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Robots

Robot Domination: Automated Factory Sorts, Seals, and Ships With Little Human Contact

Written by: Aaron Saenz 310 days ago

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Robots are claiming an ever increasing portion of the manufacturing pie, and they don’t even like pie. The latest example [...]

Singularity

Great 10 Minute Talks From Harvard – Modernity, Morality, and More (video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 311 days ago

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Of the many things I love that are enabled by the internet, getting a free education has to be among [...]

Cyborg

Great New Videos of Robot Suit HAL, The Exoskeleton From Cyberdyne

Written by: Aaron Saenz 311 days ago

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The cybernetically enhanced musclemen of the future have arrived! …at Japanese nursing homes. Cyberdyne, makers of Robot Suit HAL, have [...]

Robots

The Gostai Jazz Telebot Brings French Style to Mobile Telepresence

Written by: Jeremy Ford 312 days ago

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7:00 AM PST- Investor meeting in Berlin 12:00 PM PST- Lunch with wife in Seattle 2:00 PM PST- Walk and [...]

Singularity

Lifelogging Invades the Delivery Room – Privacy in the Digital Age

Written by: Alexander Weinstock 312 days ago

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The birth of a child is most certainly a momentous occasion, one that deserves to be recorded somehow. When I [...]

Longevity And Health

US Life Expectancy is Up, Hits Record High of 78.2!

Written by: Aaron Saenz 313 days ago

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A new record high in US life expectancy raises the question, what will your children do with 0.2 more years [...]

AI

The Most Human Human, Discusses Turing Test on Daily Show

Written by: Aaron Saenz 315 days ago

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How human are you? It’s a question that strikes me as both absurd and deeply important. Brian Christian probably would [...]

Genetics

Simple Blood Test Now Detects Prenatal Down Syndrome

Written by: David Hill 316 days ago

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Things are definitely on the move in the field of fetal screening. Researchers at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and [...]

Singularity

Salman Khan Describes the Video Education Revolution at TED

Written by: Aaron Saenz 316 days ago

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Salman Khan wants to change the world, and he’s already started to transform the classroom. The founder of The Khan [...]

AI

AI Journalist Helps You Talk Trash During March Madness

Written by: Aaron Saenz 317 days ago

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Sure, you claim that your team is better than everyone else’s, but wouldn’t you like to have the hard numbers [...]