Karen, you don’t need a puppy dog filter, you just need to stop blinking in the Christmas photo!
Facebook wants to recreate eyes in photos using AI.
There’s always one person. Seventeen takes. And Karen’s blinking.
But no need to host an intervention — Facebook plans to fix your photos with AI.
Continue reading… “Facebook develops AI to open your damn eyes in photos”
“This is a new concept for correcting refractory problems.”
A Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Bar-Ilan University ophthalmologist has invented and patented “nanodrops” which – when placed on pigs’ corneas – have produced improvements in short-sightedness and long-sightedness.
If they improve vision in humans when clinical testing is carried out later this year, the nanoparticle solution could eliminate the need for eyeglasses, Dr. David Smadja said on Wednesday.
Continue reading… “New eyedrops could repair corneas, make glasses unnecessary”
Celluveyor is an omnidirectional conveyor belt that can move objects freely in any direction. Following is a transcript of the video.
It consists of several small hexagonal cells driven by omnidirectional wheels.
Continue reading… “This conveyor belt can move in any direction”
Foxconn Technology chairman Terry Gou on Friday reiterated a pledge that the world’s biggest assembler of iPhones has made many times: that in a matter of years, human workers will be in a minority at the company.
Continue reading… “Here’s how the plan to replace the humans who make iPhones with bots is going”
Work is changing, so to stay ahead you’ll need to master these skills that you probably didn’t learn in college.
Chances are your job description has changed over the past five years. Or maybe your role didn’t even exist a short time ago. The workplace of today and the future looks quite different due to technology, the economy, the environment, and politics, according to the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a not-for-profit think tank that helps organizations plan for the future.
Continue reading… “These are the 5 “super skills” you need for jobs of the future”
Creator’s transparent burger robot doesn’t grind your brisket and chuck steak into a gourmet patty until you order it. That’s just one way this startup, formerly known as Momentum Machines, wants to serve the world’s freshest cheeseburger for just $6. On June 27th, after eight years in development, Creator unveils its first robot restaurant before opening to the public in September. We got a sneak peek…err…taste.
When I ask how a startup launching one eatery at a time could become a $10 billion company, Creator co-founder and CEO Alex Vardakostas looks me dead in the eye and says, “the market is much bigger than that.”
Continue reading… “Taste test: Burger robot startup creator opens first restaurant”
One author says we have plenty of time before robots take over humans’ jobs.
As technology has advanced, Thomas Malone has watched his old family farm change drastically. The farm he grew up on once employed 15 people full-time and another 30 or 40 seasonally. Now, five people and many more machines farm about three times as many acres in land to produce significantly more goods.
Continue reading… “Don’t worry, robots aren’t going to steal your job — yet”
Pioneering surgeons have made it possible to transplant a human uterus that can bear children, offering hope to millions of women who never thought they could give birth.
On September 4, 2014, in Gothenburg, Sweden, his 36-year-old expectant mother lay on an operating table, suffering from preeclampsia—a pregnancy complication associated with high blood pressure. The baby’s heartbeat showed signs of stress. Normally the woman’s doctors might have taken a wait-and-see approach, treating her with medication and hoping to give the nearly 32-week-old fetus time to grow to full term of about 40 weeks.
But this was no normal gestation. This was the world’s first human nurtured inside a transplanted uterus. He was the product of more than a decade of research. For years, no one had been sure he could exist in that womb—let alone be born. This was not a wait-and-see situation.
Continue reading… “Inside the controversial new surgery to transplant human wombs”
Is quality sleep worth that much cash?
After a couple years of development and early prototype testing through an Indiegogo campaign, Bose is commercially releasing its noise-masking Sleepbuds. They go on sale tomorrow, June 21st, for $250 from Amazon, Best Buy, Bose, and other retailers. The Sleepbuds are truly wireless earbuds designed to stay in your ears overnight. As you go to sleep, they play audio tracks that drown out typical evening disturbances like street noise, loud neighbors, or a snoring partner.
They don’t play music or any other audio from external devices. Period. So forget about streaming Spotify, audiobooks, or podcasts. Nor do the Sleepbuds utilize Bose’s incredible noise-cancelation tech that’s the magic ingredient in products like the popular QuietComfort headphones.
Continue reading… “Bose’s new $250 Sleepbuds play soothing sounds instead of music”
Most advice around ICOs tends to center on researching the team or project themselves, but Draper favors a different approach.
The never-ending debate is if Bitcoin is a universal currency. I attend the final session of the Blockchain Economic Forum in San Francisco, where venture capitalist Tim Draper was interviewed by former Obama administration CFTC chairman and current MIT lecturer Gary Gensler.
In a wide-ranging conversation, the pair covered many of the key elements causing so much excitement in the crypto space, and confidence in the future was the running theme.
Continue reading… “‘You can hear the panic in the bankers’ voices’ says Tim Draper”
A Canadian province is giving people money with no strings attached—revealing both the appeal and the limitations of the idea.
Dana Bowman, 56, expresses gratitude for fresh produce at least 10 times in the hour and a half we’re having coffee on a frigid spring day in Lindsay, Ontario. Over the many years she scraped by on government disability payments, she tended to stick to frozen vegetables. She’d also save by visiting a food bank or buying marked-down items near or past their sell-by date.
Continue reading… “Basic income could work—if you do it Canada-style”
There are no mosquitoes in The Most Magical Place on Earth. That’s right, Disney World is so dedicated to making sure you have the time of your life that they’ve made the bugs practically disappear. How do they pull that off? No, the answer isn’t magic. Vlogger Rob Plays delved into the answer in a video spotted by Neatorama.
It would be a feat to get rid of pesky mosquitoes anywhere, but Disney World is in Florida, a.k.a. swamp territory, where insects are more abundant than other places. Bugs are annoying, but they’re also dangerous if they’re carrying diseases like Zika, and Disney has a responsibility to protect its guests. In short, Disney gets rid of the pests by employing a comprehensive program that includes spraying insecticides and maintaining natural predators, and they do all of this with a level of vigilance that’s fearsome to behold.
Continue reading… “The fascinating reason why there are no mosquitoes at Disney World”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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