What Is The Best Feed System For Machining Bars?
Choosing the right feeder is one of the most important decisions that a shop responsible for machining bars can make. These feed systems help to improve productivity, throughput and quality – but in order to receive the most benefit from the system.
Obama urges FCC to regulate broadband as a utility
President Obama today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reclassify broadband service as a utility and to impose rules that prevent Internet service providers from blocking and throttling traffic or prioritizing Web services in exchange for payment. Obama also said utility rules should apply both to home Internet service and mobile broadband.
Global Brains & Singularities: Cadell Last & Michael Garfield Debate The Technopocalypse
Cadell Last is an evolutionary anthropologist at the Global Brain Institute and producer of the PBS Digital Studios series The Advanced Apes. We discussed the possibility that our entire planet is waking up as a single super-intelligent organism, and the consequences – both light and dark – for both humankind and the whole biosphere…
Injecting New Data Into Our Brain Is Possible
Through technological augmented, Dr. David Eagleman believes we can expand our sensory channels and gain access to new data streams.
Think We’re Advanced? Let’s Use a Cosmic Yardstick
The more you think about it, on a cosmic level, the more you realize our species are just fledglings starting out on the shores of a cosmic ocean.
Internet Archive: A Short Film About Accessing Knowledge
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, describes his vision for universal access to all available knowledge in this 13 minute video.
The Artificial Human
With the growing trend moving towards technology at an alarming rate is there a danger to the latent nature within the human organism? To be incessantly always moving and distracted is leading our world into a psychological disease that will be irreversible.
Could Cannabis-Based Batteries Be The Future?
Another win for the cannabis industry. On top of its vast medicinal benefits and a “high” that’s safer and mellower than alcohol, what if cannabis could also power a cheap, sustainable super battery and forever change the energy game?
Watch 1,000 Robots in Biggest Programmable SwarmYet
Alone, the simple little robot can’t do much, shuffling around on three vibrating tooth-pick legs. But working with 1,000 or more like-minded fellow bots, it becomes part of a swarm that can self-assemble into any two-dimensional shape. These are some of th…
Our Universe May Have Emerged from a 4-Dimensional Black Hole
No, really, that’s probably the best way we could put it without confusing our readers further. According to a team of physicists, this hypothesis checks out with what we know about the universe and current mathematical models.
