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Apr 19, 2017

Job-stealing Chinese robots take over delivery company

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Shentong Express Tracking has started using a robot workforce to sort their packages and parcels. The new staff can work up to 24 hours a day and sort through an estimated 200,000 items a day.

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Apr 18, 2017

Huge asteroid to give Earth a very close shave on April 19

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

NASA says a 2,000-foot-wide space rock will pass within 1.1 million miles of our planet this week.

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Apr 18, 2017

‘Space Fabric’ Links Fashion and Engineering

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, engineering, space

3D printing is inspiring new materials at JPL.

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Apr 18, 2017

Bizarre Superfluid with Negative Mass Created in a Lab

Posted by in category: particle physics

Scientists have created a new superfluid that has a negative mass, meaning that if it’s pushed to the right, it accelerates to the left and vice versa.


A cloud of supercooled atoms that behaves as a superfluid has demonstrated a negative mass, meaning it accelerates opposite to the direction it’s pushed.

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Apr 18, 2017

How Western civilisation could collapse

Posted by in categories: climatology, economics

2 factors destroy civilization: climate and economics. The West is currently facing severe problems in both areas.


Some possible precipitating factors are already in place. How the West reacts to them will determine the world’s future, says Rachel Nuwer.

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Apr 18, 2017

A look at China’s most exciting hypersonic aerospace programs

Posted by in category: transportation

The 21st International Space Plane and Hypersonic Systems and Technology in Xiamen, China, offers details on key fast technologies. Read on.

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Apr 18, 2017

Calling all the Heroes!

Posted by in category: life extension

Calling all the Longevity Superheroes, science needs you! We are proud to launch our brand new campaign and this time there is a twist.

We have launched our Lifespan Heroes campaign to raise funds for LEAF so we can continue delivering quality content, exclusive interviews, scientific commentaries, advocacy and more. We have done an amazing job over the last two years with our volunteers but now we need some help from our heroes — the longevity community.


Spring is the best time to celebrate life and remember all the good things we have achieved to improve and protect human life. One of the organizations which contributed the most to the development of healthcare systems around the globe is the World Health Organization founded by the United Nations. WHO’s Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948 – a date we now celebrate every year as World Health Day.

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Apr 18, 2017

Watch F8 Live

Posted by in category: futurism

Live at our annual F8 developer conference.

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Apr 18, 2017

In 10 days, I’m speaking at the 2017 California Libertarian Party convention

Posted by in category: transhumanism

It’s in San Jose, and I’ll be doing a short talk at the reception on Friday night, April 28, and giving a formal 45-min talk on Saturday, April 29, 1:30PM on Technology and Liberty, and how radical science like transhumanism needs freedom to grow. Please join me at this major event! https://ca.lp.org/pricing/

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Apr 18, 2017

How Anaconda’s data science platform will help IBM speed up enterprise machine learning adoption

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI, science

IBM announced that it will offer open data science platform Anaconda on IBM Cognitive Systems. Here’s how it could help your business.

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