SPACE
SpaceX Releases Video of Its Historic Reused Rocket Landing
Andrew Tarantola | Engadget
"This marks the sixth successful landing by the Falcon 9 rocket...SpaceX has since...
Adidas just announced they’re partnering with 3D printing company Carbon to mass-produce a line of shoes with 3D printed mid-soles (the spongy bit that...
There’s something eerily dystopian about the lives of cells.
Like the young heroes in popular teen novels, cells are born into stringent organ “societies,” destined...
ROBOTICS
Meet Iorek, the Robot That Communicates in a Remarkable Way
Matt Simon | WIRED
"The big question now is: How do humans want to communicate with...
It’s no secret that we’re going to struggle to feed the rapidly expanding global population. New genome editing technologies could hold the answer, according...
In the popular TV show Sherlock, visual depictions of our hero’s deductive reasoning often look like machine algorithms. And probably not by accident, given...
ROBOTICS
NASA's Origami Robots Can Squeeze Into Places Rovers Can't
Mariella Moon | Engadget
“Imagine a Martian rover that can send small robotic minions to crawl into...
Roboticists frequently turn to nature for inspiration for their inventions, reverse engineering the traits that evolution has developed over millennia. Others are taking a...
DRONES
Airbus Swears Its Pod/Car/Drone Is a Serious Idea Definitively
Jack Stewart | WIRED
"Airbus came up with a crazy idea to change all of that with...
If you think augmented reality is only fun and games, consider that we’ve already witnessed the first known police action taken against hologram technology....
We live in a hyper-connected world where communication is almost effortless. And yet, despite abundant connection, we still lack interpersonal fulfillment. The next challenge,...
From AlphaGo’s historic victory against world champion Lee Sedol to DeepStack’s sweeping win against professional poker players, artificial intelligence is clearly on a roll.
Part...
Alida Draudt and Julia Rose West are not only co-authors, business partners, and best of friends, but most importantly, they have differing points of...
Bringing extinct species back to life isn’t a science fiction fantasy anymore, even if the technology isn’t quite ready for prime time.
The newest buzz...
ROBOTICS
Humans Can Now Scold a Robot With Their Minds
Samantha Cole | Vice MOTHERBOARD
"Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), with Boston...
Technology companies left and right are developing new gadgets to advance virtual reality as an immersive entertainment and gaming platform. Others however, like VR...
The towering trees with their sprawling branches in the redwood forests have always reminded me of neurons in the brain.
Like trees, each neuron extends...
For most people the phrase “medical robot” probably brings to mind the ground-breaking da Vinci surgical system that has revolutionized minimally-invasive surgery. Either that...
Are we ready for cyborgs? More specifically, people with implants that enhance beyond the superficially cosmetic and into the realms of evolved beings?
Jorge Pelegrín-Borondo...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Facebook Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Prevent Suicide
Alex Kantrowitz | BuzzFeed
"Today, Facebook is introducing an important piece of that technology—a suicide-prevention feature that...
How do top CEOs lead during this exponential age?
How do you manage the explosion of information and onslaught of increasing competition?
How do you sort...
The year is 2050. The place, New Zealand. Technological advances have dramatically changed the lives of the island’s human inhabitants, but on first blush,...
What
On February 27, Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced plans to fly two non-astronauts, or “private citizens,” on a loop around the moon.
Who
No one except Elon...
A cognitive neuroscientist and his team at HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California, seem to have achieved the impossible.
According to a press release, the team...
