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+16 +1US Pentagon's space-based energy beam could one day power entire cities
Scientists have reassured it would be 'exceedingly difficult, if not impossible' to weaponise the solar energy.
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+27 +1‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Turn Old Photos of Your Relatives Into Moving Videos
It’s hard to feel connected to someone who’s gone through a static photo. So a company called MyHeritage who provides automatic AI-powered photo enhancements is now offering a new service that can animate people in old photos creating a short video that looks like it was recorded while they posed and prepped for the portrait.
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+16 +1Sure, Laugh Away. But Every Big Vehicle Should Look Like the New USPS Truck
We admit it’s goofy-looking, but it’s a much safer design for crowded cities.
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+23 +1Driverless cars successfully tested in Las Vegas
The first autonomous cars without a safety driver at the wheel were successfully tested in Las Vegas this month, automotive technology start-up Motional announced Monday.
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+3 +1Texas’s Energy Crisis Is America’s Future
The state’s fossil fuel–based power grid failed. The Green New Deal can fix it.
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+14 +1In the age of robots, our schools are teaching children to be redundant
A regime of cramming and testing is crushing young people’s instinct to learn and destroying their future
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+24 +1US Military to Have 3D-Printing Factories in Shipping Containers
The U.S. Department of Defense contracts ExOne to develop shipping containers with 3D-printing properties for military purposes. Discover more here.
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+19 +1Tiny graphene microchips could make your phones and laptops thousands of times faster, say scientists | ZDNet
Researchers unlocked the electronic properties of graphene by folding the material like origami paper.
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+21 +1Solar flare-style rocket thruster ‘could send astronauts to outer solar system’
Professional Engineering
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+16 +1Deepfake Voice Technology: The Good. The Bad. The Future - EconoTimes
Deepfake voice technology based on voice cloning, or quasi-perfect reproductions of a persons voice, can be used both for the good and for the bad.
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+26 +1Amazon’s next headquarters is a glass poop emoji covered in trees
The literal highest point in Amazon’s HQ2.
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+12 +1One day, your home could be made with mushrooms
Buildings of the future could be made with mushrooms.
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+15 +1Lab-grown wood could let us grow furniture in a lab instead of in a forest
Why cut down trees when you can grow wood in the exact shape you need?
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+23 +1Here's what traveling by hyperloop might be like - CNN Video
Hyperloop high speed transportation is still years away, but a new concept video from Virgin Hyperloop gives a glimpse into the future of high speed transit.
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+21 +1NASA Veterans Are Building an Orbital Space Hotel With Artificial Gravity
NASA veterans in a new company are building the first space hotel! Featuring artificial gravity.
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+23 +1Tim Cook says privacy 'one of the top issues of the century'
Apple CEO Tim Cook in an interview on Thursday called privacy, specifically data privacy, one of the most important issues of our time.
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+22 +1General Motors plans to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035
GM announced its "aspirations" Thursday as part of a larger plan for the Detroit automaker to be carbon neutral by 2040 in its global products and operations.
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+23 +1Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
Sales increase 43% globally in 2020 as plunging battery costs mean the cars will soon be the cheapest vehicles to buy
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+3 +1Insects: The future of food?
A thriving industry looks promising if consumer aversion can be overcome.
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+25 +1Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced
Exclusive: first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles