Archive for the ‘food’ category: Page 282
The tiny Netherlands has become an agricultural powerhouse—the second largest global exporter of food by dollar value after the U.S.—with only a fraction of the land available to other countries. How has it achieved this? By using the world’s most efficient agricultural technologies.
Harvesting.
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Sep 5, 2017
The 7 Steps of Machine Learning
Posted by Müslüm Yildiz in categories: biotech/medical, food, media & arts, robotics/AI
How can we tell if a drink is beer or wine? Machine learning, of course! In this episode of Cloud AI Adventures, Yufeng walks through the 7 steps involved in applied machine learning…
The world is filled with data. Lots and lots of data. Everything from pictures, music, words, spreadsheets, videos and more. It doesn’t look like it’s going to to slow down anytime soon. Machine learning brings the promise of deriving meaning from all of that data.
Sep 2, 2017
Could These Robotic Kelp Farms Give Us An Abundant Source Of Carbon-Neutral Fuel?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability
Aug 27, 2017
Ice Cream That Doesn’t Melt is Being Sold in Japan
Posted by Yugal Agrawal in category: food
Aug 27, 2017
Chip implants make humans more efficient
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, computing, food, neuroscience, security, transhumanism
My new Op-Ed for The San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Chip-im…003194.php #transhumanism
Wisconsin company Three Square Market recently announced it will become the first U.S. company to offer its employees chip implants that can be scanned at security entrances, carry medical information and even purchase candy in some vending machines. A company in Europe already did this last year.
For many people, it sounds crazy to electively have a piece of technology embedded in their body simply for convenience’s sake. But a growing number of Americans are doing it, including me.
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Aug 24, 2017
Why Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Jack Welch all invested in this start-up that grows meat in a lab
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: food
Aug 23, 2017
What a Driverless World Could Look Like
Posted by Müslüm Yildiz in categories: biotech/medical, food, robotics/AI, transportation
What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the future. In this forward-thinking talk, preview exciting concepts like modular, detachable buses, flying taxis and networks of suspended magnetic pods that could help make the dream of a dynamic, driverless world into a reality.
“Some people are obsessed by French wines. Others love playing golf or devouring literature. One of my greatest pleasures in life is, I have to admit, a bit special. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy watching cities from the sky, from an airplane window.”
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