BlogHide Resteemssingularitywatch (34)in science • 8 years agoNew Technology Could Make Water Shortages A Thing of The PastAs everyone knows, water is the most important resource in the world. We use water for just about everything, from agriculture to industrial purposes, and of course, for the most obvious purpose:…singularitywatch (34)in science • 8 years agoGift-giving brain cells are lifeline to injured nerve cellsHere’s another interesting thing about the human body – a new study published in Nature found that when nerve cells are under duress, their other cell friends help them out. Scientists say…singularitywatch (34)in ev • 8 years agoIs Elon Musk serious about the Tesla Semi?Out of all of Elon Musk's recent "Master Plan Part Deux," the part that really caught our eye was a short paragraph about a Tesla semi. Much of the rest—solar, autonomous driving…singularitywatch (34)in space • 8 years agoVirgin Galactic gets its spaceship licenseVirgin Galactic is one step closer to making us all space tourists: it just received its operator license from the US Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation…singularitywatch (34)in science • 8 years ago15 Genes Related to Depression Identified - 23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced StudyA scientific expedition into the DNA of more than 450,000 customers of gene-testing company 23andMe has uncovered the first major trove of genetic clues to the cause of depression. The study, the…singularitywatch (34)in science • 8 years agoNew Ultra-Thin, Skin-Like Display You Can Wear On Your WristNowadays, it is crucial to have ultra-portable devices as people instantaneously need to be updated with the latest information available in the vast web. This has strongly contributed to the demand…singularitywatch (34)in science • 8 years agoIBM Making Silicon to Sort Viruses and Other Nanoscale Biological TargetsIt’s long been understood that early disease detection is the key to successful treatments. But annual checkups with a doctor might not be frequent enough to help. So imagine if you could forego a…singularitywatch (34)in science • 8 years agoGoogle firm hopes to control organs with electrical signalsThe Google company Veriliy Life Sciences is teaming up with pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline to develop implants that will fix problems in our organs using electricity. To do this, the firms…singularitywatch (34)in pokemon • 8 years agoHow Pokemon And Location-Based Augmented Reality Could Save The PlanetIf you think about it, the more than 75 million people who have downloaded Pokemon Go are quite literally hand surveying their cities, fanning out and scouring their city labyrinths, traversing even…singularitywatch (34)in science • 8 years agoSolar Capture Technique Turns CO2 Into Burnable FuelEngineers at the University of Chicago have created a new kind of solar cell that efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide into usable hydrocarbon fuel—and it does so using only sunlight for…singularitywatch (34)in ai • 8 years agoAI Common Sense Still a Problem, for NowAn alternative to the Turing Test, the Winograd Schema Challenge aims to determine how well an AI system handles common sense reasoning. The challenge tasks computer programs with answering a…singularitywatch (34)in longevity • 8 years agoIf you're alive in 30 years, chances are good you may also be alive in 1000 yearsSounds unlikely? It's not - it's actually quite likely. The only way to get people to live for a thousand years or more is to develop advanced technologies that can manipulate our bodies down to…singularitywatch (34)in nasa • 8 years agoNASA Orders Second SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space StationNASA took another important step Friday in returning U.S. astronaut launches from U.S. soil with the order of a second post-certification mission from commercial provider SpaceX in Hawthorne…singularitywatch (34)in nasa • 8 years agoNASA Estimates SpaceX 2018 Mars Mission Will Cost Only $300 MillionEver since Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, with the intention of eventually colonizing Mars, every move he has made has been the subject of attention. For the past two years, a great deal of this…singularitywatch (34)in singularity • 8 years agoRay Kurzweil Questions & Answers Session About The Future of Human Evolution and SpaceTechnological shifts outpace our awareness of them. While we're busy with our day-to-day lives—getting a new smartphone or downloading the next updates—we often don't notice how these incremental…
