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Sep 20, 2016

Mini Drones: Weapon of the Future

Posted by in category: drones

Take a look at these mini drones that are making their way onto the battlefield. Mini drones improve unit mobility, provide valuable intelligence and save service members’ lives.

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Sep 20, 2016

World’s First Cyborg Games Kicks Off This October

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, entertainment

Coming this fall: The world’s first cyborg games.

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Sep 20, 2016

Control Virtual Reality With Your Eyes

Posted by in category: virtual reality

This vision-tracking tech will let you navigate virtual reality using only your eyes.

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Sep 20, 2016

How Sex Tech Is Reimagining the ‘Magic Touch’

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, sex

Cool new story on future:


A medical futurist ponders new ways to get freaky between the sheets.

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Sep 20, 2016

China’s Race To Space Domination

Posted by in category: space

To gain an edge here on Earth, China is pushing ahead in space.

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Sep 20, 2016

Reinventing Prosperity | The Club of Rome

Posted by in categories: economics, education

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“The biggest challenges facing the rich world today are persistent unemployment, widening income inequality, and accelerating climate change. … In Reinventing Prosperity, Graeme Maxton and Jorgen Randers take a radically different approach and offer thirteen politically feasible proposals to improve our world.”

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Sep 20, 2016

Head transplant surgeon plans ‘Frankenstein’ test to reanimate corpses

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Italian neurosurgeon Dr Sergoi Canavero (pictured) plans to conduct the first human head transplant next year after tests to stimulate movement in fresh corpses with electricity.

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Sep 20, 2016

D-Wave systems next quantum chip will 1000X faster and will revolutionize machine learning

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI

Dwave’s next quantum chip, due in 2017, will be able to handle 2,000 qubits which is double the usable number in the existing D-Wave 2X system chip. It will be capable of solving certain problems 1,000x faster than its predecessor.

The new processor will also support additional features that allow for more efficient calculations.

“From an internal tests, that looks like that’s a really good thing to do. We’ve got some problems we’ve already sped up by a factor of 1,000 by exploiting that capability,” said Williams at the CW TEC conference in Cambridge.

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Sep 20, 2016

Quantum teleportation was just achieved over more than 7 km of city fibre

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, particle physics, quantum physics

Quantum teleportation just moved out of the lab and into the real world, with two independent teams of scientists successfully sending quantum information across several kilometres of optical fibre networks in Calgary, Canada, and Hefei, China.

The experiments show that not only is quantum teleportation very much real, it’s also feasible technology that could one day help us build unhackable quantum communication systems that stretch across cities and maybe even continents.

Quantum teleportation relies on a strange phenomenon called quantum entanglement. Basically, quantum entanglement means that two particles are inextricably linked, so that measuring the state of one immediately affects the state of the other, no matter how far apart the two are — which led Einstein to call entanglement “spooky action at a distance”.

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Sep 20, 2016

A world without work is coming – it could be utopia or it could be hell

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

Robots will eventually do all our jobs, but we need to start planning to avert social collapse.

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