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Lilium: The first electrical vertical take-off and landing plane
There will soon be a personal craft that can take off and land vertically. It will be electric and seat two people, and is the starting point for what is hoped will be a generation of environmentally friendly and quiet planes. CEO Daniel Wiegand is wanting the plane to be suitable for daily use as an airport is not needed.
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Unbundled Education is allowing students to customize their educational experience
Why pay for a whole degree, taking classes you don’t really want, spending multiple years to build skills that you may never use? Unbundling is happening to education and the results are students with customized portfolios, projects that are orientated towards skills employers are looking for, and industry level experience.
Startups seeing trend of cutting overspending on employee perks
Climbing walls, vacation money, and on-site barbers are all employee perks that could be getting the axe this year in some of Silicon Valley’s start-ups. The culture, finding their venture capital drying up, has become more cash strapped and are starting to take conservative measures to keep the business operating.
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Bots are coming to market
It used to be that the dream of an iPhone developer was to get an app in front of every user, but now with saturation of the app market and the demands of technological growth, bot stores are becoming the new fad. Chatbots are text based services that let users complete tasks such as checking news, organising meetings, ordering food or booking a flight by sending short messages.
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Driverless Car race gaining momentum
Self driving cars are becoming very popular. So popular that now over 30 companies are trying to make driverless vehicles. The companies were identified using CB Insights’ investment, acquisition, and partnership data. Apple, Google, and Uber are among the tech heavyweights looking to cash in on autonomous cars, while traditional automotive firms like Audi, BMW, and Daimler are also investing in research.
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Ray Kurzweil predicts Solar Will Dominate Energy Within 12 Years
Ray Kurzweil has made a number of predictions that have been surprisingly correct in the last few decades. His newest prediction, made at a medical technology conference, is that in a little over a decade solar dominate the energy arena. That may be difficult to believe considering it currently only supplies 2% of global energy.
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Redefining Space as a Commodity through Coworking and Coliving
Basing your business models on commercializing untapped resources is a good way to build profitable companies. Facebook taps its users to generate content and now other organizations are realizing the potential of gathering, processing, and storing data. Other industries are using space as a resource, like utilizing rooftops of large malls and buildings to build solar panels. Airbnb allows people to make income off unused space in their homes by renting to travelers. Space is becoming a commodity.
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Zuckerberg shows off Augmented Reality glasses during F8
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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Do you need a degree to get a job as a computer programmer?
Two candidates apply for a software development position: One has a degree in computer science from a prestigious school. The other is self-taught with several years’ experience under his belt. Which one one gets the job?
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Drone successfully delivers package in Nevada
A drone successfully delivered a package to a Nevada residential location. This was the first fully autonomous urban drone delivery completed in the US.
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Grid storage technology helps to integrate renewables
Developing cheap energy storage is a critical step in moving to renewables and away from fossil fuels as the primary source of electricity: it’s the only way such intermittent sources can supply power to the grid when the wind’s not blowing and the sun’s not shining.
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