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What will be the largest internet company in 2030? This prediction will probably surprise you.

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Thirty years ago, it was a big deal when schools got their first computers. Today, it’s a big deal when students get their own laptops. According to Futurist Thomas Frey, in 14 years it’ll be a big deal when students learn from robot teachers over the internet. It’s not just because the technology will be that sophisticated, Frey says, but because the company responsible for it will be the largest of its kind.

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Aviation, Breakthrough Thinking, DARPA, Drone, drones, Future, Great New Product, Latest News, Science & Technology News

Cardboard drone has a one-way ticket

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In developing regions where lack of road infrastructure is problematic for those in the business of moving goods, drones are already having an impact. But also problematic is the fact that the people sending drones off to do the courier work kinda need them back again. A new cardboard drone being funded by DARPA won’t concern itself with such limitations, with the ability to deliver vital goods and disappear soon after the job is done.

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3D Printer, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, cutting edge, Future, Great New Product, Latest News, LED, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

What’s the next big thing in 3-D printing? Shapeshifting Materials

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Three-dimensional printers have brought major advances to every corner of manufacturing: Scientists have used the process to engineer human tissue, print a rubber material to make drones less dangerous to people on the ground, and create a lightweight material that’s 10 times stronger than steel and just 1/20th its density.

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Automobiles, Crazy Stuff, cutting edge, Electric Automobile, Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, Future, Latest News, Science & Technology News, Tesla

Tesla race car does 0-60 in 2.1 seconds

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Last March, we heard a crazy rumor that someone was starting a single-marque Tesla racing series alled Electric GT. Then, in November, we saw the first working prototype of the Model S P85+ race car. At the UK’s Autosport International Show on Friday, Electric GT officially unveiled the first racing-spec Tesla with a live demonstration of the new P100D version.

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3D Printer, Crazy Stuff, cutting edge, Future, Great New Product, Latest News, New Discoveries, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

3D Printed material is 10X stronger than steel

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Last September, we wrote about the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Germany and their R&D on metamaterials, hacking the internal structures of materials to create simple, non-powered machines. By experimenting with various microstructural designs, researchers were able to 3D print simple machines that can deform to create some form of actuation, allowing the 3D printing of switches, latches, door handles, and the like.

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, cutting edge, Engineering, Entertainment, Future, Game Development, Games, Human Behavior, Latest News, Machine Learning, Science & Technology News

AI is crushing humanity at poker

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The first day of the Brains vs. AI poker tournament is in the books, and the Libratus bot from Carnegie Mellon University emerged as the clear winner, collecting $81,716 to the humans $7,228. Both the players and Libratus’ creators cautioned that it was still too early to make a judgement call about who might win the 20-day tournament. But it’s clear that this year’s AI has made some major improvements on the 2015 system, Claudico, which ended up losing to humanity.

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Animals, Crazy Stuff, Future, Ideas, Latest News, Latest Trend, Robotics, Robots, Science & Technology News, Sealife

Robots are transforming how we see wildlife

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Wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas had long wanted to add up-close-and-personal images of iconic African animals to his portfolio. But to get those intimate shot of lions and leopards, he would need to crawl up right next to their sharp-toothed faces. So Burrard-Lucas devised a far less deadly alternative.

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Big Problems, Current Events, Education, Employment, Future, Hot Issues, Latest News, Science & Technology News, Technological Unemployment

Prepping people to stay ahead of technological change

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When education fails to keep pace with technology, the result is inequality. Without the skills to stay useful as innovations arrive, workers suffer—and if enough of them fall behind, society starts to fall apart. That fundamental insight seized reformers in the Industrial Revolution, heralding state-funded universal schooling. Later, automation in factories and offices called forth a surge in college graduates. The combination of education and innovation, spread over decades, led to a remarkable flowering of prosperity.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Breakthrough Thinking, cutting edge, Future, Home Technology, Latest News, Machine Learning, Science & Technology News

Here’s why an AI firm is smashing windows

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In a sound-proofed hangar on an RAF airbase just north of Cambridge, UK, Chris Mitchell and his colleagues are busy using sledgehammers to teach their computers a lesson. The team has gathered thousands of window panes and doors, all of different shapes and sizes, which they then smash, one by one, recording the distinctive shattering sound of each type of glass. Sometimes they swing sledgehammers or garden spades, sometimes they throw bricks. “We completely underestimated the mess it would make,” says Mitchell. “And how tiring it would be.”

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Big Problems, Business, Current Events, Engineering, Future, Hot Issues, Latest News, Latest Trend, Machine Learning, Robotics, Robots, Science & Technology News, Technological Unemployment

Robots will destroy our jobs and we’re not even ready for it

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The McDonald’s on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York City doesn’t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain’s other locations across the country. Inside, however, hungry patrons are welcomed not by a cashier waiting to take their order, but by a “Create Your Taste” kiosk – an automated touch-screen system that allows customers to create their own burgers without interacting with another human being.

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Automobiles, City Planning, Current Events, cutting edge, Driverless cars, Driverless vehicles, Employment, Future

Self-driving trucks to haul cargo between shipping terminals in Singapore

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Singapore’s shipping ports are already among the busiest and most efficient in the world. Now the city-state is exploring a new way to make them run even better: convoys of driverless trucks operating between terminals. The idea is that a lead truck will be driven by a human, with the follower vehicles being automated.

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