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| No, it didn't slip you a roofie, that's actually what it looks like. (Image courtesy indiegogo.com.) |
Skills For Pills: Meet Your New Robotic Drug Dealer
Today's humans seem to require all sorts of extra sustenance to maintain our lives. From prescriptions to vitamins and supplements, we have pills for every possibility. Now, there's a means of keeping track of these meds...yes, a pill-dropping domestic droid.
Space Station Sunday: A Lovely Landing & Fire In The Sky
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| Always nice to be able to continue to post images like these. Congrats on the completed mission, gentlemen! (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Pride Vs. Prejudice: Anonymous Gaily Hacks ISIS Twitter Pages
When acts of terror occur, one wonders at the source of the vitriol towards certain intended targets. Often, it seems that ignorance, hatred, and other motivators of malevolent acts may be based in a person (or a fanatical subculture’s) self-hatred, or repression of certain aspects of their lives. This creates a strong means of turning the terror back upon itself...for instance, in this faaaaaaabulous way.
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| Oh myyyy. (Image courtesy techly.com.au.) |
Olli, Olli, Oil-Free: New Electric, 3-D Printed Shuttle Bus Rolls Out In DC
The description sounds like the ultimate futuristic vehicle, but the technology is here today: an autonomous, 3-D printed, electric shuttle bus. As of today, it’s transporting the citizens of one of America’s oldest cities into the future…
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| This cozy little computer-generated craft might be revolutionizing shared vehicles in big cities. (Image courtesy csmonitor.com.) |
Fighting Trump Fans On Twitter? There's A Bot For That
The 2016 presidential election for the United States has already been weird, dirty, and unsettling, as any form of major or minor media will be happy to inform you of. Now, a chatbot posing as a Donald Trump fan (or foe?) has only added fuel to the fanatical fire…
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| Yell all you want at the AI Trump supporter... like the hair of the Don, it is ultimately unflappable. (Image courtesy play.google.com.) |
Setting Sail For The Stars: Elon Musk's Martian Colonization Plan Is Serious
Earthlings, rejoice, you may not be forced to remain bound by the surly bonds of our gravity for much longer. Noted future-forward thinker and tech revolutionary Elon Musk wants to start a Martian migration A.S.A.P….are you willing to trade in the Pale Blue Dot for a chance to pioneer on the Red Planet?
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| Musk for Martian President, 2032! (Image courtesy bornscientist.com.) |
Space Station Sunday: Homeward Bound And Good-Looking Ground
Good afternoon, space fans! It's been another exciting week in space...here's what was up!
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| "In peace for all mankind, I declare this my new chillax room." Astronaut Jeff Williams inspects the B.E.A.M. module (but later closed the hatch, leaving the B.E.A.M. empty for further study.) (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Keep On (Electric) Truckin': Tesla And Mack Team Up On Efficient New Powertrain
It’s not
just fancy sports cars or even reasonable commuter vehicles that are getting
the sustainable treatment. The e-car
rockstars at Tesla, in partnership with Mack, have also developed a
non-fossil-fuel dependent garbage truck, with a special modification…
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| It's still trying to help the environment, even if your non-recycling, plastic-bag addicted self isn't. (Image courtesy popsci.com.) |
Top Of The Crops: New Aeroponics Farm In New Jersey To Revolutionize Urban Farming
As we continue to re-think our old societal conventions regarding even the most time-honored traditions of humanity, we begin to find ways to majorly improve on some techniques that have lasted for thousands of years. Conventional farming has recently joined this upheaval, with new tactics and layouts producing more yield than field-workers of yore may have ever thought possible. One such installation is set to make records near the NYC area…
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| The greatest salad bar of all time, or the start of a new farming paradigm? (Image courtesy weburbanist.com.) |
Please Mr. Robo-Postman: These New Droids Can Deliver Your Mail
Another day, another android gunning for your job. On top of bartenders, hotel staff, fast-food workers, industrial laborers, writers, artists, and pizza deliverymen, now the robots are bringing the freshest electronic edge to mail delivery since you first signed up for an email inbox...
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| It's even better-dressed than most humans. We're doomed. (Image courtesy gizmag.com.) |
Space Station Sunday: B.E.A.M. Me Up!
Good afternoon, space fans! It's been another amazing week outside the atmosphere. Here's what was up!
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| Well, we know which module we want to record a space-rock album in. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Hear Hear! Army's New In-Ear Device Augments Soft Sounds; Levels Out Loud Ones
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| When you need all of your senses sharp, this makes perfect sense. (Image courtesy soldiersystems.com.) |
Halal Yeah: New Web Browser For Muslims Filters Out Impure Content
Sometimes it's tough to get old ideas to make sense alongside new ones. In fact, many long-held views - particularly involving religion vs. modern computers - match up with the future about as well as trying to play a vinyl record on a cassette deck. However, sometimes the past and the future can be reconciled for a greater ideal, where both mentalities can meet in the middle...
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| Why tempt the mighty wrath of Allah, when you can browse in spiritual safety with Salam? (Image courtesy themalaymailonline.com.) |
Notes From The Brainframe: Scientists Work On "Mind-Reading Machine" To Sense Speech
Like time travel and the ability to vacation on the moon, mind reading has always been one hallmark of a most fascinating future. Now, technology may be on its way to taking us there, at least as far as having our thoughts manifest into verbalized words, sans standard speech...
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| Huh. That's fucking crazy. I need another beer before I write this story. Oops, sorry. That was the internal monologue talking. (Image courtesy dosmosis.blogspot.com.) |
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