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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 1 May 2014

April 30, 2014 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Facebook to place ads on other apps >>
* Why Facebook’s New ‘Anonymous Login’ Matters >>
* Google Now Adds Parking Detection, Manages Your Custom Nicknames >>

* First time since Abraham Lincoln United States will not be the World Largest Economy >>
* New Chart of Estimated purchasing power parity GDP for the USA and China >>
* How Self-Driving Cars Will Sneak Onto Our Roads >>

* ‘Pay-by-size’ for films in future >>
* Dreamworks CEO believes films will be ready to buy 3 weeks after hitting cinemas >>
* Film download prices ‘to be determined by screen size’ >>

* Winning Z-2 Spacesuit Prototype Design Gets Ready For Test Campaign >>
* SpaceX Releases Raw Video of First Stage Landing Attempt >>
* Future smart phones may be printed on your clothes >>

* ‘Twisters’ On The Sun Spotted By Spacecraft | Video >>
* What It Will Take to Farm Sunlight from Space >>
* Lumafit Wearable Activity Tracker Will Make You Drop Down And Give It 20 >>

* Facebook Introduces Anonymous Login, Try Apps Without Giving Info Away >>
* This DIY Geocaching Bracelet Shows The Power Of Wearables >>
* Self-Parking >>

* Adaptive Cruise Control and Traffic-Jam Assistants >>
* Autonomous Emergency Braking >>
* How a synapse stays stable when its proteins are renewed >>

* Volvo Matches Google’s Test of City-roaming Cars >>
* Graphene: miracle material and potentially potent pollutant >>
* How a Smartphone Device Aims to Detect Oral Cancer >>

* Sony develops tape tech that could lead to 185 TB cartridges >>
* Virtual Reality: Purpose Beyond Gaming >>
* Robots may need to include parental controls >>

* How much could you claim if a DINOSAUR stamped on your car? £66,000 >>
* Scientists ‘3D-print’ living CARTILAGE >>
* Cloning approach makes diabetes stem cell advance >>

* New lab-on-a-chip device overcomes miniaturization problems >>
* How man will land on Mars: Nasa video reveals the steps needed to transport humans to the red planet in the 2030s >>
* Length of exoplanet day measured for first time >>

* WHO declares antibiotic resistance “a major global threat” >>
* New revolutionary sensor links pressure to color change >>
* This $14,000 vacuum-powered brewer aims to make the perfect cup of tea >>

* Water-based ‘engine’ propels tumor cells through tight spaces in body >>
* Can Elon Musk and SpaceX Take Space Travel From Evolutionary to Revolutionary? >>
* In Recognizing Speech Sounds, the Brain Does Not Work the Way a Computer Does >>

* Entire star cluster thrown out of its galaxy >>
* This Unbelievable Device Will Change The Way We Interact With The World >>
* Antibiotic resistance now ‘global threat’, WHO warns >>

* Government backs UK launch site plan for space tourism >>
* Can This Algorithm Find Hires of a Certain Race? >>
* Wages for Facebook >>

* Scientists regenerate muscle in five seriously injured patients >>
* Halo headband wants to make you smarter by shocking your brain >>
* YOUR CORPORATE INTERNET NIGHTMARE STARTS NOW >>
* Now Facebook Can Beam Targeted Ads At You Wherever You Are >>

* The Inevitable Connection Between Artificial Intelligence and Surveillance >>
* Pentagon’s Superpowered Autopilot Will Do the Work of 5 Crew Members >>
* YOUR CORPORATE INTERNET NIGHTMARE STARTS NOW >>

* How nanoparticles could be used to treat cancer >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 April 2014

April 30, 2014 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Nod Gesture Control Ring Is Designed For Continual Wear, Starts Selling Today For $149 >>
* Ultrawideband Engine-Area Network Lets Sensors Talk Under the Hood >>
* Video: World’s first electric plane takes off in France >>

* Google Glass users can now say ‘Explore Nearby’ to launch Field Trip, discover the world around them >>
* The Internet of Things: enabling the era of precision manufacturing >>
* Real-time genome-scale sequencing at sea >>

* A single algorithm is phasing out the Pap smear >>
* The Heinz Dilemma Might Reveal That Morality Is Meaningless >>
* Microsoft’s motion-sensing keyboard lets you skip the touchscreen >>

* Human Cartilage Grown on a Chip >>
* NASA’s shuttle-carrying 747 makes final journey to museum >>
* Got Gas? It Could Mean You’ve Got Healthy Gut Microbes >>

* This Island Will Charge Its Lake-Sized Batteries with Wind Power >>
* Nanoporous Material Combines the Best of Batteries and Supercapacitors >>
* Microsoft wisely hops on the moonshot bandwagon >>

* Research sees overlap in genes altered in schizophrenia, autism, intellectual disability >>
* Brain tumor cells penetrated by tiny, degradable particles carrying genetic instructions >>
* VIDEO: Watch a mobile payment app in action >>

* 3D printer builds houses in China – video >>
* This Software Can Write A Grade-A College Paper In Less Than A Second >>
* Elon Musk Just Shared This Picture Of The Historic ‘Soft Landing’ That Could Make Space Flight Cheaper >>

* Smart apps help run a smart home >>
* Google cars are better motorists than most people >>
* What is the early path of commercialization for Artificial Intelligence? What will be AI’s first killer apps? >>

* Senators Kill Provision Forcing the President to Reveal Drone Victims >>
* NYC’s 3,500-Year-Old Monument Is Being Cleaned With Freaking Lasers >>
* Brain-Inspired Microchip Is 9,000 Times Faster Than a Normal PC >>

* Justices Seem Torn on Cellphone Warrants >>
* Bits Blog: Standing on the Sidelines With Virtual Reality >>
* How 3-D Printing Can Help To Cure Cancer >>

* Dutch TV’s Tegenlicht does Present Shock >>
* Medical News Today: Y chromosome loss: shorter life expectancy and higher cancer risk in men >>

* Next Big Wearable Tech Trend Could Go In One Ear >>
* cosmic illusion revealed >>
* Controlling brain waves to stay visually aware >>

* Graphene’s potential to reshape neurosurgery >>
* Ghost Ship Nuclear Fusion Spaceship Concept Design >>
* The Pivot Conference >>

* It’s Freezing on the Surface of this Nearby Star-like Object >>
* ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Cast Announced >>

* New MIT building to be a hub for nanoscale research >>
* Research trio suggests exomoon atmospheres could cause false-positive signs of life on exoplanets >>

* NASA Seeks Ideas For Affordable Missions To Europa >>
* Hints of Extraterrestrial Life in Near Future Likely –“But Maybe Not on an Earth-like Planet” >>
* AT&T plans in-flight internet move using its US 4G network >>

* AT&T Is Building an In-Flight 4G LTE Network >>
* Google Glass: Everyone Will Know Everything About You Thanks To Everyone Else! >>
* 12 Incredible Ways Our World Will Change If Google Gets Its Way >>

* First Ever U.S. Made Long-Range Electric Bus Unveiled >>
* 3D bioprinting of stem cell structures could combat osteoarthritis >>
* Viewpoint: Remote Controlled Entanglement >>

* Google, Facebook and other tech companies race to develop artificial intelligence >>
* GLOWING ‘C DOTS’ STICK TO CANCER CELLS >>
* PEOPLE ARE AWESOME (DON’S VERSION) >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 April 2014

April 29, 2014 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Liquid Metal Used to Reconnect Severed Nerves >>
* Mercedes Benz Contextual Car Capabilities >>
* Mobile phones could soon be built into CLOTHES >>

* Scientists have built an ‘off switch’ for the brain >>
* Now, nano ‘fingerprints’ to secure credit cards >>
* Human brains as software the next tech step >>

* This Printer Can Make A Real Teddy Bear In A Few Hours >>
* Incredible Technology: How to Land on Mars with Inflatable Flying Saucers >>
* Scientists create circuit board modeled on the human brain (w/ Video) >>

* How to create nanowires only three atoms wide with an electron beam >>
* Giant 3D printer creates 10 full-sized houses in a DAY: Bungalows built from layers of waste materials cost less than £3,000 each >>

* Dark Matter Could Send Asteroids Crashing into Earth: New Theory >>
* Scientists Give Praying Mantises Tiny 3D Glasses >>
* Microsoft Goes Hollywood With ‘Xbox Originals’ TV Shows >>

* Strap An Oculus-Controlled Video Camera To A Drone And Take It For A Spin >>
* The horse riding simulator that pairs the Oculus Rift with an exercise machine >>
* Oculus Rift experiment simulates living real life with lag >>

* Quantum Cryptography Done Over Shared Data Line >>
* DARPA Progress to enable assembly of more flexible, scalable and cost-effective space systems on orbit >>

* When A Self-Driving Car Meets An Indecisive Cyclist >>
* Google Shows How Its Self-Driving Cars Are Getting Smarter With 700K Miles Driven >>
* Cars that Look and Listen to Find Themselves a Parking Spot >>
* See Google’s Self-Driving Car Navigate City Streets >>

* Watch Out Twitter And Google+, Facebook’s News Feed Is Getting Smarter And Smarter >>
* FIRST Robotics: Who are the Celebrities of the Future? >>
* The Rise of the Data Natives >>

* How to Automate Your Home Without Rewiring >>
* Control System Could Help Flywheels Beat Battery Hybrids >>
* Sky’s next set-top box rumored to do away with satellite dishes >>

* Aereo Isn’t Illegal Just Because It Threatens Broadcasters >>
* NASA Discovers Coldest Brown Dwarf Neighbor of the Sun >>
* DARPA developing UAVs to provide 1 gigabit per second backbone to the front lines >>

* What’s A Smart Grid And Why Do We Need It? >>
* How Easy Is It to Escape from Prison? >>
* Mysterious robotic plane hits 500 days in space; what’s it doing? >>

* Bill Gates Just Shared This Mind-Blowing Infographic About The World’s Deadliest Animal >>
* Google Announcement >>
* VIDEO: Drone captures US tornado devastation >>

* Kenya to deploy drones in all national parks in bid to tackle poaching >>
* SciShow a current state of Artificial Intelligence and what to expect from the A.I. XPRIZE presented by TED >>
* What Ray Kurzweil Is Doing at Google >>

* Scientists hunt down origin of Huntington’s disease in the brain >>
* 21 Technologies That Will Decentralize the World >>
* A new ‘off’ switch for neurons >>

* Samsung blurs the line between phone and camera (again) with the Galaxy K zoom >>
* CHI 2014: Inkjet printer builds custom circuit boards >>
* ‘Smart’ Firearm Draws Wrath of the Gun Lobby >>

* Male Scent May Compromise Biomedical Research >>
* Not just old codgers >>
* Sending DNA robot to do the job >>

* Apple patents 3D interactive hologram display system >>
* Yes, Google’s self-driving car will sometimes run yellow lights >>
* 1/3 of Americans think there will be space colonies by 2064 >>

* Lab mice fear men but not women, and that’s a big problem for science >>
* Dementia Facebook app to raise awareness of the illness >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 April 2014

April 27, 2014 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Gillmor Gang: Call Forwarding >>
* $0.01 lens could make your phone a high-res microscope >>
* Liquid water on Mars more evident now >>

* America’s Nuclear Arsenal Is Still Controlled By Antique Computers With Floppy Disks >>
* Google Brings Its Hotel And Restaurant Search To Android >>
* DARPA Develops Stealth Motorcycle For US Special Forces >>

* Weekly Roundup: Breakthrough technologies, Millennial men and ‘hijab couture’ >>
* Algorithm Distinguishes Memes From Ordinary Information >>
* VIDEO: The flying robotic pop band >>

* Netflix Considers P2P-Powered Streaming Technology >>
* Don’t Drive 1,000 MPH: Raindrops Will Destroy Your Windshield >>
* Microscale 3-D Printing that mixes inks with living cells to semiconductors and have already formed a complex network of blood vessels which is key for fabbing larger organs >>

* IBMs heated tip etching system will revolutionize chip prototyping >>
* Superconducting Qubit Array could be a non-Dwave quantum computer approach that is nearly ready to scale >>
* Using Ultrasound to Feel Virtual Objects >>

* Poorer Countries Stand to Miss Out on the Big Data Boom >>
* Thousands of ant like robots have been magnetically controlled and coordinated to build tower structures -Full control of ant like builder robots >>
* Self-driving and self-parking cars in Sweden – video >>

* HIV slowly adapting to humans: Scientists >>
* NASA Supersonic Science Aims to Shush Sonic Booms >>
* Home Connect: A single app for more than one brand of household appliances >>

* Aereo Is The Most Important Service That Nobody Should Use >>
* A Generation Of Old People Is About To Change The Global Economy >>
* Why were dinosaurs so much bigger than animals today? >>

* Scientists identify way to target drug-resistant cancer cells >>
* Human skin grown in lab ‘can replace animal testing’ >>
* Inside the Science of an Amazing New Surgery Called Deep Brain Stimulation >>

* How Far Fitness Has Fallen >>
* Saudi Arabia joins the killer drone arms race >>
* Security flaw puts all Internet Explorer users at risk, exposes Windows XP >>

* We Can Travel to Another Star System by 2100 >>
* The Price of Electricity In The U.S. Is About to Skyrocket >>
* DARPA’s Chip-Sized Digital Optical Synthesizer to Aim for Routine Terabit-per-second Communications >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 April 2014

April 25, 2014 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* You’re Going To Want This Awesome Toy Dinosaur >>
* IBM 3D Prints World’s Smallest Magazine Cover >>
* Cloaked DNA nanodevices survive immune system, pave way for smart anticancer DNA nanorobots >>

* Wearable tech connects astronauts to the smells they love on earth [VIDEO] >>
* Your Thoughts May Be Nothing More than “Self-Organized Criticality” >>
* Hulu bans VPN access over copyright concerns >>
* Anonymous’ radio-based networking keeps protesters off the grid >>

* Google and NASA will make smarter flying spheres with kinect sensors >>
* Solar power has a long way to go to be a cheap environment savior >>
* Spacex provides more info on soft water landing goals of lowering costs 10x >>

* Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Presentation >>
* SpaceX to File Official Protest Against US Air Force Over Military Launch Contracts >>
* Weekly Space Hangout – April 25, 2014 >>

* Milky Way’s Structure Mapped in Unprecedented Detail >>
* Smart animation explains how tsunamis form and why they’re so scary >>
* Imagine What Could Be Done With a “Penny4NASA” >>

* Video Friday: Obama vs. ASIMO, 3D Printed Hands, and Drone Delivery Fail >>
* Self-driving Cars You Can Trust >>
* Counterintuitive Defocusing Technique Produces 3-D Microscope Images >>

* Nissan develops first ‘self-cleaning’ car prototype (w/ Video) >>
* Criminal street gangs: Researchers people skills give females an advantage >>
* IBM uses heat silicon tip to eatch a magazine cover so small, 2000 could fit on grain of salt >>

* Garbage Fuel Will Power British Airways Planes >>
* Rat study shows deep-space travel could damage the brain >>
* New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time >>

* Could we travel to Mars in 30 DAYS? Nasa believes nuclear-powered rockets >>
* New sensor molecules have potential for early cancer detection >>
* Facebook buys fitness app firm >>

* Scientists crack genetic code of deadly tsetse fly >>
* Disney Is Going To Nuke All The ‘Star Wars’ Books And Comics Fans >>
* Space Radiation Remains Major Hazard for Humans Going to Mars >>

* Netflix to become real TV and get its own ‘cable channel’ next week >>
* Mars Rover Curiosity Snaps First Asteroid Photo from Red Planet >>
* Commercial 3D printer for Nanostructures >>

* DNA: Past to the Present >>
* Google X Lab Files Patent for Contact Lens With Built-In Camera >>
* Printoo is an Arduino-based platform of paper-thin, low-power boards and modules >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 April 2014

April 24, 2014 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Nissan Has Made A Self-Cleaning Car >>
* An Insane Kickstarter Invention Claims To Scramble Eggs Inside Their Shell >>
* Take a Fly-by Of All the Known Exoplanets >>

* Wearable device battery could last 10 years >>
* Controlling brain waves to improve vision >>
* New ultrasound device may add in detecting risk for heart attack, stroke >>

* Brain sends signals to make us ‘freeze’ when faced with danger, scientists >>
* Virtual artificial heart implantation: Advances made by scientists >>
* Gillmor Gang: Action Items >>

* Bionic Ears Boosted by Gene Therapy and Regrown Nerves >>
* Shrimp key to new material that can build tougher jets >>

* Microsoft Wants You to Educate Its Virtual Assistant >>
* How Nanoexplosives Could Help Solve One of the Biggest Mysteries of Astrophysics >>
* Blood of world’s oldest woman hints at limits of life >>

* This App Is Like A Remote Control For Your Credit Cards >>
* What’s Next For Google+ Now That Its Leader Has Suddenly Left? >>
* The Stalactite 3D Printer Uses A Projector To Produce High Quality Objects >>

* Data Scientist Hacks Monitoring Device, Puts Heartbeat Online >>
* Scientists reveal they have found a new SHAPE – the Hemihelix >>
* Less myelin found in neocortex: the future of the brain? >>

* Space Based Solar power need robotic assembly in space and reusable rockets >>
* Japan will boost GPS accuracy to about 1-3 centimeters of error >>
* Brain: The Last Enigma >>

* New optical microscopy technique unravels role of ‘oxidative stress’ in neural tissue >>
* TED | The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance >>
* Nanoparticle Networks Promise Cheaper Batteries for Storing Renewable Energy >>

* Mapping Autism in the Developing Brain >>
* Take a Fly-by Of All the Known Exoplanets >>
* Apple patent pokes at holographic iPhone screen >>

* Lake Superior Is Basically In The Middle Of A Never-Ending Winter >>
* Space station astronauts pop outside to replace crippled control computer >>
* Apple, Google, Intel And Adobe Settle Antitrust Lawsuit Over No-Hire Agreement >>

* Apple Working On New Environmental Sensors For Mobile Devices >>
* DIY Wearable Pi With Near-Eye Video Glasses >>
* Error-Free Quantum Computing Made Possible in New Experiment >>

* The robotics industry could use an infusion of new DNA >>
* The Cloud Industry Needs Aereo to Win. But Consumers Need Something Better. >>
* Supreme Court Debates Aereo’s Fate, Future of TV and Cloud >>

* New theory by well-respected scientist suggests consciousness is a state of matter >>
* Cool visualization reveals how the number Pi looks >>
* Alien Planets and Human Extinction >>

* Warp Drive Research Key to Interstellar Travel >>
* NASA Chief: Humanity’s Future Depends On Mission To Mars >>
* 17 Emerging Energy Technologies That Will Change The World >>

* Now, you can control devices with tongue >>
* Gadget Watch: Whistle, a fitness tracker for dogs >>
* World’s largest 4K video board >>

* Google Hangouts May Be Ready To Eat Videoconferencing >>
* Larry Page Tried To Sell Google For $1.6 Million — $358 Billion Less Than It’s Worth Today >>
* Nanoparticle Panels Will Bring Blue Skies Indoors >>

* Peter Jackson Reveals Why The Final ‘Hobbit’ Movie Is Getting A Name Change >>
* First Footage From The Simpsons All-Lego Episode >>
* Two Astronauts Must Decipher An Emergency Message From Their Future >>

* Google’s stake in Apple-Samsung trial revealed >>
* The laser webcam that lets you play with your cat from anywhere in the world >>

* New crystal material could lead to shape-shifting displays >>
* Here’s A Water Bottle You Can Actually Eat >>
* How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm >>

* Human skin grown in lab ‘can replace animal testing’ >>
* UK centre to shoot for nuclear fusion record >>
* Will nuclear-powered spaceships take us to the stars? >>

* Two weeks with Sol’s solar-powered laptop >>
* Google and SunPower partner up on funding home solar roofs >>
* Wicked Lasers Flashtorch flashlight starts fires with 4100 lumens of light >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 April 2014

April 24, 2014 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Researchers See New Importance for Y Chromosome >>
* Future chips may operate at atomic dimensions >>
* Excitons observed in action for the first time >>

* Injectable Sensor Shows Oxygen Level Under MRI >>
* Gecko-like adhesives now work on real-world surfaces >>
* Scientists find clues about human ageing in blood of 115-year-old >>

* Brain circuits involved in emotion discovered by neuroscientists >>
* Israeli Tech Tracks A Skeleton For Biometric Authentication >>
* First transfusions of “manufactured” blood planned for 2016 >>

* 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014 >>
* Perspective on 10 Breakthrough Technologies >>
* Genome Editing >>
* Mobile Collaboration >>
* Smart Wind and Solar Power >>
* Neuromorphic Chips >>
* Agricultural Drones >>
* Agile Robots >>
* Brain Mapping >>
* Oculus Rift >>
* Microscale 3-D Printing >>
* Ultraprivate Smartphones >>

* Algorithm ramps up genetic computation >>
* Systems meltdown plunges US immigration courts into pen-and-paper stone age >>
* Israel making Iron Dome missile defence enhancements >>

* Band of drones can play music better than your average human >>
* Buzz Aldrin Wants NASA Astronauts to Visit Asteroid in Deep Space >>
* “Spacetime is an Emerging Phenomenon” –Does It Violate Einstein’s Special Relativity? >>

* This Utility Truck Can Exterminate a Pothole Every 120 Seconds >>
* Google Street View Now Lets You Travel Back In Time >>
* The First Known Binary Supermassive Black Hole In An Ordinary Galaxy >>

* Q&A with Alex Pang, author, ‘The Distraction Addiction’ >>
* Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes Join Forces to Tackle Supercapacitors >>
* Genetic Researchers Strike Men Off The Endangered Species List >>

* Japan’s Plan for Centimeter-Resolution GPS >>
* High school seniors conquer watery ketchup with 3D-printed bottle cap >>
* With 24 Million Students, Codecademy Is Bigger Than You Thought >>

* ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses >>
* Robots in the lab >>
* AI researcher explains how to stop Skynet from happening >>

* The Next Samsung Galaxy Cameraphone Leaks >>
* iBeacons, privacy, and security >>
* Watch the First BASE Jump From the Tip of the World’s Tallest Building >>

* Not Just for Sex: Why the Y Chromosome Hasn’t Vanished >>
* IBM Watson Group to transform the consumer shopping experience >>
* When We Talk About Technology, It’s Time to Stop Using the Word ‘Mobile’ >>

* Bionic eye helps blind man see again >>
* Contact Lenses With Night Vision Coming To Troops? >>

* First sex determining genes appeared in mammals 180 million years ago >>
* Human Neural Stem Cells Survive Long-term when Transplanted into Primate Brain >>
* LeWeb’13 Paris – Google Hangout >>

* 135 million pieces of junk are orbiting Earth at 18,000 mph >>
* Pocket Printer secures Kickstarter cash >>

* A lamp is spying on New Yorkers and tweeting their conversations >>
* Ear implant uses electrical impulses to regrow auditory nerves >>

* Roku Streaming Stick review: TV everywhere >>
* Cellphones ignite a ‘reading revolution’ in poor countries >>
* International Conference on Aging and Disease 2014 >>

* Japan’s Plan for Centimeter-Resolution GPS >>
* Nanometer-Scale Magnet Makes Tiny, Powerful MRI >>
* Man among first in US to get ‘bionic eye’ (Update) >>

* The hemihelix: Scientists discover a new shape using rubber bands (w/ video) >>
* Top Technology Trends for 2014 >>
* “Existence” | Talks at Google >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 April 2014

April 22, 2014 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* DNA edited to cure liver disease, technique could treat other genetic disorders soon >>
* Asteroid impact risks ‘underplayed’ >>
* LG’s Android Smartwatch Promises an ‘Always-On’ Display >>

* Supreme Court Is About to Decide the Future of TV >>
* Supreme Court Justices, Ranked by Their Tech Savvy in the Aereo Case >>
* Inside the Supreme Court for Aereo’s last stand >>

* Bulletproof vests from stem cells? >>
* Lytro Reveals $1,500 Pro Camera That Lets You Refocus After You Take Pictures >>
* Custom 3D Printed Kidneys Help Surgeons Remove Tumors >>
* Powdered alcohol may be coming to a liquor store near you >>

* World’s fastest elevators will go 45 miles per hour in 2016, travel 95 floors in 43 seconds >>
* Estimate of 10,000 Dwarf Planets with about 400 candidates so far >>
* AT and T announces 1 Gigabit “Paper Fiber” but reduces capital spending >>

* Quantum tunneling between two plasmonic resonators links nonlinear quantum optics at 245 terahertz >>
* Students Design Radiation Shield for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft >>
* SpaceX Brings a Booster Safely Back to Earth >>

* America’s Middle Class is no longer the Richest in the World. The Richest Middle Class is in Canada >>
* Diamond Teleporters Herald New Era of Quantum Routing >>
* Laser could trigger rain and lightning >>

* Massive Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 >>
* Building ‘smart’ cell-based therapies >>
* Creating spontaneous ‘cell’ division in artificial cell models >>

* A neuromorphic-computing ‘roadmap’ >>
* Hong Kong Section of High Speed rail delayed two years to 2017 >>
* Powerful Asteroids Strike Earth with Surprising Frequency (Video) >>

* This Exquisitely-Preserved 100 Million-Year-Old Fly Is Just Ridiculous >>
* Everything You Need to Know to Rebuild Civilization from Scratch >>
* DARPA Is Developing The Ultimate Autopilot System >>

* Lytro’s New Professional-Grade, Light Field Camera Will Blow Your Mind >>
* Pentagon’s Superpowered Autopilot Will Do the Work of 5 Crew Members >>
* Nanometer-Scale Magnet Makes Tiny, Powerful MRI >>

* Kinetica Is A New System That Lets You Play With Data With Your Fingers >>
* Withings Pulse O2 monitors blood oxygen levels for climbers, asthmatics >>
* AT&T wants to power the next big video streaming service >>

* Top IT Skills For 2014 >>
* Rip Curl’s new watch tallies waves, tracks speed in the surf >>
* Diamond Teleporters Herald New Era of Quantum Routing >>

* Bulletproofing the Grid >>
* Cota Wireless Power Solution Improves With Long Range Charging Through Closed Doors >>
* Americans Predict a Future Like Science Fiction >>

* Scientists get much closer to cloning human embryos from adult stem cells >>
* Earth Day from Space: Satellite Snaps Far-Out Photo (Image) >>
* Earth’s Early Atmosphere –New Clues to Origin of Life on Earth and Beyond >>

* Got Windows 8.1 Update yet? Get ready for YET ANOTHER ONE – rumor >>
* 3D Print a New House in Just a Few Hours >>
* Mini robot doctors that could swim in your bloodstream >>

* Cloaked DNA nanodevices survive pilot mission >>
* Human Origins: How Hominids Evolved (Infographic) >>
* Smart home tech could start at your ceiling with lights >>

* Scientists explore possibilities of mind reading >>
* Toilet flushes may help power homes >>
* New groundbreaking technique may help cure diseases by ‘editing’ DNA >>

* Out: Recipe for home-made graphene >>
* Star Wars will cost $175m-$200m to make, says Disney’s Alan Horn >>
* Here’s Why The Supreme Court May Have A Hard Time Understanding A Huge Technology Case >>

* Bill Gates Just Tweeted This Vaccine Graphic You Have To See >>
* IBM’s Watson Supercomputer May Soon Be The Best Doctor In The World >>

* Rise of the robots: Humans will compete with droids for jobs by 2040, study claims >>
* How the Internet of (Wearable) Things is Driving Healthcare Innovation >>
* $50 3D Printed Hand vs. Traditional, One Thousand Times More Expensive Prosthetic >>

* General Fusion TED talk >>
* Google X faces innovator’s dilemma: Wow factor has to pay >>
* Google Glass Just Lost Its Biggest Cheerleader >>
* The History of the Big Bang Theory >>

* Tesla driver completes epic all-electric cross-country journey >>
* Watch as swarms of micro-robots run around making stuff >>
* Disruptive technologies pose difficult ethical questions for society >>

* Stanford scientists observe brain activity in real time >>
* Like a hall of mirrors, nanostructures trap photons inside ultrathin solar cells (w/ Video) >>
* This Vertical Take-Off Drone System Is So Versatile It’s Scary >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 April 2014

April 21, 2014 tristanhambling Leave a comment

* Why Nike is getting out of the wearable game >>
* New Wireless Power Set Up Charges 40 Smartphones from Across the Room >>
* Stunning Hubble Telescope View Reveals Deep View of Universe (Video, Image) >>

* A GPS Surfer’s Watch That Keeps Track of Every Wave Conquered >>
* This Huge Nuclear Waste Dump Will Be Washed Away By Rising Sea Levels >>
* Pirate Bay Hits Historic 10 Million Torrent Milestone >>

* See the bridge of the USS Voyager with an Oculus Rift >>
* ChineseCubes Are Cubes That Teach You Chinese >>
* Women Increasingly Freezing Their Eggs To Pursue Their Careers >>

* Artificial Intelligence Gets A Boost With Hardware-Centric Nervana’s $600K Round From The Partovis, Sam Altman >>
* im Cook Highlights Apple’s Use Of Clean Energy, Sustainable Materials In New Video >>
* Apple, Google Vying For Mobile Game Exclusivity >>

* AMD Not Trying To Get Its Chips Into Low-Cost Tablets >>
* Toward an open Internet of Things >>
* Graphene You Can Whip Up In A Blender >>

* Malaysian 777 Ocean Floor Wreckage May Lie Miles Outside Search Area >>
* NTT launches browser-to-browser chatroom with avatars >>
* Medical Marijuana: How the Evidence Stacks Up >>

* Want people to think you are a better boss? Get the latest gadget, say scientists >>
* Supersymmetry and the Crisis in Physics >>
* Boeing-Built Fighter Jets Could Launch US Military Satellites Into Space >>

* Monkeys Can Do Math >>
* Tired of cleaning the grill? This robot can help >>
* High court to hear dispute about TV over Internet >>

* No direct evidence of link between cellphone radiation and cancer: Oncologist >>
* In a first, stem cells cloned from human skin >>
* 9 Tricks Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, And Other Highly Successful Execs Use To Run Effective Meetings >>

* Ancient plants ‘frozen in time’ by space impacts >>
* China looks to buy 8 more AP1000 nuclear reactors and is accelerating nuclear reactor approvals >>
* Project Tango: NASA SPHERES >>

* Ancient plants ‘frozen in time’ by space impacts >>
* Cosmos Explains Why Big Business Is Often the Foe of Science >>

* US Air Force’s Secretive X-37B Space Plane Nears Day 500 in Orbit >>
* Sunset on the domes: how Silicon Valley is losing its futuristic past >>
* How Google Screwed Up Google Glass >>

* Explore the bridge of ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ through Oculus Rift >>
* NASA sending Google’s Project Tango smartphone to space to improve flying robots >>
* Why Facebook Can’t Figure Out What to Do With Its Apps >>

* Brain size matters when it comes to animal self-control >>
* The Longevity Dividend >>
* DARPA developing foldable space telescope >>

* New Tech Could Lead to Night Vision Contact Lenses >>
* Stanford scientists observe brain activity in real time >>
* Richard Branson on Why Making Employees Happy Pays Off >>

* High-temperature plasmonics eyed for solar, computer innovation >>
* Atom probe assisted dating of oldest piece of earth >>
* No Escape From Problems in Space Colonies – Earth is Des Res – Even After Nuclear War or Asteroid Impact >>

* Preventing an autonomous-systems arms race >>
* Americans Aren’t Ready for the Future Google and Amazon Want to Build >>
* Hackers backdoor the human brain, successfully extract sensitive data >>

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* In a Cloning First, Scientists Create Stem Cells From Adults >>
* NASA is using Google’s Project Tango to put flying robots on ISS >>
* SpaceX Claims Milestone With Bold Reusable Rocket Test >>

* For $20, Build a VR Headset For Your Smartphone >>
* Facebook Introduces Opt-In “Nearby Friends” Feature >>
* Micro Magnet Robots Can Build Mini Super Structures >>

* The Latest Incarnation Of ASIMO Is Actually Quite Badass >>
* Google Releases Android Camera App With Selective Focus >>
* Google Uses Algorithms to Create SLR-Like Photos >>

* Samsung, Globalfoundries Prep 14nm Process >>
* MRI, on a molecular scale: Team develops system that could peer into atomic structure of individual molecules >>
* The Future of Work: Handheld devices are game changers >>

* Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap >>
* Internet use may cut retirees’ depression >>
* Scientists produce thinnest feasible membrane >>

* ‘Smart’ device that engineers cells to kill cancer >>
* Pocket-sized anthrax detector aids global agriculture >>
* ‘Dressed’ laser aimed at clouds may be key to inducing rain, lightning >>

* Modern sharks may not be “living fossils” >>
* Scientists identify target for treating dengue >>
* Breakthrough in leukaemia treatment >>

* First impressions: ‘The Elder Scrolls Online’ >>
* Wheat rust: The fungal disease that threatens to destroy the world crop >>

* 3D mirror shows what li es under your skin >>

* Oculus Rift: redefining virtual reality >>
* There Are Only 3 Ways To Stop The Inevitable Robot Uprising >>
* MRI, on a molecular scale: Team develops system that could peer into atomic structure of individual molecules >>

* Why Google Isn’t Growing (GOOG) >>
* 39% Of Americans Believe Teleportation Will Happen In The Next 50 Years >>
* Facebook Can Now Track Your Precise Location Continuously Through Your Phone >>

* Honda’s Incredible Human-Like Robot Makes US Debut >>
* Large-scale asteroids have hit Earth 10 times more often than previously thought >>

* Scientists on Track to Assemble 3D Printed “Bioficial” Heart >>
* Tissue engineered vagina’s function normally over eight years >>
* Google Asked to Censor Two Million Pirate Bay URLs >>

* Physics-exploiting axe splits wood in record time >>
* The Videophone Turns 50: The Historic Failure That Everybody Wanted >>
* Elon Musk and Spacex plan to recover and refly a first rocket stage in 2015 >>

* Hands On With Facebook Nearby Friends [Video]: No More Checkins >>
* 3D-printed cast concept uses ultrasound to heal broken bones >>

* Google scoops up another high-profile scientist for anti-death project >>
* 3D-printed cast concept uses ultrasound to heal broken bones >>

* Crowdfunded Gadgets That Talk To Your Home And Charge Your Phone With Wind Power >>
* Youngest Billionaires of 2014 >>
* RunKeeper gets into the step-tracking game with Breeze >>

* ‘Wearable eyes’ take all the work out of having emotions >>

* If the Robots Kill Us, It’s Because It’s Their Job >>
* Nissan offers free electricity to entice EV customers >>

* My connected home turned me into a spy and an addict >>
* Timeline for Slang terms for Sexual Intercourse >>
* Vodafone customers could watch Netflix for free >>

* Giant Laser Complex Makes Fusion Advance, Finally >>
* The Farscape Movie is Officially Happening >>
* Oculus Rift Now Lets You Ride the ‘Back to the Future’ Hoverboard >>

* $42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand >>
* If Calico can deliver me an added 40 years of healthy life then Google has my Ok to chip my head with their search and advertising >>
* World Bank preparing to implement plans to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030 >>

* A Dropbox for the Internet of Things >>
* Preventing an autonomous-systems arms race >>
* Americans are optimistic about technology, except drones… and robots… and… >>

* Volkswagen’s New 300 MPG Car Is Not Allowed In America Because It’s Too Efficient >>
* Forget 5G – 10Gbps WiFi is coming next year >>