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Solar Cells Made Thin, Efficient and Flexible (Science Daily)

Dec. 9, 2013 — Converting sunshine into electricity is not difficult, but doing so efficiently and on a large scale is one of the reasons why people still rely on the electric grid and not a national...

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Technology One Step Ahead of War Laws (Science Daily)

Jan. 6, 2014 — Today’s emerging military technologies — including unmanned aerial vehicles, directed-energy weapons, lethal autonomous robots, and cyber weapons like Stuxnet — raise the prospect of...

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Why Do the Anarcho-Primitivists Want to Abolish Civilization? (io9)

George Dvorsky Sept 12, 2014 11:28am Anarcho-primitivists are the ultimate Luddites — ideologues who favor complete technological relinquishment and a return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. We spoke to...

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Citizen science network produces accurate maps of atmospheric dust (Science...

Date: October 27, 2014 Source: Leiden University Summary: Measurements by thousands of citizen scientists in the Netherlands using their smartphones and the iSPEX add-on are delivering accurate data on...

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Stefan Helmreich on Waves: an anthropology of scientific things (The...

JANUARY 19, 2015 BY JEREMY SCHMIDT A newer video on Stefan’s latest project, which looks fascinating. For those interested in reading, HAU has put the transcript of the video is here. Tagged: 4S,...

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O que esperar da ciência em 2015 (Zero Hora)

Apostamos em cinco coisas que tendem a aparecer neste ano 19/01/2015 | 06h01 Foto: SpaceX/Youtube Em 2014, a ciência conseguiu pousar em um cometa, descobriu que estava errada sobre a evolução genética...

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When Exponential Progress Becomes Reality (Medium)

Niv Dror on Feb 21 http://www.computerhistory.org/core/media/pdf/core-2015.pdf “I used to say that this is the most important graph in all the technology business. I’m now of the opinion that this is...

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‘Technological Disobedience': How Cubans Manipulate Everyday Technologies For...

12:05  PM MON JULY 1, 2013 By DANIEL RIVERO In Cuban Spanish, there is a word for overcoming great obstacles with minimal resources: resolver. Literally, it means to resolve, but to many Cubans on the...

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On Reverse Engineering (Anthropology and Algorithms)

Nick Seaver on Jan 27, 2014 Looking for the cultural work of engineers The Atlantic welcomed 2014 with a major feature on web behemoth Netflix. If you didn’t know, Netflix has developed a system for...

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Chimpanzés caçadores dão pistas sobre os primeiros humanos (El País)

Primatas que usam lanças podem fornecer indícios sobre origem das sociedades humanas JAVIER SALAS 12 MAY 2015 – 18:14 BRT Um velho chimpanzé bebe água em um lago, em Fongoli, no Senegal. / FRANS...

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Hit Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation (Dis Blog)

[Accessed Nov 23, 2015] In conversation with Marvin Jordan From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most...

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If The UAE Builds A Mountain Will It Actually Bring More Rain? (Vocativ)

You’re not the only one who thinks constructing a rain-inducing mountain in the desert is a bonkers idea By Jennings Brown May 03, 2016 at 6:22 PM ET Photo Illustration: R. A. Di ISO The United Arab...

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Há um limite para avanços tecnológicos? (OESP)

16 Maio 2016 | 03h 00 Está se tornando popular entre políticos e governos a ideia que a estagnação da economia mundial se deve ao fato de que o “século de ouro” da inovação científica e tecnológica...

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Inteligência artificial já imita Guimarães Rosa e pode mudar nossa forma de...

www1.folha.uol.com.br Hermano Vianna Antropólogo, escreve no blog hermanovianna.wordpress.com 22 de agosto de 2020 [resumo] Espantado com as proezas de tecnologias capazes de produzir textos, até mesmo...

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Conceito de tecnologia deve ser pensado à luz da diversidade, diz filósofo...

www1.folha.uol.com.br Ronaldo Lemos, 31 de janeiro de 2021 [resumo] Um dos mais originais pensadores contemporâneos, o chinês Yuk Hui refuta a ideia ocidental de que a tecnologia é um fenômeno único e...

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Humans were apex predators for two million years (Eureka Alert!)

News Release 5-Apr-2021 What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meat Tel-Aviv University Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans....

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We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law (MIT Technology Review)

technologyreview.com David Rotman February 24, 2020 Moore’s argument was an economic one. Integrated circuits, with multiple transistors and other electronic devices interconnected with aluminum metal...

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What AI still can’t do (MIT Technology Review)

technologyreview.com Brian Bergstein February 19, 2020 Machine-learning systems can be duped or confounded by situations they haven’t seen before. A self-driving car gets flummoxed by a scenario that a...

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An elegy for cash: the technology we might never replace (MIT Technology Review)

technologyreview.com Cash is gradually dying out. Will we ever have a digital alternative that offers the same mix of convenience and freedom? Mike Orcutt January 3, 2020 If you’d rather keep all that...

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If DNA is like software, can we just fix the code? (MIT Technology Review)

technologyreview.com In a race to cure his daughter, a Google programmer enters the world of hyper-personalized drugs. Erika Check Hayden February 26, 2020 To create atipeksen, Yu borrowed from recent...

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