🔥 A drone that can fight fires where firefighters can't reach
A fire in a tall building can be tough for firefighters to reach. This drone can go as high as 300 meters to spray the fire and also detect humans in the building.
💡 Tips from Warp News: Food out of thin air & maps of progress
Ken Follett's new book, interactive maps that show the world's progress, food out of thin air, why people are so pessimistic about the future - and finally a way to know if the ice cream at McDonald's is broken.
🙄 Are optimists naive? No, but the pessimists are
Contrary to popular belief, it is the pessimists that are naive, not the optimists. Despite tremendous progress for humanity, they think that this progress will suddenly end, without any reason. That is irrational and foolish.
⛓️ PayPal accepts bitcoin and other digital currencies
PayPal customers will be able to hold blockchain based cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum in their digital wallets.
🥩 Grows steak in space - that we also can eat on Earth
A steak produced in space - without killing a cow. Does that sound like science fiction? Well, now it's science fact.
🚘 Autonomous vehicles take a step forward
Within a couple of weeks, three companies have announced important steps in the quest for self-driving cars. Tesla launched a beta test of their autonomous technology. Waymo opens up its driverless taxi service to the public in Phoenix, Arizona. And Cruise is doing the same thing in San Francisco.
Alexandra Kafka Larsson: My vision is a world where decisions are based on data - with respect to everyone's differences
She is a former intelligence officer, who now works as Chief Information Architect at Combitech. AI and VR are the technologies that will do the most good for humanity in the future, she believes.
💡 Tips from Warp News: Musk on Mars & why degrowth won't save our planet
Daniel Yergin's latest book, Wright's Law, first videos of Tesla's Full-Self Driving beta, Musk's latest Mars update, Andrew McAfee on growth and the environment plus you campaign slogan for 2020.
📹 First videos of Tesla's Full-Self Driving beta - see the revolution
Excited Tesla owners test the Full-Self Driving beta software. The roll-out will provide Tesla with lots of data that it will use to upgrade and make the software better continually.