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Aug 15, 2017

Move Mars to the habitable zone and turn it into another Earth

Posted by in category: space

Sure.

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Aug 15, 2017

This will make your kid walk in no time!

Posted by in category: futurism

Aug 15, 2017

Amazon looks to new food technology for home delivery

Posted by in categories: business, food, habitats, military

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Amazon.com Inc is exploring a technology first developed for the U.S. military to produce tasty prepared meals that do not need refrigeration, as it looks for new ways to muscle into the $700 billion U.S. grocery business.

The world’s biggest online retailer has discussed selling ready-to-eat dishes such as beef stew and a vegetable frittata as soon as next year, officials at the startup firm marketing the technology told Reuters.

The dishes would be easy to stockpile and ship because they do not require refrigeration and could be offered quite cheaply compared with take-out from a restaurant.

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Aug 15, 2017

These delivery robots are adding jobs before they take them

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

Aug 15, 2017

This chip could be used to fight Alzheimer’s one day

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

Aug 15, 2017

Entrepreneurs are the next superpowers

Posted by in categories: business, singularity, space

Nextbigfuture interviewed Naveen Jain at the Singularity University Global Summit. Naveen K. Jain is a business executive, entrepreneur and the founder and former CEO of InfoSpace and a fonder of Moon Express, Viome, World Innovation Institute, Bluedot, iNome, TalentWise and Intelius. He was Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Silicon India’s “Most Admired Serial Entrepreneur,” and the receiver of “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for his pioneers in technology, he has been repeatedly honored for his entrepreneurial successes. Red Herring also recognized him as one of the “Top 20 Serial Entrepreneurs” and with the “Lifetime Achievement Award.” In 2015, Naveen Jain had a net worth of $2.2 billion.

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Aug 15, 2017

Breakthrough device heals organs with a single touch

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, life extension, nanotechnology

Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State’s College of Engineering have developed a new technology, Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient’s own body. This technology may be used to repair injured tissue or restore function of aging tissue, including organs, blood vessels and nerve cells.

Results of the study published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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Aug 15, 2017

Scientists Have Had Enough. They’re Starting to Run for Office

Posted by in category: government

Scientists are starting to run for office to bring evidence-based reasoning back to government.

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Aug 15, 2017

Robot shelf-stack fail suggests they won’t take our jobs just yet

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

Boston Dynamics demo clip shows we are not quite living in an i, Robot future – even if the machines can skate better than you can.

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Aug 15, 2017

Elon Musk: AI ‘vastly more risky than North Korea’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Tesla head warns of dangers of AI and pushes for regulation as OpenAI he backed beats best human players in online DotA 2 championship.

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