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Designing Antiviral Proteins via Computer Could Help Halt the Next Pandemic
As Bill Gates sees it, there are three main threats to our species: nuclear war, climate change, and the next global pandemic. Speaking on pandemic preparedness at the Munich Security Conference...
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wants to trade real net neutrality protections for...
Net neutrality is under serious threat. President Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai plans to roll back critical net neutrality protections and hand control over the Internet to your ISPs. We can't let that...
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3-D-printed, soft, four legged robot can walk on sand and stone
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first soft robot that is capable of walking on rough surfaces, such as sand and pebbles. The 3D-printed, four-legged robot can...
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In buying Boston Dynamics, SoftBank is betting big on walking robots
by Jamie Condliffe June 9, 2017 Recommended for You Tim Cook: Technology Should Serve Humanity, Not the Other Way Around First Quantum-Secured Blockchain Technology Tested in Moscow Experts Predict...
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Twist Bioscience and the BioBricks Foundation Announce First-of-its-Kind...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Twist Bioscience, a company accelerating science and innovation through rapid, high-quality DNA synthesis, and the BioBricks Foundation today announced a...
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Mueller team lawyer brings witness-flipping expertise to Trump probes
left right left right left right A veteran federal prosecutor recruited onto special counsel Robert Mueller's team is known for a skill that may come in handy in the investigation of potential ties...
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Amazon’s New Customer
Back in 2006, when the iPhone was a mere rumor, Palm CEO Ed Colligan was asked if he was worried: “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said....
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The Arduino Foundation: What’s Up?
The Arduino Wars officially ended last October, and the new Arduino-manufacturing company was registered in January 2017. At the time, we were promised an Arduino Foundation that would care for the...
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CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing reverses Huntington's in mouse model
Disrupting a problematic gene in brain cells can reverse Huntington's disease pathology and motor symptoms in a mouse model of the inherited neurological disorder, scientists report. The researchers...
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Amazon Selects Finalists to Compete at the Amazon Robotics Challenge Event in...
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the 16 finalists in its third-annual Amazon Robotics Challenge. The teams from Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands,...
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Watch: Ray Kurzweil Predicts When We’ll Be Able to Program Matter
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video, Kurzweil predicts when he thinks we’ll get...
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An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language
A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots’ conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language. In the report, researchers at the Facebook Artificial...
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Synthetic biology engineering of biofilms as nanomaterials factories.
Format: Abstract See comment in PubMed Commons belowBiochem Soc Trans. 2017 Jun 15;45(3):585-597. doi: 10.1042/BST20160348.Nguyen PQ1,2.1Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard...
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Here's when robots will start beating humans at every task
Don't expect to see a human behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler by 2027. Or a set of human hands performing a delicate surgery by 2053. According to a new study from Oxford and Yale University...
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Google launches its AI-powered jobs search engine
Looking for a new job is getting easier. Google today launched a new jobs search feature right on its search result pages that lets you search for jobs across virtually all of the major online job...
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Psst, the human genome was never completely sequenced
he feat made headlines around the world: “Scientists Say Human Genome is Complete,” the New York Times announced in 2003. “The Human Genome,” the journals Science and Nature said in identical ta-dah...
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This Is What It’s Like To Work With The World's Deadliest Pathogens Every...
For most people, getting dressed for work is pretty simple: You select a shirt and tie, or put on an Oxford shirt and khakis... maybe, if you’re lucky, you throw on jeans and a T-shirt. For Dr. Inger...
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Sphero spinoff Misty Robotics gets $11.5 million to create a mainstream robot...
Hardware startup Misty Robotics has a daunting task ahead of it. The Boulder-based company is working on a robot aimed at mainstream consumers for employment in the home and office. But Misty certainly...
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Hackaday MakeIt NYC
to 40.733955 -74.002960 Interested in bots and generated text + visuals? Join us for a Sunday afternoon of learning, jamming and collaborating at Fat Cat Fab Lab! Come and make your own chat + twitter...
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Beyond BB-8: Why Toymaker Sphero Is Launching An Autonomous Home Robot Company
If attendees at this year’s CES took a moment to remove their virtual reality headsets, they might have spied a bunch of new home robots that debuted in Vegas. Unlike the toy bots that have driven,...
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