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Walking DNA nanorobot could deliver a drug to a precise location in your body
Caltech scientists have developed a “cargo sorting” DNA nanorobot programmed to autonomously “walk” around a surface, pick up certain molecules, and drop them off in designated locations. The research...
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National Hurricane Center
*Spanish translations courtesy of the NWS San Juan Weather Forecast Office. Information about experimental Spanish Tropical Cyclone Forecast Discussions can be found here. Learn about hurricane hazards...
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The psychological importance of wasting time
There will always be an endless list of chores to complete and work to do, and a culture of relentless productivity tells us to get to it right away and feel terribly guilty about any time wasted. But...
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ROSCon 2017
News The Program has been published. Registration is open: That’s the Thursday and Friday immediately preceding IROS, which is happening at the same venue, the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver,...
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Education Forum
Join Make: for the 3rd annual education program focused on the leaders, influencers, and practitioners providing support, services, and programs to bring making into schools. Register Today! Make:...
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There's a $100 million plan to make a synthetic spinal cord to end paralysis
In Brief Hugh Herr and his colleagues at MIT's Center for Extreme Bionics want to change what it means to be disabled. As part of a $100 million, five-year project, the researchers are working on...
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Disney Robotics
interview by In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Katsu Yamane, Senior Research Scientist at Disney, about robotics in Disney. Yamane discusses Disney’s history with robots, how Disney currently...
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Inside Volta: The World’s Most Advanced Data Center GPU
Today at the 2017 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the new NVIDIA Tesla V100, the most advanced accelerator ever built. From recognizing speech to training...
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Why coding needs a stronger emphasis in every school
If you have been to an educational technology conference in the last 5 years, you have seen more and more emphasis placed on coding and robotics with robots making an appearance in conference sessions,...
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The Buildbotics Open-Source CNC Controller
$15,298 Funding Suspended Project Purged Back this project Share $15,298 Funding Suspended Project Purged Back this project Share Find us on: Buildbotics, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, GitHub, YouTube...
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Facebook just held a breakfast to promote its 'clinical trials...
Facebook's health team explained that users can't be targeted based on health conditions like insomnia. This is not limited to clinical trials. Marketers can target people by demographics and their...
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Neuroscience reveals 3 secrets that will make you emotionally intelligent
Emotional Intelligence. It's everywhere. They won't shut up about it. And yet nobody seems to be able to explain what it really means or how you develop it. Face it: You don't even know what an emotion...
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Why 500 million people in China are talking to this AI
iFLYTEK by Yiting Sun September 14, 2017 When Gang Xu, a 46-year-old Beijing resident, needs to communicate with his Canadian tenant about rent payments or electricity bills, he opens an app called...
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This company wants to grow A.I. by using blockchain
In the next phase of artificial intelligence development, the firm behind Sophia the robot — who once said she wanted to destroy humans — is integrating blockchain into its work. Hanson Robotics' new...
View ArticleWhy The World Needs Maker Faire
Since Maker Faire Bay Area, I have had the privilege of participating in vibrant Maker Faires in Barcelona, Xi’an (in China), Singapore, Tokyo, and Moscow. Also, during that time, we did something of a...
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Off-Grid Electrification Financing Is Failing
For all of the excitement about using solar power to bring electricity to the more than 1 billion rural poor worldwide living without it, big picture trends provide a sobering reality check. In spite...
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Satya Nadella Rewrites Microsoft’s Code
Satya Nadella’s corner office, on the fifth floor of Building 34 at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters, features a can’t-miss 84-inch Surface touch-screen computer that dominates one wall....
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Interfaces Are Killing Us: It's Time Technology Gets Out of the Way
You have superpowers; cybernetic superpowers that allow you to do all kinds of things. Think about it: at some point today you Googled a fact you didn’t know, or your calendar reminded you to be...
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Starting a Robotics Company? Sell a Service, Not a Robot
If you want to start a robot company, plan to kick off by selling a service performed by robots, not the robots themselves. That was the message of robot startup founders and investors speaking at HAX...
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Berkeley's ATC lecture series is an internationally known forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about technology and culture. This series, free of charge and open to the...
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