Living humans don’t stand a chance when a giant hedge fund is bidding on all the foreclosed houses in a poor neighborhood — but that’s OK, because rapacious investors make great landlords. Continue reading… “Hedge funds buying up of foreclosed subprimes, raise rents, float rent-bonds”
Having invented a device that lets you see “three times better than 20/20 vision” without wearing any contacts or glasses at all — for an entire lifetime, an optometrist from British Columbia believes he’s created the holy grail of corrective lenses. Continue reading… “New crazy device that promises perfect vision for the rest of your life”
McMaster University scientists, discovered, simply by having people roll up their sleeve and provide a blood sample, how to make adult sensory neurons from human patients. Continue reading… “Turning blood into neural cells”
North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers have created, using electrochemistry, a reconfigurable, voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna that may play a role in future mobile devices and the coming Internet of Things. Continue reading… “Tunable voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna”
According to new estimates from the International Monetary Fund, which puts the cost of subsidizing fossil fuels at an enormous $5.3 trillion a year, or around $10 million a minute every day, global energy subsidies are quite a lot larger than most of us thought. Continue reading… “Fossil fuels subsidies cost the world $10 million a minute”
Networking is about establishing mutually beneficial relationships, not franticly gathering business cards and phone numbers as fast as you can, and to do so you have to do more than speed through a conversation. Continue reading… “Infographic shows how to become a master networker”
According to a leading AI scientist employed by the company, Artificial intelligence that can emulate human reasoning and even emotions is within Google’s reach. Continue reading… “Google could be on the brink of AI capable of natural conversation”
When work on the first cubesat in 1999 began, Jordi Puig-Suari and Bob Twiggs has a rather basic goal – to develop a compact satellite that university students could build and use to conduct scientific experiments and test out new technologies. Continue reading… “Small ‘Cubesats’ finding a bigger role in space”
Thanks to an alarming and futuristic ad campaign, the litterbugs that make the world their personal dumpster can no longer hide in the shadows. Continue reading… “Hong Kong billboards use DNA to identify and shame litterers”
For a long time, the discussion about the relationship between religious beliefs and the rejection of science, has been pretty confused, especially its two most prominent U.S. incarnations, evolution denial and climate change denial. Continue reading… “Chart shows the surprising links between faith and evolution and climate denial”
Design practice, Forward Thinking Architecture, has designed a concept for modular floating farms that harvest sunlight and rainwater, as well as desalinate saltwater and grow thousands of tons of vegetables ever year. Continue reading… “Solar powered floating farm that could produce 20 tons of vegetables a day”
The screen-making subsidiary of LG, LG Display, unveiled, at a press event in Korea, an impossibly thin “wallpaper” proof-of-concept television. Continue reading… “LG unveils press-on ‘wallpaper’ TV less than 1mm thick”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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