Technology – Page 46

Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Big Problems, Robotics, Robots, Science & Technology News, Technological Unemployment

Jobs held by men are most at risk from the robot worker

August 23, 2015

The world is on the brink of a new industrial revolution in which advances in the field of artificial intelligence will obsolete human labor, according to many economists and technologists today. Two Oxford researchers recently analyzed the skills required for more than 700 different occupations to determine how many of them would be susceptible to automation in the near future, and the news was not good: They concluded that machines are likely to take over 47 percent of today’s jobs within a few decades.

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App, Great New Product, Science & Technology News, Solar Energy, Solar Power

Project Sunroof uses Google Maps data to tell you if it’s worth installing solar panels on your roof

August 20, 2015

With the help of Google Maps, there is a new service called Project Sunroof that aims to provide a “treasure map” of solar energy. Sunroof gives homeowners detailed information about how much solar power their roof can generate and how much money they could save on electricity costs by adding solar panels.

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Alternative Transportation, Future, Science & Technology News

England is testing out roads that charge electric cars as you drive along them

August 20, 2015

The UK is hoping to significantly boost the range of electric cars by introducing roads in an 18-month trial that can charge the vehicles as they drive along them.

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Great Videos, Robotics, Robots, Science & Technology News

Google’s humanoid robot can now chase you like a Terminator

August 20, 2015

Boston Dynamics, a Google-owned company, scared everyone earlier this year with its hive-mind 160-pound robot dogs that can run on almost any terrain. Now the company is taking things to an all-new level with new video of its humanoid robot, which is the closest thing to a real-life Terminator we’ve ever seen.

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App, Great New Product, mobile apps, mobile technology, Science & Technology News, sports

Vail Resorts uses EpicMix app to offer crowdsourced, real-time wait times for ski lifts

August 17, 2015

Vail Resorts is trying something different on its ski slopes this winter. The resort has updated its EpicMix smartphone app to offer its crowdsourced, real-time wait times for ski lifts. The app will collect data from the RFID-enabled season passes skiers carry at the resort. It’s one of the most ambitious efforts yet to bring Waze-style crowdsourced location data into the sports and vacation spheres.

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3D Printer, Healthcare, Latest Trend, Medicine, Science & Technology News

World’s first 3D-printed drug to blow the field of personalized medicine wide open

August 17, 2015

3D-printed widgets and other medical novelties clearly illustrate the potential of 3D printing. They are set to radically change the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. With its extreme versatility and inherent ability to customize products, many experts believe that 3D printing will finally blow the field of affordable personalized medicine wide open. Yet so far it’s been mostly hope — and plenty of hype — with little sign that the radical technology might actually become a medical mainstay.

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Business, Globalism, Internet, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Samsung hopes to provide affordable 5G Internet using low Earth orbit satellites

August 17, 2015

Thanks to a proposal by Samsung, the Internet might soon become a lot more accessible by lending the world an extra zetabyte of bandwidth every month. The proposal describes a system requiring the deployment of 4,600 Low Earth Orbit satellites, abbreviated LEO.

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Analysis, Culture, Economy, Latest Trend, Money Talk, Science & Technology News

Millennials have become the Ben Franklin generation

August 14, 2015

An online financial services start-up, Wealthfront, has squarely and unashamedly targeted Millennial wallets and raised$64 million last month. That’s on top of $35 million that venture firms plowed into the company earlier this year.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Has digital technology created a new labor movement?

August 14, 2015

The labor movement in the U.S. is finally starting to go online. It was born from the shifting economic environment created by the Industrial Revolution—and we are, once again, at a technological turning point: this time, change is driven across transistors rather than by steam engines. Labor issues are as much in flux as any part of the economy, with Uber and other “on-demand economy” companies creating both new opportunities and new perils for workers. Workers’ rights are struggling to keep pace with technological progress.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

U.S. gas stations under attack by hackers

August 16, 2015

Trend Micro researchers Kyle Wilhoit and Stephen Hilt decided to take a closer look at gas station monitoring systems after one was hacked earlier this hear. They set up fake internet-connected systems called “GasPots” — honeypots that mimic the real ones — in several countries to track hackers’ movements.

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Great New Product, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

‘Privacy Visor’ is the world’s first eyeglass with a face un-recognition function

August 12, 2015

Eyeglasses that help users protect their privacy by disabling facial-recognition systems in cameras have been developed and are set to go on sale in Japan, according to the National Institute of Informatics.

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Analysis, Business, Future, Latest Trend, Money Talk, Science & Technology News

Fintech’s future is hotter than ever

August 7, 2015

Fintech’s investment has tripled to $12.21 billion in the past year, according to Accenture’s 2015 report. Recent Jobs Act legislation is fueling this trend, with deregulation of crowdfunding leading the surge of investments from retail and institutional participants.

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