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singularitywatch (34)in #science • 8 years ago
New Technology Could Make Water Shortages A Thing of The Past
As everyone knows, water is the most important resource in the world. We use water for just about everything, from agriculture to industrial purposes, and of course, for the most…
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singularitywatch (34)in #science • 8 years ago
Gift-giving brain cells are lifeline to injured nerve cells
Here’s another interesting thing about the human body – a new study published in Nature found that when nerve cells are under duress, their other cell friends help them out.…
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singularitywatch (34)in #ev • 8 years ago
Is Elon Musk serious about the Tesla Semi?
Out of all of Elon Musk's recent "Master Plan Part Deux," the part that really caught our eye was a short paragraph about a Tesla semi. Much of the rest—solar, autonomous…
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singularitywatch (34)in #space • 8 years ago
Virgin Galactic gets its spaceship license
Virgin Galactic is one step closer to making us all space tourists: it just received its operator license from the US Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space…
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singularitywatch (34)in #science • 8 years ago
15 Genes Related to Depression Identified - 23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Study
A scientific expedition into the DNA of more than 450,000 customers of gene-testing company 23andMe has uncovered the first major trove of genetic clues to the cause of…
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singularitywatch (34)in #science • 8 years ago
New Ultra-Thin, Skin-Like Display You Can Wear On Your Wrist
Nowadays, it is crucial to have ultra-portable devices as people instantaneously need to be updated with the latest information available in the vast web. This has strongly…
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singularitywatch (34)in #science • 8 years ago
IBM Making Silicon to Sort Viruses and Other Nanoscale Biological Targets
It’s long been understood that early disease detection is the key to successful treatments. But annual checkups with a doctor might not be frequent enough to help. So imagine if…
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singularitywatch (34)in #science • 8 years ago
Google firm hopes to control organs with electrical signals
The Google company Veriliy Life Sciences is teaming up with pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline to develop implants that will fix problems in our organs using electricity. To…
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singularitywatch (34)in #pokemon • 8 years ago
How Pokemon And Location-Based Augmented Reality Could Save The Planet
If you think about it, the more than 75 million people who have downloaded Pokemon Go are quite literally hand surveying their cities, fanning out and scouring their city…
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singularitywatch (34)in #science • 8 years ago
Solar Capture Technique Turns CO2 Into Burnable Fuel
Engineers at the University of Chicago have created a new kind of solar cell that efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide into usable hydrocarbon fuel—and it does so…
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singularitywatch (34)in #ai • 8 years ago
AI Common Sense Still a Problem, for Now
An alternative to the Turing Test, the Winograd Schema Challenge aims to determine how well an AI system handles common sense reasoning. The challenge tasks computer programs…
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singularitywatch (34)in #longevity • 8 years ago
If you're alive in 30 years, chances are good you may also be alive in 1000 years
Sounds unlikely? It's not - it's actually quite likely. The only way to get people to live for a thousand years or more is to develop advanced technologies that can manipulate…
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singularitywatch (34)in #nasa • 8 years ago
NASA Orders Second SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station
NASA took another important step Friday in returning U.S. astronaut launches from U.S. soil with the order of a second post-certification mission from commercial provider SpaceX…
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singularitywatch (34)in #nasa • 8 years ago
NASA Estimates SpaceX 2018 Mars Mission Will Cost Only $300 Million
Ever since Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, with the intention of eventually colonizing Mars, every move he has made has been the subject of attention. For the past two years, a…
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singularitywatch (34)in #singularity • 8 years ago
Ray Kurzweil Questions & Answers Session About The Future of Human Evolution and Space
Technological shifts outpace our awareness of them. While we're busy with our day-to-day lives—getting a new smartphone or downloading the next updates—we often don't notice how…
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