Many who reject the option of an electric vehicle say that they’ll consider one only when EVs have the range for occasional long-distance drives and can recharge about as quickly as you can refill a car’s tank with gasoline. Well, that time is nearly here—a lot sooner than even many experts in charging technology anticipated. Continue reading… “1800 miles per hour: ultra fast charging tech moving far faster than anticipated”
Glass 2.0 goes to work, and suddenly it looks normal. Maybe enterprise is where it should have been all along.
Continue reading… “Google Glass returns: this time it’s professional”
Elon Musk just casually announced on Twitter that he received “verbal government approval” for The Boring Company, his new tunnel boring startup, to build an underground Hyperloop system connecting New York city, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC.
Researchers at Facebook realized their bots were chattering in a new language. Then they stopped it.
Continue reading… “AI is inventing languages humans can’t understand. Should we stop it?”
It has become trendy to predict that higher education is on the verge of a major collapse, what with enrollments falling as loan debt and rising tuition cause students and families to ask harder questions about the value of a college credential.
Continue reading… “Number of colleges and universities drop sharply amid economic turmoil”
SHANGHAI — There is an audacious economic phenomenon happening in China.
It has nothing to do with debt, infrastructure spending or the other major economic topics du jour. It has to do with cash — specifically, how China is systematically and rapidly doing away with paper money and coins. Continue reading… “In Urban China, cash is rapidly becoming obsolete”
Visa has declared war on cash and its “opening salvo” is to start paying restaurants $10,000 to go completely cash free.
Continue reading… “The war in cash intensifies: Visa offers restaurants $10,000 to go cashless”
Circumventing your eyes entirely, this chip beams images from the world onto the brain to help restore sight
Continue reading… “This chip beams images onto the brain to help the blind see again”
The Drone Racing League has a $100,000 pot for this year’s winner.
Continue reading… “Drone racers will compete in abandoned malls and stadiums for $100,000 prize”
Rich people are going to find it easier to adapt to automation.
Continue reading… “Robots and AI are going to make social inequality even worse, says new report”
As software-based weapons and information systems start to touch all phases of conflict, military leaders are grappling with a new set of challenges.
Continue reading… “How software is eating the military and what that means to the future of war.”
Half of the country’s mobile phone users will access the WeChat app in 2017.
Continue reading… “WeChat users in China will surpass 490 million users this year”
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