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Jan 31, 2018
Tesla Charges Ahead With Electric Truck and New Roadster
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Elon Musk just pulled off a Steve Jobs-ian “one more thing” surprise. https://bloom.bg/2zaIMum
Jan 31, 2018
Robots and AI Will Take Over These 3 Medical Niches First
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI, virtual reality
We’re no stranger to robotics in the medical field. Robot-assisted surgery is becoming more and more common. Many training programs are starting to include robotic and virtual reality scenarios to provide hands-on training for students without putting patients at risk.
With all of these advances in medical robotics, three niches stand out above the rest: surgery, medical imaging, and drug discovery. How have robotics already begun to exert their influence on these practices, and how will they change them for good?
Thought leaders reveal the technologies and topics likely to transform life-science research in the year ahead.
Jan 31, 2018
Waymo Gets Ready to Deploy Thousands of Self-Driving Minivans
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The Alphabet spinoff is in a rush, so it’s buying thousands more “driverless” cars from Fiat-Chrysler.
Jan 31, 2018
Tornadoes Of Sound Can Levitate Physical Objects
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: innovation, tractor beam
This tractor beam breakthrough means humans are one step closer to levitation. (via Seeker)
Jan 31, 2018
Microsoft’s New AI Creates Fake Photos From Your Words
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
The groundbreaking software takes AI one step closer to achieving humanlike intelligence, according to its creator.
Jan 31, 2018
Researchers Discover ‘Anxiety Cells’ In The Brain
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
Scientists who identified specific brain cells in mice that control anxiety say the discovery could provide insights that might eventually help people with panic disorder and social phobia.
Jan 31, 2018
Bionic device gives you a third thumb
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: cyborgs, transhumanism
Jan 31, 2018
Strava’s Just the Start: The US Military’s Losing War Against Data Leakage
Posted by John Gallagher in category: military
The Defense Department can’t stop the rising river of of digital metadata — or prevent enemies from dipping into it.
The Pentagon has long wrapped Diego Garcia in a veil of secrecy, barring media from the Indian Ocean island even as its base and airfield became a key node in America’s wars in the Middle East. But a hole appeared in the veil last Saturday, when a mobile fitness-tracking app company called Strava posted a heatmap of its subscribers’ activity — including the routes that sailors and airmen take as they jogged.
“What you saw from the running patterns is exactly what I experienced when I was deployed there five times between 1985 and 1999,” Air Force General Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recalled in a breakfast with reporters on Tuesday. A heavily secluded jungle trail runs along the island’s western edge, Selva said, perfect for an ambush. “I’ve run it a thousand times. If I had a FitBit, I would have contributed to the map of Diego Garcia.”
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