If you have a job, odds are society benefits from your work, and theoretically, the compensation you receive is how the marketplace values your contribution. All...
Building houses of brick is almost as old as human civilization itself, and over the millennia, we’ve perfected the art. The fastest bricklayers can...
Lately, media around the web has been bracing for robots — not time-traveling robots per se, but robot workers. Specifically, the increased sophistication of artificial intelligence and...
Four revolutions in transportation are taking place this decade.
This post is a look at how they will shape your life, your business and our world.
In...
SPACE: Why Send Humans to Space When We Can Send Robots?
Daniel Oberhaus | Motherboard
"The first marketable, personal computers in the late 70s came about...
If you’re a science fiction fan—you are well familiar with holographic displays floating in midair. Maybe it’s Princess Leia materializing above R2-D2 or Tony...
Scientists first transcribed the genome—or complete genetic code—of a free living organism in 1995. Sequencing the bacterium H. Influenzae took a little over a...
You may recall that late last year, a breakthrough in manufacturing occurred a few hundred miles above the Earth.
After having sent a 3D printer to the...
Discussing security and internet privacy on a panel with California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and Singularity University CEO Rob Nail, Goodman nicely distinguishes the Surface, Deep, and Dark...
Machine learning and data science will do more to improve healthcare than all the biological sciences combined.
This post is about how we're going to gather...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Google DeepMind Teaches Artificial Intelligence Machines to Read
arXiv | Technology Review
"A revolution in artificial intelligence is currently sweeping through computer science. The technique is...
When we let our minds wander, sleeping or waking, they begin mixing and remixing our experiences to create weird images, hallucinations, even epiphanies.
These might...
Recently, Google’s DeepMind—an artificial intelligence firm acquired for over $400 million in 2013—has been widely featured for demonstrations of an algorithm that teaches itself to play...
Visiting Singularity University (SU) for the first time, social entrepreneur and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said he wasn’t sure what to expect. But on...
ROBOTICS: China’s Troubling Robot Revolution
Martin Ford | The New York Times
"Automation has already had a substantial impact on Chinese factory employment: Between 1995 and 2002...
We live in a time when our news feeds are packed with stories about technological advancements, scientific discoveries, and breakthrough innovations, so much so that...
For those who need them most, brain implants have made inspiring strides in recent years. One implant eases the involuntary tremors associated with Parkinson’s...
I was recently asked about the synergies between autonomous vehicles or robocars and ultracapacitors/supercapacitors. It turns out they are not what you would expect, and...
For fans of flesh-and-blood feats of strength and agility, last weekend was heaven. Added to the NHL playoffs and NBA finals, race horse American Pharoah...
Here's a story about how humanity is seemingly hellbent on creating sword-wielding robots. Shocking? Yes, but the video evidence chronicles our repeated efforts to do just...
This article was co-written by Elie Calhoun.
Nathaniel Calhoun focuses on the intersection of last mile development work challenges, mobile education for poverty alleviation and ecological...
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ROBOTS: Meet the New Generation of Robots for Manufacturing
James Hagerty | Wall Street Journal
"Another big trend at work: The Renault robots are 'collaborative,' designed to work...
Come to Singularity Hub for the latest from the frontiers of finance and technology as we bring you coverage of Singularity University and CNBC's Exponential Finance...
Come to Singularity Hub for the latest from the frontiers of finance and technology as we bring you coverage of Singularity University and CNBC's Exponential Finance...
The Bitcoin saga is worthy of Homer. Heroes, priests, and prophesies. From humble origins on the fringes, the cryptocurrency has reached stratospheric highs and...
Come to Singularity Hub for the latest from the frontiers of finance and technology as we bring you coverage of Singularity University and CNBC's Exponential Finance...
Come to Singularity Hub for the latest from the frontiers of finance and technology as we bring you coverage of Singularity University and CNBC's Exponential Finance...
We're in New York this week to bring you coverage of Singularity University and CNBC's Exponential Finance summits. Bitcoin, blockchain, mobile banking, peer-to-peer lending, AI financial...
Millennials are those born between 1980-2000, today between the ages of 15-35. This post is about millennials – why they are changing the game, how to...
Last week was packed with robot videos. It was a diverse bunch: Robot cheetahs jumping hurdles, an origami bot moved by magnetic fields, another teaching...
