By Steven Kotler on Jul 11, 2013 08:29 am In my last blog, we got a chance to meet learning expert Jim Kwik and explored some of the ideas behind SuperheroYou, which is the Kwik-founded open-source community/university devoted to accelerated learning and brain optimization. In May of this year, Kwik and SuperheroYou teamed up with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and the Downtown Vegas project to host a ...
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By Aaron Frank on Jul 10, 2013 08:43 am Your connectome, the map of all 86 billion connected neurons in your brain, is hopelessly complex. In fact, one human connectome has a staggering 10,000 times that number of neural pathways. Every thought you have and every memory you hold exists in your connectome, and major efforts are under way ...
Read in browser » By Jason Dorrier on Jul 09, 2013 09:30 am NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft famously carry a pair of golden records encoded with images and sounds from Earth. Now, a new project hopes to similarly send discs to space. Only these discs are slightly more advanced. In fact, they're spacecraft in their own right; thousands will fit into a CubeSat; and each one carries "computing power comparable to that of the Voyager spacecraft and Apollo flight computers."
Read in browser » By David J. Hill on Jul 08, 2013 10:05 am Over the years, it has become increasingly evident that Star Trek is a highly influential — if not the most influential — work in science fiction that has inspired generations of people to pursue science and technology careers. Every day we edge closer to many of the show’s imagined 23rd ...
Read in browser » By Jason Dorrier on Jul 06, 2013 12:41 pm While some firms are using computer vision to empower factory robots, others are turning digital eyes on you and me to perfect the art of advertising, and an increasingly data-hungry ad industry is buying in. One of the latest to jump onboard, AOL's content subsidiary, Be On, recently announced a partnership with Realeyes, a provider of face and emotion detection software.
Read in browser » By David J. Hill on Jul 05, 2013 08:10 am One of the longstanding goals in robotics is the mastery of motion, such that balance, precision, and control provide the same kind of all-terrain navigation seen in biological quadruped counterparts. Another goal? Make robots fast…like so freaky fast that NASCAR fans are left with mouths gaping. Fortunately, researchers seem happy to ...
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