Digital Good Times MIT’s new way to make metal could significantly lower air pollutants TechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonSerendipity has long been a staple of scientific study, and a new discovery by MIT is no exception. Researchers at the school were trying to build better batteries, but instead found a better way to smelt
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Digital Good Times Harvard’s Octobot is the first autonomous machine to be made with all soft robotics TechCrunch - Devin ColdeweyFor years roboticists have been looking into using softer materials for parts rather than the usual metal and plastic — sometimes even building entirely soft robots. But this Octobot from Harvard is the
Digital Good Times NASA Wants To Make Space Habitats From Orbiting Rocket Fuel Tanks Jalopnik - Jason Torchinsky The idea of re-purposing an (ideally) empty rocket fuel tank and turning it into a space habitat has been around for a long time, because it’s a …
Digital Good TimesMachine Learning Why AI consolidation will create the worst monopoly in US history TechCrunch - Henry PickavetVinod Iyengar is the director of product marketing at open source machine learning company H2O.ai. Forget Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — we need a trust-buster like Teddy Roosevelt, who in 1902 attacked
Digital Good Times Peter Thiel just backed a startup that helps you sue companies algorithmically TNW - Bryan ClarkIf Peter Thiel was trying to convince the world he wasn’t a lawsuit-happy nerd, this probably isn’t the best way to do it. Reports today detail Thiel’s latest investment, a $100,000 Thiel Foundation grant
