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Jan 9, 2018
How ‘China’s Steve Jobs’ bit off more than he could chew and saw his tech empire collapse
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: internet, robotics/AI
His ultimate quest, though, was the automobile. The integration of the internet and self-driving, emission-free vehicles, he once said, would not only clean up the country’s polluted cities, it would free up millions of people to consume more of LeEco’s services on their commutes.
Visionary or reckless risk-taker? Self-made internet entrepreneur Jia Yueting once ranked among China’s richest men, but overexpansion and a funding crunch have him scrambling to save his sprawling tech empire.
Jan 8, 2018
The growing adoption of LEDs is having a tangible effect on carbon emissions
Posted by Jeremy Lichtman in category: energy
LED bulbs contributed to a reduction of 570 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2017, according to an estimate by IHS Markit—equivalent to closing more than 160 coal power plants.
Published 2 hours ago | Photo by Reuters/Toru Hanai.
Jan 8, 2018
Using Technology to Reverse Extinction
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, existential risks, sustainability
The extinction of various species has led to a segregation of human activity and natural activity, says Stewart Brand of The Long Now Foundation, which focuses on long-term strategies for the next 10,000 years. The organization develops biotechnology to allow humans to better co-exist with nature. In this interview filmed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival, Brand discusses how biotechnology can be used to bring back the passenger pigeon from extinction and mitigate climate change at last.
Jan 8, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — At The End of the Day Show
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, cosmology, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, transhumanism
Jan 8, 2018
Discussion of iTR Publication
Posted by Michael Greve in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
AgeX, one of our supported startups aiming at turning basic research into actual rejuvenation therapies for human application, just published a breakthrough genetic discovery that could enable us to activate tissue regeneration capabilities in humans.
Dr. Mike West, CEO of AgeX, will also be presenting at undoing-aging.org
Jan 8, 2018
How Robots Will Break Politics
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: genetics, robotics/AI
At the moment, it is easy and comforting to imagine that the machines will mostly be complementary to human workers, whose common sense and human touch will still be necessary. But over the next half-century, AI will get better faster than humans can learn new skills. While we are probably still a very long way away from an AI with humanlike general intelligence, we are much closer to a world where particular machines can perform specific tasks as well as humans and at far less cost—precisely the kind of change that reshaped nations 150 years ago. Long before we find ourselves dealing with malevolent AIs or genetically engineered superhumans, and perhaps just 10 to 20 years from now, we will have to deal with the threat technology poses to our social order—and to our politics.
Automation is dramatically reshaping the workforce, but we’ve barely begun to grapple with how it will reshape society.
Jan 7, 2018
Biomechanical Energy Instead of Batteries?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: energy, wearables
Why wearable? Many industrial and academic studies are currently addressed to design and to optimize the technologies related to portable and wireless.
Jan 7, 2018
Pentagon Seeks Laser-Powered Bat Drones. Really
Posted by Patrick Tucker in categories: drones, information science, military, robotics/AI
Wirelessly powered, biomimetic spybots…
A new contest seeks flight systems inspired by Mother Nature and powered by directed-energy beams.
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