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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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Military, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

Navy tests unmanned ‘Bladerunner’ robotic speedboat

An unmanned robotic speedboat dubbed ‘Bladerunner’ is being trialled by the Royal Navy in secret tests that could revolutionize maritime warfare.

The high-speed vessel, which will take to the River Thames in London today for tests, is designed to carry out surveillance operations and does not carry weapons.

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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, Cinema, Culture, cutting edge, Engineering, Film, Inventions, Latest News, Latest Trend, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News, Virtual Reality, VR

Cinematic VR Challenge shows how Virtual Reality will transform film

 

As the sun set over the Olympic Mountains on a warm and muggy Sunday, I trekked from the manicured suburbia of Sammamish, Wash., to Seattle’s historic Fort Lawton district, where an eclectic home, known as the Bird House, sits among low-hanging branches at the end of a quiet street.

The Bird House belongs to musician Perry Emge, and on this day, he and his home were playing host to the SIXR Festival’s Summer 2016 Cinematic VR Challenge.

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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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3D Printer, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, cutting edge, Engineering, Food, Great New Product, Latest News, Latest Trend, new technology, Science & Technology News

The Chef is a 3-D Printer

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Talk about an immersive dining experience.At Food Ink, the main draw isn’t even the food, but the way in which it’s made. You see, everything at this London concept restaurant is 3D-printed. From the dishes to the dishes upon which they sit, you’re eating at the throne of technology. Because who wants hand-prepared meals when they can be printed?Self-described as a “conceptual pop-up dinner series where fine cuisine meets art, philosophy, and tomorrow’s technologies,” this exceptionally unique experience uses 3D-printing to make the food, the utensils, the furniture — literally everything.

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Business, Clothing, cutting edge, Future, Ideas, Inventions, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

The end of air conditioning? Scientists develop clothing that cools the body .

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An end to arguments over the temperature of office air conditioning could be on the horizon after scientists invented a material which cools the body by 4F.

The new cloth reflects sunlight while also allowing heat radiating from a person’s body to escape.

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Agriculture, AI, Farming, Farms, Ideas, Inventions, Latest News, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News, Self-driving Cars

Modern Farm Tractors Feature Everything But the Farmer

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As Detroit car makers and Silicon Valley tech giants vie to bring driverless cars to U.S. roads, one of the world’s largest tractor makers is looking to do the same down on the farm.

Case IH, the agricultural-machinery unit of CNH Industrial NV, this week unveiled a sleek, aggressive-looking red-and-black machine at the annual Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.

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Alternative Transportation, Automobiles, Business, Ford Motor Company, Inventions, Latest News, new technology, Science & Technology News, Self-driving Cars

Ford plans to deliver self-driving cars with no steering wheels, brake or gas pedals by 2021

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Ford says it’s going to deliver self-driving cars by 2021 – and these will ship in volume, and will also lack steering wheels, brake or gas pedals, offering full Level 4 self-driving features which don’t require a human driver at all, the company announced at a press conference in Palo Alto today.

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Biotech, Breakthrough Thinking, cutting edge, Ideas, Latest News, Medical Breakthrough, New Discoveries, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

Scientists explore cells in virtual reality

After generations of peering into a microscope to examine cells, scientists could simply stroll straight through one.

Calling his project the “stuff of science fiction,” director of the 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) John McGhee is letting people come face-to-face with a breast cancer cell.

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