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May 4, 2017

The Humans to Mars Summit

Posted by in categories: education, policy, space travel

5:10–5:20 | Student Presentation: Mars Exploration Project student leaders from American Academy of Innovation, a 6–12 grade public charter school in South Jordan, Utah.

5:20–5:30 | An Update on United States Space Exploration Policy TBA.

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May 3, 2017

Holographic Air Traffic Control

Posted by in category: augmented reality

This is what happens when the HoloLens meets the air traffic control industry.

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May 3, 2017

World’s First Spherical Display Drone

Posted by in category: drones

Worlds first spherical display drone.


This is coolest looking thing I’ve seen today! 😲.

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May 3, 2017

Google Unveils New Google Earth

Posted by in category: futurism

Google Earth’s new feature brings the entire planet to life.

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May 3, 2017

Physicists design 2-D materials that conduct electricity at almost the speed of light

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Physicists at the University of California, Irvine and elsewhere have fabricated new two-dimensional quantum materials with breakthrough electrical and magnetic attributes that could make them building blocks of future quantum computers and other advanced electronics.

In three separate studies appearing this month in Nature, Science Advances and Nature Materials, UCI researchers and colleagues from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Princeton University, Fudan University and the University of Maryland explored the physics behind the 2-D states of novel materials and determined they could push computers to new heights of speed and power.

The common threads running through the papers are that the research is conducted at extremely cold temperatures and that the signal carriers in all three studies are not electrons — as with traditional silicon-based technologies — but Dirac or Majorana fermions, particles without mass that move at nearly the speed of light.

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May 3, 2017

Robots Could Soon Have More Sensitive Skin Than You Do

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, robotics/AI

Robots may soon be more sensitive than humans—at least when it comes to their skin. Researchers from Glasgow University have developed a type of artificial skin that is more sensitive than our own. Just add this to all the ways robots are taking over the world.

Related: A Robot Performed Soft-Tissue Surgery By Itself

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May 3, 2017

Exponential Growth of Computing

Posted by in category: computing

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May 3, 2017

Should you take statins? Everything you need to know including who benefits most

Posted by in category: futurism

We try to separate the facts from fiction about the controversial cholesterol-buster

ByMirror.co.uk

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May 3, 2017

This object appears to have moved faster than the speed of light

Posted by in category: futurism

This object, V838 Monocerotis, looks like it moved faster than the speed of light. We know what you’re going to say–nothing moves faster than light. Well, we didn’t say it did move faster…just that it looks like it did.

Full story at YouTube.

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May 3, 2017

Google is betting this robot that sucks apples off trees will replace human workers

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability

Orchard owners say they need automation because seasonal farm labor is getting harder to come by.

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    Tom Simonite

  • May 3, 2017
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