documentaries

Science

Are we getting dumber and dumber? | DW Documentary

DW Documentary. explores something that a lot us are pondering, especially anyone that has ever worked on a help desk. As our AIs get smarter, we seem to not follow suit. For a long time, mankind was getting smarter and smarter. In fact, our progress seemed unstoppable. Intelligence research actually confirmed this. But a few […]

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Cryptocurrency Virtual Reality

Decentraland: The virtual land selling for millions – BBC Stories

Investors are spending real money to buy land in a new city that only exists in virtual reality. Buyers can build whatever they want on their plots in Decentraland. Many hope to make a profit trading goods and services in the virtual world’s own crypto currency. But will Decentraland be an online utopia or a […]

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Robotics

Singapore’s Remote-Controlled Cyborg Insects

This video from Vice Asia, highlights a very sci-fi idea that is about to become reality. In the future, we may have remote-controlled insects to reach places humans cannot. At least that’s what Dr. Hirotaka Sato, an aerospace engineer from Singapore, is hoping. Motherboard went to Dr. Sato’s lab in Singapore to take one of […]

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AI Startups

The Rise of AI and the Canadian Silicon Valley

Here’s an interesting documentary (“Canada – The Rise of AI”, Ep. 11) on the “Canadian Silicon Valley.” Silicon Valley may be home to some of the biggest tech giants in the world but it’s being challenged like never before. Crazy tech geniuses have popped up all over the planet making things that will blow your […]

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Future Space

Internet from Space?!

Deutsche Welle has a documentary on the rise of space-based internet service providers. Internet connectivity anywhere in the world would be sehr fantastisch! The digital revolution has radically changed the way we live and work. But more than three billion people are still offline. As with any infrastructure, fast data connections initially reach urban centers. […]

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AI Economics of AI Robotics

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and the Future Economy Documentary

The documentary “Will A Robot Steal My Job?“ provides an interesting look at what innovations in AI and robotics will do to the job market. We think of robots as primarily being in factories; but the reality is that lawyers, accountants and even artists, are facing a future in which their livelihoods are threatened by […]

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Interesting IoT

Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors Because of a Repair Ban

VICE explores the sad state of affairs when it comes to repairing modern technology-driven farm equipment. When it comes to repair, farmers have always been self reliant. But the modernization of tractors and other farm equipment over the past few decades has left most farmers in the dust thanks to diagnostic software that large manufacturers […]

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Space

New Mars Curiosity Rover Pictures

ElderFox Documentaries follows the Curiosity Rover on Mars as it climbs up a Martian mountain named Mount Sharp. A quick summary of the Journey: Landing in the Gale Crater, Curiosity heads towards Yellowknife Bay, taking its first drive over ‘Glenelg’. In Yellowknife Bay, Curiosity finds the first evidence that the Gale Crater was once filled […]

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