UK develops Americium engines for space missions lasting hundreds of years
The gigantic energy of americium and plutonium allows a range of otherwise unreachable space missions: the UK advances rapidly in this direction.
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10 jobs already on the verge of extinction by 2026
Without straying too far in the forecasts, aided by data from ISTAT and the American Labor Statistics Office, here are the professional figures who will experience the greatest contraction over the next 5 years.
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.
Synthetic blood: in 2024 the first uses
Since 1600 man has been looking for an effective substitute for blood, the most important vehicle of oxygen in our body. Let's retrace all the stages of an infinite journey and the first exciting results available within the next 5 years.
We will travel to the hotel on wheels
The diffusion of totally autonomous vehicles will allow innovative solutions and revolutionize tourism. Here is a concept that promises to become reality very soon.
Here is Gita: the baggage robots will follow us.
Humans spend a lot of time carrying things: we don't like it. Piaggio presents the Gita, luggage robots capable of doing the "dirty work" for us.
Samsung still explode
Yet another case of an exploding #Samsung. A bad deal for the production company, which has to face a sea of new controversies. After the issue of the explosive Galaxy Note 7, in fact, it seemed that everything was back to normal, but it seems that Samsung can end the year... with a bang. In fact, through a post on Reddit, today a user named ReturnThroughAether reported that his Galaxy S6 Edge #exploded on his bedside table, as can be clearly seen from the ... Read more
Here comes Jarvis, the artificial intelligence for every home
After a year of hard work, Mark Zuckerberg has revealed to the world some details of the #artificial intelligence #Jarvis, a personal assistant for the home that the founder of #Facebook had wanted to develop as a "personal challenge". Mark, pleasantly, gave the AI the name of Iron Man's butler, and integrated it into the home automation system of his house. Jarvis does everything, or almost everything: it independently manages lights, temperature, appliances, music from both PCs and mobile devices and much more. Jarvis can be commanded with… Read more
Facebook at Work ready to launch
The new Facebook at Work platform is about to see the light after years of preparation (and hypotheses about its functioning)
Will robots replace us in everything?
Not just low labor. The new #robots can do practically anything, even replace a hundred lawyers at almost zero cost, and they are already doing so. An example is Amelia, a virtual assistant perfect for business services, practically able to replace customer care and call centers. She learns everything on her own, never gets sick, has no drops in productivity, works twenty-four hours a day and receives no salary. And obviously she doesn't get pregnant – in spite of fertility day… Amelia is… Read more
The Ice Bucket Challenge helps against ALS
We have all thought at least once that the #Ice Bucket Challenge was a media stunt, an unserious way to raise funds for scientific and medical research against #ALS. In reality, that wasn't really the case. Here's what's happened in the last few months. During the summer of 2014, photos and videos began to appear on social media of people falling over or having buckets of frozen water poured over them. But why? All this was to give visibility to the research against… Read more
New floating tunnels in Norway
#Norway's new floating tunnels are truly impressive. This is a rather ambitious project: to innovate the mobility of the Northern European country. In fact, to ease ferry traffic, the authorities intend to build a series of underwater tunnels; the aim is to allow cars to move without having to deal with long and uncomfortable embarkation and disembarkation operations. They are simple tubes with a very large diameter, kept in suspension at about 30 meters deep by special floating structures anchored... Read more
First parcels delivered by drones in Great Britain
#Amazon promised us, and here the first tests start in #Great Britain. It's only a matter of time before we say goodbye to our dear old delivery man, and welcome the new latest generation #drones, which deliver your purchase directly to your front door. In China JD has already officially launched the drone delivery service, and Amazon responds with the first tests in Great Britain on delivery drones. Drones, however, don't just steal jobs: ... Read more
Here is the first robot goalkeeper, tireless overseer
Guard the entrance and deliver the mail. It almost completely replaces the old condominium or building concierge. Almost. Here is the robot goalkeeper.
The first robot that can harm humans is a reality
All science fiction enthusiasts know the first law of robotics: a robot cannot harm a human being, ever. Said in Asimov's words: "a robot cannot harm a human being nor can it allow a human being to suffer harm due to its failure to intervene." This is in the novels. In reality, however, it seems that the first robot that can "consciously decide" to harm the man who... Read more
Child abuse, a network of 'sentinel' paediatricians will combat the phenomenon
Today more than ever the issue of child abuse is on the agenda: a society bereft of values and prospects for the future brings other orphans into the world, often abandoned at the mercy of a TV or internet without control and without sufficient protection . This is the context that puts more and more minors at risk of suffering violence, and increases the work of all the associations that have always been fighting to avoid child abuse. Among these the best known… Read more
Apple will erase the bad words
Strange but true. Apple has patented software capable of "erasing", or rather censoring, swear words from songs. There will be a lot of work to be done on some modern artists. It seems like a joke, but the patent request is authentic: it was filed over a year ago, it has a code (Application #20160093316) and a name («US Patent Application for Management, Replacement and Removal of Explicit Lyrics during Audio Playback Patent Application»). Furthermore, in the United States, songs often had two versions: one... Read more
The first all-Italian flexible robot arrives
Italy is not always at the rear of scientific and technological research, on the contrary. Today's news is the creation of the first flexible robot in the world, and it is an entirely Italian discovery. In fact, the first patent in the world has been registered for a flexible robot, with a shape that recalls that of a snake: as can be seen from the photo, these are two "intertwined" structures that make it up and which allow it to stretch and bend, avoiding precision every obstacle. The … Read more
Amazon: we will soon pay with a selfie
No more fingerprints, PINs, security systems: soon you will be able to pay for something purchased on Amazon simply with a selfie. As reported by the specialized press, in fact, Amazon has requested a patent for payment via selfie. Jeff Bezos' company has filed documentation for a process that will allow shoppers to pay with a photo or video of themselves instead of typing a password, which we often forget. According to experts, paying with a selfie would increase the security of… Read more
Gest: the glove of Minority Report this time is really true
How many attempts in recent years have we seen from companies of all kinds to break the hegemony of mice and keyboards as protagonists of the human-PC relationship? A domain barely scratched by the advent of the touch screen. Yet the route has been charted for some time: Philip Dick showed us in his Minority Report the possibility of having a gestural interface. Perhaps today we have a serious candidate in Gest, the glove developed by Apotact Labs. Gest essentially has two components: a wearable gesture controller and a… Read more
Neural bypass: a paraplegic can walk again
A paraplegic patient was able to walk using only his brain thanks to a "Neural Bypass" procedure: the man, paralyzed 5 years ago following a motorbike accident, is the first in the world to walk without any aid. Dr. An Do's team at the University of California achieved a historic milestone by allowing the brain of a 26-year-old American to transmit brain impulses directly to electrodes placed around his legs, which produced the movements… Read more
