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* How do you think social media will affect the development of virtual currencies?

Technologies always diverge, economies always converge. Facebook credits will become an international currency as important (or more important?) than the dollar, euro, or yen.

* Do you think Facebook is ultimately worth its multi-billion-dollar valuation? Groupon?

Yes to Facebook — when you surreptitiously take over Earth’s economy and telecommunications system simultaneously, that’s worth something. Groupon… maybe. What we don’t know yet about Groupon is whether competitors can unseat it. It’s too late to unseat Facebook.

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Using natural language programming (NLP), the software agents can read special English language technical documents on control methods. This gives the vehicles advanced guidance, navigation and feedback capabilities to stop them crashing into other objects and the ability to adapt during missions, identify problems, carry out repairs and make their own decisions about how best to carry out a task.

Professor Veres, who is leading the EPSRC-funded project, says: “This is the world’s first publishing system of technical knowledge for machines and opens the way for engineers to publish control instructions to machines directly. As well as spacecrafts and satellites, this innovative technology is transferable to other types of autonomous vehicles, such as autonomous underwater, ground and aerial vehicles.”

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Professor Veres adds: “We have invented sysbrains to control intelligent machines. Sysbrain is a special breed of software agents with unique features such as natural language programming to create them, human-like reasoning, and most importantly they can read special English language documents in ‘system English’ or ‘sEnglish’. Human authors of sEnglish documents can put them on the web as publications and sysbrain can read them to enhance their physical and problem solving skills. This allows engineers to write technical papers directly for sysbrain that control the machines.”

The Robotic Chef is a mechanical arm designed to physically and chemically transform a single solid food object, such as a steak, fish or a fruit. It allows for two types of transformations: localized and precise manipulations performed with an array of tools located in the toolhead; and global transformations performed through the underlying bed and two 5-degree of freedom robotic arms.

The toolhead holds an array of interchangeable manipulation devices, such as a drill bits, mineral and spices injection syringes, and a lower power laser diode, which can programmatically cut, cook and spice the food held by the arm. The underlying bed houses a heating plate which can heat and cook the food while the arm can apply mechanical transformations, such as compressions, elongations, and torsion, as well as control the location of the food underneath the toolhead. These transformation processes allow cooks to exert highly localized and repeatable food manipulations that would be impossible to achieve through traditional cooking methods.

The pioneering technology could also create a seamless wireless network and eliminate internet ‘black spots’

The ‘lightRadio cube’ is the size of a Rubik’s cube.. These tiny devices could be attached to lampposts, buildings or telephone poles as single cubes or in clusters, connected to the mobile phone network with optical fibres

Rather than connecting all phones within a mile or two to the same mast, mobile phone companies could instead divide traffic between several smaller cells.

This would allow for a far greater capacity for calls and data – crucial at a time when smartphone users are saturating the network with data requests.

AT&T has already started creating a network of outdoor Wi-Fi hotspots in New York to cope with the number of iPhone users who are using the mobile network to access the internet.