2018 Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship application NOW OPEN!
In 2012, the Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship was established, in memory of long tenured and passionate FIRST supporter, distinguished pediatric oncologist, cancer pharmacologist and devoted...
View ArticleCRISPR toolbox gets two new molecular gadgets, boosting gene-editing
he acronyms might not be quite as catchy as CRISPR — since, really, what is? — but what new genetic tools dubbed REPAIR and ABE lack in whimsy they promise to make up in utility. These advances...
View ArticleWhen man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
Earlier this year I went to an event in Austin, Texas, billed as a sneak preview of the evolution of our species. The #Bdyhax Conference, which took place in a downtown exhibition complex, promised a...
View ArticleAmazon Is Quietly Building the Robots of Sci-Fi—Piece by Practical Piece
Science fiction is the siren song of hard science. How many innocent young students have been lured into complex, abstract science, technology, engineering, or mathematics because of a reckless and...
View ArticleMechanical Marvel Trades Courage for Chocolate
When we see what [Jason Allemann] does with LEGO, we wonder why more one-offs aren’t made this way. This time he’s made a Halloween mechanical marvel that will surely scare more kids than anything else...
View ArticleA tool to debug ‘black box’ deep-learning neural networks
Researchers at Columbia and Lehigh universities have developed a method for error-checking the reasoning of the thousands or millions of neurons in unsupervised (self-taught) deep-learning neural...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Marketplace: Enroll for 2015 Healthcare Coverage
Get ready to join the millions already enrolled in Marketplace coverage. Sign up for email and text updates to get important Open Enrollment reminders -- including a note as soon as 2015 plans and...
View ArticleSpooky Saturn
Like any extended family, the Cassini mission enjoys holiday traditions - such as transforming our homepage into a spooky landscape for Halloween. This year – the mission’s last Halloween – we offer a...
View ArticleMicrosoft launches new healthcare division based on artificial intelligence...
Microsoft is setting up a new healthcare department at its Cambridge research facility, as part of plans to use its artificial intelligence software to enter the health market. The computer giant has...
View ArticleThe 10 Top Recommendations for the AI Field in 2017
Let’s begin by removing ‘black box’ algorithms from core public agencies Today we released our second annual research report on the state of artificial intelligence. Since last year’s report, we’ve...
View ArticleWarehouse robot startup Kindred signs up the Gap to test its first commercial...
Kindred, a San Francisco-based robotics and artificial intelligence startup, is bringing its human-assisted robotic arms to a big-name retailer. For the last six weeks, Kindred’s new production model...
View ArticleWe’ve evolved an even more powerful form of CRISPR gene editing
Biologists have created a highly precise tool for changing the code of DNA. It should be more powerful at fixing genes than standard CRISPR gene editing, and safer too. Normal CRISPR gene editing can...
View ArticleUS robots maker Wonder Workshop raises $41m from Tencent, SoftBank Korea, others
US educational robotics player Wonder Workshop has raised $41 million in a Series C round joined by Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings, MindWorks Ventures, and SoftBank Korea, according to a report in...
View ArticleThe Web began dying in 2014, here's how
Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many people using services from those three tech giants (respectively, GOOG, FB, AMZN). Not much...
View ArticleMachine learning is making it difficult to tell humans and computers apart
If you’ve ever been browsing the internet, spotted something interesting like a video or an article that you wanted to read, only to discover that before you can view it, the website asks you to prove...
View ArticleStanford’s ‘accelerator on a chip’ could revolutionize medical care
When the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford first opened its doors in 1966, it had already earned the distinction of housing the world's longest linear accelerator: A 3.2 kilometer...
View ArticleReview: IoT Data Logging Services with MQTT
For the last few months, I had been using Sparkfun’s Phant server as a data logger for a small science project. Unfortunately, they’ve had some serious technical issues and have discontinued the...
View ArticleThe Promise of Transparent Solar Cells—Turning the World's Glass Surfaces...
Sunlight is everywhere, but so far our efforts to harvest its energy have been restricted to solar farms and rooftop panels. A new analysis shows that transparent solar technologies that can be applied...
View ArticleMaking Braille Signs out of PCBs
[jg] recently passed some damaged Braille signs and took on the challenge of repairing them. Informed by his recent work on PCB lapel pins, [jg] immediately thought of using circuit boards for this...
View ArticleEven when we fall
You came this way: Home > Philipp Weigl > Sound-trax > Even when we fall CURATOR: ccCommunity Recorded:Nov 23rd, 2016 - Jan 25th, 2017 GENRES: Soundtrack Composed Music Instrumental...
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