If 3-D printers are to address world food problems in the future, they’re going to have to move into far more nutritious fare, not the sugar polyhedra and chocolate rosebuds that are currently all the rage. Continue reading… “Next for 3-D printers: healthy food”
Mountain View, California-based company, Moon Express is aiming to send the first commercial robotic spacecraft to the moon next year. Earlier this year they became the first company to successfully test a prototype of a lunar lander at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Continue reading… “NASA teams up with billionaire to mine the moon”
A lot of companies think that the next big thing are computers you wear on your face, or virtual reality. Continue reading… “A rundown of all the big players in virtual reality”
Andrew McAfee, the associate director of the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management has revealed “the best economic news in human history,” claiming that we’re on the brink of the possibility of rising living standards for everyone on earth. He says that technological progress means humanity will soon solve the problem of ‘increasing scarcity’, meaning that there are, in theory, enough goods and wages for everyone in the world. Continue reading… “The best economic news in human history”
For the past 15 years, death rates in the U.S. among white women have mysteriously soared. New research seems to have found a culprit: prescription painkillers. Continue reading… “Mysteriously rising death rates among white women”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Having been born and raised on a small rural farm in South Dakota, I grew up with a very narrow perspective of the rest of the world. With only two TV channels and three radio stations to pick from, our news options were very limited. As a teenager, watching the nightly newscasts on television, I was thoroughly amazed at all of the things happening around the world, and yet none of them were happening near me. I truly felt like I was living in a bubble, far away from all the excitement. Continue reading… “Living the Life of Bubble People and Unlocking the Next Phase of Human Existence”
Online education provider Udacity launched its Nanodegree program last year. Partnering with AT&T, the initiative’s goal is to help people develop focused vocational specialties in a short period of time.
NOTE: Anyone interested in learning to code, DaVinci Coders offers multiple courses designed to get you into the rapidly growing technology industry. For more info please visit davincicoders.com. Continue reading… “New Nanodegree program for iOS developers from Udacity”
Developed by MIT researchers a new nanodevice can help overcome cancer cell drug resistance (after chemotherapy) by first blocking the gene that confers drug resistance, then launching a new chemotherapy attack against the disarmed tumors. Continue reading… “Nanodevice can defeat drug resistance and release cancer drugs”
A new nanostructured material could make it possible to replace bulky lenses and other optical devices with a thin sheet of material such as silicon. Continue reading… “Shrinking cameras and holographic displays with paper-thin lenses”
Jonathan Vaux from Visa says that soon we’re all going to be buying things with our fridge. Continue reading… “Visa: we’re all going to have internet-connected fridges in the future”
San Francisco’s real estate market is insane and here’s definitive proof. Mortgage research site HSH.com has estimated how much salary you need to earn to afford the principal, interest, taxes and insurance payments on a median-priced home in 27 metro areas. Continue reading… “How much you need to earn to buy a home in 27 U.S. cities”
The University of the West of England has developed a prototype toilet that can convert human urine into electricity. They hope this technology can be useful is refugee camps. Continue reading… “UK university unveils electricity generating toilet”
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