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Wal-Mart Says This Is The Delivery Truck Of The Future
Wal-Mart has unveiled a new prototype for a delivery truck it says will significantly reduce its delivery fleet's emissions. Walmart, whose fleet includes 6,500 trucks, 55,000 trailers and employs 7,000 drivers, announced in 2005 that it intended to double fleet efficiency by 2015. According to the company, fleet efficiency has increased by 84% since that announcement.
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‘I have lived underwater’
Living underwater is seen by some as a futuristic utopia, but what’s it actually like? Rose Eveleth asks a man who eats, works and sleeps on the sea floor – the latest in her new series about the people who have already experienced the future.
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NASA clears spacecraft for 2018 trip to asteroid
OSIRIS-REx (or Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer), a planned asteroid sample return mission, will soon have a spaceship. NASA approved the construction of a craft that will be able to travel to an asteroid, collect a sample, and return it to Earth.
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Sweden's Futuristic Fire-Fighting Helmet
Firefighters battle through many obstacles and hindrances when trying to control and extinguish fires among other hazards. Swedish designer, Omer Haciomeroglu, re-imagined the fire-fighters helmet by including a heads up display to offer improved vision and to inform the user of vital and extra information. The prototype has been dubbed the C-Thru Smoke Diving Helmet and is sponsored by the Umea Fire Brigade.
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Fire ice: The energy of the future?
The world is addicted to hydrocarbons, and it's easy to see why - cheap, plentiful and easy to mine, they represent an abundant energy source to fuel industrial development the world over.
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How test-tube meat could be the future of food
In a nondescript hotel ballroom last month at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, Andras Forgacs offered a rare glimpse at the sci-fi future of food. Before an audience of tech-industry types, Forgacs produced a plate of small pink wafers - "steak chips," he called them - and invited people up for a taste. But these were no ordinary snacks: Instead of being harvested from a steer, they had been grown in a laboratory from tiny samples of animal tissue.
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Russia to Begin Moon Colonization in 2030 – Report
Russia has drafted a program for colonization of the moon, and plans to send the first expeditions to build a permanent lunar base in 2030, the Russian Izvestia daily said Thursday, citing an official document.
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What Climate Change Would Actually Look Like
Data from Climate Central with Artist Nickolay Lamm
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Startup Ostendo aims to bring holograms to smartphones with new chip
In the future, virtual reality won't require strapping a bulky contraption to your head. Instead, imagine stepping into an empty room and then suddenly seeing life-size, 3-D images of people and furniture. Or looking down at a smartwatch and seeing virtual objects float and bounce above the wrist, like the holographic Princess Leia beamed by R2-D2 in the movie "Star Wars."
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Focus Fusion: Has cheap, clean Earth-saving fusion power been right under our noses all along?
While the world’s only major fusion power effort — ITER — continues to trundle along, with an eventual first-fusion date of 2027 at a cost of more than $20 billion to taxpayers, there’s a small lab in New Jersey that says it can produce fusion power within a year, with a total spend of just a few million dollars.
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How '3D' phones just might be the future
Amazon may be a unveiling a 3D smartphone next week, Google has Project Tango, and Microsoft is reportedly working on its own hands-free controls. 3D is poised to go big.
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The Next 20 Years Are Going To Make The Last 20 Look Like We Accomplished Nothing In Tech
The world is hitting its stride in technological advances and futurists have been making wild-sounding bets on what we'll accomplish in the not-so-distant future. Futurist Ray Kurzweil, for example, believes that by 2040 artificial intelligence will be so good, humans will be fully-immersed in virtual reality and that something called The Singularity, when technology becomes so advanced that it actually changes the human race irreversibly, will occur.
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SpaceX's Elon Musk: I'll put HUMAN BOOTS on MARS by 2026
Electric car and rocket tycoon Elon Musk says that he'll put the first human boots on Mars well before the 2020s are over – and says he'll float his SpaceX company on Earth-bound stock exchanges once the interplanetary mission gets underway.
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Hover cars to be built in Tel Aviv
An elevated network of hover cars is to be built in Tel Aviv. A 500m loop will be built on the campus of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) followed by a commercial network, according to skyTran, the company that will build it. Two-person vehicles will be suspended from elevated magnetic tracks, as an alternative transport method to congested roads, the firm promised. The system should be up and running by the end of 2015.
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£10m prize to focus on antibiotics
Antibiotic resistance has been selected as the focus for a £10m prize set up to tackle a major challenge of our time.
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Huge X-ray space telescope planned
Europe has initiated the process that should lead to the biggest X-ray space telescope ever built.
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Is the hoverbike about to become reality?
Those childhood dreams of doing the commute on a Star Wars Speeder Bike might be possible if a revolutionary hoverbike design takes off.
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These Are The Seafoods We'll Be Eating In The Future
Goodbye, tuna. So long, cod. Hello, pangasius and kelp! These are the seafoods — and sea organisms — we are likely to be eating in the future.
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Why Virtual Reality Technology Will Blow Your Mind in 5 Years
Unless you’ve just woken up from a two year coma, you’ve probably heard a lot of hype about the virtual reality and the Oculus Rift — enough that you’re probably sick of it. Well, too bad, because I’m here to tell you, without hesitation, that the future of virtual reality is here now. It works, and it’s going to change the world. The official launch of the Rift is scheduled to drop sometime before the end of next year, and that’s just the start.
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Why the singularity will not happen
Those who want a prediction for our future as a species that is both positive and plausible often turn to the term “singularity.” This refers to a moment when our technology reaches such an advanced stage that it changes human nature and magically creates a new Utopia from our wiser, more advanced selves. Technologies commonly mentioned include human biological enhancement, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces and transhumanism. But how likely is this singularity, given larger tren
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