Farmers are increasingly turning to drones as their newest, most efficient tool in agriculture. Let’s take a look at the facts and figures.
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Illegal drone use over New York City is steeply rising
Within a single year, illegal drone sightings in New York City have increased by 68 percent.
When New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed to establish the state’s first drone-testing corridor, this is probably not what he had in mind. New York City has seen an increase in illegal drone use of 68 percent from the first three quarters of 2016 compared with the same period in 2017.
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Edible electronics tattooed on your food could help track your health
The development of organic circuits that can be transferred onto food and pills paves the way for a new era of biomonitoring.
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AI just learned how to boost the brain’s memory
By triggering precisely timed pulses of electricity to the brain, researchers can essentially use one black box to unlock the potential of another.
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How much VC money goes to women entrepreneurs? The numbers are pretty dismal
Most venture capitalists are men who aren’t excited about women-led and women-focused businesses.
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You can now book incredibly cheap flights with a new app that lets you bid on unsold airline seats
Air Ticket Arena is a UK-based start-up that launched in February.
It lets you bid on unsold airplane tickets up to two weeks before the departure date.
It’s only available on Android, but will be available on iOs next month.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to launch the first of 11,925 internet satellites — more than all satellites that orbit Earth today
The launch is expected to also deploy two experimental communications satellites. The two satellites may test aspects of Starlink, a project to bath Earth in high-speed internet access.
The Starlink plan calls for nearly 12,000 interlinked satellites — many more than currently orbit Earth — but Musk and SpaceX have been relatively quiet about it.
Alien AI text messages are the ultimate Pandora’s Box, say scientists
What if first contact with extraterrestrial life isn’t a UFO landing in the middle of Central Park, but rather just a message sent across the stars? What might be hidden inside that alien communication?
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Should we make way for the teacherbots?
Will teacherbots applied with artificial intelligence be doing our job one day? Will they do it better than us? Jude Barback takes stock of some of the recent thinking around the future of education.
Almost half of all buses will be electric by 2025
Nearly half of all public buses will be electric by 2025 and China will emerge as the market leader.
All over the world, municipalities are making a push for cleaner buses.
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The newest weapon for the U.S. Marine Corps is a fleet of quadcopter drones.
Biomedicine: Self-Healing, Recyclable Electronic Skin
A section of the electronic skin developed by scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Biomedicine just took another leap forward. University of Colorado Boulder scientists created so-called electronic skin—e-skin for short. The e-skin is a thin, semi-transparent material that can act like your skin through measuring temperature, pressure, humidity and air flow. The new material, which was detailed in a study published Friday in Science Advances,could make better prosthetics, improve the safety of robots in the future and aid development of other biomedical devices.
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