1995, upon taking over Fortune Magazine, which was then badly in need of an overhaul, the great editor John Huey famously told his staff: “From now on, people aren’t going to get rewarded for perfect attendance.”
People are raising hundreds of millions selling digital coins online — it’s either the future of funding or a ‘bubble’
LONDON – Startups around the world are raising hundreds of millions of dollars by issuing new digital coins, a trend that has made people both excited and concerned. Continue reading… “People are raising hundreds of millions selling digital coins online — it’s either the future of funding or a ‘bubble’”
A sleeper bus with pod-like rooms is coming to California
The concept of the sleeper bus isn’t foreign to the seasoned traveler. We’ve endured them throughout a large portion of Southeast Asia, after all, and that’s just one small corner of the world. Now, however, the idea has come to California, resulting in a sleeper bus that takes passengers between San Francisco and Los Angeles overnight.
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Disrupting the cow: This plant-based burger smells, tastes and bleeds like the real thing
Pat Brown wants every piece of meat consumed in the world to be made entirely from plants. He’s going after the carnivores — and the meat industry that serves them red, bloody, marbled meat. Continue reading… “Disrupting the cow: This plant-based burger smells, tastes and bleeds like the real thing”
Trailblazing entrepreneurs and free agents wanted
The Colony Workspace at DaVinci Institute is home to over 25 companies, and we currently have a few primo office suites available, some with spectacular views of the mountains.
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Beyond the five senses
The world we experience is not the real world. It’s a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world change if we had new and different senses? Could they expand our universe?
In the AI age “being smart” will mean something completely different
Andrew Ng has likened artificial intelligence (AI) to electricity in that it will be as transformative for us as electricity was for our ancestors. I can only guess that electricity was mystifying, scary, and even shocking to them — just as AI will be to many of us. Credible scientists and research firms have predictedthat the likely automation of service sectors and professional jobs in the United States will be more than 10 times as large as the number of manufacturing jobs automated to date. That possibility is mind-boggling.
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We’ve been worrying about the end of work for 500 years
Will machines take over jobs? We’ve been wondering for hundreds of years
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The Fourth Industrial Age will be about AI understanding us, not the other way around
While we’re not going to let the bots take over just yet, it’s clear that bots are going to meet our needs, offer proactive advice, and serve us. The truth is, we won’t try to understand technology. Technology will try to understand us.
Hampton Creek is now growing its own meat in labs—and it says it will get to stores first
The maker of vegan mayonnaise has been working on getting lab-made meat onto dinner tables everywhere. It’s just that nobody knew about it.
Amazon’s Alexa has gained 14,000 skills in the last year
Amazon’s Alexa is gaining knowledge at a rapid clip.
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All Volvo cars will be electric or hybrid within two years
It’s the first major automaker to stop selling gas- or diesel-only vehicles
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