Jobs and the Future of Work
This drone is a sheepdog
Drones are being used in New Zealand to herd sheep, and they're even being fitted with a 'digital bark' to help.
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Nature and Biodiversity
Facial recognition is helping farmers to keep fish healthy
Farmers are using facial recognition technology to build individual medical records for their fish.
Emerging Technologies
This startup is opening a robot farm in California
Iron Ox is using a robot called Angus to tend to the plants of a farm using machine learning.
Nature and Biodiversity
How mushrooms could help save bees
New research suggests that the antiviral properties of fungi could help to fight colony collapse disorder.
This foundation plans to store data in DNA on the moon
The Arch Mission Foundation is working with Microsoft to encode thousands of important books and crowd-sourced images and store them in a repository housed on the Moon.
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Netflix is reportedly planning to try out 'interactive' shows
Netflix is reportedly working to create programming in which audiences can make decisions on the outcome of different parts of the narrative.
Emerging Technologies
This is why Google built an AI-powered lion that writes poetry
The lion sat beside the famous lions of Trafalgar Square, allowing passers-by to input words that an AI algorithm converted into poetry.