Category: New Discoveries

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Animals, Business, Current Events, cutting edge, Ecological Products, Environment, Great New Product, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News, Sealife

Beer Company Invents Six-Pack Rings That Feed, Rather Than Kill, Marine Life

A craft beer company and an ad agency brewed up a brilliant idea to save marine life if six-pack rings end up in the ocean. Are you aware that 80% of the plastic humans throw away ends up in the oceans? The sad reality is made worse when one learns that, as a result, billions of pounds of plastic are now swirling in convergences in the seas. In fact, 40% of earth’s total ocean mass is now covered by plastic.

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Birth, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, cutting edge, DNA, Genetics, Legal Issues, Medical Breakthrough, Medicine, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Three-parent baby technique produces world’s first baby

 

The world’s first three-parent baby has been born.

Scientists revealed the birth of a baby boy, now five months old, usingDNA from three parents.

Fertility experts hailed the breakthrough as “great news and a huge deal” for the future of reproduction.

But they expressed concern that it was only achieved because US scientists crossed the border to Mexico to take advantage of lax regulation.

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Current Events, cutting edge, Drone, drones, Inventions, Latest Trend, Military, military drones, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

The Anti-Drone Arms Race

Last week, the director of the Federal Aviation Administration reported that his department is receiving an average of 2,000 new registration requests for drones every day, and that it has registered up to some half a million drones since new rules went into effect in January. But as sales of drones have increased, so too have other more worrying numbers. The FAA also says it receives more than 100 reports per month of drones flying around airports and other forbidden places, where they could damage infrastructure or accidentally collide with the engine of a landing airplane.

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Biotech, cutting edge, Genes, Genetics, Ideas, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, New Viewpoints, Science & Technology News

Bill Gates Doubles His Bet That Mosquitoes Will Be Wiped Out with Gene Editing

But the technology for extinguishing species is dividing conservationists.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to double the sum it is spending to create a mosquito-killing technology that relies on CRISPR gene editing.

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Biotech, Medical Breakthrough, Medicine, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, Robotics, Robots, Science & Technology News

Robots perform surgery inside your eyeballs

The R2D2 is magnitudes more stable than the steadiest surgeon’s hand.

Doctors at Oxford University made medical history recently by successfully completing the first robot-assisted intraocular surgery. Robert MacLaren, Professor of Ophthalmology at the university, and his team managed to gently peel off a 1/1000th millimeter membrane from the inside of a patient’s eye. To do so, the team relied on a cutting-edge medical device known as the Robotic Retinal Dissection Device, or R2D2.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Employment, Machine Learning, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

Report: AI will eliminate 6 percent of jobs in five years

Within five years robots and so-called intelligent agents will eliminate many positions in customer service, trucking and taxi services, amounting to 6 percent of jobs, according to a Forrester report.

“By 2021, a disruptive tidal wave will begin,” said Brian Hopkins, VP at Forrester, in the report. “Solutions powered by AI/cognitive technology will displace jobs, with the biggest impact felt in transportation, logistics, customer service, and consumer services.”

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Breakthrough Thinking, cutting edge, Machine Learning, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

The next trick for machine learning is generating videos from photos

Show a human any photograph and they’ll able to predict what happens next with pretty decent accuracy. The woman riding her bike will keep on moving. The dog will catch the frisbee. The man is going to have a pratfall. And so on. It’s such a basic skill that we don’t consider the vast amount of information that is used to make these predictions — concerning gravity, inertia, the nature of pratfalls, etc. — and teaching computers to do the same is proving to be a key challenge in machine vision.

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Biotech, Brain, brain-computer interfaces, Breakthrough Thinking, cutting edge, Inventions, Medicine, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

Remote control of the brain is coming. How will it be used?

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Controlling the minds of others from a distance has long been a favourite science fiction theme – but recent advances in genetics and neuroscience suggest that we might soon have that power for real.

Just over a decade ago, the bioengineer Karl Deisseroth and his colleagues at Stanford University published their paper on the optical control of the brain – now known as optogenetics – in which the firing pattern of neurons is controlled by light.

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Alternative Transportation, Automobiles, Breakthrough Thinking, cutting edge, Driverless vehicles, Drone, Great New Product, Ideas, Latest News, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

Mercedes-Benz Vision Van concept sends drones to last-mile delivery

When it comes to making the concept of delivery drones a reality, using vans to handle the brunt of the work is an idea that has some merit. We saw some researchers float the idea a couple of years ago and it now appears Mercedes-Benz also sees some potential in the approach. It has teamed up with drone company Matternet to create a concept vehicle dubbed the Vision Van which would deploy drones from its rooftop to carry packages over the final leg of their journey.

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Breakthrough Thinking, Business, cutting edge, Engineering, Great New Product, Inventions, mobile technology, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, Startup

You can now take phone calls with your finger like a secret agent

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A startup called Innomdle Lab is developing a watch strap named Sgnl that will let you take calls by holding your finger to your ear.

The project is currently on Kickstarter, and has already amassed $211,000, blasting through its $50,000 goal in a matter of days.

Innomdle Lab is planning on shipping early-bird units sold on Kickstarter starting February 2017. The $99 early-bird option is already sold out, but there are still some early-bird packages still left starting at $109.

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