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Paolo Soleri, who died last month at 93, transformed the way people imagine cities of the future. You've probably seen some of his concepts without realizing it. He even built an experimental city in Arizona, called Arcosanti.
La start-up nord-américaine Safe Gun Technology a mis au point une technologie qui permettrait de sauver de nombreuses vies chaque année.
Verrons-nous un jour les rues et boulevards de nos villes éclairés grâce à des arbres biofluorescents ? Peut-être, si l'on en croit le projet américain "Glowing Plants".
Transparent electrodes are in and of themselves nothing all that new – they’re currently used in things like touchscreens and flat-screen TVs.
Mimant l’organe visuel de la mouche, cet œil appelé CurvACE pourrait équiper prochainement une grande variété de robots et d’engins de détection des mouvements.
Says treating biology like software is the key. ;
L'histoire d'une poupée robot qui exerce sa propre volonté.
Swiss Space Systems, nouvel entrant sur le marché des opérateurs de lancement de petits satellites et de passagers privés, propose le Soar, sorte de mini-navette réutilisable.
"If human history is the story of a creature who molts from ape to angel - or, as Nietzsche claimed, from beast to Superman - then somewhere along the way it seems that we must become machines" -Erik
Writers and historians enjoy making the case for one or another thinker as the starting point for an epoch. Did Galileo launch the scientific revolution? Or was it Copernicus? Or Kepler? Did Dante’s poetry kick start the Renaissance?
The term substrate-independence denotes the philosophical thesis of Functionalism – that what is important about the mind and its constitutive sub-systems and processes is their relative function. If such a function could be recreated using an alternate series if component parts of procedural steps, or can be recreated on another substrate entirely, the philosophical thesis of Functionalism holds that it should be the same as the original, experientially speaking.
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Brandon Bryant, 27 ans, ne cesse, depuis quelques mois, de décrire aux médias ses affres d'opérateur de drone.
Researchers develop a way to preserve quantum information for hours - compared to fractions of a second today.
IBM Watson Solutions VP Stephen Gold interacts with the new IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, which uses cloud-delivered mobile and online chat technology to assist businesses’ customers, anytime and anywhere (credit: Jon Simon/Feature Photo Service...
Au terme de 12 années de recherche, des scientifiques de l'Université de Harvard (Cambridge, États-Unis) sont parvenus à concevoir un robot insecte miniaturisé appelé RoboBee, capable de réaliser des vols contrôlés.
Une jeune Américaine de 18 ans a mis au point une batterie pouvant se recharger en 20 à 30 secondes à peine. Un espoir pour nos téléphones portables toujours en quête d’énergie ?
Si l’informatique revêt la plupart du temps la forme de nouveaux matériels ou logiciels, elle se met également au service de domaines très divers.
(Phys.org) —In a study that evaluated some of the latest in automatic facial recognition technology, researchers at Michigan State University were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, an...
Microsoft vient de se voir accorder un brevet décrivant un appareillage transmettant des données via de faibles impulsions électriques au travers du corps humain. De quoi échanger des données...
Google's big keynote at its I/O developers conference this week wore me out. Not because it lasted a grueling three hours and fifty minutes, but because of what was announced. With every new product update, every new feature, every new virtual service, it became more and more clear that Google isn't just a search company that makes loads of cash by showing you ads. It's creeping into every aspect of our digital, physical, and private lives at an exponential rate.
Dmitry Itskov wants a world in which we can live forever in an android body - and he wants it soon. The 32-year-old Russian billionaire has outlined his '2045' vision at a global conference he held in New York.
One reason that we know that ideas stick and spread is because they’re useful.
"The life expectancy was 20 1,000 years ago. ... We doubled it in 200 years. This will go into high gear within 10 and 20 years from now, probably less than 15 we will be reaching that tipping point where we add more time than has gone by because of scientific progress," said Ray Kurzweil. "Somewhere between 10 and 20 years, there is going to be tremendous transformation of health and medicine."
Le laboratoire Google X, division de Google dont l’emplacement est tenu secret, est connu pour ses travaux remarquables en matière d’innovation de rupture. Larry Page et Sergey Brin, les fondateurs de Google, passeraient beaucoup de temps dans ce mystérieux laboratoire à Moutain View.
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