A robotic muscle 1,000 times more powerful than a human’s has been developed by American scientists. The robotic muscle uses a revolutionary material that fluidly changes its properties.
3D printed eye cells could one day cure blindness
Researchers have actually printed viable retina cells using an inkjet printer.
The ability to print up new, living versions of the damaged parts of your body is becoming more viable as a medical procedure, and cuts and scrapes aren’t the only maladies that medical 3D printing can help cure. Living, 3D printed retina cells could someday aid in curing many kinds of blindness.
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Craigslist job listing: ‘$40K a Year to Attend Harvard University as Me’
In Pittsburgh, a male Craigslist poster posted an ad looking for someone to attend Harvard University in his stead.
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The cyborg future of telemarketing
While a human is picking up the phone, and a human is dialing the phone, it may not be a conversation between two humans.
In the future humans will interact with each other, and machines, and systems that can only properly be called cyborg. People are fielding millions of calls from bright, energetic telemarketers, but what they don’t know is that they’re talking to machines… Sort of. (Video)
Cubli: A cube that can jump, balance itself, and walk
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The Cubli is a 15 × 15 × 15 centimeter cube that can jump up and balance on its corner. Reaction wheels mounted on three faces of the cube rotate at high angular velocities and then brake suddenly, causing the Cubli to jump up.
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Hawaii’s solar boom is so successful it’s been blocked from further expansion
Rooftop solar on a house in Hawaii.
William Walker and his wife, Mi Chong, wanted to join what’s seen as a solar revolution in Hawaii. Shortly after buying their Oahu home earlier this year, they plunked down $35,000 for a rooftop photovoltaic system. The couple looked forward to joining neighbors who had added panels, to cutting their $250 monthly power bills and to knowing they were helping the environment.
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Amazon vs. Indie self-publishing sales platforms
With an indie, as soon as you upload the file, you can sell it. With KDP, you’ve got to wait until it appears on Amazon.
Web designer and writer, Paul Jarvis has self-published three books and has sold close to a total of 10,000 copies. With two of the books he used Gumroad and Sellfy which are indie sales platforms (digital goods e-commerce services). His latest book was on Amazon’s KDP Select platform.
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The Start-up Chile visa program is a loss for the U.S.
Start-up Chile
Foreign entrepreneurs are drawn to the U.S. market. However, the U.S. immigration system throws up roadblocks to entrepreneurs. There is no “startup” visa, and the visa options that exist are unwieldy and often impractical.
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The NSA’s $10 million secret deal to get RSA to use backdoored encryption algorithm
RSA had been paid by the NSA to set the backdoored algorithm as the default method of random number generation.
A secret $10 million deal between the NSA and the security firm RSA has resulted in RSA incorporating a flawed algorithm for generating random numbers into its products, creating a backdoor into encrypted communications.
10 Jobs for tomorrow that barely exist today (Infographic)
Tomorrow’s graduates will be facing a much different environment than the ones their parents entered in the last generation. As a result of our growing reliance on the Internet and inability to curb our fossil fuel appetites, there are dozens of jobs today that didn’t exist just 10 years ago – and they pay much better than more “traditional” jobs in many cases.
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The home automation business is enabling the Internet of Things
The home automation market size is around $8.8 billion.
In terms of homes that have a broadband connection as a market for home automation, the market size turns out to be around $8.8 billion at $100 spent per home or $880 billion at $10,000 for the U.S. If we are a little more conservative and say that only those broadband subscribers who use smartphones are targets, the range turns out to be about $5.63 – $563 billion. In order to capture this opportunity a number of business models have come into play. While these are not new business models, it is interesting to see how this opportunity is being captured.
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Why are we being kept in the dark about the discovery of Noah’s Ark?
Sometimes we have an amazing lack of knowledge about history. Ordinary people are hungry for this information, yet the organizations responsible to disseminate these facts seem to have an agenda to keep us in the dark. This is especially true when it comes to our ancient human history.
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