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Tag Archives: China
Retinal Implants Restore Partial Sight To Three Blind
The blind really are beginning to see again. After receiving retinal implants in a trial, two people in the UK [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Stem Cells
Tagged China, cyborg, medicine, retinal implant ag, retinal implants, Stem Cells
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From D.C. To Beijing In 2 Hours – Evacuated Tube Transport Could Revolutionize How We Travel
Daryl Oster wants to change the world by making it smaller. He wants you to “Imagine living in warm sunny [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged China, daryl oster, et3, ett, evacuated tube transport, high-speed rail, maglev, magnetic levitation
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An Exclusive Look Inside The Foxconn Factory That Makes iPads
Shenzhen China is home to one of the world’s largest – and most talked about – factories. It is where [...]
Shrugging Off Dependence On US, China Launching Its Own GPS Satellites
What would it mean to lose GPS? Not only would we resort to that archaic method of writing down and [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Singularity
Tagged beidou, China, european union, global positioning system, glonass, GPS, gps III, Russia, satellites
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China’s Newest Train Hits 500 km/h! Only a Taste of What’s To Come
What did China get for Christmas? A train set that goes 500 km/h. The experimental bullet train, which can reach [...]
Posted in Singularity, Video Central
Tagged bullet trains, China, CSR Corp Ltd, high-speed rail, Shangdong Province
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China Builds 30-Story Hotel In Just 15 Days! (video)
Broad Group, a Chinese construction company in Hunan Province has built a hotel. At 30 stories tall and 183,000-square feet, [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged Ark Hotel, Broad Group, China, prefabricated, sustainable architecture
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Mysterious Structures In Chinese Desert Captured By Satellite Explained…Most Probably (video)
There’s nothing like satellite pictures of strange structures in the Chinese countryside to spark an online conspiracy debate. News sites [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Singularity
Tagged China, conspiracy theories, google, Google Earth, Google Maps, satellite images, spy satellites
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Zu and Kong Are Two Ping-Pong Playin’ Robots
Bored? Having trouble making friends? Maybe not in the best shape? Zhejiang University’s Institute of Cyber Systems and Control in [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged China, kong, object motion tracking, ping-pong, Robots, zu
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Stem Cell Tourism: Seeking Treatment On The Internet And Paying For It With Your Life
Stem cell research has the potential to revolutionize medicine. But while researchers continue to make strides to bring the technology [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged China, medical tourism, pla hospital, stem cell therapy, stem cell tourism, Stem Cells
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Chinese Students Are Storming US Grad Schools: They Have The Money And The Brains
If you build it, they will come. No, I’m not talking about a baseball field amidst stalks of corn but [...]
Posted in Singularity
Tagged China, council of graduate schools, education, graduate schools, nathan bell, recession
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Internet Spy Room Found In Tripoli – Packed With Western Technology
From protests precipitated by Facebook posts to internet censoring by authoritarian regimes technology has played a prominent role in the [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Singularity
Tagged China, gadhafi, internet filtering, internet monitoring, privacy, tripoli
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IBM: PCs Are Yesterday’s Technology. China: Sure, But Give Us Millions More.
“My primary computer now is a tablet.” — Mark Dean CTO of IBM Middle East and Africa, 2011 Here’s a [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Video Central
Tagged China, Global Computing, ibm, Lenovo, PC, Personal Computer
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Report: Baby’s Sex Can Be Determined With Mother’s Blood At Seven Weeks
Want to find out if your baby is going to be a boy or a girl but aren’t sure about [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged blood, China, diana bianchi, dna, gender tests, Genetics, medicine, pink and blue, tufts university
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China Gains On Google in Driverless Car Race With 177 Mile Road Trip (video)
The race is on. Last month China cut their driverless car loose for a fully automated, 177 mile (286 km) [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged China, driverless car, driverless vehicle, google, hongqi hq3
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World’s Largest Electronics Manufacturer Foxconn Wants 1 Million More Robots In 3 Years. Bye-bye Human Labor
Cheap labor isn’t cheap enough for the world’s largest electronics manufacturer. Terry Gou, the CEO of Foxconn recently told employees [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged automated factory, automation, China, Foxconn, labort, robot vs human, Terry Gou
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After a Bumpy Ride China’s New High-Speed Rail Takes Off at Almost 200mph
The world is poised for another railroad revolution, and China intends to lead the way. On July 1st China’s new [...]
Kazakhstan Tries to Censor Google – But Google Fights Back
Once again Google is making headlines as they clash with another country over usage constraints. The internet giant got word [...]
China’s Cyber Attack on Google Presages Era of Digital Warfare (video)
Hackers broke in. After some investigation U.S. officials determined that the hackers were located in China. The sophistication of the [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Singularity
Tagged China, cyber crime, google, hacker, security
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Eight Out Of China’s Top Nine Government Officials Are Scientists
Did you know that the president of China is a scientist? President Hu Jintao was trained as a hydraulic engineer. [...]
China Begins Construction of Megacity Four Times the Population of New York
Imagine a city larger than all of Switzerland, twice the size of New Jersey, or with four times the population [...]
Chinese Scientists Clone Cows With “Humanized” Milk
This very moment, grazing in the fields of the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology in Beijing, China is a particular [...]
Future of Genetically Modified Rice/Corn in China May Be Both Certain and Delayed
Even as China rushes to expand its crops to feed its growing populace, it faces regulatory snags and pitfalls. The [...]
Posted in Genetics
Tagged China, genetically modified organisms, GM corn, GM rice, phytase corn
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China Erects 15 Story Hotel in Less Than 6 Days! (video)
There are many ways to get your message out to people, but one of the most impressive has to be [...]
Posted in Singularity
Tagged Ark Hotel, Broad Group, Broad Pavilion, China, Shanghai World Expo 2010
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