Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 May 2014

* Mary Meeker’s 2014 internet trends report: all slides, plus highlights >>
* SpaceX Test Fires SuperDraco Thruster | Video >>
* We are killing species at 1000 times the natural rate >>

* Wearable Tech Helps You Live in the Moment >>
* “Fastest Car on the Planet” Set for Testing in 2015 [Video] >>
* Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data >>

* Intel’s working on a system to secure self-driving cars >>
* Scientists Solved the Mystery of Why Rechargeable Batteries Go Bad >>
* New ‘Stargate’ film trilogy is happening >>

* Brain-controlled airplanes >>
* Number of global users (millions) – mobile versus desktop >>
* Supersonic spray creates high-quality graphene layer >>

* Grid-connected Electric Buses Could Displace Diesels >>
* Driverless Cars: Optional by 2024, Mandatory by 2044 >>
* NASA missions let scientists see moon’s dancing tide from orbit >>

* Surgeons Can Now Do Brain Surgery Through the Nose >>
* Tiny device ‘sees’ crop disease before it happens >>
* VIDEO: Samsung unveils health wristband >>

* Scientists Just Shattered Our Conception How Information Will Travel In Future >>
* SpaceX Released Video Of New Engine, Could Land Humans On Another Planet >>
* Google Might Want To Control Your Home’s Electricity One Day >>

* Apple Has A Huge Opportunity To Bring Music To Android >>
* Google’s Self-Driving Cars Could Double The Size Of Our Cities >>
* Space Hackers Take Control of ISEE-3 Spacecraft >>

* TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo >>
* Samsung Reveals an Open Wearable Health Tracker >>
* Hunt Intensifies for Aliens on Kepler’s Planets >>

* WWDC 2014 Predictions: What’s Next for iOS, OS X, and the Rest of Apple >>
* The Battle Against What Spaceflight Does To Your Health >>
* SpaceX’s Grasshopper: Reusable Rocket Prototype >>

* Intel will soon sell a $1,600 3D-printed robot kit >>
* TweetDeck Tips and Tricks To Master All Things Twitter >>
* What I’ve learned in my first year as a college dropout >>

* Now We Can Watch Crystals Grow an Atom At a Time >>
* Watch A Drone Deliver A Pizza To A Skyscraper In Mumbai >>
* An Algorithm Revealed 200 Lost Paintings on Angkor Wat’s Ancient Walls >>

* Researchers Build Fast Running Robot Inspired by Velociraptor >>
* Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report >>
* Germany turns to 3D printed food to help those who can’t swallow >>

* Graphene Plasmonic Circuits Take a Critical Step Foward >>
* U.S. Department of Energy Wants to Get Into the Self-Driving Car Business >>
* Maker Movement Fuels Apps, Robots, And Internet Of Things >>

* Samsung Trumps Apple With Digital Health Announcement – Again >>
* Robots Will Pave the Way To Mars >>

* New laser sensing technology for self-driving cars, smartphones and 3-D video games >>
* VIDEO: The mission to stop rude drivers >>
* This Earth Cooler Chills Your Beer Underground, Without Electricity >>

* Hastings: Comcast wants to become the ‘post office’ >>
* IDC predicts slower tablet growth in 2014 >>
* Iovine to join Apple full time >>

* 30% of world is now fat, no country immune: Study >>
* Smart Toilets Arrive In The United States From Japan, Why Are They Smart? >>
* Military Funds Brain-Computer Interfaces to Control Feelings >>

* Scientists control rapid rewiring brain circuits using patterned visual stimulation >>
* How eBay’s Laboratories Are Tackling Tricky Task of Fashion Recommendations >>
* New laser sensing technology could support self-driving cars, smartphone tech >>

* If You Want To Get Hired, Act Like Your Potential Boss >>
* A Cheaper iPhone 5S May Be Coming Next Week >>
* Apple’s Eddy Cue Basically Just Described What A New Apple TV Would Look Like (AAPL) >>

* This Is The First 5 Minutes Of 10,000 Movies At Once >>
* Google’s Self-Driving Toaster Is Detroit’s Worst Nightmare >>
* Google’s self-driving car isn’t a car, it’s the future >>

* So, Where Are My Robot Servants? >>
* Medical News Today: New generation brain scanner uses optical technology >>

* Intel Intros “Smart Shirt,” Robot – Analyst Blog >>
* GE’s new lights can send deals to shoppers’ smartphones >>
* 13 things to expect from Apple at WWDC 2014 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 May 2014

* Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle >>
* Microsoft Demos Real-Time Translation Over Skype >>
* Intel readies 3D-printed robots for handy consumers >>

* Lasers can help damaged teeth grow back, researchers say >>
* Samsung reveals Simband and Sami health platform >>
* Self-driving Google car steers change in auto industry >>

* Meeker: Overall Internet use is no longer growing >>
* Teams build human protein catalogue >>
* Smash Is A Wearable For Tracking Tennis Technique >>

* Under Sergey Brin, Google’s X Division Still Shoots for the Moon >>
* Screwy-looking wind turbine makes little noise and a big claim >>
* Japan Launches Satellite with Night-Vision Mapping Radar >>

* Building artificial body parts with particle beams >>
* Human stem cell treatment gets mice with MS-like condition walking again >>
* New epilepsy treatment offers ‘on demand’ seizure suppression >>

* Towards a low cost lander for the Moon – and Mars. >>
* Learn New Skills With Superhuman Speed >>
* Google Is Stealing Revenue Share From Apple’s App Store >>

* Self-Driving Cars, Instant Language Translators, And Gwyneth Paltrow: Burning Questions From Day One Of Re/code’s Code Conference >>
* Satya Nadella: View from Microsoft’s CEO Seat >>
* Sergey Brin says Google will make 100-200 Self Driving Cars this year and plans commercial rollout with Many Partners Like Uber but Disneyland seems like a perfect Pilot location >>

* Large-scale DARPA-funded brain-research program seeks to reduce the severity of neuropsychological illness in service members and veterans >>
* Robots on Strike! >>
* Two roads to instant big data >>

* Wearable Computers Will Transform Language >>
* The Most Important Technology Trend Of 2014, According to Mary Meeker >>

* Genome Editing to Reverse “Bubble Boy” Syndrome >>
* Sergey Brin says Google will make 100-200 Self Driving Cars this year and plans commercial rollout with Many Partners Like Uber but Disneyland seems like a perfect Pilot location >>
* Why Facebook is Becoming Like Google+ >>

* “DNA Could Have Predated Origins of Life on Earth” (Today’s Most Popular) >>
* Little Red House On Moon? – Swedish Artists & Engineers Want One | Video >>
* Possible Gamma Ray Burst Detected in Andromeda, Would be Closest Ever Observed >>

* SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to Unveil Manned Dragon ‘Space Taxi’ on May 29 >>
* Bill Gates says robots and automation will take jobs but suggests shifting to consumption tax and subsidizing work >>
* Intel unveils a robot and a ‘smart’ shirt >>

* New Skyscraper Design Using Prefab Modules will curved designe elements >>
* Broad Group Building 25% Complete on Skyscraper that is height of the Empire State Building, but No Word on Sky City Approval >>

* Idaho solar road startup passes fundraising goal >>
* Samsung Introduces A Wearable Health Tracker That Geeks and Insurance Companies Will Love >>
* Have Scientists Solved The Mystery Of Phantom Limb Pain? >>

* Intel Shows Off ‘Smart’ Wearable Shirt >>
* Samsung shows off Simband watch as platform for multiple health sensors >>
* CNN Needlessly Terrifies Thousands By Publishing Asteroid Hoax >>

* Clark Gellings: The Future of the Power Grid >>
* Build your own drink-mixing robot for $180 >>
* Quantum Cryptography with Ordinary Equipment >>

* The Revolution Will Be Adorable: Why Google’s Cars Are So Cute >>
* DARPA Is Using Oculus Rift for Cyberwarfare >>
* Microsoft buys mobile analytics vendor Capptain >>

* Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says We’ve Entered The Post-Post-PC Era >>
* Microsoft’s New CEO Wants To Look Beyond Its Past To Find Its Future >>
* Microsoft Unveils Real-Time Speech Translation for Skype >>

* Depressed Mice Have Excitable Neurons >>
* Wireless power comes to patient microimplants >>
* UFO Sighting? No, Just Google’s ‘Rogue’ Balloon >>

* Spy platform zero day exposes cops’ wiretapped calls >>
* Apple, Home Automation & Smart Aging by Stealth >>

* Gene test for heart risk rolled out >>
* Read Tim Cook’s Internal Memo About The Beats Deal And Apple’s History In Music >>
* Scientists Can Regrow Teeth With Lasers >>

* Everything You Need To Know About Google’s New Self-Driving Car >>
* ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’ Is One Of Tom Cruise’s Best Movies In Years >>

* Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders >>
* IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting announces Call for Papers >>

* 3D printing is the future — just not yet >>
* Google’s Self-Driving Toaster Is Detroit’s Worst Nightmare >>
* Uber will eventually replace all its drivers with self-driving cars >>

* ‘This Is How Wars End in the 21st Century’ >>
* Valve delays Steam Machine controller to 2015 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 May 2014

* Apple, With Smart-Home Rumors Flying, Leads Tech Surge >>
* Here’s What An Apple Smart Home Might Look Like >>
* IBM’s Watson computer makes a delicious BBQ sauce >>

* Samsung Smartwatch Patent Predicts Gesture Control on Your Wrist >>
* The Half-Baked Security Of Our ‘Internet of Things’ >>
* Digital Actors Go Beyond the Uncanny Valley >>

* End of washing up? Kitchen gadget bakes plates and bowls made of BREAD >>
* MIT Researchers Created A Tiny Apartment That You Can Control With Your Hands >>
* Minnesota man building a 3D printer to construct houses >>

* A machine that trains you to feel affection >>
* The World’s First RC Running Robot >>
* Space Robot Fixes Itself, Takes Selfie As Funny Livetweet Happens On The Ground >>

* Apple Keynote Will Be Livestreamed >>
* How To Watch Apple’s WWDC 2014 Keynote Online >>
* Will Apple Play Nice On The Internet Of Things? >>

* Using thoughts to control airplanes >>
* Future Drones Could Mimic Birds and Bats >>
* Google Glass and Apple iWatch inspire carbon nanotube fiber batteries >>

* Graphene Grown Directly on Insulator Substrate >>
* LG G Watch Will Work With All Android 4.3 Devices >>
* Fuel Cells: Toyota Means Business >>

* MIT Breakthrough Makes Tiny Apartments Feel Three Times Bigger >>
* 3D Printer for ‘Weightlessness’ Needs Special Design | Video >>
* Are Solar Sails the Future of Space Travel? >>

* Marc Andreessen On How To Turn Impossible Ideas Into Successful Businesses >>
* Here’s What We Know About Pixar’s Next Movie, Set Inside The Human Mind >>
* The New Hippiemobile >>

* Apple Patent Hints at Plans for LiquidMetal and Sapphire iPhone Chassis >>
* This B-52 Bomber Is Now a Network Hub With Wings >>
* Wearables Have A Long Way To Go To Be Mass Consumer Devices >>

* Want to Measure the Distance to the Moon Yourself? Now You Can! >>
* Seeing sound: visual cortex processes auditory information too >>
* Inbox (∞): Email Is Broken. Let Your AI Assistant Help. >>

* ‘Internet of things’ may bring its own problems >>
* Does sour cream cause bike accidents? No, but it looks like it does: Hilarious graphs reveal how statistics can create false connections >>
* Molecules do the triple twist >>

* Stanford researchers discover immune system’s rules of engagement >>
* The Case against Smartwatches >>
* LG unveils laser-focus smartphone >>

* VIDEO: Do we really need digital carpets? >>
* Tech Five: Google, Apple entering smart home market? >>
* Exoplanets Close to Earth’s Size Are Surprisingly Common >>

* Darpa’s Robots Could Soon Assemble Satellites in Space >>
* Samsung Gears Up To Make Health-Related Announcement >>
* ‘Are You From Earth?”The Signal’ Trailer Reveals Mysterious Plot >>

* ‘Sniffer Bees’ Will Soon Be Deployed To Search For Landmines In The Balkans >>
* NASA’s New Mega-Rocket, Orion Capsule on Track for Future Test Flights >>
* That Time a Commercial Aircraft Ran Out of Fuel Mid-Flight >>

* Behind the scenes at Seoul’s LG factories. >>
* Nescafe tops coffee with 3D-printed alarm clock >>
* Median ceo pay crosses $10 million in 2013 >>

* Google and Nest may move into home security by buying out Dropcam >>
* Can a robot learn right from wrong? >>
* Structural supercapacitors could make batteries and power cords obsolete >>

* LEDs may replace magnetism and radiation for neuroimaging >>
* Context design: How to seize the ‘magic moment’ >>
* Flexible, transparent thin film transistors raise hopes for flexible screens >>

* China: Volunteers test worm diet for astronauts >>
* Want to Find Alien Life? It Will Take A Lot of Luck >>
* Amazon Will Have 10,000 Robots Filling Customer Orders By The End Of The Year >>

* Oculus Rift concept reveals slick curved screen and gesture sensors >>
* These Kids are 3D-Printing Their Education >>

* How to Freeze People and Bring Them Back to Life >>
* Robots Will Pave the Way to Mars >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 May 2014

* Human ‘suspended animation’ trials to start this month >>
* My T-Shirt Told Me to Take a Chill Pill >>
* Apple Planning ‘Smart Home’ System Debut at WWDC >>
* New sensor could lead to low-cost medical imaging and night vision using smartphones >>

* What happens when today’s kids meet an Apple II >>
* Time Warner CEO Says TV is Taking Over The Web >>
* Tech Companies Battle for a Spot in Your Living Room >>

* Cambridge Company Unveils 3D Printed “Fruit” >>
* Medicine on verge of drastically reducing, preventing HIV >>

* Advanced light: Sending entangled beams through fast-light materials >>
* Bioinspired drones of the future >>
* Mind alteration device makes flies sing and dance >>

* Smart 3D glasses let you choose between different movies on SAME cinema screen >>
* A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law >>
* A quantum accelerometer is being built for navy submarines >>

* Japan to Start Building Giant Ice Wall at Fukushima >>
* Huge Wolfenstein Download Infuriates But Doesn’t Deter Pirates >>
* Apple’s Turning the iPhone Into a Remote For Your Entire House >>

* Scientists To Test Dogs and Cats for MERS >>
* VIDEO: Senator takes ‘bomb’ into parliament >>
* All Circuits Are Busy >>

* Do Genes Affect Our Attitudes Toward Interdependence? >>
* New Mummy X-Rays Let You Peer Right Inside Ancient Egyptian Bodies >>

* Sony CEO sees wearable gaming gear in company’s future >>
* Breakthrough shows how DNA is ‘edited’ to correct genetic diseases >>
* Ebola vaccine success highlights dilemma of testing on captive chimps >>

* Nature inspires flying robot design >>
* Ultimate added value: Advanced nanometer-scale manufacturing technologies >>

* Visiting the lab that’s trying to understand fire >>
* Watch how these intelligent birds have learned to open automatic doors >>
* A Zen Garden Is Even More Relaxing When a Robot Does All the Work >>

* Why Can’t America’s Newest Stealth Jet Land Like It’s Supposed To? >>
* The Whole Economy Is Rife with Ponzi Schemes >>
* Facebook Will Help You Monitor Yourself >>

* Caltech researchers found way to make measurements that go beyond limits imposed by quantum physics >>
* Relaxation helps pack DNA into a virus >>
* Michael Mosley has areas of his brain turned off – The Brain: A Secret History >>

* First evidence of cancer stem cells brings hope for possible future treatment >>
* Immunocamouflage lets donor blood cells go undetected >>

* Screenshot >>
* The ‘Sex Talk’ For 21st Century Parents >>
* Star Wars: ‘I want to get Leia right’- Carrie Fisher >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 May 2014

* Half-mile-high structure could produce as much electricity as 100,000 wind turbines >>
* Google Reportedly Wants To Buy Satellite Company Skybox Imaging For About $1 Billion >>
* Police use cellphone spying device >>

* A new kind of smart tablet >>
* NASA’s 3.2-gigapixel global selfie >>
* Can a drone walk your dog for you? >>
* Quantum assisted GPS would be one 1000x more accurate than existing GPS >>

* DARPA Unveils Hack-Resistant Drone >>
* Four-armed robot octopus can climb curtains and couches to keep apartment clean >>
* This Is Why Google Might Put 3D Space Sensors on Tablets >>

* Thanks to budget cuts, we may never know for sure why the universe is expanding >>
* Roombots: Lego-like robotic blocks that transform into furniture (video) >>
* Physics panel to feds: Beam us up some neutrinos >>

* Blocking pain receptors extends lifespan, boosts metabolism in mice >>
* New “wireless” nanotechnology to help study neurons >>
* Watch this guy jump over an entire island while kitesurfing >>

* India: Police investigate pizza deliveries by drone >>
* Flying robots: Nature inspires next generation design >>
* These are the customized Lamborghinis of Japan’s underworld >>

* Does solution to global warming lie in Australia? massive spike in CO2 absorption >>
* Wild rodents enjoy exercise wheels just as much as caged pets >>
* Time Machines Would Run Afoul of the Second Law of Thermodynamics >>

* Can Drone Technology Find the Nigerian Girls? >>
* ORIGAMI microscope: Engineer creates foldable scopes for detecting diseases, costs 30p >>
* Can Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Be Blocked in the Brain? >>

* Survios Virtual Reality Gaming Demo >>
* Hunting the Wild Neutrino >>
* NASA will use video games to rekindle our love of space travel >>

* China didn’t turn on pollution control technology that was built until recent air protests aa adds $160 billion/year to electricity prices >>
* Boeing CEO says no more ‘moonshots’ after 787 Dreamliner ordeal >>

* Short-Throw Touchscreen Projector Means There’s No Remote To Lose >>
* Weekly Space Hangout – May 23, 2014 >>
* xkcd Smartwatches >>

* Wireless Power from Across the Room >>
* Added drug allows rapamycin to slow aging without risking diabetes >>
* Would you eat ‘eco-friendly’ meat created from stem cells? >>

* Thermal Touch will turn any surface into an AR touch screen >>
* Signal processing technology to extract required information from image, sound, and biometric signals >>
* World Competition for skilled workers >>

* NASA Has Released A Free eBook About Communicating With Aliens >>
* ‘Roombots’ transform into movable furniture and objects >>
* Opportunity Overlooks Ridge for Spectacular Vista of Martian Crater Ahead >>

* Gillmor Gang: Hollywood & Vine >>
* Scientists create antibody that blocks pain and itchiness >>
* Ask Slashdot: Tech Customers Forced Into Supporting Each Other? >>

* Is LG’s New Ultra Widescreen Display Better Than “Normal” 4K? >>
* ‘Unbeatable’ Cinavia Anti-Piracy Technology Cracked by DVD-Ranger >>
* A new malaria vaccine appears to be working in mice. >>

* Wild Animals Sneak Onto Laboratory Running Wheels to Exercise >>
* Lab Mice Got Really Unhealthy When They Only Ate Powdered Food >>
* DNA-Based Research May Have Unveiled Long-Sought Diabetes Treatment >>

* Dwave Quantum Annealing 1000 qubit chip and other improvements >>
* One Operator able to Fly Four Drones and increasing drone reliability for domestic airspace usage >>
* Dating Mining Reddit Posts Reveals How to Ask For a Favor–And Get it >>

* Rewire brain to enable coordination needed for Bruce Lees One inch Punch >>
* Supercapacitor battery technology could fully charge a cellphone in minutes >>
* VIDEO: Hands on with a ‘smart’ firearm >>

* Scientists could use sharks to predict hurricane intensity >>
* Building a virtual human with your data >>
* Would You Want Therapy From a Computerized Psychologist? >>

* Samsung Planning a Stand-Alone Watch-Phone >>
* Untangling whole genomes of individual species from a microbial mix >>
* Trip to Space with Leonardo DiCaprio Sells for $1 Million >>

* Microsoft Offers Free Windows To Encourage More Cheap Windows 8 Tablets, PCs >>
* Adam Sandler Movies Will Make Money No Matter How Bad They Get >>
* MAP: Divorce Rates Around The World >>

* SpaceX’s Dispute With The Air Force Just Got Even Uglier >>
* The Tech World Can Learn From Nature To Stop Viruses From Spreading >>
* Video Friday: Robotic Furniture, Pizza by Drone, and Series Elastic Snake Robot >>

* Apple iPhone 6 is coming: What you should know >>
* Neuron Activity in 3-D >>
* Singularity Surplus: Robotic Furniture and Stuffed Animals >>

* Jupiter’s red spot is mysteriously shrinking >>
* People tend to choose partners with similar DNA, study suggests >>
* Tech Startups and $150 billion in capital are fleeing Russia this year >>

* Google voice search adds car rentals and reminders that work like they should >>
* Response To Nuclear Kitty Litter Is Moving Fast >>

* Mice with ‘mohawks’ help scientists link autism to 2 biological pathways in brain >>
* Finally, fitness trackers measure up >>
* Gigabyte Brix Projector Combines Mini PC With DLP Projector In a 4.5-Inch Cube >>

* A Self-Repairing Space Robot on the International Space Station >>
* This is how they load missiles on a US Navy ship >>
* Kim Dotcom Fails in Bid to Suppress FBI Evidence >>

* Aliens Are Almost Definitely Out There, SETI Astronomers Tell Congress >>
* A Wingsuit Flight Over NYC >>

* Robots Coming, And They Are Replacing Warehouse Workers, Fast Food Employees >>
* Jobs Are Not the Answer >>
* If You Need Any Convincing That Solar Roadways Are The Future, Video Will Help >>

* Google, Facebook, Amazon show us downside of monopolies and black-box algorithms >>
* Why the Internet is Getting Bland >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 May 2014

* Google Adds “Okay Google” Voice Search For All Chrome Users >>
* Blasts of Ultrasound Could Get Needed Drugs Into the Brain >>
* Try Your Hand at Quantum Computing With Google’s Quantum Playground >>

* This Is The Darkest Place Ever Seen In The Universe >>
* DARPA flaunts wearable display with Oculus-like head-tracking >>

* Facebook keen to LISTEN IN on songs, vids playing in YOUR living room >>
* The Military Is Shutting Down Its Weather-Controlling Death Beam >>
* California to Issue Driving Licenses to Robots >>

* Why Websites Still Can’t Predict Exactly What You Want >>
* Smartglass interface turns any surface into a touchscreen using AR and fingertip heat >>
* This Quadrotor Uses Google’s Project Tango to Fly Autonomously >>

* Why is the Future So Boring? >>
* Why Google Must Now Also Rule the Physical World >>

* The biomechanics behind amazing ant strength >>
* SAMi Night Time Epilepsy Monitor Helps Track Night Time Seizures >>
* Hitachi unveils robot with a sense of humor >>

* Have galactic ‘radio loops’ been mistaken for B-mode polarization? >>
* New Thermal Technology Turns the Entire World into a Touchscreen >>
* $20 FreedomPop ‘Unlimited Everything’ plan includes 1GB of Sprint LTE, limits >>

* 5 Years Later, ‘Do Not Track’ System Ineffective >>
* World’s Smallest Nanomotor Could Power Cell-Sized Nanobots For Drug Delivery >>

* NASA confirms existence of oldest, most distant galaxy cluster ever found >>
* Machine Learning: Chromebooks Win Users, and Some Respect >>
* The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World >>

* Unraveling the Reproductive Strategy of Living Organisms >>
* If you want to get rid of Alzheimers, Heart Disease and Cancer for good then we will have to fix aging >>
* World Aqualculture production increased by 10 million tons in 2012 compared to 2010 >>

* The biomechanics behind amazing ant strength >>
* Lightsaber knife could change the way we cook and eat >>
* Could chickens cure DEAFNESS? Study reveals birds regrow damaged hearing cells >>

* With Successful Test-Firing Of SM-3 Missile US Inches Closer To Advanced Defense Against Ballistic Missiles Attacks >>
* Supernova Discovery Reveals How the Biggest, Brightest Stars Die >>
* Army develops smoke screens for future battles >>

* Report: Samsung joining virtual reality race with Galaxy headset >>
* SpaceX Expected to Unveil Manned Dragon Spaceship on May 29 >>
* First Work Place Injury from nanoparticles >>

* UK Launches Massive, Nuclear-Powered Submarine >>
* Drug-target database lets researchers match old drugs to new uses >>
* Genes discovered linking circadian clock with eating schedule >>

* Blocking pain receptors extends lifespan, boosts metabolism in mice >>
* Breakthrough: Nasal spray may soon replace pills for delivering drugs to the brain >>
* In your genes: Family history reveals predisposition to multiple diseases >>

* In your genes: Family history reveals predisposition to multiple diseases >>
* Hospital superbug ‘shared with pets’ >>
* Google and Netflix Are Teaming Up Against Internet Providers >>

* Report: Samsung making virtual reality headset >>
* Flight MH370: 17 conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance >>
* Facebook update: 3 new things you need to know >>

* Experimental Malaria Vaccine Blocks The Bad Guy’s Exit >>
* Lab-On-A-Chip Rapidly Screens for Variety of Cancer Markers (VIDEO) >>
* Researchers discover immune system’s rules of engagement >>

* This video of a robot running 45 mph is insane >>
* Russian rocket ban could delay US space missions for years, report says >>

* Software Glitch From 1970s Could Suddenly Affect Every Computer On Planet In 2038 >>
* Windows 9 and other key unreleased Microsoft products detailed in new leak >>
* France pays $20 billion for trains that don’t fit its stations >>

* The Secret History of Hypertext >>
* Facebook wants to ‘listen’ to your music and TV >>
* Immune children aid malaria vaccine hunt >>

* Flies pause while 200 neurons help with tough decisions >>
* After Age 24, Your Brain Slows Down 1% Annually >>
* The Trick That Makes Google’s Self-Driving Cars Work >>

* Is It Possible to Create an Anti-Love Drug? >>
* Nanoparticles on track to distinguish tumour tissue >>
* For Self Driving car future, Traffic tickets are a trivial $6.5 billion for the USA vs $100 billion from relieving traffic jams another $100 billion from few deaths and injuries and 4 times more road capacity for larger cities and a potential 30% Urban GDP boost >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 May 2014

* Silicon Valley To Get a Cellular Network Just For Things >>
* Robots that can sweat and get goosebumps give us goosebumps >>
* Backlash to Big Bang Discovery Gathers Steam >>

* Self-Driving Cars Will Hit California’s Roads in September >>
* A Microscope-Inspired Extruder Design Could Add Fine Detail To 3D Prints >>
* World’s smallest nanomotor can pump drugs into cells at 18,000 RPM >>

* Quantum Positioning Could Be a Radically New Sub Navigation System >>
* Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses >>
* The World Is Running Out of Gold >>

* MYSTERY: Apple Is Planning To Announce ‘New Hardware’ In Two Weeks >>
* Google Will Reportedly Offer A Subsidized WiFi Network To Businesses >>
* This Bizarre Flying Truck Aims To Revolutionize Military Rescue Missions >>

* New Trailer For The Last Man On The Moon Is Absolutely Riveting >>
* Applications of Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) in a variety of fields >>

* Artificial intelligence lenses for the blind created >>
* Startups Take Gesture Control Beyond Games to Robots and More >>
* Iron-Chromium Flow Battery Aims to Replace Gas Plants >>

* Google plans international acquisitions worth up to $30B, it tells SEC >>
* Researchers combine weak chemical forces to strengthen new maging technology >>
* Tour the Home of the Future in 30 Seconds >>

* Study: Google tops Apple as most valuable global brand >>
* The Age of Quantum Computing Has (Almost) Arrived >>
* Microsoft Finds Laptop-Tablet Balance with Surface Pro 3, but Windows Is Another Story ? >>

* Crabster Robot Deployed During South Korean Ferry Disaster >>
* Why a medical doctor decided to join IBM Research >>
* Keio Uni develops robot tech for the next-generation of planetary rovers >>

* Automated guided vehicles ripe for standardized performance tests >>
* Will Google create the first CONSCIOUS computer? Expert claims will beat rivals Apple and IBM to accolade >>
* What Happens to a Society That Does Not Believe in Free Will? >>

* Turn your mobile into VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET: £40 harness uses phone’s sensors to track movement and play games >>
* This Is Why Apple Doesn’t Care If The FCC Wrecks The Internet >>
* Amazing NASA Footage Shows What It’s Really Like On The Surface Of The Sun >>

* A Professor Has Proposed Giving Confined Farm Animals Virtual Reality Headsets >>
* Interstellar Flight: From Imagination to Reality >>
* These 3D-Printed Robotic Legs Could Serve As Cheaper Prosthetics >>

* World’s Fastest Nanomotor Is 500 Times Smaller Than a Grain of Salt >>
* Land a role in the new Star Wars movie just for donating to UNICEF >>
* Apple’s iWork for iCloud now lets you collaborate on projects with 100 friends >>

* Motorola’s Smartwatch to Cost $249? >>
* This pill could stop 90 percent of HIV cases in the US >>
* Google’s Nest recalls 440,000 fire alarms shipped in US >>

* Carnegie Mellon, Microsoft Research automate privacy compliance for big data systems >>
* An autonomous octo-copter transport truck is as amazing as you’d expect >>
* 4K TV Shipments Are Taking Off >>

* Registration 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: Shaping Practice and Future of Brain Fitness >>
* French railway operator SNCF orders hundreds of new trains that are too big >>
* Everything Is Broken >>

* This is the new show Netflix is most excited about >>
* Rosetta comet-chaser initiates ‘big burn’ >>
* If you place exercise wheel in the wild, rats, shrews, frogs and even slugs will make use of it for fun >>

* Swedish City Gives Commuters Free Bikes for Six Months to Reduce the Use of Cars >>
* Scientists make deep-brain implants possible through wireless charging >>
* Suspended Animation Goes Primetime: Say Goodbye To Death As We Know It >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 May 2014

* Wireless pacemaker placed in rabbit >>
* Skinny wormholes could send messages through time >>
* Origins of Human Heart Beat Traced Back One Billion Years >>

* UpRight Wearable Device Won’t Let You Slouch >>
* We Need a MERS Vaccine, but High Costs, Regulations Make One Unlikely >>

* Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets >>
* Treadmill lets you walk in any direction >>
* China bans Microsoft Windows 8 on government computers >>

* This Developer Is Rebuilding Your Childhood Bedroom For Oculus Rift >>
* Centr captures 360-degree video at 4K resolution >>
* Report: Samsung Is Absolutely Dominating The Smartwatch Market >>

* The Cancer Gene That Lurks Inside All of Us >>
* The First Space Colonies Might Be Illegal >>
* Earth-Like Organisms on Mars –Methane Traces May Signal Presence of Sub-Surface Life >>

* Price of a fair smartphone? $9 more >>
* SpaceX Has Gone From Suing The Air Force To Possibly Launching Its Satellites >>
* NASA Set to Launch the First 3D Printer to the Space Station >>

* Telstra asks users to be its next backhaul network >>
* Vodafone, Under Pressure in Europe, Reports Sluggish Sales >>
* AT&T’s DirecTV Bid Poses Regulatory Questions >>

* Glasses-free 3D projector >>
* “Galaxies of the Universe ‘Switched On’ 11 Billion Years Ago” –Study >>
* Space Shuttle Endeavour Will Go Vertical Again >>

* NASA Readies Inflatable ‘Flying Saucer’ for June Test Launch >>
* Meat Made From Stem Cells Is The Food Of The Future >>
* Shape-Shifting Robots Designed To Build Furniture When You Need It >>

* Giroptic’s Egg-Shaped 360cam Captures Perfect HD Video Spheres >>
* Why don’t we all have cancer? >>
* Verizon’s HD Voice service will come with video calling when it launches >>

* Full-size Lego R2-D2 is fully functional and fully amazing >>
* Europe Wants a Supercomputer Made From Smartphones >>
* The $87 Billion Robot-Car Market >>

* IFTTT now automates tasks based on your Fitbit activity >>
* Small, Simple Terahertz Detector Converts The Pulses To Sound >>
* Andreessen Horowitz’s What To Watch In 2014 >>

* Controversial TSA Nudie X-Ray Machines Sent To Prisons >>
* New eye-tracking glasses show others what you’re looking at in real time >>
* The Next Gaming Interface: Your Body >>

* New telescopes could uncover a wormhole in our own galaxy >>
* Fusion Power By 2020? Researchers Say Yes and Turn To Crowdfunding. >>
* Scientists make deep-brain implants possible through wireless charging >>

* Google’s new Chrome experiment lets you remix the Rubik’s Cube >>
* Andreessen-Incubated Teleport Aims To Make Location Irrelevant For Mobile Workers >>
* Wearables and design will be big at Google I/O >>

* New Pill Cuts HIV Infection Odds by 90 Percent >>
* Apps in Space! Boeing Looking at Mobile Tech for New Astronaut Taxi >>
* MakerBot’s Replicator Mini 3D Printer Starts Shipping >>

* Nanotubes and Graphene Foam Makes Hybrid Energy Storage Device >>
* Why The Internet Of Things Is Quickly Moving From Big Idea To Big Deal >>
* Dassault’s virtual heart gives cardiologists individualized 3D models >>

* Movie of mind: MIT researchers reveal system that can show neurons firing in real time >>
* Superbug crisis: Global push to save antibiotics begins >>
* Back To The Future In The Metaverse >>

* D-Wave: Is $15m machine a glimpse of future computing? >>
* Google+ introduces Stories for automated slideshows >>
* Microsoft unveils Surface Pro 3 tablet >>

* When Will We Have Robots To Help With Household Chores? >>
* Exploring Laser-Material Interaction for Engineering, Biotechnology, Medicine >>
* Drone container ships can have some cost savings for minimum parking valet crews at ports >>

* Central Valley sees big drop in wintertime fog needed for fruit and nut crops >>
* Twitch — Already Drives More Traffic Than HBO Go >>

* Brain-Computer Interface Learns from Users to Automate Tasks, Reduce Fatigue >>
* The Next Startup Craze: Food 2.0 >>
* Node-RED: A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things >>

* Microsoft Announces The Surface Pro 3 With A 12″ Screen, $799 Starting Price Tag >>
* Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 event in under six minutes >>
* The Michael Jackson hologram is not a hologram >>

* Engineers have built the fastest, smallest and longest-running nanomotor to date >>
* With Sensibo you can make your A/C smarter >>
* Vinod Khosla has 3 predictions for the future of health >>

* GECKO-INSPIRED ADHESIVE STICKS 700 POUNDS TO A WALL >>
* The End of Nation States May Enhance Humanity >>
* Can crowdfunding give us safe fusion power by 2020? >>

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* Apple apps made to run on Android devices >>
* Chip implant no bigger than a grain of rice is powered by wireless >>
* Drinkable sunscreen? Don’t get your fingers burned >>

* YouTube Reportedly Buying Videogame-Streaming Startup Twitch For More Than $1B >>
* AT&T-DirecTV Merger Shows Telecom And Television Are Now The Same Business >>
* ‘World’s first’ braille mobile phone goes on sale in the UK >>

* Searching for a follow-up act, Samsung turns to drugs >>
* Getting fish drunk doubles its swim-speed >>
* New Access To Experimental Drugs For Terminally Ill Patients >>

* Scans bring new insights into lives of Egyptian mummies >>
* Wireless power inside the body could lead to a new era in electronic medicine >>
* Stanford engineer invents a way to beam power to medical chips deep inside the body >>

* Thinking in a Foreign Language Could Sway Your Moral Judgments >>
* Scientists develop new approach for sampling gut bacteria >>
* 2014’s Internet belongs to cord cutters >>

* Watch a Dead Michael Jackson Perform as a Hologram >>
* Smoking gun evidence for theory that Saturn’s collapsing magnetic tail causes auroras >>
* Here’s How Netflix Is About to Change Radically >>

* Every Neuron in a Brain Recorded in 3D on a Millisecond Timescale >>
* Would you take orders from a ROBOT? An AI becomes the world’s first company director >>
* Google’s Self-Driving Cars Have Never Gotten a Ticket >>

* One small chip — one giant leap forward for early cancer detection >>
* That Zero Hedge Article On Unsold Cars Is Bullshit >>
* Get millions of times more bang for your buck by backing LPP fusion >>

* An ultra-sensitive chip for early cancer detection >>
* How to create high-speed 3D movies of entire worm brains >>
* Nanowire-bridging transistors open way to next-generation electronics >>

* Mice with MS-like condition walk again after neural stem-cell treatment >>
* IPCC wants $13 trillion to fight climate change to 2030 and $31 trillion 2031-2050 >>
* Designing systems that help people and society through model-based control >>

* Cheap Motion Sensors That Tell You Your Windows and Doors Have Opened >>
* Elon Musk Says SpaceX Making ‘Progress’ Toward Mars Colony >>
* We’re Losing 159 Billion Tons Of Antarctic Ice Per Year >>

* Cosmos Asks If Humanity Has What It Takes To Survive >>
* Here’s Every Product We Have in the Home of the Future >>

* Celebrate 40 Years of the Rubik’s Cube By Playing Google’s Doodle >>
* Intel drives up in the connected car of the FU-TURE-TURE >>
* Generate power to recharge gadgets while grilling with this camp stove >>

* MIT can map the activity of every neuron in an animal’s brain >>
* NASA Looks To Volcanic Rocks As Target For Next Mars Rover >>
* Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers >>

* Watch Hardware Hackers Fly A Drone Over The Burj Khalifa >>
* Why Google Buying Twitch Is An Unsettling Thought >>

* Why Your Dog Needs A Wearable Health Tech Device >>
* Climate Change Will Force Us to Abandon Coastal Cities. Start Preparing Right Now >>
* Matter creation using lasers based upon 80 year old theory w photon photon collider >>

* Creator of Facial Recognition Tech Now Warns About Its Use >>
* 3D-printed nanoparticle gel does the job of a human liver >>
* More Evidence Linking Gum Disease and Heart Disease >>

* Pancreatic Cancer Set to Become Second Most Fatal Cancer >>
* Exoplanets made of diamonds: Do they exist? >>
* Searching for drugs in dirt, researchers call on citizen scientists >>

* Space Station’s Veggies Are “Grow” to Launch >>
* The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction >>
* Will Google’s Self-driving Cars Be Limited by “Map Anxiety”? >>

* Boeing Has Capsule to Replace Soyuz, Bigelow a Private Space Station to Replace ISS >>
* An ultra-sensitive chip for early cancer detection >>
* As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card >>

* Mind-Reading Brain Scanner Can Retrieve Images From Human Memory >>
* Optical brain scanner goes where other brain scanners can’t >>
* Bottom-Up Manufacturing of Nanowires on Silicon Expands Its Capabilities >>

* This video is so insane that I had to stop watching (part two) >>
* True Blood’s Final Season Trailer Is Missing Vampire Eric!!! >>
* Career Fair 2030 >>

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* Scientists propose collider that could turn light into matter >>
* Modified measles virus destroys cancer in early clinical trial >>
* Researchers Make a Circuit So Flexible, It Can Wrap Around a Vein >>

* £100 Skylock alerts you if thief tries to steal your bike, texts family if you have accident >>
* Herpes-loaded stem cells used to kill brain tumors >>
* Big-screen smartphone shipments soar, account for one-third of market >>

* AT&T Is Buying DirecTV In A Deal Valued At Nearly $50 Billion >>
* Are these mystery radio bursts messages from aliens? >>
* Encrypted Web Traffic More Than Doubles After NSA Revelations >>

* Fence can make water out of thin air: Researchers reveal system to harvest morning fog for water >>
* Wearable Tech: Which Gadget Is Right For You? >>
* Gmail For Android Installed 1 Billion Times >>

* Does meditation make you SMART? Letting mind wander lets brain process MORE thoughts than when concentrating >>
* 3D-printed guns: Devices ANYONE can make are quickly evolving into deadly weapons >>
* Marc Andreessen on the Future of Silicon Valley(s), and the Next Big Technology >>

* Spacecraft-Riding Microbes Could Colonize Mars, Research Suggests >>
* NASA’s Asteroid-Capture Mission May Test New Method to Defend Earth >>
* Google Maps Now Shows How Steep Your Bike Route Is >>

* NASA’s Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Is Back From The Dead! >>
* IBM Lab Accidentally Makes New Type of Super-Strong, Recyclable Polymer >>

* Happy 54th Birthday, Laser Beams >>
* Should Tesla Make Batteries Instead of Electric Cars? >>
* Airbus’s E-Fan Electric Plane Takes Flight >>

* Work Smarter: Even a 3-Second Distraction Can Screw You Up >>
* Nadella Gets ‘A’ For First 100 Days, Success To Be Revealed In Next 90 Days >>
* WIRED Conference 2014: How to Rethink Your Business >>

* Economists Predict the Next Century >>
* Most Technologists Upbeat About Future Internet of Things, Says Pew Survey >>
* Weekly Space Hangout – May 16, 2014 >>

* Future Uncertain For WISE Spacecraft After Review Declines Extension >>
* Chinese Search Giant Baidu Hires Man Behind the “Google Brain” >>

* CVPR 2014 >>
* Future of retail may include cell phones among blood cells >>
* The Future of Robotics Forum >>

* Bioprinted 3D liver-mimicking device detoxifies blood >>
* Complex interactions may matter most for longevity, not single factors >>
* IBM Watson Cognitive Computing Innovation Day >>

* Researcher creates ‘holodeck’ with Oculus and Kinect >>
* Extreme-environment robotics under development at Keio University >>
* Super Brains: Kaku on What Makes a Genius >>

* Future of retail may include cell phones among blood cells >>
* Parking App Asks: What’s Wrong With Paying for Someone Else’s Spot? >>
* The Dyson Sphere and the Search for Alien Life >>

* Update on Podkletnov gravity modification work and rumors >>
* Why Cheap Smartphones Are Going To Upset the Industry >>
* MotionSavvy uses gesture recognition to give sign language a voice >>

* Where the World’s Unsold Cars Go To Die >>
* TED founder thinks big data needs a big makeover >>
* ESA’s new X-ray optics for observing the hot Universe >>

* Google to translate real world: buys app to translate anything you point your phone at >>
* Google buys written language translation startup >>
* Glasses-free 3-D projector (w/ Video) >>

* Withdraw cash with your VEINS: Hitachi rolls out biometric scanning technology for ATMs >>
* Do Men Have a Higher Threshold for Pain, or Are They Just a Bit Emotionally Repressed? >>
* This Study WIll Make You Think Twice About Who You Are Getting Into Bed With >>

* Algorithm given seat on board >>
* Scientists: We’ve found the biggest dinosaur ever >>
* TECH NOW: Everything-trackers for sports >>

* It Took Decades To Build A Ship To Ferry Them Through The Solar System >>
* Lift-Off! Air Force Launches New GPS Satellite to Space >>
* Hubble’s Jupiter and the Amazing Shrinking Great Red Spot >>

* Environmental Nano Solutions large electrostatic ion air cleaners for China’s Smog >>
* HTML 5-based presentation platform. >>
* Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest >>

* Five brain challenges we can overcome in the next decade >>
* Uber Is Going To Be The Next $100 Billion Company >>
* What Kind Of Ecology Forms Multi-Colored Pus? >>

* Holy Crap, Trailer For Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar Is Thrilling >>
* Interstellar Trailer Reveals Spaceship, Search For New Home Planet | Video >>
* Interstellar may be the first movie that shows realistic warp travel >>

* Carnegie Mellon prototype shows interface value of smartwatch >>
* Lighting the way to graphene-based devices >>

* Advanced Russian Communications Satellite Lost in Rocket Failure (Video) >>
* Glasses-free 3-D projector >>
* With imprecise chips to the artificial brain >>

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