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The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succeed is more complicated.
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https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/financial-services/digital-transformation-in-banking-global-customer-survey.html
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Our global retail banking survey reveals many consumers expect banks to act more like top technology brands. Learn about actions banks can take to transform themselves.
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https://singularityhub.com/2018/10/09/how-brainnet-enabled-3-people-to-directly-transmit-thoughts/#sm.001yb29jm13dsfjd103ou324mad3c
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BrainNet is proof-of-concept that we are inching towards technology that could one day take telepathy out of the realm of science fiction.
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https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/study-robots-will-replace-65-percent-of-employees-in-las-vegas-by-2035/1509241585/
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At the Tipsy Robot, a bar in the Strip's Miracle Mile Shops, you'll see exactly what its name suggests, which is two robots without fancy names, just Robot One and Robot two, making drinks curious customers.
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https://www.gq.com/story/gym-selfies-changing-workouts
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Gym selfies are an increasingly common phenomenon in just about every setting. What does science say about how Instagram is affecting our fitness?
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-dire-warnings-of-the-united-nations-latest-climate-change-report
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Carolyn Kormann on a new report from the I.P.C.C., which states that global climate change will have catastrophic consequences once the planet surpasses 1.5 degrees of warming, which could happen in just a few years.
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https://hackernoon.com/5-governments-backing-blockchain-projects-401afa49d412
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https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-quantum-verification-problem-20181008/
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Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation: How do you know whether a quantum computer…
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https://www.vox.com/2018/10/5/17934174/climate-change-global-warming-un-ipcc-report-1-5-degrees
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The IPCC is likely to say in a forthcoming report that even the most optimistic scenario for climate change isn’t great at all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4jdCunLUoo
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Social networks will soon reside within, and between, minds.Find The Minds of Men here: http://theMindsofMen.netPlease help support us on Patreon, read our g...
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https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/06/honda-smart-intersection-ohio/
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As the Honda Pilot is about to enter the intersection a specially built HUD (heads-up display) flashes an orangish yellow with an image of an ambulance. Seconds later an actual ambulance that, moments before, the driver could not see barrels though the intersection with its lights on (no sirens). We watch the emergency vehicle drive off and continue through the intersection.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbdxav/researchers-created-quantum-artificial-life-for-the-first-time
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“Our research brought these amazingly sophisticated events called life to the realm of the atomic and microscopic world …and it worked.”
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Get 2 months of Skillshare for FREE using this link: https://skl.sh/realengineering15New vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMet4qY3027v8KjpaDtDx...
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https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/04/139905/wide-scale-us-wind-power-could-cause-significant-warming/
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Wind power is booming in the United States. It’s expanded 35-fold since 2000 and now provides 8% of the nation’s electricity. The US Department of Energy expects wind turbine capacity to more than quadruple again by 2050. But a new study by a pair of Harvard researchers finds that a high amount of wind power could…
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More than 90% of the world's data appeared in the past two years. From privacy to politics, Facebook to facial recognition – discover the true impact of thi...
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https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/02/uber-eats-and-the-6b-bookings-run-rate-the-ai-success-story-no-one-is-talking-about/
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Food delivery has become a $100 billion-plus market. By most metrics, Uber Eats is one of the fastest growing companies in history, posting a $6 billion bookings run rate within just four years of getting started, according to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. In 15 major U.S. cities, Eats has surpassed GrubHub, previously the unchallenged delivery leader. Why isn't anyone talking about it?
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/new-nafta-usmca-canada-mexico-us-tariffs
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After talk of a bilateral deal with Mexico, the United States reached an agreement with Canada that will preserve the trilateral format and many of the key provisions of NAFTA, with some important differences.
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/1/17923442/aist-japan-humanoid-robot-drywall-hrp-5p-construction
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The HRP-5P humanoid robot, created by Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology institute, can do simple construction tasks like install drywall.
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QWERTY keyboards have been around for over a century, but a new era in tech needs a new kind of input. WSJ’s David Pierce tries out the keyboards of the futu...
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https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-to-brain-mind-connection-lets-three-people-share-thoughts
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Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game.
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The ability to send thoughts directly to another person’s brain is the stuff of science fiction. At least, it used to be. In recent years, physicists and neuroscientists have developed an armory of tools that can sense certain kinds of thoughts and transmit information about them into other brains. That has made brain-to-brain communication a…