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AI

How Social Networks Can Predict Epidemics And Control the World (video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 493 days ago

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Facebook might be the key to fighting a flu epidemic. And obesity. And crime. And…everything. Nicholas Christakis at Harvard Medical [...]

Genetics

Genetically Modified Salmon Could Be On Your Plate Soon

Written by: Aaron Saenz 494 days ago

This past Sunday (September 19th) the US FDA held one of the final meetings needed to approve genetically modified salmon [...]

Singularity

Chris Anderson, Head of TED, Forsees Crowd Accelerated Innovation (video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 494 days ago

Five hundred years ago, the printing press marked a rise in the power of the written word over human speech. [...]

Gadgets

Stickybits Is Like Twitter For the Internet of Things (video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 494 days ago

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Imagine every object with a barcode suddenly gaining a Twitter feed, but with photos, and videos as well as comments [...]

Robots

Badass Quadrotor Flies Through Hoops, Hauls Wood, Spies On You

Written by: Aaron Saenz 495 days ago

Holy crap, the quadrotors at UPenn’s GRASP lab are cool. Grad student Daniel Mellinger has had a busy summer with [...]

Gadgets

Free E-Reader Blio Announces September 28th Launch Date

Written by: Aaron Saenz 496 days ago

The battle of the e-readers is about to get a new contestant. K-NFB just announced that their anticipated Blio e-reading [...]

Robots

Quadrotor Robot with Open Source Computer Vision Flies Itself (video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 497 days ago

What’s the old saying – tell a robot where to fly and you help it for a day, teach a [...]

Longevity And Health

“Corn Sugar” And Lame Attempts To Mislead You About Food

Written by: Aaron Saenz 498 days ago

High fructose corn syrup could soon be known as ‘corn sugar’. The Corn Refiners Association in the US has been [...]

Robots

Kawada Unveils New Athletic Looking Bipedal Robot – HRP4 (video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 498 days ago

It’s always exciting when you add a new member to the family, especially if it’s a robot. Kawada and AIST [...]

Cyborg

‘Artificial Skin’ Out of California is Over-Hyped (video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 498 days ago

Even the coolest lab work is often years from practical applications. That’s what the media seemingly forgot in regards to [...]