You can make your own movie with a smartphone, go to university without ever leaving your living room, and build your own kitchen with a little help from the internet. We live in a do-it-yourself age. Continue reading… “Hope of a car industry revolution from a 3D-printed car”
An innovative eco-friendly, energy efficient lab, Honda’s smart house is able to generate its own power as a solution to living off the grid. Continue reading… “Honda’s smart house for the Future”
The U.S. economy is in its strongest stretch in corporate hiring since 1997, according to the Labor Department. It is important for employers, job seekers, and policy leaders to understand the dynamics behind some of the fastest growing professional roles in the job market, given the rapidly escalating competition for talent. Continue reading… “Why software is eating the job market”
Many industries will undergo big change in the coming years, including finance. We will probably see a fraction of the old guard displaced by energetic new upstarts. But which ones? Continue reading… “Will there be an Instagram or Uber of finance?”
The Swift programming language was first announced by Apple at WWDC 2014, albeit in beta form. Released alongside an extensive iBooks manual, it was later discovered that Apple coded the WWDC app for that year’s conference in Swift without telling anyone.
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Continue reading… “Developers reflect on the first year of Apple’s Swift”
Even as technology advances at a mind-boggling rate, batteries always seem to lag behind. It often hinders the development of novel devices and gadgets simply due to their bulky size or limited storage capacity. Continue reading… “3D, high-capacity soft batteries created using trees”
Futurist Thomas Frey: A couple weeks ago I was asked to speak at the 8th annual Turkish Postal Symposium in Antalya, Turkey on the future of the postal industry. This was a fascinating gathering of thought leaders to discuss next generation postal service.
I focused my talk around a central question – “How long will it be before we can mail a package and have it travel to a city on the other side of the world without ever being touched by human hands?” Continue reading… “Creating Humanless Distribution Networks”
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos caused quite a stir in December 2013, with the announcement of his company’s plans to offer 30-minute product deliveries via unmanned aerial vehicles (more commonly referred to as “drones”). Continue reading… “Ambulance drones on the rise”
In the dusty khaki scrubland of South Africa’s inhospitable Northern Cape province, brightly polished mirrors flash light across the landscape as they rotate slowly to follow the sun, producing electricity for 80,000 homes. Continue reading… “The leapfrogging continent”
Bolt Threads, a Bay Area startup, which announced a new $40 million round funding on Thursday, is giving spiders and silkworms a run for their money. The company has developed a synthetic, “programmable” alternative to larval- or arachnid-produced silk. Continue reading… ““Stronger than steel” clothes from yeast-engineered silk”
Led by the University of Cambridge a team of researchers have, for the first time, described in humans how the epigenome – the suite of molecules attached to our DNA that switch our genes on and off – is comprehensively erased in early primordial germ cells prior to the generation of egg and sperm. Continue reading… “DNA reprogramming in human germ cells observed for first time”
According to one speaker at Advances in Genome Biology, a conference for genomic scientists held earlier this year, the use of genome sequencing to improve patient care is no longer a far-off goal — it’s happening today. Continue reading… “Using genome sequencing to improve patient care”
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