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Aug 26, 2017
Stick these electric wheels on your boots to make your commute easier
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Aug 26, 2017
How a town that doesn’t get sunlight for half the year used mirrors to solve its problem
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Aug 26, 2017
Melinda Gates: I spent my career in technology. I wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids
Posted by John Gallagher in category: futurism
Aug 26, 2017
Using Artificial Intelligence To Make Beer Better
Posted by Müslüm Yildiz in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Rob McInerney, the founder & CEO of Intelligent Layer and co-founder of IntelligentX Brewing Company, explains the use of artificial intelligence in improving everyday products.
“We wanted to see if in the future the most effective brands are the ones that talk to their customers not to make better advertising but to share ideas. We thought that they’d use artificial intelligence to help real people and brands talk to each other and we wanted to prove this in an industry which people have very strong views on and that which we had a pretty significant interest in as well… Beer… So we created intelligent X the world’s first beer brewed by artificial intelligence.”
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Aug 25, 2017
This is what happens after you buy something for Amazon Prime Day
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Aug 25, 2017
With the USS McCain collision, even Navy tech can’t overcome human shortcomings
Posted by John Gallagher in category: futurism
With the USS McCain collision, even Navy tech can’t overcome human shortcomings.
One mistake can cascade into a disaster in heavy marine traffic, regardless of tech.
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Of course, every generation regards its reckoning with new technology as a turning point for the species. But what’s important to realize, whether our blip in history is truly pivotal or just another moment of five-alarm normalcy, is this: The choices people make in the face of anxiety always determine whether the world they leave behind looks more utopian than dystopian.
Every generation regards its reckoning with new technology as a turning point for the species. You just have to learn to stop worrying and love the future.
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Aug 25, 2017
Thorium salt reactor experiments resume after 40 years
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, nuclear energy
Scientists at the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) the Netherlands, are looking back to the 1970s to meet the energy needs of the future. For the first time since 1976, the NRG team is conducting experiments in thorium molten salt reactor technology that could lead to cleaner, safer nuclear reactors capable of supplying energy on a global scale.
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