Khan Academy: The future of education?
March 12, 2012
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PARC | Power of 10 series — ‘Innovation: chasms and velocities’ with renowned innovation expert Geoffrey Moore
March 12, 2012
PARC | This PARC Forum invited expert talk is part of a special series with 10 speakers on 10 aspects of innovation… because we’re celebrating the “Power of 10″ years of practicing open innovation (since being incorporated as an independent subsidiary in 2002).
Click here to watch the video on PARC’s website and learn more.
Presenter Geoffrey Moore has made understanding and exploiting disruptive… read more
At Google Science Fair, Scientists from Cambridge University talk about using LEGO MINDSTORMS to aid their research.
Best Buy | SXSW interview — ‘A genius predicts the future’
March 15, 2012
Best Buy | The inventor of text-to-speech says you won’t need text or speech to surf the Web.
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Best Buy | Ray Kurzweil featured in Best Buy’s Super Bowl ad featuring tech pioneers
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The Daily | ‘Tase of Our Lives’
March 19, 2012
The Daily | New police surveillance drones could be armed with nonlethal weapons. As a Texas sheriff prepares to use an unmanned drone as his force’s eye in the sky, and perhaps even arm it with nonlethal weapons like tasers and rubber bullets, civil liberties groups are crying foul.
Video Source: The Daily
CBS 60 Minutes | SpaceX: Entrepreneur’s race to space
March 19, 2012
From PayPal to electric cars to rockets, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wants his company, SpaceX, to build America’s next manned spacecraft. Scott Pelley reports.
Video Source: CBS News
TEDxLausanne | When creative machines overtake man
March 19, 2012
TEDxLausanne — Jürgen Schmidhuber
Machine intelligence is improving rapidly, to the point that the scientist of the future may not even be human! In fact, in more and more fields, learning machines are already outperforming humans.
Artificial intelligence expert Jürgen Schmidhuber isn’t able to predict the future accurately, but he explains how machines are getting creative, why 40’000 years of Homo sapiens-dominated history are about to end… read more
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CNET | Fraunhofer’s portrait robot at CeBIT
March 25, 2012
CNET | Robots are widely used now, and they’re only spread even farther into daily life. The sci-fi future may be closer than you think. The Fraunhofer Institute usually uses this robot for gauging the quality of new reflective materials, but at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, it used it to draw portraits. The robot took a digital photo of a person, processed it digitally, drew a line-art portrait,… read more
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Radiolab | Talking to machines
March 26, 2012
Radiolab | We begin with a love story — from a man who unwittingly fell in love with a chatbot on an online dating site. Then, we encounter a robot therapist whose inventor became so unnerved by its success that he pulled the plug.
And we talk to the man who coded Cleverbot, a software program that learns from every new line of conversation it receives…… read more
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GoPollGo brings real-time polls and results to the Web, Robert Scoble interviews founder Ben Schaechter
March 26, 2012
Scobleizer | This is really cool. You can ask your followers a question and see their answers in real time. You see this after I asked a question. Here you meet Ben Schaechter, CEO, who tells you about his new company and explains how the technology works. GoPollGo lets you build your own. My polls are here.
Wikipedia | Robert Scoble is an American blogger,… read more
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Twentieth Century Fox | Prometheus official full HD trailer
March 28, 2012
Twentieth Century Fox | In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system’s natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers.
Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Blade Runner, returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology,… read more
Video Source: Twentieth Century Fox
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World Records Academy | The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team smashed its own world record for largest Rube Goldberg machine with a 300-step behemoth that flawlessly accomplished the simple task of blowing up and popping a balloon – setting the new world record for the Largest functional Rube Goldberg machine, according to World Records Academy.
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Walking on air
April 23, 2012
This video features a series of time lapse sequences photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station. Set to the song “Walking in the Air,” by Howard Blake, the video takes viewers around the world, through auroras, and over dazzling lightning displays.
Song lyrics:
We’re walking in the air
We’re floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly… read more
Video Source: NASA
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Introducing David 8
April 23, 2012
Introducing David 8 is a promotional video for the Prometheus movie. See also Project Prometheus and the website of the fictional corporation Weyland Industries.
He has been reimagined, reengineered and brought to life with better technological, intellectual, physical and emotional performance than ever before. Welcome to the eighth generation of cybernetic advancement. Brought to you by Weyland Industries.
With his new 99% emotional sensitivity… read more
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Building the #Knowosphere
April 27, 2012
In a talk, “Building the #Knowosphere: How new ways to share and shape ideas can help build durable progress on a finite planet“ on Earth Day 2012 at MIT, New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin suggests how to use the Web and other emerging communication tools and networks to make the world a better place
The notion of Knowosphere has… read more
Video Source: MIT TechTV