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Ray Kurzweil: What Is the Future of Capitalism?
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 suggests there is more consensus about...
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What was Mike Pence touching at NASA and is it okay?
It’s unusual for NASA to go viral, but that’s what happened this morning: it was hard to avoid a photo of Vice President Mike Pence appearing to make first contact with a piece of NASA equipment — that...
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Automation has totally eliminated just one career in the last 60 years
We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our site. By continuing to use our site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Commentary and analysis shaping our Global, Regional and...
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Why Amazon is eating the world
I co-founded a software startup in December. Each month, I send out an update to our investors to keep them updated on our progress. But the past month was a bit different – our industry (retail) is...
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FIRST (firstinspires)
138 FollowersFollowingwww.firstinspires.orgIt's more than robots. It's a movement.BoardsPins FIRST LEGO League Jr.PinsFIRST LEGO LeaguePinsFIRST Tech ChallengePinsFIRST Robotics CompetitionPinsK-12...
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Hawking says Trump's climate stance could damage Earth
Stephen Hawking says that US President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement could lead to irreversible climate change. Prof Hawking said the action could put Earth onto a...
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Republican Lawmakers Buy Health Insurance Stocks as Repeal Effort Moves Forward
Just as the House Republican bill to slash much of the Affordable Care Act moved forward, Rep. Mike Conaway, a Texas Republican and member of Speaker Paul Ryan’s leadership team, added a health...
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Baidu's self-driving tech plans revealed
In the race to develop self-driving technology, Chinese Internet giant Baidu unveiled its 50+ partners in an open source development program, revised its timeline for introducing autonomous driving...
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Robots may soon be helping travelers lost inside Japan’s biggest rail stations
Why it matters to you The robots will be a welcome sight for anyone lost inside one of Japan's larger, labyrinthine train stations. Anyone arriving for the first time in one of Japan’s larger train...
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Could a Robot Be President?
President Donald Trump reportedly spends his nights alone in the White House, watching TV news and yelling at the screen. He wakes up early each morning to watch more television and tweet his anger to...
View ArticleDear Silicon Valley VCs, your trite sexism apology blogs of self-regard are...
Venture capitalist Dave McClure is done. This one's important. VCs come and go all the time, but McClure is out at 500 Startups, the Mountain View, California-based venture fund and startup accelerator...
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Apply for the WE17 SWENext Awards
K-12 Outreach Shares 48Applications are now open to rising junior and senior high school SWENexters for our SWENext Global Innovator Awards at WE17 in Austin, TX. Shares 48 Shares 48 Be Part of WE17,...
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Amazon’s Alexa passes 15,000 skills, up from 10,000 in February
Amazon’s Alexa voice platform has now passed 15,000 skills – the voice-powered apps that run on devices like the Echo speaker, Echo Dot, newer Echo Show and others. The figure is up from the 10,000...
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Civilized society 2117, Part 6: Cristina Andersson: “Civilization will be an...
There are particular places where you can say the past meets the future. Whether it’s cliché or not, the saying is so fitting for Airo Island, located next to the former waterworks in the City of...
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Machine Reasoning Gets a Boost With This Simple New Algorithm
There’s a classic scene in almost every police procedural: a weathered detective stands staring at a collection of photos pinned to a wall. Thin, red yarn traces the connections between the different...
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Robots will charge Volkswagen EVs so you don't have to
Like many other auto companies, Volkswagen has been working on autonomous vehicles, partnering with companies like NVIDIA and Mobvoi along the way. Today, the company announced an extended partnership...
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In the Deep, Dark Sea, Corals Create Their Own Sunshine
But deeper in the water, it’s dark and the little light that reaches that far down is only in the blue part of the spectrum. Somehow, there are corals that live up to hundreds of feet below the surface...
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Robotics Industry Has Big Future as Applications Grow
Robotics are about to take off, with applications for the technology expanding across many different industries, said Susan Teele, the head of marketing and communications for the Pittsburgh-based...
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Opinion
Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election may not have altered the outcome of any races, but it showed that America’s voting system is far more vulnerable to attack than most people realized. Whether the...
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6502 Retrocomputing Goes to the Cloud
In what may be the strangest retrocomputing project we’ve seen lately, you can now access a virtual 6502 via Amazon’s Lambda computing service. We don’t mean there’s a web page with a simulated CPU on...
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