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Why the World Is (Still) Better Than You Think—New Evidence For Abundance
Your mindset matters — now more than ever. We are in the midst of a drug epidemic. The drug? Negative news. The drug pushers? The media. As I wrote in Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, we...
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What’s Next For Arduino?
Arduino, an open-source electronic platform for fast prototyping, helps electrical engineers prototype/design their projects, with the intention that they will turn into commercial products down the...
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In Puerto Rico, These Volunteers Are Dropping Supplies By Parachute
Three weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, aid workers are still struggling to deliver supplies like water and medicine–and if bad roads, fuel shortages, and downed power lines have made...
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The E in E. coli now stands for electronics
Synthetic biology—our attempt to engineer living organisms—has put a lot of effort into making genetic circuitry mimic what we do in silicon. Logical gates, amplifiers, and more have all been...
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Can You Be Hacked by the World Around You?
You’ve probably been told it’s dangerous to open unexpected attachment files in your email—just like you shouldn’t open suspicious packages in your mailbox. But have you been warned against scanning...
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Embedding CRISPR in the body could help fight Huntington’s and ALS
UC San Diego Health. by Emily Mullin October 5, 2017 The gene-editing tool CRISPR is based on a natural defense system embedded in bacterial cells that recognizes and destroys invading viral DNA. What...
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Our Reactions to the Treatment of Robots
Most of us have seen employees of Boston Dynamics kicking their robots, and many of us instinctively react with horror. More recently I’ve watched my own robots being petted, applauded for their...
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The quantum revolution is getting closer: Intel is manufacturing 17-qubit chips
Intel by Will Knight October 10, 2017 Intel has begun manufacturing chips for quantum computers. The new hardware is too feeble to do much real work, but it offers a strong signal that the technology...
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Inside the moonshot effort to finally figure out the brain
by M. Mitchell Waldrop October 12, 2017 "Here’s the problem with artificial intelligence today," says David Cox. Yes, it has gotten astonishingly good, from near-perfect facial recognition to...
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High-Performance Autonomous Vehicles
ep245 interview by Research-Innovation October 14, 2017 In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Chris Gerdes, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, about designing...
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50 Companies Leading the Artificial Intelligence Revolution
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View ArticleFacebook sneakily released a Slack competitor
Your prayers have been answered. Facebook has finally released a beta version of Workplace Chat, a desktop messaging service for businesses. The new messaging service is essentially a competitor to...
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Exclusive: Even Pokémon Go used by extensive Russian-linked meddling effort
One Russian-linked campaign posing as part of the Black Lives Matter movement used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Pokémon Go and even contacted some reporters in an effort to exploit...
View ArticleWant to see something crazy? Open this link on your phone with WiFi turned off.
Want to see something crazy? Open this link on your phone with WiFi turned off: https://bit.ly/crazymobiledemoClick “Begin,” enter the ZIP code and then click “See Underlying Data.” What you should see...
View ArticleCambridge Analytica: the Geotargeting and Emotional Data Mining Scripts
Last year, Michael Phillips, a data science intern at Cambridge Analytica, posted the following scripts to a set of “work samples” on his personal GitHub account. The Github profile,...
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‘Alt-Right’ leader Richard Spencer isn’t sure if women should be allowed to vote
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Over 2000 years of economic history, in one chart
Long before the invention of modern day maps or gunpowder, the planet’s major powers were already duking it out for economic and geopolitical supremacy. Today’s chart tells that story in the simplest...
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The female code-breakers who were left out of history books
Over the last 100 years, women have had significant, high-level roles in breaking secret codes – from Nazi ciphers to the secret messages of Al Capone’s gang – but their contribution is only just...
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Ada Lovelace Day 2017!
Gooood morning, it’s Ada Lovelace Day! This comic started on Ada Lovelace Day 2009 so every year I celebrate/mourn/as myself “what happened there?” with.. gifs! Feel free to share! In a couple of gif...
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The USA is taking on Japan in a giant robot duel you can watch next Tuesday
We’ve been waiting a long time to see the “world’s first giant robot duel,” and next week we’ll finally get to watch the metal-on-metal action. If you’ve forgotten the background, all the way back in...
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