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Automated Race Car Starts, Then Instantly Plows into A Wall
Over the last couple of years, a new trend has started to rise in the world of automotive sports. Namely, RoboRace. So, what is it and how does it work? Well, while the race car is a physical object that sits and drives around an actual track, the main key…
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MIT Reveal Latest Upgrades To Cheetah 3 Robot
MIT Reveal Latest Upgrades To Cheetah 3 Robot Robots are going to play a part in the future of the human race. Hopefully, that part isn’t enslaving us or wiping us out, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Either way, it’ll be a nice surprise! We are,…
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Burger Flipping Robot Starts Its First Day On The Job
Burger Flipping Robot I daresay that I may be similar to many of you that during my student years, I worked in fast food to pay bills and to buy beer. It’s not an experience I would have traded for anything and at 16-years old, I learned a lot about…
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Robots May Be Rejecting Your Job Applications
Robots May Be Rejecting Your Job Applications There was a point in my life that due to the economy, I found myself out of work. I could say between jobs, but I’m not that pretentious. I was unemployed and desperate for work. In this situation, I understand how hideous it…
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Robots to Take 800 Million Jobs by 2030
Automation is already eroding the jobs market; according to a new report, the trend is about to become much sharper. The McKinsey Global Institute is predicting up to 800 million jobs across 46 countries will become automated by 2030. In fact, nations such as the US and Germany could see around…
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Study Finds One Workforce Robot Costs Six Human Jobs
Automation is making human manual labour obsolete. Already, predictions on the future of the job market appear stark: PricewaterhouseCooper predicts that 30% of the UK’s jobs could be fulfilled by robots within 20 years, while up to 50% of the world’s population could be left unemployed by 2050. Now, a…
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TP-Link Smart Home Products Now All Compatible with Google Assistant
Digital assistants are the big thing at the moment as they allow you to control most of your home when coupled with other smart devices. TP-Link has now announced that its entire family of smart home products are compatible with the Google Assistant. With the integration of Google Assistant on Google…
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Bill Gates Wants Robots to Pay Taxes
While the impending massive job loss due to significantly increased automation is worrying many people whose careers and livelihoods might be affected, Bill Gates has a different take on the matter. In an interview with Quartz, Gates explains that robotic labor has a positive impact in that it will free…
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eBay Founder Financially Backs Free Income Experiment
As both developing and developed nations alike continue losing jobs to automated systems, machineries, and artificial intelligences, there is a real and present risk of an increasing population of permanent unemployment threatening to sweep the globe. One prospective policy posited to tackle the problem of robots taking jobs traditionally fulfilled…
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Guest Speakers and Exhibition Details Reveals @ CeBIT Preview 2017
Here we are at the official start of CeBIT Preview 2017, as the event sets it goals on digitalisation for businesses and technologies for this year’s exhibition. With the show set to take place in March, there will be strong focus on spying, politics and more. With the recent US…
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World’s Biggest Hedge Fund puts AI in Charge
The largest hedge fund in the world has put an artificial intelligence into a key management position in which it will make strategic business decisions, including hiring and firing of the company’s human staff. Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, wanted to ensure the future of the hedge fund…
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Las Vegas Wynn to Install 4700 Amazon Echos
Amazon has been having a lot of success with their Echo and Echo dot devices, as well as the built-in Alexa AI. We should know, the eTeknix boss has 7 of them, and I’ve got 2, doing all kinds of home automation magic. Now the Wynn in Las Vegas is…
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Smart Home Automation Review – Control of Your Home
Introduction There’s a technology boom going on right now in the IoT sector, with a huge number of smart and connected devices hitting the market, and consumers mopping them up, especially so in the recent Black Friday sales, where many smart home automation systems were heavily discounted. From Amazon Alexa,…
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CEOs Think AI will make Human Workers “Largely Irrelevant”
CEOs Think AI will make Humans “Largely Irrelevant” It has been predicted that, within 30 years, half of the human population of Earth will be unemployed, their jobs taken by robots and other automated systems, and the majority of companies seem not only to welcome it but to actively encourage…
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Elon Musk – Universal Income Will Save Humanity from Robot Job Thieves
Automation – using machines, robots, and AIs to fulfil tasks – is designed to benefit humanity and make life easier, but an important, albeit obvious, side effect of that is the loss of jobs for actual humans. Experts predict that automation could make half the world unemployed within the next…
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