Fraser Cain of Universe Today is now Product Manager at HeroX As an example, Fraser Cain created a self-replicating robot challenge. Self Replicating Robot Challenge Fraser Cain, Product Manager for HeroX. I’m a big fan of robots, but building robots is hard. You need a lot of tools, you get grease on your hands. There’s …
HeroX. It’s a spinoff from the X Prize Foundation, taking the incentive challenge model and crowdsourcing it. HeroX is a platform where anyone can spur innovation and solve problems by launching a challenge. It is a place for the world to come together to solve problems in need of creative solutions. And we need your …
Japan’s aging society is rapidly shrinking the workforce. Aging is forcing Japan to attempt to relax old prejudices against women and foreigners. Plus there is an attempt to achieve a robotic revolution. Japan is pulling out all the stops to hit the 2 percent GDP growth target the government says is needed to reduce its …
The Machine will scale from embedded systems to data centers and clouds. Martin Fink, EVP and HP CTO, discussed his vision of how today’s compute technology must evolve in order to meet the future needs of your enterprise. HP Labs is developing a powerful, distributed successor to today’s computing architecture that will be able to …
HP will start delivering memristor-based RAM DIMMs in 2016, and the Machine itself is expected to be available as a product by 2019. But within the next year, HP will release an open-source Machine OS software developer’s kit and start producing prototypes for collaboration with software vendors. Some enterprise systems already use nonvolatile RAM based …
Developing countries are headed for a third consecutive year of disappointing growth below 5 percent, as first quarter weakness in 2014 has delayed an expected pick-up in economic activity, says the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report, issued on June 10, 2014. In contrast, recovery in high-income countries is gaining momentum, despite first quarter …
Beijing decided to significantly scale back the one-child policy in November last year. Leading Chinese demographers, such as Cai Fang from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, predict the policy change would lead to a significant improvement in the country’s terribly low fertility rate. Cai believes the birth rate will bounce back to 2.4 if …
Last week, central China’s Wuhan City eased its household curbs to allow older college graduates working in the city to settle locally, a move expected to attract 100,000 graduates, hopefully boosting property purchases. Previously, south China’s Haikou City allowed five family members to register their household locally if one purchases a house with a space …
North Dakota Oil production has surpassed 1 million barrels per day in April, 2014 If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 …
Texas Central plans to fund construction of high speed rail from Dallas to Houston — with early estimates put at about $10 billion — exclusively through private investment. It would consider federal financing, says Lawless, but it will not accept subsidies even if the line fails to turn a profit. Texas Central Railway, a private …
China might allow Britain to take part in the construction of a large undersea tunnel in exchange for a role in its high-speed railway and nuclear power projects, a senior state firm engineer said. Professor Wang Mengshu, deputy chief engineer with China Railway Tunnel Group and a senior scientific adviser to the government on high-speed …