🤖 What have you named your robot vacuum cleaner?
What happens when people are told to smash and destroy a cute robot-dinosaur called Mr. Spaghetti? MIT researcher Kate Darling tested five groups of people and the results say a lot about or relationships with robots - and why we name them.
📱 Non-violent resistance - the smartphone is mightier than the sword
To overthrow a dictatorship you need violence, right? Not if you want to increase your chances of success. Non-violent campaigns are twice as likely to succeed than violent campaigns in overthrowing oppression. And with social media and the smartphone a new weapon has emerged for the oppressed.
🔋 Sweden first in the world: Electric car chargers are used to relieve the electricity grid
The energy company Tibber and about 1,000 of their Swedish customers will be the first in the world to use their electric car chargers to stabilize the electricity grid.
🌠 Starshot could spread life to other star systems
Project Starshot aims to send tiny spacecraft to our closest star system, Alpha Centauri at a speed of 20% of light speed. This opens the possibility of also sending life into space.
🎈 Google's giant hot air balloons are creating internet connections in Kenya
Via 35 solar-powered hot air balloons, the Google company Loon now offers 4G internet connection to millions of Kenyans.
🏎️ Self-driving cars shapes up to be a three-way race
Is the self-driving race shaping up like the smartphone race, with two or three dominating software systems and many hardware makers? It sure looks like it.
🥇 Peak and the extraordinary potential of human beings
There no such thing a "10,000 Hour Rule" to become a world-class expert. But with deliberate practice (for many hours) everyone has the potential to become an expert. Professor K Anders Ericsson has shown us the enormous talent and potential in every human being.
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🏗️ Steel production emits four times more than aviation - now comes fossil-free production
Swedish companies SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall are together building a plant with the goal of being the first in the world with fossil-free steel as early as 2026. Sweden could reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 10%.