US Interior Department Approves Plan for the Largest Solar Project in U.S. History
This would be the 8th largest solar project in the world […]
Ray Kurzweil: Our Health Is About To Be Radically Transformed
by Ray Kurzweil: Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow… […]
The U.S. Can Get To 90% Clean Electricity In Just 15 Years
by Adele Peters: And by 2045, the electric grid could be entirely renewable… […]
Great Britain Becomes Europe’s Second Highest Producer Of Wind
(REW Team): Britain become the second highest producer of wind generation in Europe, surpassing Spain, according to data released by EnAppSys… […]
AI Making Waves In News And Journalism
by Ron Schmelzer: The business of communicating the happenings of society might seem to be something entirely human-centric… […]
Ray Kurzweil’s Most Exciting Predictions About the Future of Humanity
by Patrick Caughill: Ray Kurzweil is a formidable figure in futuristic thinking, as he is estimated to have an 86 percent accuracy rate for his predictions about the future… […]
Scientists Tap The World’s Most Powerful Computers In The Race To Understand And Stop The Coronavirus
by Jeremy Smith: In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the haughty supercomputer Deep Thought is asked […]
Fixing What’s Broken: If We Build a Moral Economy, The Future Will Be Better
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve been eagerly awaiting a return to normal… […]
COVID-19 HPC Consortium Pours 437 Petaflops Of Compute Power Toward Virus Research
by Kyle Wiggers: In March, IBM announced alongside the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy that it would help coordinate an effort… […]
Inside Clean Energy
by Dan Gearino: Battery storage is a vital part of a cleaner grid because it helps to fill in the gaps left by the fact that wind and solar are intermittent resources… […]
Solar Steel Production Research Scoops National Innovation Prize
by Sophie Vorrath: Research that promises to halve the greenhouse gas emissions produced by steel-making using heat from concentrated solar power has won the 2019 AMP Amplify Ignite competition… […]
Ray Kurzweil Working On Advanced Chatbot For Google
Digital assistants like Siri, Cortana and Google Now already are widely used, especially on mobile devices despite still being early stage technology… […]
General Motors Says It Is “Almost There” On Its Own Million Mile Battery
by Bridie Schmidt: American auto giant General Motors (GM) says it has, like Tesla, been working on a “million mile battery” and that it is “almost there”… […]
Is Digital Learning Still Second Best?
by Darlene Damm: As Covid-19 continues to spread, the world has gone digital on an unprecedented scale… […]
A Human-Centric World of Work: Why It Matters, And How To Build It
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Long before coronavirus appeared and shattered our pre-existing “normal,” the future of work was a widely discussed and debated topic… […]
Big Cost Swings Point To More Big Battery Storage, Less Pumped Hydro
by Giles Parkinson: The Australian Energy Market Operator is expected to make significant revisions to its 20-year blueprint for the national grid after conceding that the capital of costs new transmission links… […]
The New Indiana Jones? AI. Here’s How It’s Overhauling Archaeology
by Peter Rejcek: Archaeologists have uncovered scores of long-abandoned settlements along coastal Madagascar that reveal environmental connections to modern-day communities… […]
Plastic Bottle Made From Plants Degrades In Just One Year
by Jordan Davidson: While some are trying to clean up the plastic pollution in the oceans, and others are removing it from beaches… […]
Forget Exercise—These Mice Got Ripped With Gene Therapy
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Trying to hack fitness is a multi-million-dollar industry… […]
How Online Learning Kept Higher Ed Open During The Coronavirus Crisis
by Robert Ubell: But pandemic pedagogy is not the same as quality online learning… […]
Al Gore: The Case For Optimism On Climate Change (TED 2016)
In his latest TED talk, Al Gore, founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, poses three questions that will determine the future of our planet… […]
Al Gore – Can We Protect The Planet When It’s Not In The Interests Of The Powerful?
by Russell Brand: Environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore joins me to discuss his new film “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”.., […]
TimesTalks: Al Gore On Climate Change
Don’t miss this crucial conversation with former Vice President and climate change activist Al Gore on how far the battle to halt climate change has come… […]
Al Gore Answers the Web’s Most Searched Questions on Climate Change
Politician and activist Al Gore answers the Internet’s most searched questions about climate change… […]
Al Gore On Confronting the Climate Crisis | Harvard Global Institute And Harvard China Project
Sponsored by the Harvard Global Institute and the Harvard China Project, former VP Al Gore delivered a public lecture to a capacity crowd… […]
Look For Elon Musk To Unveil A Futuristic New Battery
by Steve LeVine: Analysts predict a Battery Day big reveal that will make Teslas as affordable as gasoline vehicles… […]
The Big Covid-19 Blind Spot: Lack of Risk Management Is Leaving Us Wanting
by Peter Deans: In many organizations, risk managers have long been essentially back-office roles, with limited or no access to boards, executives, and key decision-makers… […]
3 Major Shifts Are About to Transform Manufacturing as We Know It – Peter H. Diamandis
by Peter H. Diamandis: We are on the verge of transforming one of society’s most fundamental building blocks: manufacturing… […]
How To Navigate The Coronavirus Crisis With Innovation At Warp Speed
by Kris Østergaard: “It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” –Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek […]
Ray Kurzweil Discusses His Optimism for the Future
In two recent interviews, Ray Kurzweil emphatically affirmed his optimism about the future… […]
Secrets Of X (formerly GoogleX)
by Peter Diamandis: This blog explores the inside workings of “X” (formally Google X, Google’s R&D factory) through conversations with my friend Astro Teller, Chief of Moonshots… […]
Coronavirus Is Changing How We Live, Work, And Use Tech—Permanently
by Brianna Welsh: Within a week, many world leaders went from downplaying the seriousness of coronavirus to declaring a state of emergency… […]
This Group of Scientists Is Making Sure We’re Ready for the Next Pandemic
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Ask just about anyone how the US is doing on its response to the coronavirus pandemic and you’ll get some variation of the same answer: poorly. […]
NASA’s Plan To Build A Base Camp On The Moon Sounds Like Sci-Fi, But It’s Real
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: If we’re ever going to make Elon Musk’s vision of colonizing Mars a reality… […]
Tesla Unveils Coronavirus Ventilator Prototype That Uses Model 3 Parts
by Jackson Ryan: The Model 3 infotainment system provides the basis for Tesla’s ventilator, hastily designed to combat device shortages around the world… […]
The Top 100 AI Startups Out There Now, and What They’re Working On
by Peter Rejcek: New drug therapies for a range of chronic diseases… […]
Ray Kurzweil Stands By His Predictions
Recently at the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, Kurzweil reaffirmed his longstanding prediction that the Technological Singularity will happen sometime in the next 30 years… […]
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
by James Sterngold, New York Times: As the designer R. Buckminster Fuller liked to tell it, […]
DeepMind’s Protein Folding AI Is Going After Coronavirus
by Shelly Fan: In late December last year, Dr. Li Wenliang began warning officials about a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China… […]
Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
by Dom Galeon and Christianna Reedy: Kurzweil’s Predictions… […]
Here’s how we could go carbon neutral in 25 years
by James Temple: In the fall of 2018, as California governor Jerry Brown’s final term was winding down, he signed an executive order that set an audacious climate goal: […]
Equity Crowdfunding Is Taking Off
by Peter Diamandis: Over the last 30 years, I’ve raised hundreds of millions of dollars for my startups and XPRIZEs… […]
A Deft Robotic Hand That’d Make Luke Skywalker Proud
by Matt Simon: Surgeons use muscle grafts to amplify nerve signals—allowing amputees to control a new prosthetic with incredible precision… […]
We Won’t Have Fusion Generators in 5 Years. But the Holy Grail of Clean Energy May Still Be on Its Way
by Matthew Hole: But the holy grail of clean energy may still be on its way… […]
How Tech Will Let You Learn Anything, Anytime, At Any Age
by Peter H. Diamandis, MD: Today, over 77 percent of Americans own a smartphone with access to the world’s information and near-limitless learning resources… […]