JD.com is planning to build 185 drone airports in Southwest China.
The airports will help products reach villagers, while also delivering rural products across China.
This is the latest move by tech companies, including Alibaba, to capitalize on the growing rural market.
Robots could also reduce food waste and help harvest crops, but they may not be commercially available for some years to come, say experts.
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Like a lot of children, my sons, Toby, 7, and Anton, 4, are obsessed with robots. In the children’s books they devour at bedtime, happy, helpful robots pop up more often than even dragons or dinosaurs.
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Some tech trends fizzle out and die a quiet death, while others are so significant that they transform our world and how we live in it. Here are the top nine tech mega-trends that I believe will define 2018 and beyond.
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By all measures, graphene shouldn’t exist. The fact it does comes down to a neat loophole in physics that sees an impossible 2D sheet of atoms act like a solid 3D material.
Continue reading… “Strange atomic ripples in graphene could unlock clean, limitless energy”
Bitcoin futures debut with 26% rally, trigger Cboe trading halts.
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On December 3, 1992, a 22-year-old engineer named Neil Papworth sent the first-ever text message to his friend Richard Jarvis. It was sent from his PC computer, and Jarvis had no way of inputting a reply into his Orbitel 901 landline phone, but it was nevertheless the advent of a new type of communication. Nokia didn’t debut the first text message-enabled phone until 1993, and texting remained expensive and inconvenient for years after that, but by 2008 it had become a part of daily life.
A publisher of repair manuals reports that owners are discouraged by plastic engine covers.
The CEO provides some amusing alternative uses for the covers.
Covers can be removed without voiding a car’s warranty.
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Around 5,000 nursing-care homes across the country are testing robots.
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A new report suggests that over a quarter of 18-34 year-olds will feel it’s normal to form friendships and even romantic relationships with robots in the future.
The world’s largest automaker is getting into the ride-sharing business as it prepares for a world with fewer cars.
Everipedia today announced Wikipedia co-founder Dr. Larry Sanger would be joining the company as it prepares to bring its online encyclopedia to the blockchain.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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