Year: 2017

Impact Lab > 2017
Brain, brain-computer interfaces, new technology, Science & Technology News

AI will help us download meeting notes to our brains by 2030

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The internet is overflowing with tips on how to hack your health. From increasing cognitive function by drinking butter-spiked coffee to tracking sleep, stress, and activity levels with increasingly sophisticated fitness wearables, ours is a culture obsessed with optimizing performance. Combining this ethos with recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, it’s practically inevitable that the next frontier in achieving superhuman status lies in the rapidly developing field of brain augmentation.

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Alternative Transportation, Automobiles, Battery, Energy, Science & Technology News, Transportation

Ubitricity will start converting lampposts into EV charging stations

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Ubitricity is a company out of Germany and their plan to convert lampposts to EV charging stations is underway. Ubitricity is currently using London lampposts that have been previously converted to LED lighting to also charge commuter EV vehicles. EV owners simply need to purchase a custom charging cable from Ubitricity that contains a meter that will track the user’s power usage and charge them appropriately. Don’t expect to just walk on up and plug anything you want into the charging port as the custom charging cable is what activates the port. No custom charging cable, no juice.

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Banking, Bitcoin, Business, Science & Technology News

People are raising hundreds of millions selling digital coins online — it’s either the future of funding or a ‘bubble’

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LONDON – Startups around the world are raising hundreds of millions of dollars by issuing new digital coins, a trend that has made people both excited and concerned. Continue reading… “People are raising hundreds of millions selling digital coins online — it’s either the future of funding or a ‘bubble’”

Alternative Transportation, Automobiles, Science & Technology News, Transportation, Travel

A sleeper bus with pod-like rooms is coming to California

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The concept of the sleeper bus isn’t foreign to the seasoned traveler. We’ve endured them throughout a large portion of Southeast Asia, after all, and that’s just one small corner of the world. Now, however, the idea has come to California, resulting in a sleeper bus that takes passengers between San Francisco and Los Angeles overnight.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Science & Technology News

In the AI age “being smart” will mean something completely different

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Andrew Ng has likened artificial intelligence (AI) to electricity in that it will be as transformative for us as electricity was for our ancestors. I can only guess that electricity was mystifying, scary, and even shocking to them — just as AI will be to many of us. Credible scientists and research firms have predictedthat the likely automation of service sectors and professional jobs in the United States will be more than 10 times as large as the number of manufacturing jobs automated to date. That possibility is mind-boggling.

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