Its coming, robots being designed to take over our jobs and our lives.
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In the wake of much controversy, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that some police departments are in search of a way to improve relations with the communities in which they patrol. In an attempt to do just that, some are adopting technologies that offer predictive policing -- software that analyzes crime data and dictates where crimes are likely to occur.
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Self-driving cars are becoming a very real technology. The latest Tesla car has an autopilot feature. The CEO of Uber has stated that he will buy every self-driving car Tesla can produce for a year (about 500,000). The Google self-driving car occasionally overtakes me as I cycle to work in Austin. Other manufacturers are also […]
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A a huge scifi geek, I was at first intrigued by these great minds coming together to discover far off creatures. But after a few minutes of scifi dreaming, I landed firmly back on earth.
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Have you ever used an app on your phone or tablet and thought to yourself - why didn't I think of that! Here is my list of three apps that I wish I thought of first.
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Let’s pretend for a moment that buildings are built out of Jenga blocks. For the past century or so, skyscrapers have more or less been built from pieces that are uniformly stacked on top of one another vertically, creating solid, streamlined structures.
Read moreThe new design for the office tower—still bounded by Vesey and Fulton streets to the north and south and Greenwich and Church streets to the west and east—is purposefully asymmetrical. There’s a stair-step facade with green balconies at each setback that faces east, and a more traditional glassy curtain wall that looks west, toward the […]
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The Floating Seahorse is “essentially a boat, not a villa,” according to Kleindienst. It’s a boat that doesn’t move, with a fully-fitted kitchen and a glass-bottomed jacuzzi on its sun deck. But sure, let’s call it a boat.
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Virtual reality seems to have taken the world by storm as of late. But what exactly is virtual reality, and how will it affect our lives going forward? Virtual reality is a fully immersive computer-simulated environment that gives you the feeling of being in a specific environment. Video games have recently developed the technology enough […]
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Industrial robots controlled by artificial intelligence has been around since the 60ties. Remote control machines, specifically torpedoes was available since 1870. Although the science an technology of robotics have been around for awhile, it is only in the last decade that the technology that is embedded in robots have become small, cheap and powerful enough […]
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