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Walmart ha patentado abejas robot autónomas

Walmart acaba de presentar una patente para abejas robot autónomas. Sí, ese Walmart, y no, no te metiste en otra dimensión extraña. La patente de la mega corporación cubre específicamente...

19 Mar 2018

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Walmart has patented autonomous robot bees

Patenting 'pollination drones', Walmart is looking to use these bees in agriculture as the number of real bees decrease.

19 Mar 2018

Environment and Natural Resource Security

These tech companies are taking a stand against wildlife trafficking

A coalition of 21 leading tech companies is uniting to stamp out the online trade in animal parts.

14 Mar 2018

Environment and Natural Resource Security

The human approach to saving the northern white rhino: IVF

An international collaboration of scientists and conservationists is looking for ways to prevent the extinction of the species using in vitro fertilization.

13 Mar 2018

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

This AI can read your mind - sort of

Japanese scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can tell what you're looking at.

06 Mar 2018

Future of Energy

100 Tesla Gigafactories could power the entire world with sustainable energy

Leonardo DiCaprio and Elon Musk convened in his Gigafactory to talk lithium ion batteries, climate change, and the future of alternative energy sources.

05 Mar 2018

Retail, Consumer Goods and Lifestyle

This Dutch supermarket now has an aisle with no plastic packaging

700 items, all in one place, all without plastic.

02 Mar 2018

Climate Change

The Amazon is approaching a point of no return - but it's not too late

A new study has laid out how the combination of deforestation, climate change, and other factors could push the rainforest to a point where we can't save it.

26 Feb 2018

Water

Anxiety drugs are getting into the water we drink. This is how we could stop them

After years of prescription medications getting into the water supply, researchers have found a low-cost way to filter them out.

26 Feb 2018

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

The latest in earthquake detection? Artificial intelligence

ConvNetQuake is the first neural network designed to detect and locate earthquakes using seismograms.

19 Feb 2018

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

The next step in our relationship with robots might be chit chat

Researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah have created an algorithm designed to help AI and humans learn to cooperate.

05 Feb 2018

Climate Change

The biggest environmental threat to your health? The air you breathe

A new report finds that air pollution is the biggest environmental risk to public health.

02 Feb 2018

Space

Scientists want to blast space waste out of the sky with lasers

Researchers have proposed using lasers to destroy potentially dangerous space debris.

18 Jan 2018

Climate Change

Climate change could be poisoning our lakes

Carbon dioxide is damaging our freshwater as well as our oceans.

16 Jan 2018

Automotive

A solar powered car could be hitting the road next year

Lightyear One, a car that can run solely on solar power, is set to be launched next year.

10 Jan 2018