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Bill Joy, Silicon Valley Visionary, on the Future of Batteries, Electric Airplanes, and the "Internet of Energy"
ieee.org - Mark Anderson
He says solid-state batteries will be cheaper than today's lithium-ion batteries and help move the grid to 100 percent renewables Photo: Ionic …
Spaceflight strikes deal with Rocket Lab for three satellite launch extravaganzas
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
Seattle-based Spaceflight has partnered with Rocket Lab for three launches over the next year, including one of the first launches for BlackSky’s …
Business Strategy
4 Steps to Quintuple Your Business in the Next 12 Months
Entrepreneur - Scott Oldford
Here's how you can scale from $20,000 to $100,000. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you want to scale from $20,000 per month to $100,000, there's a four-step process you
AI Made a Movie—and the Results Are Horrifyingly Encouraging
WIRED - Lauren Goode
There’s really no nice way to put this: In his new film, Zone Out, Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch makes you want to do just that. It’s not …
The Future
Defy gravity with the Lunavity hover backpack
CNET
Students at the University of Tokyo are working on a hover pack that would let you feel like you're walking on the moon.
Calories
38 Foods That Contain Almost Zero Calories
Healthline
Calories provide the energy that your body needs to function and stay alive. While there is no evidence to support that negative-calorie foods burn …
The Effects of Marijuana on Your Body
Healthline - July 21, 2017
Marijuana is made from the shredded and dried parts of the cannabis plant, including the flowers, seeds, leaves, and stems. It’s also known as pot, …
Scientists Have a Crazy Hunch About Why the Sun Is Spinning Too Slowly
Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum
Physicists have long known that the Sun spins, like the Earth. But a few decades ago, they realized the surface of the Sun spins more slowly than …
How to Keep Customers and Make More Sales
Entrepreneur - Jill Schiefelbein
Author Jill Schiefelbein chats with Noah Fleming about how customer loyalty impacts business performance. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This video is part of a series to
Space Station
Boeing and NanoRacks to build first commercial space airlock
newatlas.com - David Szondy
The International Space Station may have the internal volume of a 747, but when it comes to getting things in and out, it's about as accessible as a …
The Mars rover just sent back data that has scientists completely stumped
bgr.com - Mike Wehner
The Curiosity rover has been cruising around on Mars since late 2012, so you’d think that scientists would have a pretty good handle on the kind of …
Biomedical Engineering
Stomach acid powers up MIT's ingestible battery
newatlas.com - Michael Irving
Tiny, ingestible electronic devices are proving to be a better substitute for drug delivery or invasive procedures like colonoscopies, but powering …
One of Amazon’s fiercest competitors in India was created by an H-1B reject
Quartz - Ananya Bhattacharya
America, be warned: As the Trump administration moves to clamp down on H-1B visas, the US has a lot to lose. Opponents of the H-1B program, which allows skilled foreign workers to be employed in the US
Asteroids
Tiny Asteroid-Mining Scouts Could Study Space-Dust Strikes
space.com - Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Watching asteroids get pummeled by fast-moving space dust could reveal a lot about the rocks — including which ones might make good mining …
Artificial Intelligence
The CEO of Google DeepMind is worried that tech giants won't work together at the time of the intelligence explosion
Business Insider - Sam Shead
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, whose company is arguably at the front of the race to develop human-level artificial intelligence (AI), said at The Future of Life's Beneficial AI conference in January that
The 10 Hottest Productivity Tools of 2017
Inc Magazine - By Jeff Haden
Tools--hardware, software, apps, etc.--come and go. That's the nature of progress. But what never goes away is knowledge. Once you know a way to be more efficient and effective--a new approach, a new a
China
6 reasons the clean energy revolution doesn't need Trump’s blessing
inhabitat - by Joshua Marks
President Donald Trump’s anti-environment blitzkrieg is leaving many of us struggling to catch up to and understand the dramatic changes being made …
How one family thrives in the Arctic with a cob house inside a solar geodesic dome
inhabitat - by Lacy Cooke
Life inside the Arctic Circle is by no means easy, unless you’re a Hjertefølger. We first heard about Benjamin and Ingrid Hjertefølger four years ago …
Sustainability
How This Startup Is Producing Sustainable Oil From Sewage Sludge
Forbes - Federico Guerrini
It’s black. It’s viscous. It looks a lot like crude oil. Yet, it doesn’t come from drilling, but from sewage sludge. Danish startup Mash Biotech has found a cost-effective method for converting one of
Blinded by the light: Solar farms are expected to outpace natural gas in the U.S. |
Salon - Bobby Magill
“If 2016 planned additions pan out as operators initially expected for 2016, it would mark the first year that solar was the largest source of capacity,” said Tim Shear, an economist for the U.S. Energy
Google Translate
Google Translate is Amazing Now, and That Should Terrify You
Geek - By Daniel Starkey
Translating languages is hard. If you’re fluent in more than one, you already know that there’s never any direct translation for a lot of phrases. …
Giant Avatar-style robot takes first steps in South Korea
The Telegraph - By Our Foreign Staff
A giant South Korean-built manned robot that walks like a human but makes the ground shake under its weight has taken its first baby steps. Designed by a veteran of science fiction blockbusters, the four-metre-tall
JDA Software CEO Baljit Dail On Providing Solutions When Consumers Are In Charge
Forbes - Peter High
JDA Software CEO Baljit Dail leads an organization that is a leader in supply chain and retail solutions. The company went private a number of years ago, taking private equity investments from New Mountain
Artificial Intelligence Gained Consciousness in 1991
Inverse - Joe Carmichael
Why A.I. pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber is convinced the ultimate breakthrough already happened. For as long as humans have had consciousness — two or two …
Solar Impulse
Solar Impulse completes historic round-the-world trip
BBC News - BBC World
The first round-the-world solar powered flight has been completed, after the Solar Impulse aircraft touched down in Abu Dhabi. Bertrand Piccard piloted the plane for a final time, steering it safely from
Festive Nebulas Make Hubble Telescope's Holidays Bright
space.com - Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
Two stunning nebulas shine as one in this colorful view captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and released by NASA just in time for the holidays. The …
The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common
Harvard Business Review - Katherine Graham-Leviss
Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers. According to PwC’s 2015 study on Global Innovation, U.S. companies spend
Artificial intelligence is going to make it easier than ever to fake images and video
The Verge - James Vincent
Smile Vector is a Twitter bot that can make any celebrity smile. It scrapes the web for pictures of faces, and then it morphs their expressions using a deep-learning-powered neural network. Its results
5 Scientific Myths You Probably Believe About The Universe
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
The Universe is a vast, mysterious place, encompassing everything we’ve ever known, observed or could ever hope to come into contact with. For millennia, a look up at the sky — our window into the cosmos

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Bill Joy, Silicon Valley Visionary, on the Future of Batteries, Electric Airplanes, and the "Internet of Energy"

Spaceflight strikes deal with Rocket Lab for three satellite launch extravaganzas

4 Steps to Quintuple Your Business in the Next 12 Months

AI Made a Movie—and the Results Are Horrifyingly Encouraging

Defy gravity with the Lunavity hover backpack

38 Foods That Contain Almost Zero Calories

The Effects of Marijuana on Your Body

Scientists Have a Crazy Hunch About Why the Sun Is Spinning Too Slowly

How to Keep Customers and Make More Sales

Boeing and NanoRacks to build first commercial space airlock

The Mars rover just sent back data that has scientists completely stumped

Stomach acid powers up MIT's ingestible battery

One of Amazon’s fiercest competitors in India was created by an H-1B reject

Tiny Asteroid-Mining Scouts Could Study Space-Dust Strikes

The CEO of Google DeepMind is worried that tech giants won't work together at the time of the intelligence explosion

The 10 Hottest Productivity Tools of 2017

6 reasons the clean energy revolution doesn't need Trump’s blessing

How one family thrives in the Arctic with a cob house inside a solar geodesic dome

How This Startup Is Producing Sustainable Oil From Sewage Sludge

Blinded by the light: Solar farms are expected to outpace natural gas in the U.S. |

Google Translate is Amazing Now, and That Should Terrify You

Giant Avatar-style robot takes first steps in South Korea

JDA Software CEO Baljit Dail On Providing Solutions When Consumers Are In Charge

Artificial Intelligence Gained Consciousness in 1991

Solar Impulse completes historic round-the-world trip

Festive Nebulas Make Hubble Telescope's Holidays Bright

The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Artificial intelligence is going to make it easier than ever to fake images and video

5 Scientific Myths You Probably Believe About The Universe