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Quickrete & Contour Crafting Partner to Fight Homelessness with Concrete 3D Printing

May 15, 2020May 13, 2020

“U.S.-based concrete specialists QUIKRETE and Contour Crafting Corporation (CC Corp) have announced a collaboration to develop a proprietary concrete to be used with CC Corp’s concrete 3D printing technology. […]

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Supercapacitor promises storage, high power and fast charging

May 15, 2020May 13, 2020

“A new supercapacitor based on manganese oxide could combine the storage capacity of batteries with the high power and fast charging of other supercapacitors, according […]

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Physicists Discover New Trick To Stabilize Fusion Reactors

May 14, 2020May 13, 2020

“A team of research physicists at Princeton University may have found a new way to control fusion reactions — an incremental step towards making fusion energy, the […]

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University of California Thesis: Reviewing 3D Printing in Construction, Including Mars

May 14, 2020May 13, 2020

“Andrew Truong recently presented a thesis, ‘State-of-the-Art Review on 3D Printing Technology Applications in Construction,’ to the University of California, Irvine. Reviewing 3D printing in construction, […]

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Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being

May 14, 2020May 13, 2020

“The world’s most robust study of universal basic income has concluded that it boosts recipients’ mental and financial well-being, as well as modestly improving employment. […]

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You Can Now Attend VR Meetings—No Headset Required – Spatial VR Is Now Open To Everyone for Free

May 13, 2020May 13, 2020

“I SHOOK HANDS with a stranger the other day. Even made a fist bump. Before you get your pitchforks out, this all happened virtually. I was […]

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Taiwan-based company launches electric-only fleet of Tesla cars

May 6, 2020May 4, 2020

Tesla car taxi service — sounds like future, right? The future is here — meet ZEV, the first eco-friendly mobility service in Taiwan. Now you […]

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University of Auckland Engineers Build 3D Printed Robotic Airship for Education and Research

May 6, 2020May 4, 2020

“A duo of engineers from the University of Auckland’s New Dexterity research group have published an academic paper detailing the design and construction of a partly 3D […]

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FitByte uses sensors on eyeglasses to automatically monitor diet

May 6, 2020May 4, 2020

“Food plays a big role in our health, and for that reason many people trying to improve their diet often track what they eat. A […]

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Solar and wind energy sites mapped globally for the first time

May 5, 2020May 4, 2020

“Researchers at the University of Southampton have mapped the global locations of major renewable energy sites, providing a valuable resource to help assess their potential […]

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Cutting-Edge Brain Implant Lets Paralyzed Man Move and Feel Again

May 5, 2020May 4, 2020

“A cutting-edge implant has allowed a man to feel and move his hand again after a spinal cord injury left him partially paralyzed, Wired reports. According to […]

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The World’s Biggest Social Virtual Reality Gathering Is Happening Right Now

May 5, 2020May 4, 2020

“It’s one of the most under-appreciated science fiction films of the past decade, but Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (also […]

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New App for COVID-19 Combines Blockchain With Web Inventor’s Privacy Tech

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020

“The United Kingdom’s Open University has developed a COVID-19 proof-of-immunity app that combines blockchain with a privacy-preserving data solution from web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. The […]

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New renewable energy capacity hit record levels in 2019

April 19, 2020April 15, 2020

“Almost three-quarters of new electricity generation capacity built in 2019 uses renewable energy, representing an all-time record. New data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) shows solar, […]

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VR Is Here to Help With Our New Reality

April 19, 2020April 15, 2020

“Taking the awkward leap into the headset can lead to a better life in work and play—during and after the pandemic. YESTERDAY I TOOK an hour-long […]

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Alternatives to traditional ventilators could be possible with a 3-D printer and a few simple tools

April 19, 2020April 15, 2020

“Like doctors across the country, Benjamin Nicholson, M.D., knows the surge is coming. The emergency department doctor has seen the predictions for the spread of […]

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Future VW electric vehicles will send power back to the grid

April 18, 2020April 15, 2020

“VW says EV owners will be able to charge when production exceeds demand and sell power back to the grid during peak electricity usage. The […]

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Scientists create quantum sensor that covers entire radio frequency spectrum

April 18, 2020April 15, 2020

“A quantum sensor could give Soldiers a way to detect communication signals over the entire radio frequency spectrum, from 0 to 100 GHz, said researchers […]

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World’s fastest supercomputer finds potential drug compounds for COVID-19

April 18, 2020April 15, 2020

“After being granted computational time on Summit, Micholas Smith performed molecular dynamics simulations, which analysed the movements of atoms and particles in the protein. He […]

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Era of wireless charging for electric vehicles is coming

April 17, 2020April 15, 2020

“Wireless charging for electric vehicles is today’s most cutting-edge technology. Why? It is the most efficient, futuristic, scalable–in short–awesome alternative we have to gasoline. While […]

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Voting on a blockchain

April 17, 2020April 15, 2020

“The “blockchain” concept on which cryptocurrencies work might be extrapolated to many other areas of life, such as voting systems, where it’s incontrovertible chain of […]

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Universal cancer blood test detects and locates 50 types of tumors

April 17, 2020April 15, 2020

“Cancer is one of humanity’s leading killers, and the main reason for that is it’s often hard to detect until it’s too late. But that […]

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Six-junction solar cell sets two world records for efficiency

April 16, 2020April 15, 2020

“Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have fabricated a solar cell with an efficiency of nearly 50%. The six-junction solar cell now holds […]

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Blockchain Firms Team Up on Private Coronavirus Testing App

April 16, 2020April 15, 2020

“Genobank, a blockchain project seeking to offer consumers ownership and control over their DNA data, is preparing to launch an app on EOS-based blockchain platform Telos to […]

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UC Santa Barbara Researchers Tweak UV LEDs To Neutralize COVID-19 Virus

April 16, 2020April 15, 2020

“In a research note published by the journal ACS Photonics in January, the researchers reported a more elegant method for fabricating high quality UV-C LEDs. It involves […]

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Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW

March 17, 2020March 10, 2020

“Toyota Motor and Volkswagen each sell 10 million cars, give or take, every year. Tesla delivered about 367,500 in 2019. But when it comes to electronics […]

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Scientists Linked Artificial and Biological Neurons in a Network—and Amazingly, It Worked

March 17, 2020March 10, 2020

“Scientists have linked up two silicon-based artificial neurons with a biological one across multiple countries into a fully-functional network. Using standard internet protocols, they established […]

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Self-Replicating, Self-Repairing Homes on the Moon and Mars Made of Fungi

March 17, 2020March 10, 2020

“Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets as run by machines, with metallic cities and flying cars rising above dunes of red sand. […]

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Delta commits $1 billion to carbon neutral plans

March 16, 2020March 10, 2020

Delta has made a ten-year, $1 billion commitment to mitigate all emissions from its global business, starting next month. The US carrier said it would […]

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Coronavirus: Seven Ways Collective Intelligence Is Tackling the Pandemic

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020

“Tackling the emergence of a new global pandemic is a complex task. But collective intelligence is now being used around the world by communities and […]

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[WATCH] Virtual reality puts visitors eye-to-eye with MLK

March 16, 2020March 10, 2020

A high-tech museum exhibit puts visitors face-to-face with Martin Luther King Jr. as he delivers his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The virtual reality […]

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Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients lives by 3D printing valves for reanimation devices

March 16, 2020March 15, 2020

The supply chain was broken, people and 3D printing rose to the occasion. Additive manufacturing may be able to play a role in helping to […]

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Robotic seals and bionic limbs: How Japan is creating opportunity for medtech

March 16, 2020March 10, 2020

” In nursing homes throughout Japan, an interactive, therapeutic robot is helping provide care to elderly residents. The robot’s name is Paro, and it looks like […]

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New machine learning method could supercharge battery development for electric vehicles

March 15, 2020March 10, 2020

“Battery performance can make or break the electric vehicle experience, from driving range to charging time to the lifetime of the car. Now, artificial intelligence […]

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[WATCH] Cobod Demonstrates Construction Technology with Live 3D Printing of 4 Small Houses

March 15, 2020March 10, 2020

“At the international Bautec construction exhibition in Berlin, Danish 3D printing construction company COBOD provided a live demonstration of its technology by 3D printing the walls of 4 small […]

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Future Goals in the AI Race: Explainable AI and Transfer Learning

March 15, 2020March 10, 2020

“Recent years have seen breakthroughs in neural network technology: computers can now beat any living person at the most complex game invented by humankind, as well as imitate […]

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Tesla just made its one millionth car

March 14, 2020March 10, 2020

“Tesla has produced one million electric cars, the company’s CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter. Musk made the announcement by sharing a picture of the car, […]

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[WATCH] How Bionic Limbs Are Changing Lives

March 14, 2020March 10, 2020

“A bionic revolution is brewing, as recent advancements in bioengineering have brought about scientific breakthroughs in rehabilitation for people with disabilities. The most cutting edge […]

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Denver Startup Develops Smart Pill for Wireless Drug Delivery

March 14, 2020March 10, 2020

“When you take a prescription pill, do you know where in your body the medication is being delivered? Is that medication effectively dispersed and are […]

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Researchers one step closer to creating organic batteries

March 13, 2020March 10, 2020

“Using organic materials are the way forward and that has scientists like Professor Thomas Baumgartner of the Faculty of Science and his team busy developing […]

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Virginia Lawmaker Pushes for Blockchain-Powered Elections, Local Commerce

March 13, 2020March 10, 2020

“In a bid to foster the adoption of distributed ledger technology-based (DLT) applications and services in her county, Delegate Hala Ayala recently provided two payments […]

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Custom-Made Bones Are Being 3D Printed in a Lab Then Implanted in People

March 13, 2020March 10, 2020

“Become partially android for a couple of years while your body heals itself. It may sound far-fetched, but for patients needing reconstructive surgery, this could […]

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Fusion Startup Claims Breakthrough Will Provide “Unlimited” Energy

March 12, 2020March 10, 2020

“An Australian fusion startup called HB11, a spin-off from the University of New South Wales, claims to have found a way to revolutionize current nuclear […]

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Oxford VR uses virtual reality to treat social anxiety

March 12, 2020March 10, 2020

Oxford VR (OVR), a U.K.-based virtual reality (VR) startup that emerged from Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry back in 2017, has officially launched a VR-based […]

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Given Basic Income, People Kept Working And Got Healthier

March 12, 2020March 10, 2020

“In 2017, the government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, kicked off a three-year basic income pilot project. Basically, it handed out enough money to cover basic needs […]

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Scientists Invent Device To Generate Electricity From Rain

March 11, 2020March 6, 2020

“There have been numerous attempt to generate electricity using rain, but this may be one of the more effective solutions yet. Researchers have developed a generator that uses […]

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Robot uses artificial intelligence and imaging to draw blood

March 11, 2020March 10, 2020

“Rutgers engineers have created a tabletop device that combines a robot, artificial intelligence and near-infrared and ultrasound imaging to draw blood or insert catheters to […]

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Goodyear’s smart tire concept ‘prints’ its own treads

March 11, 2020March 6, 2020

The thunk-whumma-whumpa-whuppa sound of a tire puncturing and losing pressure at freeway speeds is unmistakable. However, if Goodyear has its way humanity might not have to endure […]

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Coronavirus: Ten reasons why you ought not to panic

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020

“Regardless of whether we classify the new coronavirus as a pandemic, it is a serious issue. In less than two months, it has spread over […]

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49% of world’s GDP now covered by net-zero targets, study says

March 10, 2020March 6, 2020

“Just under half of the world’s annual GDP is now covered by nations, regions and cities that are legislating for a net-zero emissions target, a […]

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