The future of farming is coming to the big city. Skyfarm, a hyperboloid tower that combines different farming techniques, from aquaponics to traditional soil based methods, in a bamboo structure that generates wind energy, won an award at the 2014 World Architecture Festival’s Future Projects Experimental category. The design was praised by the jury as a “thorough, believable, and beautiful project.”
Continue reading… “Skyfarms, Wind-powered, vertical structures, are the future of agriculture”
A book with very hazy origins, is also the best selling and most controversial book ever written. Partly because we don’t know who wrote it, and along its history has been subjected to poor copies and mis-translated. The Old Testament is especially difficult to pin down its origins. Thanks to modern artificial intelligence some progress is being made into cracking the mystery of who wrote the Bible.
A Startup Company in Germany, founded by Donald Müller-Judex, ask the question “Why are all the solar cells on the roofs and not in other surfaces like roads or bike paths?” The Startup, which is working on a flexible glass carpet filled with solar cells, meant for footpaths, cycle lanes, and flat roofs, is ready for its first incarnation in Germany next month.
Continue reading… “Roads in Germany Getting Solar Cells Installed by Solmove Startup”
A speech given by FBI Director James Comey at Keyon College, stated that “absolute privacy has never existed until now, with encryption by default. Comey says that the encryption of everyday items, that create spaces where law enforcement cannot go, even with court orders, has tilted the balance between privacy and security to far in favor of privacy. Despite his speech, a comment made Comey after his speech, caught the attention of privacy activists. He puts a “piece of tape” over the camera of his personal laptop.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his 10-year plan for Facebook, onstage at the F8 developer conference. During which he detailed the company’s thoughts on AR and VR and demonstrated a pair of AR glasses that are not yet ready for sale. He also discussed their dedication to live streaming, including a new API so developers can add live streaming to their hardware.
Onstage at its annual F8 developer conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the social network’s 10-year road map. In addition to the company’s dedication to live streaming (including a new API so developers can add live streaming to their hardware), he detailed the company’s thoughts on how AR and VR will affect our lives. He also showed off a pie-in-the-sky pair of AR glasses that you probably won’t be able to pick up from your optometrist anytime soon.
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Trade associations from across the world or teaming up together to address the need for consistent laws and regulations governing digital currencies and the technology behind them. Tuesday, the involved organizations including the Chamber of Digital Commerce, based, in Washington D.C. launched the Global Blockchain forum, “blockchain” being the term to describe the technology behind digital currency, to help shape blockchain international policy.
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Science fiction from movies is becoming reality. In this case a scene from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, where IMF agent Milliam Brandt(played by Jeremy Renner), may have you wondering if this technology exists yet. According to a patent that recently surfaced, Samsung may be working on making this a reality soon, with their patent of a smart contact lens.
Continue reading… “Patent Unveils Samung’s Idea For Smart Contact Lenses With A Camera And Display”
Last month, a Toronto startup, Figure 1, reached a million users, double the amount it had seven months ago. Now more than a million health-care professionals use the platform, that is similar to Instagram, to share images of patient ailments, without identifiable information, to other doctors from around the world, to seek opinions and get help for their patients.
Facebook can now get more 360-degree video and VR content into your news feed and Oculus thanks to its open sourced virtual reality camera made from scratch. Now you can build your own and start shooting. All the parts for this 17 lens camera on a stick can be purchased online, for $30,000 and later this summer you can find the hardware and video stitching algorithms on Github for anyone to assemble.
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The company the Autonomous Tractor Corporation, which invented the autonomous, and cab-less tractor Spirit in 2013, has developed an aftermarket package to turn any tractor, no matter the brand, into an autonomous vehicle. The package is called AutoDrive, a safety navigation and implement management system that allows for autonomous operation. It taps into the electronics onboard the tractor and, using sensors, lasers, radio signals and artificial intelligence software, takes over the controls, without the need for a driver.
So you learned to code. Now what? The software industry is exploding, and there’s an unprecedented demand for folks with technical skills all over the world. But not all skill sets are created equal. More than 50,000 developers responded to Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey — the absolute best look at the state of the technology industry, as reported by the people actually working in it. These are the top-paying job titles you should be shooting for if you want to make six figures in the tech world, as reported by the developers and administrators working in the industry.
New research has shown that a 3D-printed scaffolding could restore function to mice that had their ovaries removed. The scientists presented their research last week at the annual Endocrine Society meeting in Boston. The mice they were testing gave birth to healthy pups. Hopefully, in the future, this procedure can restore functionality to women who have lost their ability to give birth through age, chemotherapy, or other issues.
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