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The age of the restaurant self-service kiosks has dawned, and it’s the end of fast food as we know it.
McDonald’s is striding into the 21st century with the rollout of the “Create Your Taste” touchscreen kiosks, on which custom burgers can be built as well as full-menu ordering.
The kiosks are incredibly convenient and improve order accuracy, to which I can personally attest.
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May 16, 2016
Meet George Church, the brash biologist out to upend evolution
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, life extension
May 16, 2016
Wireless, Super-Fast Internet Access Is Coming to Your Home
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: electronics, habitats, internet
May 16, 2016
If Life Exists Beyond Earth, There Are 82 Stars That Could Spot Us
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: futurism
May 16, 2016
We’re about to see a mind-blowing demographic shift unprecedented in human history
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: futurism
The world is about to see a mind-blowing demographic situation that will be a first in human history: There are about to be more elderly people than young children.
For some time now, demographers and economists have observed that the proportion of elderly adults around the world is rising, while the proportion of younger children is falling.
But within a few years, just before 2020, adults aged 65 and over will begin to outnumber children under the age of 5 among the global population, according to a chart shared by a Bank of America Merrill Lynch team led by Beijia Ma, citing an earlier report from the US Census Bureau.
May 16, 2016
The Big Bang is not the beginning of our universe — it’s actually the end of something else entirely
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: cosmology
Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explores what existed before the Big Bang in his new book, “The Big Picture.”
Produced by Delano Samuels and Jessica Orwig
May 16, 2016
Peter: Nanorobots… Inside You
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, health, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
This blog is a status update on one of the most powerful tools humanity will ever create: Nanotechnology (or nanotech).
My goal here is to give you a quick overview of the work going on in labs around the world, and the potential applications this nanotech work will have in health, energy, the environment, material sciences, data storage and processing.
As artificial intelligence has been getting a lot of the attention lately, I believe we’re going to start to see and hear about incredible breakthroughs in the nanotech world very soon.
