Arusha — Nigerian neuroscientist Oshiorenoya Agabi may have found a way to solve one of life’s puzzling dilemmas: how to make air travel pleasant again.
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Corporations are killing suburban office parks, so people have started living in them
The traditional suburban office park — a cluster of homogeneous, cubicle-filled buildings surrounded by large parking lots and highways — is dying in the US.
As more corporations flock to cities, they are vacating these office parks, many of which were built in the 1980s.
A.I. will fundamentally change how we manage content
Content management is about to undergo a foundational shift as artificial intelligence and machine learning bring long-sought order to enterprise content. As the volume of content has increased, the ability to manage it all seems to have eluded us. Ironic, since Content Management Systems were supposed to solve the enterprise content organization problem.
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Alibaba to open its first brick-and-mortar mall in China, local report says
The five-story shopping center — called “More Mall” — is part of the e-commerce giant’s push into real-world retail.
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Artificial wombs are coming and could completely change the debate over abortion
If a fetus can be transferred to a fabricated womb, can the right to abortion survive?
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New camera can see through human body
Scientists have developed a camera that can see through the human body.
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Why is the Kremlin suddenly obsessed with crypto currency
In early June, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The headline moment at the event was a wide-ranging and at times combative interview with Megyn Kelly. But Putin quietly made news in another way—he signaled an official volte-face on the issue of cryptocurrencies, digital financial instruments such as bitcoin.
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Texting trouble: Thousands injured by walking into walls
We’ve all heard about the dangers of texting and driving. Turns out texting and walking isn’t so safe, either.
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Meet the futuristic personal transportation vehicle coming to China and U.S. soon
Leo Liu still remembers the first time he saw a “personal transportation” machine.
“I was an industrial engineering student at University of Florida, and I saw a group of people ride around campus standing completely upright on giant wheels,” he recalls. “They were Segways. I thought to myself, ‘those are very cool, but they’re a bit bulky and unwieldy.”
A physicist on why AI safety is ‘the most important conversation of our time’
Should we be worried about the dangerous potential of artificial intelligence?
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China has banned ICOs
It is looking like a new era is coming for ICOs, at least those in China for now. In the U.S., the SEC has issued official warnings around the risks of ICOs, also known as token sales, but the Chinese government looks set to beat it to implementing regulation around the rapidly growing fundraising option.
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Finnish Tesla Model S taxi driver crosses 400,000 km, 93% of battery life remains
Ari Nyyssönen, a Finnish taxi driver, has racked up an impressive 400,000 kilometers (250,000 miles) in his Tesla Model S and is confident that the car could last until 1 million kilometers or over 621,000 miles.
