Raising livestock plays havoc with ecosystems and demands huge amounts of water. Cow farts are a major source of methane, a highly effective planet-warming gas. What if you could have the steak without the steer? The Chile-based Not Company has enlisted artificial intelligence to analyze animal-based foods at the molecular level and choose plant structures that will yield a similar...
Legislative siege on newspaper-published public notices intensifies
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Ireland Retreat with Gerald Celente
Global forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute’s highly popular conference series is going international! “Find Your Future In Trends,” a weeklong conference in magnificent Galway, Ireland, set on the majestic coastline along Galway Bay, is scheduled for June 10-16, 2017. This dynamic, inspiring conference will explore a series of powerful trends unfolding worldwide and how they directly affect...
Printing trees for energy
VTT, the applied research arm of Finland’s Ministry of Employment and Economy, has 3-D-printed miniature “trees” that turn sunlight, wind and even changes in temperature into useful energy. The gadgets, resembling hand-sized tree leaves, layer polymers and electrodes to create small photovoltaic cells. The devices also make electricity when they vibrate, which happens when the wind blows or air temperature...
Renewable energy: Another nail in fossil fuel’s coffin
The British government recently confirmed plans to spend £730 million annually to boost funding for renewable energy, particularly wind and wave power. The UK’s Business and Energy secretary cited the move as Britain’s bid to become an inviting home for green-energy businesses and technologies. At the same time, the government confirmed its plans to phase out conventional coal-fired electricity generation...
See your future in trends
The future is coming! What will it look like? How will it affect your business, your family… your life? There is only one place in the world to read History Before it Happens®: The Trends Journal®, the world leader in trend forecasting. From economics to geopolitics, from real estate to retail, covering trends in over 300 categories since 1980, The Trends Journal and Trendsresearch.com provide...
AI program trains itself
Software engineers at the University of Toronto were tackling a major challenge in artificial intelligence: training a neural network through written instructions instead of by showing it hundreds of examples. Then came the bigger finding: They realized the program had learned more effectively than they had taught it. The researchers gave the program instructions for identifying visual images of hair...
See me, feel me, touch me
Bioengineers at the University of Pittsburgh have created a robotic arm that can, for the first time, detect sensations on its surface and send the information directly to the brain. The device replaces sensory feelings – rough, smooth, hard, soft and so on – that people with damaged spinal cords can’t detect. The research team planted four electrode packets, each...