Tesla is supposed to have a battery swapping technology demonstration tonight. The Hyperloop details are to be released after the Tesla June 20th announcement, so maybe tomorrow or during the coming week. The internet’s leading theory is that it’s got to be some kind of pressurized tube (akin to old-school mailroom shoots), filled with air …
The ARKYD is a technologically advanced, orbiting space telescope that will be controlled by the public The Planetary Resources kickstarter has been open for less than five seven thirty one hours and has already raised over $100,000 $142,000 $470,000 (or 10% 14% nearly 50% of the goal). The one million goal will likely be reached …
The Brookings Institute has a study on getting poverty below 3% of population by 2030. The range of poverty outcomes for 2030 is large, implying that the future trajectory of global poverty is highly uncertain. Getting to the “zero zone”, defined here as a poverty rate of under 3 percent, by 2030 is unlikely to …
Spacex’s Grasshopper reusable test rocket is moving New Mexico so it can go beyond current flight limitations. This would allow the rocket — a testbed for vertical takeoff and landing technology — to soar beyond the 2,500-foot limit imposed on McGregor testing by its Federal Aviation Administration permit. It also will give the rocket room …
Elon Musk, CEO if Tesla Motors, said the electric-car maker is considering adding driverless technology to its vehicles and discussing the prospects for such systems with Google. Musk believes that technology that can take over for drivers are a logical step in the evolution of cars. He has talked with Google about the self-driving technology …
Terrafugia Inc. announced today, May 6, which they’re planning on delivering their flying car, the Transition, to customers by 2015 or 2016. This will end up being a delay of about five years from early expectations. TF-X is the practical realization of the dream of countless visions of the future; it is designed to be …
Cancer painfully ends more than 500,000 lives in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The scientific crusade against cancer recently achieved a victory under the leadership of University of Missouri Curators’ Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne. Hawthorne’s team has developed a new form of radiation therapy that successfully …
The UN Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices to rank countries into four tiers of human development. It was created by economist Mahbub ul Haq, followed by economist Amartya Sen in 1990, and published by the United Nations Development Program. We can see that the current …
Not long from now, the technology could exist to routinely enhance — and undermine — people’s minds and bodies using a wide range of chemical, neurological, genetic and behavioral techniques. * Greater strength and endurance. * Enhanced thinking. * Better teamwork. * New classes of genetic weaponry, able to subvert DNA. According to the futurists …
Problem: 1/3 Americans born today will live to 100. That’s really great but cognitive decline begins at 30 and it’s just a matter of time before dementia develops. Alzheimer’s specifically accounts for 70% of dementia cases and has no treatment. Alzheimer’s costs the US healthcare system $200 Billion dollars today and if no treatment is …
Japan is already making headway with autonomous heavy duty trucks. In order to save fuel, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has programmed a convoy of four trucks to drive just four meters (about 13 feet) apart. That cuts down on air resistance, reducing drag (and thus improving fuel efficiency) similar to …