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Jun 9, 2016

This is the future: YouTuber uses drone to cut hair

Posted by in categories: computing, drones, robotics/AI

Who needs a hair artisian anymore while you a have a drone. What’s next? Makeup artists? Lookout Mary Kay.

What about movie/ video crew that’s all drones? The list goes on and on.


A popular robotics vlogger and a computer hacker pair up to give a mannequin a haircut with a drone. Is this the feel-good story of the summer?

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Jun 9, 2016

Navy looking for drones to refuel, update other drones

Posted by in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI

Drone helping drones.


The Office of Naval Research is looking for other unmanned platforms to provide data transfers and refuel unmanned surface vehicles at sea.

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Jun 9, 2016

Engineered pathogen-binding protein enables rapid isolation of infectious bacteria from joint fluids

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics

Very cool.


Pinpointing the type of bacteria that are at the root of an infection in clinical samples removed from living tissues, such as blood, urine or joint fluids, to quickly identify the best anti-microbial therapy still poses a formidable challenge. The standard method of culturing can take days to reveal pathogens, and they often fail to bring them to light altogether.

A team lead by Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University now reports a method in PLoS, which enables the rapid isolation and concentration of infectious bacteria from complex clinical samples to help speed up bacterial identification, and it should be able to accelerate the determination of antibiotic susceptibilities as well.

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Jun 9, 2016

This Man Wants to Treat Diseases with Grain-Size Implants

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

Luv it.


Only One Big Drugmaker Is Working on a Nanobot Cure.
GlaxoSmithKline is experimenting with grain-size implants that treat disease.

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Jun 9, 2016

Big Government Courts Small Startups

Posted by in categories: government, health, internet

Silicon Valley is trying a new approach in get new tech into the US government (states, counties, and cities/ towns) hands.


I think most of us can agree that the internet poses some unique and wide-scale risks to our privacy.

Our every move online can be — and often is — tracked. In the past, it might have been hard for companies or the government to know your interests, political leanings, religious affiliation or health problems. But they can glean all that and more by simply watching what you do on the internet.

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Jun 9, 2016

We can now communicate with plants

Posted by in category: futurism

Love plants? You may soon be able to talk to them.

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Jun 9, 2016

Measuring time is a crucial part of navigation – particularly in space, where exacting precision is called for

Posted by in categories: futurism, space travel

The DSAC is poised to make a change that will aid future deep space missions.

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Jun 9, 2016

Physical objects could, theoretically, pass through a wormhole at the centre of a black hole

Posted by in category: cosmology

Objects may be able to pass through a wormhole at the centre of a black hole despite extreme forces.

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Jun 9, 2016

Welcome to Larry Page’s Secret Flying-Car Factories

Posted by in category: transportation

With Zee. Aero and Kitty Hawk, the Google co-founder looks to the skies.

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Jun 9, 2016

Scientific camera from Photometrics features high quantum efficiency

Posted by in categories: electronics, quantum physics

Featuring backside-illuminated sensor technology providing 95% quantum efficiency, the Prime 95B from 2016 Innovators Awards silver-level honoree Photometrics is reportedly three times more sensitive than the current generation of sCMOS cameras. The camera features a GSENSE400BSI-TVISB scientific CMOS (sCMOS) sensor from Gpixel Inc., which is a 1.44 MPixel sensor with a 11 µm square pixel size that can achieve a frame rate of 41 fps in 16-bit and 82 fps in 12-bit. The Prime 95B, according to Photometrics, is optimized for low-light microscopy and life sciences imaging applications because of its ability to collect nearly all available light, and maximize the signal-to-noise ratio of the experiment while minimizing cellular photo damage. Additionally, the camera features forced air or liquid cooling options, as well as a PCIe and USB 3.0 interfaces.

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