We should be able to travel everywhere by “pool!”
Quote of the Day: “You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.” – – Drew Carey
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Gogo to offer 60Mbps in-flight Wi-Fi in 2014
Gogo says download speeds will reach 60 megabits per second.
Gogo’s in-flight Internet service will receive a major upgrade in 2014 to support streaming video and generally offer a better web browsing experience, the company announced today.
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How Long before a Driverless Car Wins the Indianapolis 500?
Futurist Thomas Frey: In 1997, IBM staged a history-making competition between World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov and their own chess-playing computer, Deep Blue.
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World’s first living 3D printed kidneys
3D printed kidneys
Two years ago, Anthony Atala took to the stage at TED and showed the world that human organs could be 3D printed. Now, a team from eastern China has successfully printed a series of living kidneys. This is a huge step forward in the quest for 3D printed replacement organs.
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Are we close to making human-to-human mind control a reality?
University of Washington researcher Rajesh Rao, left, plays a computer game with his mind. Across campus, researcher Andrea Stocco, right, carries out the command.
With one tap on his space bar, Andrea Stocco fires the cannon on his computer game and blows a rocket out of the sky with one tap of his space bar. The game itself is unremarkable – in fact it looks like a relic of the 1980s.
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Continental and IBM to collaborate on connected car solutions for auto makers
German automotive supplier Continental has entered into a collaboration agreement with technology giant IBM.
At the Frankfurt IAA International Auto Show this week, Continental AG and IBM announced a collaboration agreement to jointly develop fully-connected mobile vehicle solutions for car manufacturers around the world.
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Fewer young people getting their driver’s licenses: Study
Young people are not in the traditional rush to get their driver’s license.
A new study by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute confirms that year after year, fewer 16 to 24 year-olds are getting driver’s licenses.
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Tapping into the Waterways in the Sky
Futurist Thomas Frey: With all of the water we have in the world, only 2% of it is fresh water. To make matters worse, only one-forth of all fresh water is accessible to humans.
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Another 1.8 million people drop their cable TV subscriptions this year
The numbers of people who pay for any type of TV service are in decline.
There’s another dismal set of numbers for the TV business from Q2 2013. About 1.8 million people ended their cable TV subscriptions during the second quarter, according to analysts at SNL Kagan.
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Researchers develop a new supercapacitor for energy storage at high temperatures
Researchers at Rice University have developed a supercapacitor that can operate at very high temperatures, using clay as a key ingredient.
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Global demand for learning games and simulations is surging
Revenues for game-based learning will grow to $2.3 billion by 2017.
According to recent analysis, the global market for learning games and simulations is growing and likely to continue to expand over the next few years, driven in large part by the booming use of mobile technologies.
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Will the ProtoHouse win the 3D printed house race?
The ProtoHouse features long, fibrous threads of plastic, unlike other 3-D printing projects which use sand or concrete.
The ProtoHouse may look like something out of science fiction, but when it’s done the architects say it will be the first house you can say came from a 3D printer. (Pics)
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