#433284 Tech Can Sustainably Feed Developing ...

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Android

In the next 30 years, virtually all net population growth will occur in urban regions of developing countries. At the same time, worldwide food production will become increasingly limited by the availability of land, water, and energy. These constraints will be further worsened by climate change and the expected addition of two billion people to today’s four billion now living in urban regions. Meanwhile, current urban food ecosystems in the developing world are inefficient and critically inadequate to meet […] Continue Reading…

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#433282 The 4 Waves of AI: Who Will Own the ...

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Android

Recently, I picked up Kai-Fu Lee’s newest book, AI Superpowers.
Kai-Fu Lee is one of the most plugged-in AI investors on the planet, managing over $2 billion between six funds and over 300 portfolio companies in the US and China.
Drawing from his pioneering work in AI, executive leadership at Microsoft, Apple, and Google (where he served as founding president of Google China), and his founding of VC fund Sinovation Ventures, Lee shares invaluable insights about:

The four factors driving today’s AI […] Continue Reading…

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#433280 This Week’s Awesome Stories From ...

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Android

TECHNOLOGY
Google Turns 20: How an Internet Search Engine Reshaped the WorldEditorial Staff | The Verge“No technology company is arguably more responsible for shaping the modern internet, and modern life, than Google. The company that started as a novel search engine now manages eight products with more than 1 billion users each.”
FUTURE
Why Technology Favors TyrannyYuval Noah Harari | The Atlantic“It is undoubtable…that the technological revolutions now gathering momentum will in the next few decades confront humankind with the hardest trials […] Continue Reading…

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#433278 Outdated Evolution: Updating Our ...

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Android

What happens when evolution shapes an animal for tribes of 150 primitive individuals living in a chaotic jungle, and then suddenly that animal finds itself living with millions of others in an engineered metropolis, their pockets all bulging with devices of godlike power?
The result, it seems, is a modern era of tension where archaic forms of governance struggle to keep up with the technological advances of their citizenry, where governmental policies act like constraining bottlenecks rather than spearheads of […] Continue Reading…

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#433276 Army researchers teaching robots to be ...

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Android

Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University developed a new technique to quickly teach robots novel traversal behaviors with minimal human oversight.[Read more…]

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