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This super yacht rents for $280,000 per week. Here’s what’s on board… (via Secret Lives of the Super Rich)

It’s been 15 years since “The Facebook” was launched, and we first had Mark Zuckerberg on-air to discuss the future of the social media business. In 2004, his social networking site had 100,000 users. Today, Facebook has more than 2,000,000,000 users.

Parents are paying up to $20,000 to choose the gender of their child.

UK-based design agency Layer has teamed up with Chinese electric car maker Nio to create a smart scooter that can learn where you want to go.

Once “Pal” learns your preferred routes, the smart scooter can autonomously take you to your destination. On its website, Layer calls the scooter a “near-future prototype” that “embraces AI and machine learning to offer flexible and convenient ‘last mile’ travel.”

It’s a stunning example of industrial design that could make short-distance travel much more convenient — whether it will ever actually be sold to the public or not.

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We need more than engineers and computer scientists shaping the future of AI.

By Alex Vikoulov

The number of staff members and students who were under quarantine on Friday was up by about 400 from the day before, according to the authorities.

What do the inventions of the future look like?