Nikon Is First Big Camera Maker To Get Into VR Video
Nikon says image quality will be the killer feature in its rugged, $500 KeyMission 360 virtual reality camera. (Read about Nikon on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
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Your Smartphone Is Becoming An AI Supercomputer
Photographic memory, instant artworks, instantaneous translation, lifelike virtual reality and much more are all coming to your pocket. (Read more on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
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Researchers Have A Vision: Cure Blindness By Regrowing Retinas And Optic Nerves
The government’s National Eye Institute is committing $12.4 million to research technologies that can regenerate damaged neurons. (Read more about eye regeneration on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
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Duolingo’s New Flashcard App, Tinycards, Says A Lot About Our Obsessions
The language-learning company’s new app lets users teach and learn anything from biology to Pokémon. A look at the most popular topics.
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Have We Uploaded Enough Data To Create Digital Copies Of Ourselves?
An AI scientist is creating personal assistant bots that stand in for human beings by analyzing everything a person has done online. (Read about augmented eternity in Fast Company.)
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Where to Find Great Movies & TV Shows Taken Off Netflix
As Netflix shifts its focus to original programming and wrangles with licensing deals, it has dumped hundreds of fantastic screen classics — some TV shows and many movies — in the past couple of years. Few options are as economical as Netflix’s unlimited streaming at $9 per month, but if you want to catch these old and recent classics, you can find them online (and legally), often at reasonable prices.… Read the rest
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IBM Says New Chip Can Filter Blood For Signs Of Cancer
Particles that might hold markers for cancer pass through a silicon obstacle course that sorts them by size. (Read more about blood filtering on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
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Can Artificial Intelligence Help The Mentally Ill?
Researchers are testing mobile apps that analyze patients’ activity to measure mental health. (Read more on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
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The U.S. Military Offers $2 Million For Wireless Devices That Can Share The Airwaves
The government agency DARPA has launched a contest to develop tech that could boost wireless capacity 1,000-fold. (Read about the spectrum challenge on Fast Company.)
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With Its Flying Hospital, This Group Is Saving The World From Blindness
Vision impairment that’s easy to fix in rich countries can be life sentences in most of the world. These volunteer docs aim to change that. (Read about Orbis on Fast Company.)… Read the rest