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Tech news

• 2020-02-26: Docking gives telecoms satellite new lease of life
• 2019-07-11: Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force - New MIT system of contracting fibers could be a boon for biomedical devices and robotics
• 2019-03-15: How a 50-year-old design came back to haunt Boeing with its troubled 737 Max jet
• 2019-02-01: Forget everything you know about 3D printing — the "replicator" is here - Rather than building objects layer by layer, the printer creates whole structures by projecting light into a resin that solidifies
• 2019-01-29: Engineers translate brain signals directly into speech
• 2019-01-23: We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it
• 2018-12-23: A Company Few Americans Know Is About to Dethrone Intel
• 2018-10-04: Elon Musk Will Never Change - The Tesla CEO’s brush with the SEC won’t cause him to reevaluate his actions
• 2018-09-20: Watch out for face-stealers!
• 2018-07-31: Scientists make incredible Great Pyramid of Giza discovery
• 2018-07-24: Google under pressure
• 2018-05-03: 3D printing graphene
• 2018-04-25: Bill Gates an Masayoshi Son planning a network of satellites for real-time video of entire earth
• 2018-03-21: Four-in-one 3D printer paves way for custom-made robots and phones
• 2018-03-18: New miniaturised inductor design using graphene
• 2017-10-06: David Bohm's ideas still hanging in there :-)
• 2017-09-10: Quantum theory rebuilt from simple physical principles
• 2017-06-29: Water is actually two simple liquids with a complicated relationship
• 2017-05-22: Filament IoT update
• 2017-05-09: Neuralink and the brain's magical future
• 2017-04-30: 3D-printing breakthrough allows large furniture to be printed in minutes
• 2017-04-25: The 3-D Printer That Could Finally Change Manufacturing
• 2017-04-02: How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons
• 2017-04-01: The Brain-chip cometh
• 2017-02-26: Kiwi company turns plastic waste into high-quality concrete
• 2016-05-02: Molecular-sized mechanical computers
• 2016-08-23: China Has Just Launched the World’s First Quantum Satellite
• 2016-07-25: Transistors will stop shrinking in 2021, but Moore’s law will live on
• 2016-06-23: Top ten emerging technologies of 2016

Robotics

• Sophia, the first robot with citizenship, has already said that she will destroy humans, that she wants to have a baby and that a family is really important.
• 3D printed robot spider
• Boston Dynamics Wildcat
• Boston Dynamics LittleDog
• Boston Dynamics BigDog (BigDog beta version)
• Boston Dynamics PetMan PetMan upgraded to Atlas 2022 Atlas
• Robot hand
• Robot swarm
• Harvard swarm
• Cyborg insect
• Cybernetic arm
• Robot learns to cook by watching youtube
• Robot that can understand its own shape and repair itself
• Kenji: Robot love
• Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force - New MIT system of contracting
• Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines
• Good article on robots taking over jobs
• Decapitated hitch-hiking robot could get a new life
• ZeroHedge on robots replacing our jobs
• Scientists create Terminator-style muscle at 1,000 times human strength
• Tinkerbots
• The robots are coming!

Cool tech available now

• Mental realtime fractal shit anyone?
• 3D Scanner App - scan and share 3D objects instantly with just you iPhone, see also open source Meshroom
• Some notes about HTTP/3

Interesting inventors

• Mehran Keshe

See also

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open Source hardware
• The Huawei controversy timeline