Новости за 18.11.2016

Viooly analyzes your ads, fundraising letters, or website and tells you if what you're saying will actually resonate.

At big labs, robots perform the menial tasks of science. The $3,000 OT-One makes that possible for small-time researchers, so they can move more quickly toward big discoveries.

Make your own power, sell your own power—at prices you decide.

Make your own power, sell your own power—at prices you decide.

Traditionally, energy systems flowed in one direction: from big power producers to consumers. Now, with more people getting rooftop solar panels, they're increasingly two-way: homes send excess power back to utilities, reducing their household bills. In the future, we may see a third change: people trading power not only with utilities, but also with each other. Читать дальше...

Google Earth in VR is probably the most amazing mapping application since the original.

Bob Kocher is a key architect of the Affordable Care Act, the bill that president-elect Trump has described as a "disaster."

Record temperatures in the Arctic right now are just the beginning.

Record temperatures in the Arctic right now are just the beginning.

Given that temperatures in the Arctic are 36 degrees higher than they would normally be this time of year, this news may not surprise you: In the worst-case scenario envisioned by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change researchers, global temperatures could rise as much as 4.8°C by the end of the century. A new study suggests... Читать дальше...

Fleetlights are streetlights that travel with you.

Fleetlights are streetlights that travel with you.

If you get off the train from work late at night and have to walk or bike down dark streets, a UK insurance company wants you to be able to call up a small fleet of drones to accompany you—acting as lights that fly with you to illuminate your path home.

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Another job outsourced to a robot (this one, your sleeping partner will be happy to let go of).

Lixil makes a lot of fancy toilets, but its new SaTo model (part funded by the Gates Foundation) is for places without sewers, where lack of sanitation is causing disease and death.

You'll be able to work from anywhere: Just find a nice spot, press a button, and watch your workplace inflate.