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Jul 5, 2017

“Self-driving room” adapts to each passenger’s needs

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2_1_YI4Ads

National Electric Vehicle Sweden, which purchased Saab’s assets back in 2012, is using CES Asia to show its vision of autonomous commuting. Owning a car is out in this particular mobility vision, and vehicles not only pick you up and drop you off autonomously, they change their interiors around your needs and whims. So you enjoy a personalized ride and can make the most of every moment.

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Jul 5, 2017

The not-so-secret plan to genetically modify astronauts

Posted by in categories: genetics, space

Some scientists are thinking about what human space travelers will look like in the future. They might be extra-small and radiation-proof.

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Jul 5, 2017

How SoftBank is Betting Billions to Prepare for the Singularity

Posted by in category: singularity

The japanese conglomerate betting billions to prepare for the singularity.

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Jul 5, 2017

Reality guide: A poster of how everything fits together

Posted by in category: physics

Our ultimate user’s guide to fundamental physics – all on one spectacular poster for you to download for free.

Download the poster as a PDF file.

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Jul 5, 2017

The Roots Of Consciousness: We’re Of 2 Minds

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Surgery that severs the link between brain hemispheres reveals that those halves have way different views of the world. We ask a pioneering scientist what that tells us about human consciousness.

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Jul 5, 2017

Billionaire Fortress Investor: Cryptocurrencies Will Be Worth $5 Trillion by 2022

Posted by in category: cryptocurrencies

Billionaire investor Michael Novogratz explains that the cryptocurrency market will be worth $5 trillion by 2022.

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Jul 5, 2017

Building Circuits Without Touching Them: Watch Carbon Nanotubes Self-Assemble

Posted by in category: nanotechnology

Through Teslaphoresis, nanotubes can be directed to assemble themselves into wires within this force field, making it possible to build circuits without physical contact.

Scientists from Rice University found a way to conduct electricity without making physical contact between the circuit and the energy source. Using a Tesla coil’s antenna to project a gradient high-voltage forcefield into air, they were able to polarize carbon nanotubes within this Teslaphoretic (TEP) field, which then spring out like webs to assemble themselves into wires.

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Jul 5, 2017

This Camera Technology Doesn’t Have a Lens at All

Posted by in category: electronics

Engineers have developed a type of camera that doesn’t require any lenses. They’re replacing curved glass with something that does the same job computationally – an ultra-thin optical phased array.

Researchers hope that the findings could turn a wide range of flat surfaces into image collectors.

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Jul 5, 2017

Staying positive — Alessandro Benetton

Posted by in category: human trajectories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4JTIa0MZww

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Jul 5, 2017

Scientists are questioning the idea that the human lifespan has a limit

Posted by in category: life extension

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Jeanne Calment, the French woman who holds the record for the longest verified lifespan, died in 1997 at 122 years old.

Few people, of course, ever become supercentenarians — 110 years old or older — and even fewer hit 115.

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