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Feb 19, 2018
Asteroid miners might need a few good applied astronomers to show them the way
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: business, employment, space
AUSTIN, Texas — Mining asteroids for water and other resources could someday become a trillion-dollar business, but not without astronomers to point the way.
At least that’s the view of Martin Elvis, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who’s been taking a close look at the science behind asteroid mining.
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Feb 19, 2018
Health and the crypto-economy. Health Blockchain
Posted by Edward Futurem in categories: bitcoin, economics, life extension, robotics/AI
AI and blockchain, the main innovations in #Longevity, are united in DAYS.exchange platform.
DAYS tokens are to be sort of guarrantee for longevity services effectiveness.
DAYS.exchange partner supported Longevity Impact Forum.
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Feb 19, 2018
Chinese city touted as model for cutting healthcare costs
Posted by Derick Lee in category: biotech/medical
Sanming, a city of about 2.5m people in eastern China’s Fujian province, has shown one way out of the conundrum — switching from premium drugs made by multinationals to cheaper local generics and cracking down on doctors taking kickbacks from distributors.
Cheaper drugs cut burden on Sanming budget, but locals grumble over quality of care.
Feb 18, 2018
For artificial intelligence to thrive, it must explain itself | The Economist
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: robotics/AI
“Of the ten most valuable quoted companies in the world, seven say they have plans to put deep-learning-based AI at the heart of their operations.”
Tag: Society
Feb 18, 2018
The global space race, 2.0 — By Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan | The WorldPost
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: geopolitics, governance, government, innovation, space
“The recent launch of the SpaceX rocket Falcon Heavy is a good illustration of the entry of efficient and innovative private players into an arena long considered the preserve of national governments. But this does not mean that national competition in outer space is disappearing. If anything, it is actually accelerating in Asia. China’s growing space prowess is leading to a space race with India and Japan, which are beginning to pool their resources to better match Beijing.”
Feb 18, 2018
New Report Explores The Forces Affecting The Future Of Work — By Adi Gaskell | Forbes
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: economics, education, futurism, governance, robotics/AI
“The last few years have seen a wide range of reports from governments, think tanks, consultancies and academics exploring how the future of work might look. Many of these have revolved around the impact technology, and especially AI, might have on how (and indeed whether) we work.
The latest effort, from Bain’s Macro Trends Group, takes a slightly broader view and examines not just the technological landscape but also demographic and economic forces.”
Feb 18, 2018
Landmark College students create virtual reality game for statistics — By Jeremy House | Education Dive
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: education, virtual reality
“Five Landmark students, including Hansen, spent a year developing the game-based learning experience that does away with specialized terms, symbols, and formulas of a typical statistics course and replaces it with a Pokemon-like first-person adventure that exercises statistical thinking.”
Feb 18, 2018
China’s great leap forward in science — By Philip Ball | The Guardian
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: geopolitics, governance, government, science
“These days, Chinese scientists stand at least as good a chance of making a global impact on science from within China itself.”
Feb 18, 2018
US Army Now Holding Drills With Ground Robots That Shoot
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: health, robotics/AI, transportation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BlBOVF9GnM8
Last year saw a historic first: an exercise in which an unmanned vehicle provided live covering fire for American troops.
In a historic first, the Army conducted a live fire exercise with a remote-controlled ground combat vehicle armed with a .50-caliber machine gun. It plans to conduct more exercises with more heavily armed ground robots within the next couple of years.
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