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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 June 2011

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* Drug Reverses ‘Accelerated Aging’ in Human Cells >>
* Soon Google will know what you want before you do >>
* Evolution of skin and ovarian cancer cells >>

* The physics of Jackson Pollock >>
* How chronic stress causes Alzheimer’s, other brain diseases >>

* IBM develops ‘instantaneous’ memory, 100x faster than flash >>
* A Wristwatch that Monitors Blood Pressure >>
* The Killer App For Crowdsourced Photographs >>

* The History of the English Language in Ten Animated Minutes >>
* Exploring Stellar Winds >>
* What’s So Interesting About Ultracold Matter? >>

* Mission Impossible For String Theorists >>
* Static Electricity Isn’t What You Were Taught! >>
* Artificial Pancreas May Help Diabetes Sufferers >>

* Health Care Of The Future: Non-Invasive Blood Tests, Brain-Connected Avatars, Digital Pill Boxes >>
* Pollution sniffing robot fish could be the ocean’s best hope >>
* Video: A Dolphin-Like Speedboat That Can Reach 50 MPH and Launch 18 Feet Into the Air >>

* The Rosetta Project Is Preserving Every Language Ever Spoken, On One Nano-Etched Piece Of Metal >>
* New light shed on lives of electrons: Lasers allow scientists to observe how electrons become entangled >>
* Ring of Laser Light Can Count Individual Viruses and Nanoparticles >>

* 3D galaxies — coming straight on for you >>
* The math of the Rubik’s cube >>
* Filling space: No cubes required >>

* Implant could cut dialysis risks >>
* Scientists identify order of mutations that lead to cancer >>
* Scientists use ‘optogenetics’ to control reward-seeking behavior >>

* Scientists develop sensitive skin for robots >>
* Working toward a nuclear clock >>
* Mathematicians Want to Say Goodbye to Pi >>

* Laser enabled megawatt class fusion propulsion >>
* [Science Rumor] Soldier’s night vision goggles replaced by contacts >>
* BBC News – Dark matter may solve ‘radio filaments’ mystery >>

* Mechanism by which chronic stress causes brain disease identified >>
* Pen with silver ink draws circuits on the fly >>
* Abell 2744: Pandora’s Cluster of Galaxies >>

* Your Keys Can Be Copied From a Picture Taken 200 Feet Away! >>
* When is it due? >>
* Born to be Viral: How a ball could sink forever >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 June 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 June 2011

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* Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel >>
* 3D Galaxies – Coming Straight On For You >>
* Alcatel-Lucent leaps ahead with 400-gigabit routing chip >>
* Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web >>

* Paramount Cease and Desist Targets 3D Printer ‘Pirate’ >>
* How Printed Circuit Boards Are Made >>
* Silver-ink pen freestyles handmade circuitry, paves way for flexible displays >>

* Decoding Genomes Of Microbe Ecosystems Could Deliver Untold Benefits >>
* Tech to Reboot the Brain >>
* Image of the Day: The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies >>

* LSD alleviates ‘suicide headaches’ >>
* Drawing instant electronic circuits on paper >>
* Astronomers Discover a Neutron Star Illuminated by an X-Ray Flare >>

* World record: The strongest magnetic fields created >>
* Cooperative robots that learn = less work for human handlers (w/ video) >>
* Computer climate models fall short >>

* International Team Demonstrates Subatomic Quantum Memory in Diamond >>
* Two- or three-tier graphene films can be produced at commercial scale and create band gap for electronic devices >>

* Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web >>
* Inkjet printing could change the face of solar energy industry >>
* AR Drone Brings Augmented Reality to Android >>

* Asteroid protoplanet may hold clues to Earth formation >>
* Microsoft launches cloud-based Office 365 >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 June 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 June 2011

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* Singularity Summit 2011 in New York City >>
* 3D Printers Are Taking Off But One in Every Home? Maybe in Another 10 Years… >>
* CERN: LHC now running with 1380 bunches per beam >>
* Moon Express talk by Barney Pell >>

* Acoustic ‘cloaking device’ shields objects from sound >>
* Peering Beyond the Big Bang to the Universe That Existed in the Aeon Before Ours” >>
* SonicStar: The supersonic plane that will fly from London to New York in TWO HOURS >>

* Scientists study orca ears, employ lasers to create hyper-sensitive underwater microphone >>
* KinectNUI enables Minority Report style interaction in Windows sans gloves (video) >>
* Your DVR’s Dirty Little Secret: It’s an Energy Hog >>

* Fractal Dimensions Should Modify The Casimir Effect >>
* The Einstein Telescope >>
* Compressed-Air System Could Aid Wind Power >>
* world’s first three-dimensional plasmon rulers>>

* Genesis: Extraordinary Analysis of the Solar Wind >>
* Mind control goes wireless | Not Exactly Rocket Science >>
* Mike Treder Race for the Future >>
* NAU’s Slick-Looking Take On the Future of the RV [Concepts] >>

* Concepts & Prototypes: Two Next-Gen Nukes >>
* First Successful Use of Genome Editing In Living Animals Cures Hemophilia In Mice >>
* VoltAir: The Electric Passenger Jet Of The Future >>
* Navy Tests an Ocean Sensor That Autonomously Dives and Surfaces Using Microbe Power >>

* The Global Warming Crisis [Starts With A Bang] >>
* Are Violent Video Games Corrupting Children? Supreme Court Says States Cannot Decide >>
* Weighted ping-pong balls can fall endlessly through a granular medium (w/ video) >>

* Brain rhythm associated with learning also linked to running speed, UCLA study shows >>
* Neutrino Transformation Could Help Explain Mystery of Matter >>
* First patients receive lab-grown blood vessels from donor cells >>
* Subatomic quantum memory in diamond demonstrated >>

* ‘Super WiFi’ white space trials begin in Cambridge >>
* More Glitches Hit NYSE Euronext >>
* ‘Atom-scale’ switches for revolutionary low-power computer processor developed >>
* How the Hippies Saved Physics [Excerpt] >>

* Helion Energy and General Fusion in the mainstream media >>
* Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis >>
* The first advertising campaign for non-human primates >>
* How well are you sleeping? Ask your pajamas. >>

* 45-Mile “Wi-Fi” Could Connect at 120 kilobits per second with a 20 year battery life >>
* brain-like computing a step closer to reality using phase change materials >>
* First evidence that birds tweet using grammar >>

* Scientists expose cancer cells’ universal ‘dark matter’; … >>
* Biologists discover how yeast cells reverse aging >>
* Synbio revolution: biology is the engineering medium >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 June 2011

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* Volkswagon Shows Off Self-Driving Auto-Pilot For Cars >>
* ISS Will Broadcast First Streaming HD Video of Earth >>

* Solar Sinter solar-powered 3D printer turns sand into glass (video) >>
* Duke University physicists test first air-based acoustic invisibility cloak >>
* Study finds single photons cannot exceed the speed of light >>

* 100+ WWDC Session Videos Now Online >>
* BioBolt brain implant could help the paralyzed walk again >>
* Camera-equipped hexacopter turns summer vacation videos into aerial masterworks >>

* Spectral Layers promises to let you edit audio Photoshop-style (video) >>
* New phase-changing alloy turns waste heat into green energy(video) >>

* Researchers developing artificial pancreas to ease diabetes burden >>
* Yeast Can Evolve into Multicellular Organisms in a Few Short Months >>
* Book Review: What Technology Wants >>

* CAT aquatic car makes us wish all our roads were waterways >>
* Video: NASA Autonomous Lander Hovers in Midair, in Infrared Video >>

* A genetic “cheat code” that activates dormant DNA >>
* PossessedHand turns your hand into a remote controlled cyborg >>
* Dramatic new NASA animation depicts next Mars rover in action [Video] >>

* Robotics award for i-Snake team (w/ video) >>
* Mantis shrimp eye could improve high-definition DVDs, holographic technology >>

* A real-life zombie story in the life of bugs >>
* At the Foresight Conference Today >>
* A Night Out with the Willow Garage Robots – New Info From the Press Dinner >>

* Precise assembly of engines >>
* Single Atom Imaging of DNA Sequencing ‘…just look at the thing! >>
* Cerf: streaming network crunch could be eliminated >>

* Born to be Viral: Robot swarm forages for food >>
* Gene found that can double yeast lifespan when turned on late in life >>

* Quantum magic without any ‘spooky action at a distance’ >>
* Realization of a Knill-Laflamme-Milburn controlled-NOT photonic quantum circuit >>
* Planetary Scientists Brainstorm Low-Cost Mission to Titan >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 June 2011

June 24, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Genes Controlled with Light >>
* Researchers identify components of speech recognition pathway in humans >>
* Mobile Health Apps That Share >>
* Biologists discover how yeast cells reverse aging >>

* Scale your JavaScript, scale your team >>
* The Awesomest Sentence I Read Today >>
* Ben Goertzel Scolds Alex Knapp >>

* ARTEMIS Spacecraft Curlicuing Their Way To Lunar Orbit >>
* Two Approaches to AGI/AI >>
* ‘Should I Change My Password’ Tells You If You’ve Recently Been Hacked >>

* BBC News – Why is there only one human species? >>
* Tissue Regeneration with Extracellular Matrices and BioDome Regenerative Sleeve >>
* Nevada Is the First State to Pass Driverless Car Legislation >>

* Video: Automatic Butcherbot Debones 1,500 Whole Chickens Per Hour >>
* Proton Somersault Study Could Explain Why Matter Still Exists >>
* Cool News: Dinos May Have Been Warm-Blooded (LiveScience.com) >>
* Sleep switch found in fruit flies >>

* High-speed ‘space wedge’ on track >>
* How do you know when it’s done? >>
* Google: ‘At scale, everything breaks’ >>

* Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA >>
* Scientists a step closer to understanding ‘natural antifreeze’ molecules >>
* Monkeys get glow-in-the-dark eyes >>
* Brain-like computing a step closer to reality >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 June 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 June 2011

June 23, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* The end of the job >>
* Robots Shift Shape and Fits In Your Clothes >>
* Spotlight on Helion Energy’s Colliding Plasma Fusion >>

* Plant a New Language in Your Mind >>
* America Is Bankrupt (But Not the Way You Think) >>
* Is the rise of wearable electronics finally here? >>

* Scientists accurately predict age using just a saliva sample >>
* Spiderwebs in Spaaaace! >>
* The Singularity: Five Technologies That Will Change the World (and One That Won’t) >>
* Augmented reality app concept conjures movie scenes shot in your location (video) >>

* Camera Lets You Shift Focus After Shooting >>
* How 3D Printing Will Make U.S. Self-Sufficient >>
* Three arguments against the singularity >>
* Do not disturb my quantum circles >>

* Response to Charles Stross’ “Three arguments against the Singularity” >>
* 618 Million People Search Google For Google Every Month [Factoid] >>
* Astronomers Find Star Shooting 100,000,000 Amazon Rivers of Water at 120,000 MPH [Space] >>
* Super sand for better purification of drinking water >>

* NASA’s robotic lander takes flight (w/ video) >>
* Gold nanoparticles help earlier diagnosis of liver cancer >>
* Researchers clock the speed of brain signals >>

* Clothes of the future may be produced by robots >>
* The human genome — now on an iPad near you >>
* Molecular glue sticks it to cancer and interferes with the growth of cancer >>
* Proof That Stars Form When Clouds Collide >>

* EADS showcases VoltAir superconducting electric motor propulsion system concept for 2030 >>
* Say cheese! Taking photos with a wave of the hand >>
* Singularity University Summer Program Year 3: >>

* DARPA seeks business model for interstellar travel >>
* Red wine’s heart health chemical unlocked at last >>
* Quantum magic trick shows reality is what you make it >>

* Building a human on a chip, organ by organ >>
* New theory on origin of birds: Enlarged skeletal muscles >>
* A look at Oakley’s custom-printing sunglasses machine >>

* #WSF11: The Invisible Language of Smell >>
* Crocus Introduces Breakthrough Magnetic-Logic-Unit™ (MLU) Technology >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 June 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 June 2011

June 22, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Communication helps target tumors >>
* Firefox 5 is officially released, how are you liking it? >>
* Humans Could Have Geomagnetic Sight >>
* Japanese researchers develop ‘swimming’ endoscope, we suggest being nicer to your doctor >>

* Tilera’s new 100-core CPU elbows its way to the cloud, face-melt still included >>
* No Easy Answers to Password Problems >>
* Nanotechnology pushes battery life to eternity >>
* Engineer Guy on Fiber Optics >>

* Researcher uses nanosilica to strengthen concrete (w/ video) >>
* Quantum leap: Magnetic properties of a single proton directly observed for the first time >>
* Astronomers discover that galaxies are either asleep or awake >>

* D-Dalus new kind of flying machine that can silently hover and fly around the inside of buildings >>
* Watch this space: Eye-control to give technology a new look – CNN.com >>
* Universe’s highest electric current found >>

* Human eye ‘may act as a compass’ >>
* LeWeb 2011 theme announced >>
* How did we discover the Earth wasn’t round? >>

* Men’s health expert: Why being male is bad for you >>
* Book Review: The Future of Water >>
* Fermi Space Telescope Fails to See Evidence Of Dark Matter >>

* Video game teaches students how to code >>
* Millions of archived films and TV footage now accessible to all >>
* Tilera Unveils the Ultimate Cloud Computing Processor that is ten times more energy … >>
* Rabies may not be the invincible killer we thought >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 June 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 June 2011

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* Fujitsu has built the fastest supercomputer at 8.2 petaflops the K supercomputer >>
* In the near future, water in video games will look like this >>
* Japan speeding ahead with 500km/h Maglev train >>

* Scientists reveal HIV weakness >>
* Slowing Down Stars >>
* How computers can mimic human 3-D vision >>

* How dense is a cell? >>
* ‘Small’ 36-inch display with 4K resolution will sell for $36,000 >>
* iCard ECG brings heart monitoring to the iOS device of your choice (video) >>

* VIDEO: Plants successfully grown in space >>
* The first cancer vaccine that works >>
* War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs >>

* Pay for your groceries with ultrasonic MP3s >>
* In tiny worm, unlocking secrets of the brain >>
* How many objects can you hold in mind simultaneously? >>

* Stem-Cell Gamble >>
* Tools for Quantifying Yourself >>
* Can AI Be Your Guide to the Web? >>
* Augmented reality in an iPhone app >>

* New Software May Help Astronauts Stay Strong in Space (SPACE.com) >>
* New compact microspectrometer design achieves high resolution and wide bandwidth >>
* Natural Alzheimer’s weapon suggests better treatment >>

* Quantum eavesdropper steals quantum keys >>
* Withings makes a $129 blood pressure monitor for Apple devices >>
* Nanoparticles disguised as red blood cells will deliver cancer-fighting drugs >>

* Intel Aims For Exaflop Supercomputer By 2018 >>
* The End of Cheap Labor in China >>
* Artificial meat could slice emissions, say scientists >>

* How the Brain Recognizes Its Body >>
* The Artificial Ape pt1 >>

* First ever drug to treat ‘Celtic Gene’ in cystic fibrosis sufferers >>
* Fifty-year search for calcium channel ends: Cell’s power generator >>
* Cracking the code of machine translation >>

* Rocky, Low-Mass Planet Discovered by Microlensing >>
* Self-assembling Electronic Nano-components >>
* A Biologically Inspired Visual Search Engine – Technology Review >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 June 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 June 2011

June 20, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Pigs could grow human organs in stem cell breakthrough – Telegraph >>
* Thunder Could Help Track Lightning on Titan >>

* Web primed for domain name surge >>
* After an apocalypse, what’s left of digital stores of knowledge? >>
* Kilobots are cheap enough to swarm in the thousands >>

* Brain-Inspired Image Recognition Software From Cortexica Allows Computers to See (Video) >>
* Zero Emission High Speed Transport proposed >>
* The Brain on Trial >>

* Conference report: interventional anti-aging >>
* Spy satellites become reluctant space celebs, get their own paparazzi >>
* Device Analyzer Android study wants to track your every move, if you’ll let it >>

* VIDEO: E. coli ‘passed from human to human’ >>
* Nanoparticles hit tumours with one-two punch >>

* Mayo Clinic researchers use human vaccine to cure prostate cancer in mice >>
* Modern management >>
* Women Freezing Their Eggs To Make Babies Later >>

* What happens on the Internet in 60 seconds (Infographic) >>
* What Physics Owes the Counterculture >>
* A cortical neural prosthesis for restoring and enhancing memory in Rats so far >>
* Money can’t buy happiness: Individualism a stronger predictor of well-being than wealth >>

* A Swarm of Thousands of Robots – For Cheap >>
* Lightning Eclipse from the Planet of the Goats >>
* Regenerating the Ear and the Eye >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 June 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 June 2011

June 18, 2011 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* How Physics Limits Intelligence >>
* With an Artificial Memory Chip, Rats Can Remember and Forget At the Touch of a Button >>
* Honeybees Might Have Emotions >>

* Lasers Create Interactive Solar Map For New York >>
* Huge Heat Shield Has Huge Task: Protecting NASA’s Next Mars Rover >>
* Newfound Comet Will Swing By Earth in 2013 (SPACE.com) >>

* ICANN To Allow .brandname Top-Level Domains >>
* Parkinson’s artificial brain bank >>
* Futureseek Daily Paper is out! >> ? Top stories today via @ieet @spacecollective

* James Webb space telescope completes first round of cryogenic mirror test >>
* High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restructure the Brain? >>
* How Tall Can Trees Grow? >>

* Hackers steal quantum code >>
* Why you can’t ever “know” anything exactly [Starts With A Bang] >>
* Who pays for the news media? >>

* Artificial hippocampal system restores long-term memory, enhances cognition >>
* 3D printer looks factory made >>
* Spies can send messages hidden in a Google search >>

* Beneq Launches Roll-to-Roll atomic layer deposition System for Wide Flexible Substrates >>
* Collaborhythm a technology platform to empower an individual to control their own health >>
* Smaller and Cheaper particle accelerator prototype could enable 600-megawatts thorium-fuel >>
* Researchers Design Memory-Strengthening Implant >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 17 June 2011 >>