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Monkeys Steer Wheelchairs With Their Brains, Raising Hope for Paralyzed People
National Geographic - Dan Vergano
New technologies offer a window into how the brain creates movement. 3 Minute Read WASHINGTON, D.C.—Experimental wheelchairs and exoskeletons controlled by thought alone offer surprising insights into
Velvet worm named after Studio Ghibli's Totoro
Wired UK - Gwen Pearson
Nicky Bay Velvet worms are adorable caterpillar-y looking things, silently plodding along on stumpy legs in tropical forests around the world. A …
Humble spud poised to launch a world food revolution
The Guardian - Tracy McVeigh
In a small army field-hut Dr Arjen de Vos shows off his irrigation machine with pride. Pipes lead out to several acres of muddy field, where only a few stragglers from the autumn harvest of potatoes, carrots
Stinkbugs Have Spread to 41 States; Can We Stop Them?
National Geographic
Parasitic wasps may be one solution to controlling the invaders' march. 2 Minute Read If you don't yet know what a brown marmorated stinkbug (Halyomorpha halys) is, consider yourself lucky. These invasive
Enric Sala and Pristine Seas Receive EMA Heroes Award
National Geographic
Armed with his camera, which is armed in turn with a two-sided lighting rig, Enric Sala ascends from a coral tower off New Caledonia. (Photo by Manu San Felix) “With six documentary films and counting,
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The Future of Civilization Is a Battle Between Google and Wikileaks
TIME - Eugene Jarecki
IDEAS Eugene Jarecki is a New York-based writer and film-maker. Last weekend, I participated in an event that grabbed headlines around the world, even making it into Jimmy Fallon’s opening monologue on
Decrypting Google: Don't be modest
Business Insider - The Economist
AS A service, Google has become indispensable to people's interactions online. As a business worth $400 billion after 16 years, its success has been breathtaking. Yet in terms of management, it has set
Tiny Spanish Island Nears Its Goal: 100 Percent Renewable Energy
NPR - Lauren Frayer
It actually takes quite a lot of fossil fuel power to reach the tiny Spanish island of El Hierro. You have to catch a commercial jet flight, a propeller plane and then a ferry to reach what was once the
Google Adds Missions to its Ingress Smartphone Game
TNW - Nick Summers
Google is introducing a “missions” mode for Ingress, a massively multiplayer video game that requires players to visit real world locations. The new quests are similar to scavenger hunts, with a series
Seek thermal camera brings heat vision to your Android phone
Android Authority - Andrew Grush
As smartphone cameras continue to advance we are seeing increasing megapixels, the abilities to take better night shots, 4K recording, optical image stabilization and many other improvements in the area
TinyScreen Color Display Allows You To Create Your Own Smartwatch And More (video)
geeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey
Makers and developers that enjoy building electronic projects might be interested in a tiny new colour display that has launched over on the …
Tesla museum crowdfunding project closes in on $200,000
The Guardian - Amanda Holpuch
The latest crowdfunding campaign for the Nikola Tesla museum is closing in on its $200,000 goal, less than two days after it started. The Oatmeal blogger Matthew Ingram created a campaign that allows to
Everything You Need to Know About Social Network Ello
TNW - Roberto Baldwin
You’ve probably seen it pop up in your Facebook feed. Or maybe someone on Twitter linked to their account. The entire internet is alive with talk of Ello, the anti-Facebook social network. An anti-Facebook
Slack Makes its First Acquisition
TNW - Paul Sawers
Flickr co-founder Steward Butterfield launched his latest startup Slack out of beta back in February, with a view towards helping its users collaborate in the workplace. And today it has announced its
D-Wave CEO: Our Next Quantum Processor Will Make Computer Science History (Video)
Recode - James Temple
In a joint interview, D-Wave's Vern Brownell and DFJ's Steve Jurvetson discuss the weird world of quantum computing. Things get weird at the atomic scale. The rules of classical physics governing the we
Multitasking may be affecting the density of your grey-matter
Engadget - Sean Buckley
Reading this article on a laptop while watching TV and idly scrolling through tweets on your phone? You're a multitasker, and it may be changing the structure of your brain. New research from the University
Tasty or addictive? Chinese restaurant serves noodles laced with opium poppy
CNN - By Katie Hunt, CNN
The noodles were not just tasty. They were addictive. A Chinese noodle vendor in northern Shaanxi province has been detained for 10 days after admitting he added powdered poppy plant — from which opium
Want A Job In The Future? Go Into Health Care
fastcoexist.com
What’s more, health care jobs are widely distributed. Every community in the country added clinics and hospitals and the employment that goes with …
Ayah Bdeir, founder of littleBits
Forbes
"I think the first measure for a startup is: is it something new -- a process, a product, a category, a business model, an ecosystem. No matter what it is, it has to have not existed before. Obviously