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Very Visible Cities: What To Expect From London, LA, And Moscow In 2040, 2070 and 2100
Giant Chinese pigeons, Scarlett Johansson's daughter, and deliberately un-green urban living: What to expect from London, Los Angeles, and Moscow in 2040, 2070, and 2100.
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IBM's Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors
Watson, IBM claims, is better at cancer diagnosis than human doctors, and its deployment could also reduce healthcare costs.
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What Life Will Be Like in the Cities of the Future
Smart buildings, smarter schools, and a parking system that's actually driver-friendly.
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Dawn of Autonomous Corporations, Powered by Bitcoin
Still waiting for Bitcoin to be accepted at Amazon and eBay? Forget it. Bitcoin will power the next generation of corporations and the only way to deal with those corporations will be through Bitcoin (that’s right, they won’t, or rather can’t, accept fiat like US Dollar). These ideas may seem futuristic, but they are not more than 5 years away, maybe 10.
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How Close Are We to Building a Full-Fledged Cyborg?
The dream of the cyborg is coming true at an exhilarating rate. As humans gets better and better at making machines, we keep attaching those machines to our bodies to make ourselves better humans. It seems at times that the only question left is if we can put a human brain in a robotic frame. Actually, it's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when.
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Moore's Law Is Dead, What Comes Next?
Moore's law, which says the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles every year is becoming extinct. This means a total overhaul in computer chip design if we want to continue improving computational power.
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All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines
We rely on computers to fly our planes, find our cancers, design our buildings, audit our businesses. That's all well and good. But what happens when the computer fails?
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8 Predictions for the Future of Storytelling
Latitude helps the world’s foremost media and technology companies understand how the evolving online and mobile landscape—and emerging user behaviors—translate into new business opportunities.
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What will recorded music sound like in 2050?
John La Grou, founder and CEO at Millennia Music & Media Systems, forecast how recorded sound will evolve over the coming decades.
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The Artificial Womb Is Born And The World of the Matrix begins
”One by one the eggs were transferred from their test-tubes to the larger containers; deftly the peritoneal lining was slit, the morula dropped into place, the saline solution poured . . . and already the bottle had passed on through an opening in the wall, slowly on into the Social Predestination Room.” Aldous Huxley, ”Brave New World”
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Drones Delivering Pizza? Venture Capitalists Wager on It
Commercial drones will soon be populating U.S. airspace, and venture capitalists like Tim Draper are placing their bets.
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Is a Hyperloop prototype really possible by 2015?
A new startup has emerged with a timeline to demonstrate Elon Musk's futuristic transportation concept about 18 months from now.
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Singularity Or Bust
Wonderful video about A.I.
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Ocean living: A step closer to reality?
Life on the sea has been one of mankind’s enduring visions, but the technology hasn’t been up to the task... until now.
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All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines
We rely on computers to fly our planes, find our cancers, design our buildings, audit our businesses. That's all well and good. But what happens when the computer fails?
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5 cool technologies Samsung Galaxy devices will have before 2015
At an analyst meeting in Korea this week, Samsung has revealed some of its plans for the future, specifically centered on mobile. While the focus of the event was to discuss financials, this was the first time it has gathered analysts this way since 2005, so it made the most of the opportunity. Here are five technologies Samsung intends to bring out in the next few years.
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Graphene – The rise of the super material (Infographic)
It’s going to change our future & bend our smartphones. With Graphene, possibilities are endless. Lighter aircraft, faster internet, longer lasting batteries, bendy screens & the potential for invisibility. Put your hands together for the game changer.
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Toyota’s New Concept Car Takes the Driver’s Movements and Emotions Into Consideration
There are concept cars and then there are concept cars. Toyota’s new lineup of possibilities for tomorrow, unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show, shows the broad range, from the conceivable to the almost unimaginable, of one manufacturer’s innovative thinking.
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If this doesn't terrify you... Google's computers OUTWIT their humans
'Deep learning' clusters crack coding problems their top engineers can't
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Robot Handjobs: The Future Is Coming
The Second Law of Robotics is: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings. Over the weekend, a virtual sex simulator debuted in Japan, Kotaku reported. The "VR Tenga" is the product of a joint effort from adult toy company Tenga and virtual reality pioneer Oculus VR, the company behind an immersive virtual reality headset called the Oculus Rift.
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