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May 15, 2017

Model 3

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May 15, 2017

Moon as unprospected eighth continent that will produce trillionaires

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Moon Express is one of only two teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition with a verified launch contract for its 2017 lunar mission. In October 2015, Moon Express announced that it had signed the worlds’ first multi-mission launch contract with Rocket Lab USA for 3 lunar missions between 2017 and 2020.

Moon Express sees the moon as critical for humanity to become a multi-world species, and that our sister world, the Moon, is an eighth continent holding vast resources than can help us enrich and secure our future.

MoonEx had been planning to place the International Lunar Observatory (ILO) on the Moon as early as 2018. The plan calls for placement of both a 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) radio telescope as well as an optical telescope at the South Pole of the Moon.

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May 14, 2017

Okinawa, Japan

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Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Japan

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May 14, 2017

This spray can turn any surface into a touchscreen

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May 14, 2017

My favorite college professor was YouTube

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It was an invaluable tool to enhance my learning process.

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May 14, 2017

Lab-Grown Meat Is Healthier. It’s Cheaper. It’s the Future

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The price of lab-grown meat keeps dropping.

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May 14, 2017

Chemists Are One Step Closer to Manipulating All Matter

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Scientists want to control individual molecules so precisely they could snap them together like Lego pieces. Now they’re a little bit closer.

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May 13, 2017

Forget Nations. Here’s Proof That Apple Rules the World

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  • Corporations now rule the world, and one of them is Apple.
  • With the company’s record-breaking cash hoard swelling to almost $300 billion, there’s not a lot the Cupertino tech giant couldn’t do.

In the science fiction flick Incorporated, a post-apocalyptic future world is no longer run by nation-states but by corporation-states, each acting in the best interests of the company. Such a future doesn’t seem that far or farfetched now, especially if one considers just how big the world’s most powerful corporations are.

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May 12, 2017

Interesting Futurism Animation 40

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May 11, 2017

Estonian eResidency and eID programs described

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The small EU nation has made big steps into the digital future with the Estonian eResidency and eID programs. Government and private sector services are now delivered securely online and worldwide entrepreneurs are starting companies virtually in Estonia. But the country’s president sees challenges ahead for countries around the globe as the nature of work transforms and it becomes difficult to tax income using traditional geographic models.

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