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Mar 18, 2016

Army Sees Lasers, Hoverbikes and Nano Drones in Future Force

Posted by in categories: drones, futurism

A technology official described her pursuit of a future force that includes high-powered lasers a self sustaining combat outposts.

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Mar 17, 2016

Sony Interactive Table

Posted by in category: futurism

Sony’s interactive tabletop is straight out of Minority Report…

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Mar 17, 2016

This hot robot says she wants to destroy humans

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

David Hanson’s best work yet.

They are getting really close to being passable for human. Now, it’s just a question of when they will stick a robot like ATLAS inside of something like this so it can walk around, talk, and look like a person. That will happen around 2020’ish..


Meet Sophia. Hanson Robotics human-like robot that may embody the androids of our future.

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Mar 17, 2016

Nike’s Self-Lacing Shoes Are Here: Meet The HyperAdapt

Posted by in category: futurism

From the future — ‘Back to the Future,’ that is.

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Mar 16, 2016

Intel Marrying FPGA, Beefy Broadwell for Open Compute Future

Posted by in categories: computing, futurism

For those who read here often, there are clear signs that the FPGA is set to become a compelling acceleration story over the next few years.

From the relatively recent Intel acquisition of Altera by chip giant Intel, to less talked-about advancements on the programming front (OpenCL progress, advancements in both hardware and software from FPGA competitor to Intel/Altera, Xilinx) and of course, consistent competition for the compute acceleration market from GPUs, which dominate the coprocessor market for now.

Last week at the Open Compute Summit we finally got a glimpse of one of the many ways FPGAs might fit into the hyperscale ecosystem (along with other future hardware insight) with an announcement that Intel will be working on future OCP designs featuring an integrated FPGA and Xeon chip. Unlike what many expected, the CPU mate will not be a Xeon D, but rather a proper Broadwell EP. As seen below, this appears to be a 15-core part (Intel did not confirm, but their diagram makes counting rather easy) matched with the Altera Arria 10 GX FPGAs.

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Mar 15, 2016

If The World Were 100 People

Posted by in category: futurism

When you shrink the world’s population down to 100 people, this is what you get:

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Mar 14, 2016

AKWA

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http://akwacell.de/

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Mar 13, 2016

Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself

Posted by in category: futurism

A team of programmers has built a self-generating cosmos, and even they don’t know what’s hiding in its vast reaches.

Every particle in the universe is accounted for. The precise shape and position of every blade of grass on every planet has been calculated. Every snowflake and every raindrop has been numbered. On the screen before us, mountains rise sharply and erode into gently rolling hills, before finally subsiding into desert. Millions of years pass in an instant.

Here, in a dim room half an hour south of London, a tribe of programmers sit bowed at their computers, creating a vast digital cosmos. Or rather, through the science of procedural generation, they are making a program that allows a universe to create itself.

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Mar 11, 2016

Floating Villas With Underwater Rooms In Dubai

Posted by in category: futurism

Great concept perhaps we can ‘green’ it up!?

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Mar 11, 2016

I’m leaving Rackspace to join Upload VR — By Robert Scoble

Posted by in categories: futurism, virtual reality

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