July 2017.

“DLR is pursuing application-oriented research within the EDEN-ISS project. Its purpose is to bring fresh impetus to food production on Earth and for human space flight,” says Hansjörg Dittus, DLR Executive Board Member for Space Research and Technology. “In doing so, we are advancing the cause of a key technology that will provide a fresh diet to inhabitants of climatically harsh regions – in our case the Antarctic – as well as to astronauts on future long-term missions.”

A year on the eternal ice.

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Jul 7, 2017

A Black Hole Engine to Power a Starship

Posted by in categories: cosmology, space travel

Two scientists have laid out the basic technical specifications of a black hole powered starship.

Credit: SpaceRip

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