Blazing fast speeds will bring about the kind of connectivity people have been dreaming about for a long time.
If the Internet were 100 times faster than it is today, how would this super-high-speed connectivity affect the economy, health care and education?
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It could take up to the year 2030 for physical money to disappear from Sweden’s system altogether.
Four out of five purchases in Sweden are paid for electronically or by card according to a new report from the Swedish news organization, The Local. They also report that Swedes are using electronic payments 260 times per person, per year.
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“There are almost five jobs for every one web developer.”
Coding boot camps are quietly emerging at the new vocational school for the digital age. This new educational institution is devoted to creating much needed software developers.
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Twitter users can tweet a payment to their followers.
Twitter users in France can now publicly repay debts, donate to charity or chip in for a gift with a new payment service backed by the country’s second-largest banking service.
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The frozen pills take the place of fecal transplants.
A new study has found that just two days of a treatment with poop in pill form can cure a dangerous infection that kills 14,000 Americans per year.
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Electric generator
Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have reported that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), resulting in a unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchable.
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Remote controlled flapping bird robot.
Kazuhiko Kakuta is a medical Doctor of Allergy, and in his free time he likes to build flying mechanical birds with his son. He has created a remote controlled, flapping bird robot. (Videos)
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War for developers
The emergence of next-generation social, mobile, analytics and cloud technology has sparked a war for developers able to continue the fast pace of innovation. Enterprises that want to remain in business tomorrow would be wise to make the right changes today.
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A normal mitochondria (left) contain distinctive folds known as cristae, but these folds are lost in damaged or dysfunctional mitochondria (right).
A team of Penn State scientists have discovered a “maternal age effect” that could be used to predict the accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations in maternal egg cells — and the transmission of these mutations to children — could provide valuable insights for genetic counseling. These mutations cause more than 200 diseases and contribute to others such as diabetes, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease.
The battery is expected to be on the market in 2 years.
Are you tired of waiting an hour for your phone to charge before you leave the house? Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have come up with the best solution yet – a lithium ion battery that charges to 70 percent in just two minutes.
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The decoy protein significantly slowed metastasis in the study.
Often times, cancer begins in one part of the body and spreads elsewhere via the bloodstream or lymphatic system. This spreading, called metastasis, makes the disease deadly and difficult to halt—even using chemotherapy drugs with serious side effects.
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Recruiters will need to look into their crystal balls to determine what campus recruiting will look in the future.
The employment landscape will continue to change as technology moves forward. What does this mean for campus recruiting in 2020 and beyond? It will look much different from today – students will have different majors, use different technologies, and plan for completely new and undiscovered career paths.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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