Energy storage
On paper, California’s push to transform the market for grid-scale energy storage is working even better than expected.
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Bag2Go – ‘smart’ luggage that will text you when it gets lost
Bag2Go
It can take hours or even days to hear from someone at an airline to tell you where your lost luggage has ended up — if it ever turns up at all. Wouldn’t it be easier to hear from the luggage itself?
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By 2040, 3D printer drones will become reality
The Transformer is a futuristic long-range aircraft that divides into smaller ones during or upon arrival at its mission.
By 2040, 3D printers could be so advanced they could create small unmanned aircraft, BAE Systems claim. These unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) could then potentially be used as a group of wide-winged aircraft for protracted or enduring surveillance or as rotary-winged UAVs to rescue single civilians or soldiers from dangerous situations, the defense firm’s scientists and engineers suggest.
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FBI sees driverless cars as a ‘potential lethal weapon’
FBI is more optimistic about the benefits of driverless cars when it comes to surveillance efforts.
Self-driving cars are a “potential lethal weapon,” but could make surveillance “more effective and easier,” according to FBI claims in an internal report surfaced by the Guardian.
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Jibo – the world’s first family robot for the price of a tablet
Jibo
Jibo is the world’s first family robot. He can relate to you and will become part of your family. Jibo looks like a sleekly designed minimalist version of R2-D2. Jibo is stout with a big round glassy face and turns to greet you when you walk in the door. (Video)
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FAA approves proposed SpaceX launch site in Texas
Proposed launch site for SpaceX.
A “Record of Decision” giving approval for a SpaceX Texas Launch Site in Cameron County, Texas has been published by the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) office of Commercial Space Transportation. (Video)
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Apple secretly partners with Intelligent Energy to make battery life a lot better
The two companies are rumored to be working on a fuel cell that could last days or weeks.
According to a report by the Daily Mail, Apple is rumored to be working with Intelligent Energy, a fuel-cell firm that could enable Apple’s devices to last “days or even weeks.”
The Laws of Exponential Capabilities
Futurist Thomas Frey: When people like Google CEO, Larry Page, Virgin’s Richard Branson, and X-Prize Foundation CEO, Peter Diamandis, talk about us entering into a period of abundance, there has been a natural tendency to assume we’ll be entering into a life of leisure. People won’t have to work as hard and we will all have more time for travel, vacations, and play.
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Coolest Cooler Kickstarter campaign on track to beat Kickstarter record
Coolest Cooler
A man in Oregon has set out to reinvent the cooler that you take to the beach or on camping trips. He has already raised $3 million for the project, and his fundraising effort is on track to possibly beat the Kickstarter record, The Oregonian reports. (Video)
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Top 7 blogs a student programmer should really read
The top 7 blogs will come in handy and boost your skills up a few notches.
You need to immerse yourself in the programming culture if you want to succeed as a programmer. This is more true if you’re still a student. The field of programming is so broad and there’s so much information to absorb that you’ll never come out on top if you participate from a distance. Fortunately, blogs are a readily accessible medium keep you in the loop.
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New electrochemistry technology could lead to huge improvements in batteries
The new lithium-ion battery technology charges faster, lasts longer and outputs more power than current lithium-ion batteries.
A University of Alberta research team may have made a breakthrough that will ultimately lead to dramatic improvements in the batteries that power everything from laptops and smartphones to medical devices and tools. The lithium-ion battery technology the team is currently developing charges faster, lasts longer and outputs more power than current lithium-ion batteries, according to lead researcher Xinwei Cui.
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OECD predicts global capitalism will collapse in 50 years
Symbol of capitalism
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a pro-establishment, pro-market thinking organization has released a report predicting a collapse in global economic growth rates, a rise in feudal wealth disparity, collapsing tax revenue and huge, migrating bands of migrant laborers roaming from country to country, seeking crumbs of work. They prescribe “flexible” workforces, austerity, and mass privatization.
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