“RoboCorp” by David Z Morris “Get ready for companies that run themselves. But will the autonomous economy set us all free, or just make the rich richer?”
“Beyond the churn” by Sarah Smarsh Information, news, stories and the often misplaced need to connect.
“Your DNA Is Nothing Special” by CHIP ROWE Could placebo, self-fulfilling prophecy and other hidden side effects be underestimated in recent DNA profiling?
Glassed-in DNA makes the ultimate time capsule “1 gram of DNA is theoretically capable of holding 455 exabytes – It’s also incredibly durable: results suggest that data in DNA form could last 2000 years if kept at a temperature of around 10 °C…”
“The Acceleration of Acceleration: How The Future Is Arriving Far Faster Than Expected” BY STEVEN KOTLER “For the first time in history, the world’s leading experts on accelerating technology are consistently finding themselves too conservative in their predictions about the future of that technology.”
Robot Scientist Discovers Potential Malaria Drug A Robot Scientist is a laboratory automation system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to discover scientific knowledge through cycles of experimentation. One validated discovery is that the anti-cancer compound TNP-470 is a potent inhibitor of dihydrofolate reductase from the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium vivax.
DOT and FAA Propose New Rules for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in today’s aviation system
Robot Journalist Finds New Work on Wall Street Software that turns data into written text could help drafting reports for financial giants and U.S. intelligence agencies. The writing software, called Quill, was developed byNarrative Science, a Chicago company set up in 2010. It wasn’t long before Quill was being used to report on baseball games for TV and online sports outlets, and company earnings statements for clients such as Forbes.
Establishing a CODE for UAVs to fly together The U.S. military’s DARPA’s Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) intends to focus in particular on developing and demonstrating improvements in collaborative autonomy of UAVs
15 CHARTS, GRAPHS, AND MAPS ON DATA VISUALIZATIONS innovative visualizations come from areas rich with easily gathered information, and perhaps no spheres are more quantified than our selves, our cities, and our planet.
“Bionic Leaf” Makes Fuel from Sunlight This work reports the development of a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system to efficiently convert CO2, along with H2 and O2 produced from water splitting, into biomass and fuel
Lawsuits challenge FAA drone, model aircraft rules The three lawsuits asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review the validity of the directive, which the Federal Aviation Administration issued in June. more about this directive
Small UAV Coalition formed to promote civil and commercial use of small UAVs Small UAV Coalition boasts some heavy hitters that have a vested interest in promoting the commercial and civil use of UAVs. The group is also looking to support recreational use of small UAVs for hobbyists.
US drone research hits regulatory turbulence On 23 June, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told drone users that such aircraft cannot be flown for ‘commercial’ use — defined as any activity that is not recreational or part of a government programme. That includes research and teaching at private, but not public, universities.
Google tests using drones to deliver goods Two years of research into what Google referred to as “Project Wing” was capped with test flights in Queensland, Australia.
Unmanned Aircraft Partnership Reaches Major Milestone Partnership between the Warsaw University of Technology and Lockheed Martin
Delivery by drone MIT researchers have come up with a two-pronged approach that significantly reduces the computation associated with lengthy delivery missions. The team first developed an algorithm that enables a drone to monitor aspects of its “health” in real time and a method for a drone to efficiently compute its possible future locations offline, before it takes off.