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3-D printing hits fast lane: Engineers cut time to 3-D-print heterogeneous objects from hours to minutes
Three-dimensional printing has long had the potential to revolutionize manufacturing, but so far its application in the marketplace has been held back by slow fabrication, especially for heterogeneous objects. Many objects comprise more than one material, which allows for certain parts to be rigid while other parts remain flexible (e.g. tweezers; prosthetics). Scientists have now developed a 3-D printing process that fabricates such objects very time- and cost-efficiently.
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Japan Wants To Turn The Moon Into A Giant Power Plant
Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese architecture and engineering firm, has a plan to effectively turn the moon into a giant solar power plant, reports Inhabitat. It proposes building a massive collection of solar panels (a "Luna Ring") 6,800 miles long by 12 miles wide on the moon's surface. That's certainly a heavy-duty construction job for human beings, so Shimizu plans to get the work done with robots, only involving humans in supervisory roles.
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Robots are the future of war
It's the end of war as we know it. Future weapons will remove the human element from the equation completely, meaning that war will be fought remotely - almost like a video game.
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The 2016 M8: BMW's First Supercar Since the Legendary M1
It's rumored to have 640 to 670 horsepower, thanks to an upgraded version of the M5's direct-injected 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8. It can go 0-62 in about 3 seconds, is made from materials such as carbon fiber and titanium -- which could give it the best power-to-weight ratio of any BMW street car - and is the first supercar from the blue-spinner crew since 1981.
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Technological Singularity: The Aftermath - Geekswipe
What happens when the human civilization reach the technological singularity? A geeky analysis of the scenario.
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Self-driving planes, trains, trucks will lead supply chain redesign
Are robo-trucks already taking drivers off the road? It’s a possibility, though an indirect one, suggests Fred Andersky, director of government and industry affairs for Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems. And truck-driving jobs won’t be the only ones impacted by technological changes coming to the supply chain.
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Coming Soon, a Night Watchman With Wheels?
The night watchman of the future is 5 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds and looks a lot like R2-D2 – without the whimsy. And will work for $6.25 an hour.
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There will probably be no 8K. In fact, there will probably be no pixels at all in the future
There's a seemingly unstoppable trend towards more and more pixels. Greater resolution is heralded as the future of video. David Shapton doesn't think
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Here’s What the Army Thinks War Will Look Like in 2030
Top brass gathered in Washington, D.C., recently to review the Army’s latest war games. What does war look like in 2030? (Hint: it’s not that different than today). By Stephanie Gaskell
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Living without a pulse: Engineering a better artificial heart
The human heart beats more than 86,000 times a day, 35 million times a year. An organ that works that hard is bound to fail.
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Our Final Invention: How the Human Race Goes and Gets Itself Killed
We worry about robots. Hardly a day goes by where we're not reminded about how robots are taking our jobs and hollowing out the middle class. The worry is so acute that economists are busy devising new social contracts to cope with a potentially enormous class of obsolete humans.
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Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot
The phone call came from a charming woman with a bright, engaging voice to the cell phone of a TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer. She wanted to offer a deal on health insurance, but something was fishy.
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Do You Know What Life Will Be Like In 5 Years? IBM's Top Scientist Does
The company's annual report of five predictions for the next five years is all about the benefits of big data: stores cities classrooms and hospitals.
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Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions of life in 2014 are prescient
The great science fiction author got a lot right in this New York Times article.
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7 Scary Accurate Vintage Ads That Predicted the Future
From the foretelling of home computers to a 1970s prophecy of the Internet, these particular predictions from the past were spot-on.
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Visit to the World's Fair of 2014 (Written in 1964 by Isaac Asimov)
The New York World's Fair of 1964 is dedicated to "Peace Through Understanding." Its glimpses of the world of tomorrow rule out thermonuclear warfare. And why not? If a thermonuclear war takes place, the future will not be worth discussing. So let the missiles slumber eternally on their pads and let us observe what may come in the nonatomized world of the future.
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Ousted Windows boss predicts phablets are the phones of the future
There’s no doubt that smartphone display sizes have been getting bigger ever since Samsung first introduced its original Galaxy Note phablet in 2012 — but are phablets just a niche product or do they have a grander destiny?
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Isaac Asimov’s 1964 Predictions For 2014 Are Remarkably Accurate
50 years ago, Isaac Asimov predicted the invention of tofurky and warned there would be "psychological resistance" to it. Here's what else he got right.
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Here's How The Movie 'Her' Created The Most Believable Vision Of Our Future Yet
A realistic perspective on tech in the future.
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Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like Today — in 2014
When New York City hosted The World's Fair in 1964, Isaac Asimov, the prolific sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, took the opportunity to wonder what the world would look like 50 years hence...
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