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Jul 13, 2018
Universal basic income would cost the US up to $3.8 trillion per year — Bridgewater estimate
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: economics, finance
Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio, the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, is analyzing the social and financial viability of a widely debated program aimed at reducing the wealth inequality.
Hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio is looking at whether universal basic income can help solve wealth inequality.
Jul 13, 2018
Giant Satellite Fuel Tank Sets New Record for 3D Printed Space Parts
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, energy, satellites
DENVER, July 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has embraced a 3D printed titanium dome for satellite fuel tanks so big you can’t even put your arms around it. The 46-inch- (1.16-meter-) diameter vessel completed final rounds of quality testing this month, ending a multi-year development program to create giant, high-pressure tanks that carry fuel on board satellites.
The titanium tank consists of three parts welded together: two 3D printed domes that serve as caps, plus a variable-length, traditionally-manufactured titanium cylinder that forms the body.
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Jul 13, 2018
Opener: We are a fast-growing company with a single lofty goal: to bring personal aviation to the general public
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: transportation
Innovating at the leading edge of electric aviation technology, we have developed BlackFly, the world’s first ultralight all-electric fixed-wing VTOL personal aircraft.
Jul 12, 2018
Quasar: The Brightest Objects in the Universe
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Jul 12, 2018
‘Blind’ robot can climb stairs, leap on desks
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Meet the Cheetah 3 — a “blind” robot designed by MIT that can avoid obstacles and climb stairs using “feel” instead of sensors or cameras https://cnnmon.ie/2KQiJhD
Jul 12, 2018
Chinese cities will soon get thousands of self-driving buses
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
There wont be any left to do along side them, and that should be the goal.
AI is coming, and it’s changing work as we know it. Adaptation is the only way forward.
Jul 12, 2018
Hubble, Gaia produce most precise measure of universe’s expansion rate
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: space
July 12 (UPI) — By combining the observations of the two most powerful space telescopes in orbit, scientists have achieved the most precise measurement of the Hubble constant, the universe’s expansion rate.
The new measurement confirms the tension between explosion rate in the early and late universe, researchers report.
Astronomers can measure the expansion of the universe by measuring a galaxy’s redshift, a change in the wavelength of the light due to a change in the velocity of the object. By measuring the redshift of galaxies using the Hubble Telescope, scientists have established the Hubble constant.
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