http://youtu.be/3KyvlMJefR4 Imagine What The World Would've Looked Like If These Amazing People Had Not Been Assassinated.
The World Bank Wants to Privatize the One Thing We Can't Live WithoutPutting corporations in charge of something as vital as water may sound cartoonish. But it's no hook for a dystopia story: The World Bank, which offers "loans, advice, and other resources" to developing countries, is recommending that water management be a privatized industry.Some might argue... Continue Reading →
The World Bank Wants to Privatize the One Thing We Can’t Live Without
AS ROBOTS EVOLVE THE WORKFORCE, WILL LABOR LAWS KEEP PACE?
http://youtu.be/dMZDgvLRObE Every day, robots pop up in more workplaces. Employers in industries from health care to food service are drawn to automation technology by the promise of greater productivity and lower costs. Up to half of the jobs in the United States could be rendered moot in coming years by quickly improving robotics technology, according... Continue Reading →
7 things we’ve learned about Earth since the last Earth Day
http://youtu.be/vNaXxXNFOjM Earth Day was started in 1970 in order to get people thinking about the environment and the urgent need to protect it. That hasn't gone so well. We've since emitted more carbon dioxide than we previously had in all of human history, likely dooming our planet to a potentially catastrophic amount of warming in... Continue Reading →
Hitachi Invents Waterproof Glass ‘Disk’ That Can Store Data Forever
http://youtu.be/C-5ndhmec7k A simple square of glass may hold the key to the vexing problem of storing data indefinitely. Developed by Hitachi, the technology prints a binary series of dots upon a sliver of quartz glass which can then be easily read with a common microscope. It sounds simple enough, and that is exactly the point... Continue Reading →
NASA’s Spitzer Telescope Brings 360˚ View of Galaxy to Our Fingertips
http://youtu.be/zAtnBzDZvsk Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TEDActive 2014 Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The star-studded panorama of our galaxy is constructed from more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.... Continue Reading →
Augmented Reality Gaming : Sulon’s GVX console to project ‘Xtreme Reality’ game environments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZNYNHc_m1o&feature=youtu.be Sulon Technologies is working on an ambitious Android-based HMD console for virtual reality and augmented reality gaming. The company is creating a platform capable of generating dynamic game environments based on the player’s physical environment. The video above is of course just a concept video, but it shows what Sulon is aiming for with... Continue Reading →