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Oct 28, 2017
The Way We Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: energy
Superior batteries are on the way, and they could disrupt power markets within the next decade—Sooner Than You Think.
Oct 28, 2017
Google Debuts Software to Open Up Quantum Computers for Chemists
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: computing, information science, quantum physics
Google unveiled software aimed at making it easier for scientists to use the quantum computers in a move designed to give a boost to the nascent industry.
The software, which is open-source and free to use, could be used by chemists and material scientists to adapt algorithms and equations to run on quantum computers. It comes at a time when Google, IBM, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and D-Wave Systems Inc. are all pushing to create quantum computers that can be used for commercial applications.
Oct 28, 2017
Using robot companions to help pediatric patients recover
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Oct 28, 2017
This ex-Googler is bringing self-driving excavators to construction sites
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Built Robotics has raised $15 million in a round led by NEA to do for construction equipment what Waymo is doing for automobiles.
Oct 28, 2017
An alarming sentence about automation from Bank of America’s tech chief should put Wall Streeters on notice
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Bank of America’s chief tech officer says that the technological shift is happening too fast for folks on Wall Street to adapt.
Job losses are on the way.
Oct 28, 2017
3D printer makes first wearable ‘battery’
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, mobile phones, sustainability, wearables
Imagine printing off a wristband that charges your smartphone or electric car with cheap supplies from a local hardware store.
That’s the direction materials research is heading at Brunel University London where scientists have become the first to simply and affordably 3D print a flexible, wearable ‘battery’.
The technique opens the way for novel designs for super-efficient, wearable power for phones, electric cars, medical implants like pacemakers and more.
Oct 28, 2017
How Electricity Could Replace Opioids In Treating Chronic Pain
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: biotech/medical
The neuromodulation market is poised to be worth $3.9 billion this year. It could also replace opioids in treating some forms of chronic pain.
Oct 28, 2017
Saudi Arabia becomes first country to grant citizenship to a robot
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI
LONDON: A humanoid robot took the stage at the Future Investment Initiative yesterday and had an amusing exchange with the host to the delight of hundreds of delegates.
Smartphones were held aloft as Sophia, a robot designed by Hong Kong company Hanson Robotics, gave a presentation that demonstrated her capacity for human expression.
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