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Stunning progress in technology brings the death of unskilled labor

As part of the online web series Which Way Next, hosted by Singularity University, Vivek Wadhwa, VP of Academics and Innovation, sat down with Carl Bass, CEO at Autodesk, to explore some of the pivotal technologies coming online that promise to redefine the jobs available to humans in the 21st Century.

During the discussion, Bass points out that we are now at a great inflection point in the automation of labor. Extraordinary breakthroughs in the areas of artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital manufacturing are all converging upon one another yielding a world … Read More → "Stunning progress in technology brings the death of unskilled labor"

How software-defined radio could revolutionize wireless

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Image: Aurich Lawson

In 1976, two shaggy-haired college dropouts founded a company called Apple to manufacture personal computers. The company’s prospects looked so poor that the third co-founder relinquished his 10 percent stake in the company for $800 that same year. It simply wasn’t clear why anyone would want the firm’s Apple I computer. It was so under-powered that it couldn’t perform many of … Read More → "How software-defined radio could revolutionize wireless"

What the discovery of the Higgs means for scientists

Stephen Wolfram’s diverse areas of research include mathematics, physics, and computing. Though his early career was focused on particle physics, he went on to create the widely used computer algebra system Mathematica and, later, the search engine Wolfram Alpha. He is author of A New Kind of Science — a study of simple computational systems such as cellular automata — and current CEO of Wolfram Research.

The announcement early yesterday morning of experimental evidence for what’s presumably the  … Read More → "What the discovery of the Higgs means for scientists"

0 reasons why the Nexus Q is the streaming media player for you

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I am exactly the person who should be excited about Google’s “social” media player: I have room in my life for a streaming media gizmo — right now I lean on my Xbox 360, but have always been Roku curious — I use an Android smartphone as my primary device and I’m always in the market for innovative gadgets. That, and it simply looks like a gadget you want to … Read More → "0 reasons why the Nexus Q is the streaming media player for you"

Fujitsu starts build-it-yourself PC service, lets you go homebrew without the electrical shocks

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Big PC companies are often seen as being at odds with the concept of custom-built computers: apart from letting us ticking a few checkboxes before we order, they’d rather we not fiddle with the internals. Fujitsuis breaking the mold and embracing some of that Read More → "Fujitsu starts build-it-yourself PC service, lets you go homebrew without the electrical shocks"

Planet-forming disk vanishes into thin air

Some 460 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, a thick disk of dust swirled around a young star named TYC 8241 2652 1, where rocky planets like our own were arising. Then, in less than 2 years, the disk just vanished. That’s the unprecedented observation astronomers report in a new study, out today. Even more intriguing: The same thing may have happened in our own solar system.

Born about 10 million years ago, the TYC 8241 2652 1 system was chugging along just fine before 2009. Its so-called circumstellar disk glowed at the infrared wavelength of 10 microns, indicating it was warm and lay close … Read More → "Planet-forming disk vanishes into thin air"

Researchers capture a single atom’s shadow, has implications for quantum computers

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A very small atom can cast a very large shadow. Well, not literally, but figuratively. Researchers at Griffith University have managed to snap the first image of a single atom’s shadow and, while the dark spot may be physically small, the implications for the field of quantum computing are huge.
via Engadget</ … Read More → "Researchers capture a single atom’s shadow, has implications for quantum computers"

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