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Mar 26, 2016

Removing Rust with Laser

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Here is a machine that uses laser to remove rust and paint from metals. So COOL!

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Mar 25, 2016

Has DOD hit its limit on sharing spectrum?

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A new DARPA challenge seeks to help defense and commercial wireless users cohabitate on airwaves, but DOD’s CIO warns “there is a physical limitation to how fast we can move” to free up frequencies.

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Mar 24, 2016

Scientists Build A Live, No-Frills Cell That Could Have A Big Future

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Scientists announced Thursday that they have built a single-celled organism that has just 473 genes — likely close to the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain its life. The development, they say, could eventually lead to new manufacturing methods.

Around 1995, a few top geneticists set out on a quest: to make an organism that had only the genes that were absolutely essential for its survival. A zero-frills life.

It was a heady time.

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Mar 23, 2016

Learning Larry Page’s Alphabet

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When Google became Alphabet, the rationale seemed simple: that a company of companies can innovate faster than a single large beast. But that’s only the start.

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Mar 23, 2016

This bed automatically makes itself three seconds after you get up

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Mar 23, 2016

A professor made an invisibility cloaking device

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A professor made a device that can make you invisible.

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Mar 22, 2016

This machine can perfectly draw or write anything

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Mar 22, 2016

Floating city made out of garbage

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This futuristic floating city will be made out of garbage and house 20,000 residents.

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Mar 21, 2016

Resurrection and Biotechnology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, disruptive technology, Elon Musk, futurism, human trajectories, neuroscience, posthumanism, Ray Kurzweil, Skynet, transhumanism

“He is not here; He has risen,” — Matthew 28:6

As billions of Christians around the world are getting ready to celebrate the Easter festival and holiday, we take pause to appreciate the awe inspiring phenomena of resurrection.

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In religious and mythological contexts, in both Western and Eastern societies, well known and less common names appear, such as Attis, Dionysus, Ganesha, Krishna, Lemminkainen, Odin, Osiris, Persephone, Quetzalcoatl, and Tammuz, all of whom were reborn again in the spark of the divine.

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Mar 21, 2016

Exploring other dimensions — Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan

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Imagine a two-dimensional world — you, your friends, everything is 2D. In his 1884 novella, Edwin Abbott invented this world and called it Flatland. Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan take the premise of Flatland one dimension further, imploring us to consider how we would see dimensions different from our own and why the exploration just may be worth it.

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