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The Dubai Hyperloop: Superfast Transport Closer to Reality

October 9, 2016

Speeding Into The Future

Over the past few years, a number of governments have stepped forward in order to bring a host of innovative technologies to life, and in so doing, they have accelerated the future as never before. Now, Dubai has just taken us another great leap towards bringing some of the world’s most futuristic ideas to life.

The Dubai Future Foundation recently organized an International Hyperloop Competition in order to help make the (seemingly) impossible possible. The two day competition had contestants design three Hyperloop terminals which were evaluated by a panel of judges.

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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

October 9, 2016

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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Boeing CEO: We’ll Beat Musk to Mars

October 6, 2016

Boeing Co. once helped the U.S. beat the Soviet Union in the race to the moon. Now the company intends to go toe-to-toe with newcomers such as billionaire Elon Musk in the next era of space exploration and commerce.

sketched out a Jetsons-like future at a conference Tuesday, envisioning a commercial space-travel market with dozens of destinations orbiting the Earth and hypersonic aircraft shuttling travelers between continents in two hours or less. And Boeing intends to be a key player in the initial push to send humans to Mars, maybe even beating Musk to his long-time goal.

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Volvo’s Silent Electric Bus Detects Pedestrians And Honks At Them

October 3, 2016

Electric vehicles come with a huge benefit: peace and quiet. But that’s just what manufacturers are afraid of.

Volvo has come up with a novel way to for its silent electric buses to let pedestrians know that they’re there: The new bus detects humans in the road ahead and honks at them, just like a human driver might.

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Biotech, Birth, cutting edge, Future, Medical Breakthrough, Medicine, new technology, Science & Technology News

Scientists say making babies without eggs may be a possibile

October 3, 2016

Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs.

They have succeeded in creating healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into believing they were fertilising normal eggs.

The findings in Nature Communications, could, in the distant future, mean women can be removed from the baby-making process, say the researchers.

For now, the work helps to explain some of the details of fertilisation.

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Automobiles, Business, cutting edge, Driverless cars, Driverless vehicles, Ideas, Inventions, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

Comma.ai will make your car semi-autonomous for $24 a month

October 2, 2016

Comma.ai, the self-driving car startup helmed by iPhone hacker George Hotz, has unveiled new details about its first commercial product, the newly named Comma One. According to a report from TechCrunch, the company claims this $999 after-market kit will allow buyers to give their cars semi-autonomous abilities on a par with Tesla’s Autopilot. The physical product will be shipping before the end of the year, says Comma.ai, and will require a $24 monthly subscription fee for access to Comma.ai’s software, as well as certain in-car features like electronic power steering. The aim, said Hotz when we spoke to him earlier this year, is to provide “ghost riding for the masses.”

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Microsoft hopes to ‘solve’ cancer within 10 years by ‘reprogramming’ diseased cells

October 1, 2016

Microsoft has vowed to “solve the problem of cancer” within a decade by using ground-breaking computer science to crack the code of diseased cells so they can be reprogrammed back to a healthy state.

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3D printing can revolutionize the medical profession

October 1, 2016

Groundbreaking 3D printing and scanning techniques are improving access to fully customisable artificial limbs

Before the vehicle that she was travelling in flipped over and trapped her right leg, Leakhena Laing was a happy teenager who enjoyed climbing trees and playing football with friends. After her limb was amputated, she could only sit and watch.

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Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Employment, New Inventions, new technology, Robotics, Robots, Science & Technology News, Technological Unemployment

Construction Expert Says Robots Will Cause Thousands of Builders to Lose Their Jobs

September 30, 2016

Skyscrapers in the City of London could soon be built by robots rather than by people, according to the boss of one of the UK’s biggest construction firms. The result would be huge productivity gains as more work could be done by fewer people – but also mass layoffs as traditionally labour-intensive construction projects hire fewer and fewer staff.

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Nanotech bandage: Healing wounds in days

September 28, 2016

Egyptian researchers have developed a bandage embedded with nanoparticles for the treatment of wounds using the anti-epilepsy drug Phenytoin, known for its capacity to treat skin injuries.

The bandage can heal wounds in a few days, after just one application to soft tissue. Wounds normally take several days to a few weeks to heal completely, and some may only heal after several months or up to two years.

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Alternative Transportation, Aviation, Business, cutting edge, Drone, drones, Ideas, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News, Uber

Uber plans self-flying drone taxis

September 28, 2016

If you summon an Uber in 10 years’ time, you will probably get a car that drives itself. But then again, you may not be travelling in a car at all.

The taxi-hailing app is working on technology that would allow airborne passenger drones to fly its users short distances around cities, it has emerged, raising the prospect of a future in which skylines are dotted with Uber aircraft shuttling commuters back and forth.

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Batteries, Battery, Business, Drone, drones, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

Fuel cells about to power the drone industry

September 26, 2016

Just as their commercial use begins to spread, fuel-cell technology is improving the way drones are powered

Canadian companies are placing big bets on a better way of powering drones.

So far these stealthy units — long used by military forces for intelligence-gathering, surveillance and striking targets — have been powered by internal combustion engines or lithium polymer batteries.

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