Metro energy: the Lausanne team system
A Lausanne team estimated the heat that passes through the underground tunnels and designed a geothermal system to extract energy from the metro
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Danish algorithm predicts the survival rate of ICU patients
Determining the best treatment for each critically ill patient is a major challenge, and existing methods can be greatly improved with the use of AI and machine learning.
The office of the future has everything but an office
Its founders met online and only met after 3 years. It has 600 employees and will have a thousand more within the year, when it launches a public offering to go public. It does not have and will not have a physical office.
Stanford brings out an Open Source robot dog: run, jump, roll and you can download plans online
Quadruped robots already seen at work (think of those of the now well-known Boston Dynamics) can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of euros, while at a price of around €3000 (including manufacturing and shipping of the parts) it can be made "at home" a very respectable robot.
5 revolutions that will change energy in the next 5 years
Five years is a long time: enough for the Sun to radiate the energy equivalent to all our reserves of oil, coal and natural gas and enough for the world to revolutionize energy in at least 5 ways. Here are 5 energy revolutions that we will see between now and 2024.
The 1986 Marvel intro exploited the world's most powerful computer
The Cray was the ultimate. Do not laugh.
BBeep, the smart trolley that accompanies blind people to the airport
Equipped with a video camera and sensors, it is able to perceive the surrounding environment, people and possible obstacles.
The robots have already delivered 10.000 pizzas to the USA
A partnership between George Mason University and two companies, Sodexo and Starship Technologies has developed a new home-based food and drink delivery service to students on campus based on autonomous robots.
E-commerce also runs on smartphones
As of 31 December 2016, a total of 45,2 million mobile telephone devices were active in Italy, with old "mobile phones" numbering around 12 million, down by 6% per year. This means, therefore, that there are more than 33 million Italians who use smartphones, whose penetration rate rose to 73 percent of the population last year. Not just phone calls It seems obvious to write it, but today the smartphone is successful because it allows you to carry out ... Read more
In five years time, Facebook will only be made up of videos
Soon Facebook, the most popular social network in the world, will consist only of videos. A somewhat risky prediction? This was stated by an important figure: Nicola Mendelsohn, vice president of the popular social network for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. “If I had to make a bet I would say: video, video, video,” he told the audience at Fortune's Most Powerful Women International Summit which was held in London. In fact, there is less and less written text on the message boards of common users. It was also calculated… Read more
The alternative to gluten for celiacs
There are two Italian women and scientists who could totally change the lives of celiacs, that is, those who cannot tolerate the gluten contained in some foods. The idea is to extract proteins from corn similar to that of gluten, to be added to food products for celiacs. This is to replicate the flavour, consistency and crumbliness of bread, biscuits and desserts, which only flour can provide. Thanks to this excellent result, the European Patent Office has included the two … Read more
AI2 will predict cyber attacks
Against modern cybercrimes, we need modern artificial super intelligences capable of fighting them. And this is precisely what AI2, a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence, aims to do against cybercrime. Developed by MIT, by a group at CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab), a new type of artificial intelligence, AI2, was born. The acronym stands for Artificial Intelligence Squared, and it is a revolutionary software. According to estimates developed by the team that developed it, AI2 would be able to predict and block approximately 85% of attempts… Read more
On Facebook there will soon be more deaths than alive
Within a few years, Facebook will be a huge virtual cemetery. Sooner or later it had to happen: just as in the history of humanity, the dead will surpass the living. It has been calculated that in 2098 Facebook will transform into the largest 'virtual' cemetery in the world. This is according to the prediction of Hachem Sadikki, a statistics expert from the University of Massachusetts, who developed his theory based on the social network's choice to continue to refuse to automatically delete the accounts of deceased users, and in… Read more
The drone eye is copied from insects
Mini drones, or drones that have the shape of an insect, are very particular robotic devices, as they manage to enter places inaccessible to humans, photographing what they see and therefore offering a real-time report of the situation. This is a sector in which science is investing a lot, and which is therefore becoming increasingly sophisticated. But how can insect drones see in low light? To give life to… Read more
Future car tests: no engine, transmission, differential. That's how
This car has no engine, no transmission and no differential: it weighs half of a normal car: each of its four wheels has an electric motor which allows it to contribute to the movement of the vehicle and a rapid change of direction: at current state, however, you need advanced control for the movement or it is really difficult (not to say impossible) to drive it. Junmin Wang is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State University, and his team is… Read more
The Internet of Things will be the biggest business in the history of electronics
Think of a world full of objects that behave like links on a website, connecting to each other and interacting to completely transform our user experience. The Internet of Things is the 'goose that lays the golden eggs' of the near future because it can revolutionize all sectors of technology and do it quickly: the latest estimates speak of a 15.000 billion euro market within the next six years. And it's not about mysterious oracles or courageous... Read more
10 helps to increase intelligence
With the new technologies of the near future, we will all be able to achieve super intelligence: while you wait, there are a few things you can do now to increase intelligence. Of course, it will be difficult to become a genius in one fell swoop, but learning skills, mental clarity and mood can be improved. Here are 10 remedies. Before reading how to increase intelligence, consult your doctor before taking one of the 10 "tips" contained in this article (except for number 3, for which you can ... Read more
Hansen predicts: the seas will be higher than 7 meters
A chilling prophecy comes to us from James Hansen, 68 years of which almost 30 spent at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies: he almost never makes an observation wrong. In 1981 he wrote that the following decade would mark peak heat and the prediction came true. At the beginning of the nineties he said that the first decade of the new century would beat the previous record and this time too the facts proved him right. Let's hope that now he is wrong because the scenario he draws is... Read more
