A mechanical engineer and a member of the family whose aerospace and transportation company builds trains, planes, and more, Bombardier’s at his best when he ignores pesky things like budgets, timelines, and contemporary physics. Since 2013, he’s run a blog cataloging more than 200 concepts, each a fantastic, farfetched new way for people to travel […]
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CHART: How Many Birds Are Killed By Wind, Solar, Oil, And Coal?
In response to growing accusations from both conservationists and conservatives that renewable energy sources like solar and wind kill too many birds, U.S. News and World Report has compiled data on which energy industries are responsible for the most bird deaths every year. For each power source — wind, solar, oil and gas, nuclear, and […]
Facebook’s Stumbles Expose Flaws in Its Plan to Rule Advertising
Last week, Facebook said it found flaws in the metrics it reported to advertisers—the measurements by which those advertisers judge the success of their ad campaigns on the platform. The company said it overstated the reach of Facebook Pages and Instant Articles, as well as its count of referrals to apps from ads. This admission […]
Google’s AI Can Now Translate Between Languages It Wasn’t Taught to Translate Between
AI of “Interlingua” Neural networks are machines and algorithms developed to behave like the human brain—but a development from Google Translate shows that (once again) AI can outperform humans in a big way. Google’s AI can now translate language pairs it has not been trained for. To be clear, this means that it can translate […]
Tomplay – Interactive Sheet Music for iPad, PC and Mac.
“Tomplay is the application that my students were missing. The possibility to play with orchestral accompaniments or with the piano allows for a listening exercise that cannot be matched.” Play music with Tomplay on iPad Download on theApp Store “Tomplay is the application that my students were missing. The possibility to play with orchestral accompaniments or […]
New Basic Income Project Set to Launch in January
Income for All Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been gaining a lot of traction as of late with various industry experts, government officials, and financial experts expressing the need to explore the possibilities of implementing a basic income program. UBI is a lump sum of money given periodically to individuals unconditionally. There are no tests […]
Flipping Education on It’s Head. Teaching Students to Fail
David Letterman Goes to India to Learn about Solar
David Letterman India tour on to see how they are building solar for 300 million people. Also, Cicely Stong talking about the power companies against solar. Here’s the video.
Google’s AI can now lip read better than humans after watching thousands of hours of TV
Researchers from Google’s AI division DeepMind and the University of Oxford have used artificial intelligence to create the most accurate lip-reading software ever. Using thousands of hours of TV footage from the BBC, scientists trained a neural network to annotate video footage with 46.8 percent accuracy. That might not seem that impressive at first — […]
Who Rules this Domain? [infographic]
In 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided that the number of top level domains (TLDs) available for use by the public needed to be broadened. They opened a window of several months for anyone who was willing to pay ($185,000) to apply to register the top level domain of their choice and […]