Modern Meadow, a startup based in Brooklyn, New York, is aiming to commercialize leather and meat products that are not made from slaughtered animals but brewed in cell-culture vats.
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3. The 50/10 Rule. Solo-task and do more faster by working in 50/10 increments. Use a timer to work for 50 minutes on only one important task with 10 minute breaks in between. Mike spends his 10 minutes getting away from his desk, going outside, calling friends, meditating, or grabbing a glass of water. What’s your most important task for the next 50 minutes?
4. Move and sweat daily. Regular movement keeps us healthy and alert. It boosts energy and mood, and relieves stress. Most mornings you’ll find Mike in a CrossFit or a yoga class. How will you sweat today?
From viral fame to litigation. Who, indeed, owns the monkey selfie? Because, lawyers.
Is the photographer inflating his role in the photos, or did the monkey take the glamor shots on his own, without any prompting from the human? Does it even matter? Does Slater own the copyright, or is a photo taken by an animal in the public domain? For that matter, is a painting by an animal in the public domain? We asked a lawyer.
The open approach to designing and layering the protocols that make the Internet work ensured that the Internet’s architecture is robust and that it evolves in a tractable way. The same approach to the problem is valid and desirable now when we are starting to put ten to a hundred times more things on the Internet than people. The good news is that we aren’t starting from scratch: many of the architectural layers and technologies already exist on the web and can be adapted to work on IoT devices.
With the widespread adoption of modern microcontrollers (MCUs) in very inexpensive and energy-efficient form factors, we now have the ability to make even the smallest embedded device a first-class citizen of the Internet. The open standards that support their operation have evolved to the point where they can be deployed on constrained devices (and networks) in a secure and robust way.
The Internet of Things really only becomes a reality when we connect things with services in a seamless, secure and simple way. To understand just how big of a paradigm shift this is, we can look back at the history of the web. The Internet before the web was very much silos of solutions from the likes of America On-Line (AOL), Prodigy and CompuServe, forming technology and content silos very much like M2M systems.
As startups attempt to master home delivery services, the last mile still belongs to the titans
The business models of those players vary, with Amazon drawing on its own extensive inventory, and most of the others obtaining product from existing retailers. What they have in common is some form of expedited or same-day service, to feed consumers’ growing appetite for immediate gratification.
All face the same tough question: Can they make a profit? Same-day delivery is brutally expensive to provide, if you don’t have an infrastructure already in place. It’s one thing for FedEx or UPS to deploy an existing network to offer a premium service – quite another for a newcomer to pay for the vehicles and drivers to match it. Especially if the service isn’t tacking on a high delivery charge to cover its costs.
Since tacking charge of Boeing Defense, Space & Security late last year, Chris Chadwick has been building a plan
to transform the world’s No. 2 military contractor with $33 billion in 2013 sales and more than 55,000 employees.
His biggest customer, the Pentagon, has been hobbled by budget cuts, crimping new starts as key aircraft programs such as the C-17 transport and the F/A-18 fighter wind down.
Chadwick started rolling out a new strategy last week that he hopes will transform Boeing and win major competitions like the US Air Force’s Long-Range Strike Bomber (L-RSB) program, in partnership with Lockheed Martin; the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier-Launched Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS); and the Air Force T-X future trainer effort. The strategy itself will be formally unveiled next month.
Boeing wins “space taxi” contract worth $4.2B, partners with SpaceX. Meanwhile, Boeing teams with Jeff Bezos(!) to compete with Elon Musk and SpaceX. Should be epic.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other senior officials gathered today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to announce that NASA will resume human space flight in the United States– Boeing and SpaceX will be the commercial partners to help transport astronauts to the International Space Station, and they will launch from Cape Canaveral.
The total contracts are valued at $6.8 billion: Boeing gets $4.2 Billion, SpaceX 2.6 billion. Crew will fly on Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s Dragon.
A joint venture of Boeing Co (BA.N) and Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) plans to announce on Wednesday that it will team up with Blue Origin, a company run by Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) founder Jeff Bezos, to develop a new rocket engine, a source familiar with the plans said.
Officials at Boeing and Lockheed declined comment. No comment was immediately available from Blue Origin or United Launch Alliance (ULA), the Boeing-Lockheed venture that uses Russian-built engines to power some of its rockets.
Imagine a world where everyone can run four-minute miles, because everyone is Iron Man
When you think about it, it’s frankly insulting that the year is 2014 and we’re STILL not able to fly around on fiery jetpacks, like the Spy Kids…
But a team of researchers from Arizona State University has brought us one step closer to that feat by coming up with the raddest invention ever: A jet pack for running. The contraption is called the “4MM,” because it’s designed with the goal of having the wearer run a four-minute mile. It weighs a fairly hefty 11 pounds, and looks like a bionic backpack.