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Pepper-picking robot could change agricultural industry

A pepper-picking robot developed by EU-funded CROPS project, lead by Dr. Bontsema, has become the first in what could be a wave of agricultural robots.

The robot runs on a rail system, has snake like arms with pincers, and uses a stream of snapshots for movement to be able to pick fruits. The robot however was slow and inefficient and Dr. Bontsema is creating another project called SWEEPER to…

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#Agriculture #Farming

NASA planning mission to asteroid 16 Psyche

NASA is planning a mission to asteroid 16 Psyche, located in the large asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche was revealed to have a core similar to Earth, which would have it made up of iron, nickel, and rare materials such as gold, platinum, copper, cobalt, and others.

“It’s such a strange object,” said Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the lead scientist on the NASA mission and the director of…

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#NASA

Airbus developing prototype for flying car

Airbus Group is preparing to test a prototype of a self piloted flying car. The company created the Urban Air Mobility division last year to create concepts for flying cars.

“One hundred years ago, urban transport went underground, now we have the technological wherewithal to go above ground,” Airbus CEO Tom Enders told the DLD digital tech conference in Munich.

The aim is to allow people to use…

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#Airbus Group #Flying car

Take a Tour of the White House with President Obama

Felix & Paul Studios and Oculus have partnered together to release “The People’s House,” a 360-degree tour of the White House guided by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

The tour will be able on Facebook and Oculus Video for the Rift and Gear VR. The tour goes through various areas of the White House and its grounds. The tour is 8 minutes long. With just a few days left this VR tour…

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#President Obama #White House

Illumina may sequence a genome for $100

DNA sequencing company Illumina has unveiled a machine that may one day sequence a whole genome for less than $100. The company’s CEO Frank deSouza showed the machine, NovaSeq, at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in downtown San Francisco. He said that the machine could decipher an entire human genome in less than an hour.

Cost of sequencing has gone down tremendously. In 2006 Illumina’s first…

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#Human Genome Sequencing #Illumina

ShapeScale creates 3D scans of users to help with fitness goals

ShopScale is aiming to create a new way to lose weight using 3D scanning technology that will scan the users body and monitor weight loss and gain.

The company is envisioning a tech friendly solution to monitoring and encouraging healthy weight loss. The technology comes with an app that can help visualize progress and create graphs or maps to track success throughout the body and help users know…

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#ShapeScale

Japanese Insurance agency installs AI system replacing human workers

Fukoku Mutual life Insurance is turning to artificial intelligence to increase productivity and save money.

The artificial intelligence system is based on IBM’s Watson explorer. The system can analyze massive amounts of data including images, audio, and video. It will be used to read tens of thousands of medical certificates, calculate length of visit or stay, analyze patients medical history,…

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#Fukoku Mutual #Japan

ODG unveils AR/VR glasses

Osterhout Design Group (ODG) known for making smart glasses for the military and other organizations has made its first consumer product: augmented and virtual reality glasses.

ODG unveiled the R-8 and R-9 models. The R-9 will ship around Q2 of 2017, is priced around $1799, and is targeted for light enterprise. The R-8 is smaller than the R-9, is set for under $1,000, and is targeted for personal…

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Amazon wins patent for flying warehouse to deploy delivery drones

Amazon has plans to use an air blimp as a flying warehouse to launch drones for delivery. The company has been awarded a patent for the flying warehouse which is described as an “airborne fulfillment center”.

The warehouse would float at an altitude of 45,000 and be stocked of products. The products would then be delivered via drone, potentially within minutes. When a customer orders a product, a…

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#Amazon

Las Vegas now drawing 100% power from renewable energy

Las Vegas has moved on to 100% renewable energy for which they have spent the better part of a decade. The city partnered with NVEnergy the past year to run government buildings, community center lights, parks, and the city hall.

The city met its goal after Bouldar Solar 1 went online, a large scale project near Bouldar City. The city is powering more than 100 facilities with renewable energy.…

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#Las Vegas #Renewable Energy

Waymos autonomous minivan

Chrysler has finished 100 autonomous Pacifica minivans to join Googles Waymo fleet in 2017. The minivans use Waymos self driving rigs of hardware and software, as a partnership between Waymo and Fiat Chrysler.

The prototypes are being tested in Waymo facilities in California and FCA’s facilities in Michigan and Arizona.

Waymo CEO John Krafcik said in a statement “With this great new minivan on…

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Apple investing 30% stake in wind power in China

Apple has bought a 30% stake of Goldwind, based in China, for wind energy that will produce 285 megawatts of power. Apple invested in four subsidiaries located in different provinces where the power wil come from: Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and Yunnan provinces in China.

Goldwind, one of the largest wind turbine makers based in Xinjian, made the announcementlast week. Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice…

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#China #Goldwind

Apple investing 30% stake in wind power in China

Apple has bought a 30% stake of Goldwind, based in China, for wind energy that will produce 285 megawatts of power. Apple invested in four subsidiaries located in different provinces where the power will come from: Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and Yunnan provinces in China.

Goldwind, one of the largest wind turbine makers based in Xinjian, made the announcementlast week. Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice…

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#China #Goldwind

Facebook fights back Fake News

Facebook rolled out its new tools today to help prevent misinformation and combat fake news. The tools will help make it easier to report fake news shared in the News Feed. The company is also working with four independent organizers to fact check and assess accuracy of stories.

Facebook is working with ABC News, FactCheck.org, Politifact, and Snopes, of which all are members of the Poynter…

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#ABC News #FactCheck.org #Fake News #Politifact #Snopes

Microsoft to allow third party devices and apps to integrate Cortana

Microsoft is opening up Cortana to third party device makers and developers with a Cortana Skills kit and Cortana Devices SDK.

Cortana’s Skills Kit will let developers build apps that are able to use voice commands via Cortana to enable features. The Devices SDK allows third party hardware makers build devices with Cortana on board.

Currently the Skills Kit preview is available for a few partners…

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#Cortana

SyncThink uses VR to find concussions faster

SyncThink, founded by Dr. Jamshid Ghajar from Stanford Concussion and Brain Performance center, will use virtual reality to discover concussions earlier.

SyncThink uses a DK2 Oculus Rift develop kit with eye-tracking sensors that allow quick and portable access to athletes to discover early brain trauma.

SyncThink specializes in neurotechnology and received FDA clearance to use the EYE-SYNC on…

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#Oculus #Stanford #SyncThink

NASA and KAIST developing tiny spacecraft that could travel one-fifth the speed of light

NASA is working with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to develop tiny spacecraft made from a single silicon chip that may offer faster interstellar travel.

It is suggested that using a single silicon chip could allow for the spacecraft to travel at one-fifth of the speed of light and could reach the nearest star within 20 years. This is 10 times faster than conventional…

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#KAIST #NASA #Silicon Chip #Space

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