Some bigger news recently, though anticipated for a few months, was Tesla’s release of a highway cruise update for Model S cars from the last year.
Tesla’s...
Habib Frost, Medical Innovator & Entrepreneur
Copenhagen, Denmark
Like the swinging of a pendulum, the mind of an inventor is often inspired by the voice of...
Emerging technologies like synthetic meat, GMOs, and robotic farms provide a glimpse of a coming era in which technology solves the world's food problems. But some sobering statistics...
Forget humans versus machines: humans plus machines is what will drive society forward. This was the central message conveyed by Dr. John Kelly, senior...
To find life beyond Earth, astrobiologists like to say we need to “follow the water.” Even the hardiest terrestrial microbes, like tardigrades, need a...
ROBOTICS: Honda Using Experimental New ASIMO for Disaster Response Research
Evan Ackerman and Erico Guizzo | IEEE Spectrum
"During the Fukushima crisis in Japan, the lack of Japanese robots...
Take a deep dive into the convergence of technology and the future of healthcare at Singularity University's sixth Exponential Medicine program November 9-12th at the magical Hotel Del...
Today, agriculture is more efficient than ever, but it's also more dependent on environmental, technological, and social issues like never before. Climate change, drought and other...
Behind every great leader is a distinct journey—a trail of unique moments, memories, and experiences that, when woven together, make the individual into who...
Recently, I attended the “Silicon Valley reinvents the wheel” conference by the Western Automotive Journalists which had a variety of talks and demonstrations of new...
Governments, businesses, and economists have all been caught off guard by the geopolitical shifts that happened with the crash of oil prices and the...
This post is about achieving "significance" during exponential times.
Significance is the feeling that your life (and your work) has had a meaningful and lasting impact.
And...
Interpersonal communication just got a lot more intimate.
So intimate, in fact, that two strangers — physically separated by a mile — can literally get...
On the cusp of a far-reaching revolution thanks to the advances in artificial intelligence and computing, it's easy to feel a bit...concerned. Well, maybe more than just a bit,...
ROBOTICS: The word ‘robot’ is meaningless. Why are we still saying it?
Kevin Roose | Fusion
"The word 'robot' may end up becoming little more than a...
This Monday (September 28th) we welcomed the first group of startups entering the inaugural SU Labs Accelerator. The accelerator is a rigorous 10-week track...
If you consider how much of our world's systems revolve around scarcity — from basic needs like food and shelter to quality-of-life improving desirables — it's...
Humanity is moving from evolution by natural selection (Darwinism) to evolution by intelligent direction.
For most of human history, our average age was only about...
In Courtney Marsh’s short film ZARI a bullet-shaped helper robot trundles about doing chores. Its smooth white-on-black design is vaguely Apple-inspired; its interactions are...
A trailblazing educational technology initiative backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and the World Bank has been stopped in its tracks by the government...
ROBOTICS: Rethink Robotics' Sawyer Goes on Sale, Rodney Brooks Says 'There May Be More Robots'
Erico Guizzo | IEEE Spectrum
"Sawyer can perform tasks that require 0.1 millimeters...
Move over optogenetics, there’s a new cool mind-bending tool in town.
A group of scientists, led by Dr. Sreekanth Chalasani at the Salk Institute in La...
The question of consciousness is as old as philosophy.
And while the exact nature of human consciousness is exceedingly difficult to pin down—that doesn’t stop...
Sensors and robotics are two exponential technologies that will disrupt a multitude of billion-dollar industries.
This post (part 3 of 4) is a quick look at...
ROBOTICS: Seek-and-destroy robot to stop starfish killing the Great Barrier Reef
Michelle Starr | CNET
“Called the COTSbot (Crown-of-Thorns Starfish robot), it's designed to autonomously patrol and monitor...
When will we understand the brain?
In an era of scientific progress and emerging technologies, one would think that we were on the cusp of finally answering this age-old...
We live in an age of disruption — industries will be transformed.
This post (part 2 of 3) is a quick look at three multibillion-dollar industries (consumer...
Biotechnology is moving blindingly fast: From $1,000 human genome sequencing to CRISPR gene editing, we're approaching an era when scientists can edit and rewrite...
We live in an age of disruption — and that's a good thing.
Industries will be transformed. Major companies will fall.
Old systems will collapse as entrepreneurs...
In 2001, a team of neurologists at UC San Diego began testing a highly experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
The process sounds far more sci-fi...
ROBOTICS: Let's Treat Robots Like Yo-Yo Ma's Cello -- as an Instrument for Human Intelligence
Nicholas Agar | The World Post
"Our own human complexity suggests that...
Watch just about any science fiction movie and the allure of space is mesmerizing. It's open, seemingly infinite, and full of unknowns. It is the final...
