Want an outfit that can change on command, or a device that could lead you to new friends?
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New Robot May Have Eliminated Need for Herbicides
Thanks to machine learning and big data, Deepfield Robotics had built a robot named, Bonirob, which picks out weeds in crops.
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Chinese Parent’s Craze for Preschool Coding Classes
In a world where technology is rapidly changing, Wu Pei began teaching her 6-year-old son to code. She began this journey thinking he’d enjoy learning a new skill that might boost his future job prospects, but now she runs classes in Nanjing, China to help parents introduce their children to the world of coding.
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Supervillains Rejoice – Scientists Develop “Freeze-Ray”
After a decades-long quest, a team from the University of Washington has successfully used a laser to cool down a liquid.
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Your Company Can Now Pay for Business-Related Commutes with Uber
Uber users are now able to switch to a ‘business’ account to expense work-related rides to their company and allows them to track personal rides separately.
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More Mexicans are leaving the U.S. than coming in: Study
In a reversal of one of the most significant immigration trends in U.S. history, more Mexicans are leaving the United States than migrating into the country, according to a study published Thursday by the Pew Research Center.
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World’s first Bitcoin debit card launched by Coinbase
Coinbase announced last week a new Bitcoin debit card that will allow U.S. users to pay with Bitcoin anywhere Visa is accepted.
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Scientists create cyborg rose
Swedish scientists are taking the futuristic idea of plant cyborgs and making the leap from science fiction to real-world science. They have been working on ways to regulate plant growth, using electronic wires grown inside the plants own nutrient channels to host sensors and drug-delivery systems. The aim is to provide just the right amount of plant hormones at just the right time. Such efforts could provide even more precise human control over plant production and agriculture.
Scientists create ANNABELL, an artificial system capable of learning human language
One of the most impressive complex cognitive processes is the ability to learn and creatively use language. It’s those processes that continue to set humans apart from even the most advanced machines. However, a team of scientists has now created an artificial system of neurons that is capable of learning words, phrases and syntax with no prior programming, thereby sustaining a dialog using processes that resemble mental actions.
Scientists propose new laser that could make things hotter than the center of the Sun instantly
A team of scientists from Imperial College London have proposed a laser model that can could heat materials to temperatures hotter than the center of the Sun in just 20 quadrillionths of a second. That’s 10 million degrees Celsius almost instantaneously.
Top 3 ways exponential technology will impact the future of learning
Exponential technologies tend to move at a slow pace then to a disruptively fast pace. We often don’t notice technologies in the deceptive growth phase, until they begin changing the way we live and do business. Driven by information technologies, products and services become digitized, dematerialized, demonetized and/or democratized and enter a phase of exponential growth. (Video)
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Murder rate in U.S. cut in half over past 20 years while gun ownership increases
Last week, the Pew Research Center reported that the murder rate was cut nearly in half from 7 per 100,000 in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2013. Over the same period, overall gun deaths (including accidents and suicides) have fallen by one-third from 15.2 to 10.6 per 100,000.
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