Futureseek Daily Link Review; 1 July 2014

* NASA Carbon Dioxide-Monitoring Satellite ‘Go’ for Tuesday Launch >>
* Car to Thief: Smile, You’re on Candid Camera! >>
* The Plan to Build a Floating Beach That Travels Around NYC’s Shores >>

* In the Future, Robots Will Analyze Your Personality >>
* The Competition Is Fierce For This Year’s Best Wildlife Photographer >>

* Public restrooms reduce waits by learning from parking garages >>
* Universities Look To Oculus Rift To Lure Students To Campus >>
* The Internet of Things Comes To Your Garden >>

* Google I/O: Seamless Integration: Watch, Tablet, PC, Glass, Smart Home, Smart Car >>
* Disruption Is A Byproduct, Not A Business Model >>
* How Artificial Intelligence Could Change Your Business >>

* Google, Detroit Split On Autonomous Cars >>
* Help Us Find Today’s Unsung Engineering Heroes >>

* Amazon’s Fire TV can consume 80GB a day predicting what you want to watch >>
* Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini Launched In July As iPhone Sales Outstrips Galaxy S5 >>
* Here’s what our readers are saying about the new HTC One >>

* Harvard Woman Is Blowing Up $55 Billion Beauty Industry With 3D Printed Makeup >>
* Android Wear smartwatches: Specs, prices and launch dates for all known models >>
* Two-Bladed Wind Turbines Make a Comeback >>

* TED | What will be the most important driver of change in the future? >>
* What might the future hold? Predictions at TED 1984 to 2014 >>
* See Globular Clusters, Nebulas and a ‘Teapot’ In July 2014 Skywatching >>

* Google, carmakers on driverless car collision course >>
* From a supersonic passenger jet to an underground trampoline >>
* The Case for Letting a Failing Arts Industry Die >>

* Does The Internet Need An Emoji-Only Social Network? No, But Who Cares? >>
* Mars One Wants to Send Your Experiments to the Red Planet >>
* Cassini Probe Celebrates 10 Years at Saturn Today >>

* Microsoft Smartwatch Will Reportedly Have 11 Sensors >>
* Power a Car Diagnostics System with a Raspberry Pi >>
* Windows 9 will bring back default desktop and Start Menu >>

* Playing with the emotions of 700,000 Facebook users and is Legal because .. >>
* How does Facebook decide what to show in my news feed? >>
* How To Opt Out Of Facebook’s Mind-Altering Experiments >>

* Scientists engineer nanoparticles to prevent bone cancer, strengthen bones >>
* Scientists develop force sensor from carbon nanotubes >>
* LG’s 77-inch curved OLED 4K TV is every bit as expensive as it sounds >>

* Gambling monkeys believe in ‘winning streaks’ >>
* Forelimb bone data predicts predator style >>
* Facebook’s controversial study: What you need to know >>

* New to Google Earth: Ancient Flying Reptiles >>
* How Google and Apple Plan to Invade Your Next Car >>
* Google turns your phone into VR headset: just add cardboard, rubber bands, cheap lenses >>

* Ebola crisis in west Africa: WHO calls for drastic action >>
* Nasa to launch CO2-tracking satellite >>
* Mind reading, or working out what others are thinking, feeling, is similar to print reading >>

* Albert Einstein Wrong: Speed of Light Calculation May Be Wrong >>
* Wearables Could Be The Next Technology To Transform The Travel Industry >>
* 3-D computer model may refine target for deep brain stimulation therapy for dystonia >>

* The Future of Luxury: Avoiding People >>
* Google Car for Sale: Slightly Underequipped >>
* Wild Ride Ahead >>

* Kinect 2 brings the era of physical interfaces for active play to a definitive end >>
* What Do We Save When We Save the Internet? >>
* The Moore’s Law of 3D Printing… Yes it Does Exist, And Could Have Implications >>

* Medical News Today: Scientists map cell’s DNA history to embryonic origin >>
* For $10,000, a start-up can give a car self-driving capabilities >>
* Will Earth Appear Habitable to Alien Astronomers? –Ocean Glint May be a Clue >>

* 10 Breakthrough Innovations That Will Shape The World In 2025 >>
* Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference 2014 >>
* Jeremy Rifkin on the Zero Marginal Cost Society and the Decline of Capitalism >>

* Should the Higgs boson have caused our Universe to collapse? >>
* FRACTAL ART APP THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 June 2014

* Facial Recognition Might Be Coming To Your Car >>
* This Startup Says It Can Make Any Car Autonomous for $10,000 >>
* Gliese 832c: Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Discovered 16 Light-Years Away >>

* NASA has nothing on these moon-bound robots >>
* How Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Clean 50,000 Pounds of Trash From Harbor >>
* Charlie Stross on the stop/go nature of technological change >>

* Apple vs. Google: The race is on for the wrist, TV, car >>
* Winners named in global underwater robot event >>
* YouTube Is About to Change Drastically >>

* Israeli nanotech innovation can ‘smell’ bombs >>
* Check Your Air Conditioner’s Efficiency with a Thermometer >>
* California, Texas Hit New Records for Renewables on the Grid >>

* Gillmor Gang: The Other Shoe >>
* Is America Incapable of Regulating Robots? >>
* Reconstructing the life history of a single cell >>

* Robots on the march into retirement homes >>
* This 200,000-ton titan is now the largest oil rig in the world >>
* Beating human hearts grown in a lab: to be infected with disease to test drugs >>

* Timelapses of New Zealand Are Stunning Science >>
* YouTube Is Finally Serving Video at 60 Frames Per Second >>
* Chromecast Now Pairs With Phones Using SImple Ultrasonic Pulses >>

* Robot builders work together to create structures much bigger than themselves >>
* That Toy is Now a Drone, Says the FAA >>
* Martian Anniversary Selfie >>

* Facebook Manipulated 689,003 Users’ Emotions For Science >>
* Wearable computing gloves can teach Braille, even if you’re not paying attention >>
* Ultrasonic waves allow for precision micro- and nano-manufacturing of thin-film chips >>

* Weed’s Chronic Energy Use Becomes a Concern >>
* Private Castles in the Cloud >>
* Nasa tests Mars landing technology >>

* Why Going to Other Planets Could Save the Earth >>
* A Starship Worth Fighting For >>
* How Interstellar Space Travel Works (Infographic) >>
* Russia Scrubs Maiden Launch of Next-Generation Rocket >>

* Google Makes Its Search Engine a Remote Control for Some Mobile Apps >>
* Ray Kurzweil says we’ll be 3D printing our clothes in less than 10 years >>
* The Space-Based Quantum Cryptography Race >>

* Designing Brain Implants to Detect More and Last Longer >>
* This scary machine erases entire trees out of existence in seconds >>
* Researchers have detected the smallest force ever measured. >>

* YouTube’s (finally) adding 60fps video support >>
* A 36-core chip design with an Internet-style communication network >>
* Researchers have detected the smallest force ever measured. >>

* NASA’s Orion Deep Space Capsule Completes Most Complex Parachute Test >>
* EMC2 Bussard Fusion Dr Park Spoke about the status of the project >>
* US Supreme Court acknowledges peronsal space has merged with digital world >>

* Your Dinner Table: Soon to Be Cleared by Robots >>
* We’re Not Ready for Robots >>
* MIT’s Local Warming system warms you while you wander >>

* DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Dates, Location >>
* Watch The Live Stream Of 500 Startups’ Premoney Conference Here >>

* Future cars may give themselves dimples to reduce drag >>
* Intelligent Autonomous Flying Robots Learn and Map Environment As They Fly >>
* Angular Size of a Soccer Goal >>

* What Google Understands: Context Is King >>
* Visualizing Algorithms >>
* DisplayFusion 6.0 Adds More Improvements to Multi-Monitors in Windows >>

* Astronomers discover Earth-sized ‘diamond’ 900 light years away >>
* TECH NOW: Talk to a virtual doctor on your iPad >>
* ‘Compressive sensing’ provides new approach to measuring a quantum system >>

* robotic trousers help paraplegics walk again: bionic suit finally approved >>
* Astronaut health check with single drop of blood >>
* The Internet Of Things Will Need Millions Of Developers By 2020 >>

* Powerful body that runs Internet backbone mulls future >>
* Ingenious new food packaging could shrink landfills >>
* Finally, a smart watch for grown-ups >>

* TECH NOW: Turn exercise into a game; sip smart with Vessyl >>
* UK Facing ‘Major’ Sperm Shortage >>
* A Major Scientific Breakthrough Could Save The Lives Of People Who Need Organs >>

* How To Decorate Your House Using Only A 3-D Printer >>
* Here’s Why Robots Will Increasingly Be Less, Not More, Human-Like >>
* Astronaut video shows lightning storm as viewed from space >>

* Charlie Stross on the stop/go nature of technological change >>
* Man moves paralyzed hand with his own thoughts >>
* Ask the crowd: Robots learn faster, better with online helpers >>

* Could Ebola Spread to the United States? >>
* Why Future Generations May Consider Us Barbaric >>
* California governor signs bill legalizing bitcoin >>

* Galaxy Cove Vista Revisited >>
* California makes it legal to pay with Bitcoin and other virtual currencies >>
* Why Your Genes Aren’t A Language >>

* Beyond Blood imagines a future where algorithms govern inheritance, not your will >>
* Facebook Data Scientists Manipulated News Feed To Perform A Psychology Experiment >>

* Future cars may give themselves dimples to reduce drag >>
* Internet 2025: How It Could Look Like >>
* A 1,000-foot high wall might be the key to saving the midwest from tornados >>

* Google, Not OEMs, Will Control The Android Wear, Auto and TV UI >>
* Google Chrome gets one-click video chats, no download required >>
* After I/O 2014, Google has ensured the Android brand takes center stage >>
* Google I/O Tech: What Will Stand The Test Of Time? >>

* Android L makes sense, even if it doesn’t set the world alight >>
* Android L and iOS 8: you won’t want to leave but you have to pick one >>
* Google I/O: What We Learned >>
* Using Android L: a first look at Google’s future >>
* Missed Google I/O? Here are 5 big things you need to know >>

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Google I/O 2014 – Videos

Google I/O 2014 (Videos).
* Google I/O 2014 – Keynote >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Day 1 – Room 1 >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Day 2 – Room 1 >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Day 1 – Room 6 >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Day 2 – Room 6 >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Day 1 – Room 7 >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Day 2 – Room 7 >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Day 1 – Room 8 >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Day 2 – Room 8 >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Ray Kurzweil >>
* Google I/O 2014 – What’s new in Android >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Polymer and Web Components change everything you know about Web development >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Nest for developers >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Designing for wearables >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Wearable computing with Google >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Perfectly executing the wrong plan >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Innovate with the Glass Platform >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Introduction to Project Volta >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Unlock the next era of UI development with Polymer >>
* Google I/O 2014 – A 3D tablet, an OSCAR, and a little cash. Tango, Spotlight, Ara. ATAP >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Robotics in a new world – Presented by Women Techmakers >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 June 2014

* The Man With a Plan To Build a 70-Foot Car-Juggling Robot >>
* “OK Google” Now Works From Anywhere On Your Android Phone >>
* Google I/O 2014 – Biologically inspired models of intelligence >>

* Polite drones open door for efficient robot armies >>
* HeroX has a Self Replicating Robot Challenge >>
* Automated Remote Charging for Your Flying Drones (Video) >>

* Physicist proposes 1,000-foot state-sized walls to stop tornadoes >>
* Cloud-based Electronic-Design Tools Gain Traction >>
* Robot Responds to Natural Language Instructions, Brings You Fancy Ice Cream >>

* Goose Bump Detector Senses Your Skin Crawling >>
* This Tiny Sensor Adds a Virtual Caddy to Your Golf Game >>
* How Google plans to lock you away from iOS and Windows >>

* Robot can be programmed by casually talking to it >>
* Google paves way for 64-bit Android L devices by year end >>
* Human Language Is Biased Towards Happiness, Say Computational Linguists >>

* Google Demos Modular Phone That (Almost) Actually Works >>
* The world must build more nuclear power plants to halt climate change >>
* Google touts Android TV, smartwatches and cars >>

* Everything Google Didn’t Announce At I/O >>
* New device allows brain to bypass spinal cord, move paralyzed limbs >>
* Robotic Hand Uses AI to Specialize Its Grip for Any Object >>

* Polite drones open door for efficient robot armies >>
* World’s first magnetic hose created >>
* VIDEO: Where donkeys power the internet >>

* Watch Our Wrap Up Of Google I/O Keynote And Day One >>
* A billion people now use Android, says Google >>
* Intel’s mood-capturing 3D camera will be in tablets early next year >>

* Analytical Research on Cell Response Mechanisms Related to Diseases >>
* A self-powered cardiac pacemaker >>
* Google Announces Sub- $100 Smartphone >>

* Google innovations at Google I/O >>
* US Population 2060 and the twilight of the Baby Boomers >>
* Android L Preview Now Available On The Nexus 5 And Nexus 7 >>

* Let’s geek out 8 standout sessions scheduled for Google I/O >>
* BBC | Should we fear the robots of the future? >>
* This is hands down the craziest Google rumor we’ve ever heard >>

* A Slump in Nuclear Construction Could Have Climate Consequences >>
* The Robot Revolution Is Here, and Growing >>
* Limb regeneration: do salamanders hold the key? >>

* Intergalactic Travel via Hypervelocity Stars >>
* An Intelligent Road Marking System >>
* Autonomous Cars 101 with Brad Templeton >>

* Seeing a nuclear reactor start up is cooler than my sci-fi dreams >>
* Android TV Hands-On: This Is How Smart TVs Won’t Be So Darn Dumb >>
* Google Glass Hardware Just Got a Spec Bump >>

* How Did This Ancient Civilization Avoid War for 2,000 Years? >>
* After being wrong for over a decade there are renewed predictions that India’s GDP growth will pass China >>
* Google takes android everywhere to Android watches, Android for the car and Android for the TV >>

* Fighter jet loses front landing gear, lands vertically on padded stool >>
* NASA detects mysterious signal 240 million light years away from Earth >>
* NASA Preparing Satellite to Monitor How the Planet Breathes >>

* Swirling snowflakes reveal wind turbine airflow >>
* Researchers home in on way to predict aggressiveness of oral cancer >>
* Carbon nanotube fiber ribbon with high electric conductivity and tensile strength of 5.53 gigapascal >>

* Researchers discover ‘Trojan Horse’ method of penetrating cellular walls without harm >>
* New device could improve biomarker analyses >>
* Scientists unearth what may be secret weapon against antibiotic resistance >>

* $10,000 autopilot gadget will drive your car for you on the motorway >>
* 12 Smart Gadgets That Will Transform Your Home >>
* Google Has a Plan to Bring Smartphones to a Billion More Users >>

* How Google Glass can be used to steal your PIN code >>
* The Supreme Court’s Cellphone Privacy Ruling Today Is A Fantastic Start >>
* 4K TV Prices Are Falling Fast, Fueling Rapid Adoption Of The New Video Standard >>

* 7 Smart Investments You Can Make With Just $25 A Week >>
* 3 Big Ways That Social Robots Will Change Your Life >>
* A Physicist’s Explanation of Why the Soul May Exist >>

* Collaborative learning — for robots: New algorithm >>
* Laser Used to Deliver Dopamine in Hope for Parkinson’s Treatment >>
* 25 Game-Changing Hard Trends That Will Create Both Disruption and Opportunity on a Global Level >>

* Google Developers 10 videos – >>
* NASA’s Next Manned Spaceship Passes ‘Most Complex’ Parachute Test >>
* The Rich and Their Robots Are About to Make Half the World’s Jobs Disappear >>

* Here’s what NASA is putting on its new digital ‘Golden Record’ for aliens >>
* Medical News Today: Schizophrenia and cannabis use may have genetic link >>
* Eliezer Yudkowsky: Friendly AI torturing people has probability ~0 >>

* Why learning is the only sustainable response to the increasing pressures of the Big Shift >>
* Now’s your chance to beam a message to aliens >>
* Game Changer: Could a Blood Test Predict Breast Cancer Risk? >>

* Chicago will begin monitoring cell phone signals to track where people are walking >>
* Using Android L: a first look at Google’s future >>
* Apple’s Health-Tracking New iWatch: What We Know >>

* Secrets of the Creative Brain >>
* Google Focused on Big Data, Real-Time Analysis in the Cloud >>
* How Google Declared Open War Against Passwords at I/O >>

* UK’s Hypercat aims to spur on ‘internet of things’ >>
* World Cup 2014 Wi-Fi password accidentally shared with the world >>
* Huh? Soccer un-American? Ann Coulter thinks so >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 June 2014

* Hover cars to be built in Tel Aviv >>
* Virtual world Second Life to be reincarnated, with Oculus Rift >>
* A Chip In This Man’s Brain Let Him Will His Paralyzed Hand To Move >>

* Google I/O 2014 keynote liveblog >>
* Iraqis use Firechat messaging app to overcome net block >>
* Ebola deaths pass 300 in West Africa – WHO >>

* Wearable Goose Bump Sensor May Detect Some Emotions >>
* Google’s Nest Thermostat talks to your car, washing machine >>
* Former SpaceX Employee Explains What It’s Like To Work For Elon Musk >>

* Computer spots rare diseases in family photos >>
* Woman or machine? New robots look creepily human >>

* Microsoft unveils Android phone >>
* The New Abstinence: Not Googling Your Date >>

* Your phone will never love you back and you shouldn’t want it to >>
* Scientists simulate time travel using light particles >>
* Why The Future of Work Is All About Challenging Convention >>

* Google Makes Its Nest At The Center Of The Smart Home >>
* Harmony Ultimate Remote Now Supports Nest Thermostat >>
* Intriguing X-Ray Signal Might be Dark Matter Candidate >>

* Android’s Next Named Release (Lollipop?) Will Be Announced at Google I/O >>
* Deep Time: Targeting Another Galaxy >>
* Big Bang Theory Questioned –“The Universe Should Not Have Lasted for More than a Second” >>

* CNN wants to prove that drones are safe for news reporting >>
* How would you like to interface with your autonomous car? >>

* Microsoft: law enforcement faces ‘bleak future’ if US doesn’t scale back its spying >>
* Roll-your-own database architecture >>
* With New API, Developers Can Build Apps For Nest’s Smart Home Devices >>

* LHC confirms the Standard Model of Physics and that creates a big problem >>
* Even Samsung Can’t Screw Up the Galaxy Tab S >>

* Soundhawk Launches App-Enabled Wearable to Enhance Hearing >>
* The Internet of Things’ inflection point >>
* Beyond Tianhe-2 >>

* Can you tell the difference? World’s first robotic broadcasters are so lifelike they read news and even recite tongue twisters >>
* Discontinued GPS Networks and the Mystery Islands That Go With Them >>

* Facelock: A new password alternative which plays to the strengths of human memory >>
* Forget Virgin Galactic, balloons will take you to the edge of space for a THIRD of price 2016 launch >>
* New research finds that cell phones reflect our personal microbiome >>

* Can a mouthguard sensor make football safer? >>
* Cure for HIV is a ‘major scientific priority’ >>
* 25 SECONDS: Inflatable tourniquet quickly stems a soldier’s blood loss on the battlefield >>

* Cell phones reflect our personal microbiome >>
* Researchers define boundaries of petawatt laser absorption >>
* New Tokyo museum robot guides look, sound human >>

* More solar energy powering Corporate America >>
* Surf Report: How to locate a lost smartphone >>
* TECH NOW: Best new tech to help aging parents >>

* 3D Imaging Could Solve the Mystery of China’s Terracotta Army >>
* Google sees bright future in wearable devices >>
* Google unveils Glassware update ahead of I/O >>

* Continents May Be Key Feature of ‘Super-Earth’ Alien Planets >>
* Angela Ahrendts Blogs About Three Things She’s Learned Since Starting At Apple >>
* Sun’s Plasma ‘Rains’ At Nearly 124,000 Miles Per Hour | Time-Lapse Video >>

* Oculus VR Is Buying the Design Team Behind the 360 Controller and Kinect >>
* Medical News Today: Hydrogel ‘smart pill’ shows promise as weight loss aid >>
* At Google I/O, A Bid To Beat Apple To New Devices >>

* How the “Spirit” of Japan Is Helping Build a Better Stealth Fighter >>
* Google Loon Wi-Fi balloon creates panic in New Zealand >>
* Pure Genius: How Dean Kamen’s Invention Could Bring Clean Water To Millions >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 June 2014

* Who’s your daddy? Team programs computer to find out >>
* Wearable computing gloves can teach Braille, even if you’re not paying attention >>
* Flexible Implantable Generator Uses Body’s Own Motion to Power Pacemaker (VIDEO) >>

* 36-core chip developed that has its own Internet >>
* Supercomputer list and trends in multi-petaflop computers and the path to exaflops >>
* Concrete dome shells 50 meters in diameter could be built using inflatable forms for to contain emergency situations like Fukushima >>

* Nestlé wants to make a real ‘Star Trek’ food replicator >>
* Big Waves in Jet Stream Mean Extreme Weather >>
* ‘Smart Glass’ Could Transform Smartphone Cameras >>

* Robot valet to park cars at German airport >>
* China Builds Artificial Islands in South China Sea >>
* China sees selling High Speed Rail to UK as part of international strategic network of Europe and Asia high speed rail >>

* First demonstration of a self-powered cardiac pacemaker >>
* Smart London buses get real-time map and empty seat displays >>
* 3D Sensing Tablet, EyesMap, Aims To Replace Multiple Surveyor Tools >>

* Perching Robot Glider Nails Simulated Powerline Landings >>
* China Has the Fastest Supercomputer in the World — Again >>
* New Sensors Will Scoop Up “Big Data” On Chicago >>

* Android everywhere: 11 things to watch for at Google I/O >>
* Google I/O 2014 Preview: The Developer Conference Has A Design And Wearables Focus This Year >>
* Google I/O: Apple on their minds >>
* It’s Google’s Turn to Dazzle at This Week’s I/O Conference >>
* Google I/O 2014: What to expect as Google increases its focus on ‘connected’ tech >>

* With Android 4.4.3, Google fixes its dreary dialer and hints at future interface >>
* China’s Tianhe-2 Remains The World’s Fastest Supercomputer >>
* Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing >>

* Second-best Civ gets a sequel: Civilization Revolution 2 coming to iOS >>
* Google Glass Goes On Sale Outside The US >>
* Quirky, Moiphe Founder Launches Wink for Smart Home Automation >>

* Shift over, TV firms: LTE Broadcast will nuke current mobile telly tech >>
* A Mysterious “Magic Island” Has Appeared On Titan >>
* A Fighter Jet’s Flares Fire Off in a Shower of Sparks >>

* The ISS Is Getting an X-Ray Machine That Works in Space >>
* Google Explores Offering Glass Outside the U.S. >>
* Vibrating Electronic Glove Teaches People to Read/Write in Braille with Little to No Effort >>

* SpaceX to try launch Tuesday after scrubbed attempt >>
* Nestlé Is Developing an Instant-Nutrient Food Machine >>

* ‘Space/Off’ settles your relationship problems with violent space battles >>
* NASA wants to capture an asteroid in 2019 >>
* Ten years ago, SpaceShipOne completed the first private flight into space >>

* Forget the Table, All You Need For a Foosball Game Are These Erasers >>
* Mars Mission Could Return Samples to Earth by 2020 >>
* NASA’s Curiosity Rover Takes Selfie to Mark First Year on Mars >>

* How Dozens Of Scientists At One Of America’s Top Labs Were Exposed To Anthrax >>
* New manufacturing methods needed for ‘soft’ machines, robots >>
* Grill charges your phone during cookouts >>

* Time travel could soon become a reality claim physicists >>
* Scientists use X-rays to look at how DNA protects itself from UV light >>
* Future technologies may revolutionize the usage of mobile services >>

* My 3 Plays On The Internet Of Things: Vodafone Group plc, ARM Holdings plc And Quindell plc >>
* Mow your lawn from your smartphone with Mowz >>
* IBM, Toyota to create application development platform for autos >>

* How smart glass has got ‘smarter’ >>
* Why do all planets spin and orbit in the same direction? >>
* VIRTUAL REALITY PANIC >>

* Researchers explain emergence of bacterial vortex >>
* The Microwave: A Color 3D Scanner for Small Objects >>
* The Race to Dominate Digital Health Heats Up >>

* How Google might put taxi drivers out of business >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 June 2014

* Scientists Have Simulated Time Travel With Photons >>
* Eye Implant Could Make Glasses Obsolete >>
* A low-cost ‘super-resolution’ microscopic optical device >>

* A Tale Of Two Patents: Why Facebook Can’t Clone Snapchat >>
* Startups Launch New Generation Of Smart Wristbands >>
* Disruptions: Smile! A Drone Is About to Take Your Picture >>

* Scientists find earliest known evidence of parasitic worm that now infects millions >>
* Forrester: Top Technology Trends For 2014 And Beyond >>
* China’s ‘Lunar Palace’ for Space Research Tested on Earth >>

* Sony brings 4K camcorder to the masses >>
* EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement >>
* IRL: IK Multimedia’s iLoud portable Bluetooth speaker >>

* The Electronic Frontier Foundation Wants You To Make Your Router Public >>
* Why Humans Can’t Re-Grow Limbs (Yet) >>
* This Mathematical Model Shows You Exactly Where to Park Your Starship >>

* This Mathematical Model Shows You Exactly Where to Park Your Starship >>
* Consumer Robotics Is Finally Ready For Prime Time >>
* Microscopic View of How Leaves Repel Water >>

* Dotcom’s Disruptive Music Service First to Support FLAC Streaming >>
* Yo Is the Perfect App For The iWatch, One New Feature Could Make It A Twitter-Killer >>
* Are You Using Facebook’s Slingshot? >>

* Workplace Surveillance Sees Good and Bad >>
* When Drones Fall From the Sky >>
* Google Gesture App Translates Sign Language Into Spoken Language >>

* Google’s Nest buys Dropcam to connect the home further >>
* Meet Intel’s vision of the future, from robots to smart cars to talking dogs >>
* US senators introduce bill to expand Wi-Fi spectrum >>

* Google now offers links to music apps when you search for bands on Android >>
* A 10-sensor iWatch says Apple’s smartwatch will be nothing like Android Wear >>

* Start-up: Transatomic Power Wants to Build a Better Reactor >>
* Will 7nm and 5nm CPU Process Tech Really Happen? >>
* The Intelligence Of Things: Dangerous [100 Words Into The Future] >>

* Google’s Search Engine Can Now Launch Your Favorite Music Apps, Turn On The Tunes >>
* Quantum computing firm calls ‘bullshit’ as scientists undermine its technology >>
* Humanoid robot Nao gets battery, face-detection boost >>

* The Kit Kat Car Desktop >>
* Apple’s iWatch To Feature Blood Glucose Monitoring? >>
* VIDEO: Ebola outbreak is ‘out of control’ >>

* Google Is Now Watching To See If You Have Kids >>
* THE INSIDE STORY OF YO: How A ‘Stupid’ App Attracted Million Of Dollars And Rocketed To The Top Of The App Store >>
* Diet restriction suspends development in nematode worms, doubles lifespan >>

* The $1 Million Yo App Was Created So That An Investor Could Call His Secretary >>
* Scientists as a Revolutionary Class >>
* Aliens abduct the world’s smartest creature >>

* Medical News Today: How a smartphone could prevent falls >>
* Smartphone App Measures Respiratory Rate to Help Detect Pneumonia in Children >>
* Star Trek Phase 2 TV Series Kickstarter Blasts By 2014 Goal, Will Release New Episodes On The Web >>

* Apple Might Finally Solve Photo Storage Hell >>
* The One Thing You Never Noticed In “Back To The Future” >>
* Driving, Driving, Driving – Curiosity’s Top Priority on the Road to Mysterious Mount Sharp >>

* Video: Robot can be programmed by casually talking to it >>
* Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours (and what to do about it) >>
* Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future >>

* As Google, Apple Get Ready To Change Mobile Health >>
* Playing ‘Death from Above’ with Oculus Rift >>
* Quirky to Create a Smart-Home Products Company >>

* Control VR Opens The Door To Virtual Offices >>
* My Internet Hometown >>
* A New Call To Build A Massive Alien-Seeking Space Telescope >>

* NASA wants to capture an asteroid in 2019 >>
* Future of camera companies could be found in healthcare technologies >>
* Redefining What It Means To Talk In The Age Of Smartphones >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 June 2014

* British university makes antibiotic resistance breakthrough >>
* IAAC Invents a Family of Robots to 3D Print Structures of Any Size >>
* Watch a Mountain Explode to Make Way For the World’s Largest Telescope >>

* These Tiny Robots Are Designed To 3D Print Whole Buildings >>
* Video: SpaceX Tests New Steerable ‘Fins’ on the Falcon 9R >>
* How a Sensor-Filled World Will Change Human Consciousness >>

* iPhone 6 May Include Barometer And Air Pressure Sensors >>
* Wireless glucose monitoring iphone app automatically updates every 5 minutes >>
* Making smartphones smarter with see-through sensors >>

* Medical News Today: Breakthrough could stop bacteria from becoming drug resistant >>
* Antibiotic super factories are set to take on superbugs >>
* Gravity’s strength still an open question after latest measurement >>

* Quantum Computer Fails Speed Test >>
* iWatch Will Have A 2.5-Inch Rectangular Screen, And It Will Be Out In October >>
* Evolution depends on rare chance events, molecular time travel, experiments show >>

* Human and chimp genes separated 13 million years ago >>
* Nasa reveals ‘Tron spacesuit’ will be used on first manned mission to Mars >>
* Cloud security is not an oxymoron >>

* 3D-printed material can carry 160,000 times its own weight >>
* The Uncanny Valley: Everything You Need To Know in 2 Minutes >>
* 3D Windowing System Developed Using Wayland, Oculus Rift >>

* A single broken gene slashes your heart attack risk >>
* I met an emotional robot and felt nothing >>
* Google’s quantum computer just flunked its first big test >>

* Drones of the future will ‘interact’ with humans >>
* The Science “Heart” of the James Webb Space Telescope (VIDEO) >>
* Poppy the 3D-printed robot comes to life super-fast >>

* China seriously looking at supercritical water cooled reactors >>
* Statistical Tricks Extract Sensitive Data from Encrypted Communications >>
* Wearable Self-Tracking Tool Listens for Yawns, Coughs, and Munches >>

* How to Find the Best Connected Individual in Your Social Network >>
* Simple sewing machine has high-tech role in future ‘soft’ machines >>
* Holy crap, a supersonic ping pong ball can destroy a ping pong paddle >>

* Apple files patent for camera lens controlled by ‘artificial muscle’ >>
* On the Internet of Things, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog >>
* New iPhone Might Have a Built-In Barometer >>

* Apple’s Smartwatch Said To Debut In October With 2.5-inch Screen, Wireless Charging >>
* Turn a Windows 8.1 PC Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot with the Command Prompt >>
* Google I/O >>

* Goal Detection Technology For The Other Football >>
* Wi-Fi networks revealed in images >>
* Diabetes gene ‘raises risk tenfold’ >>

* Lego’s mixed digital-bricks scan creations >>
* Harley-Davidson invites public to test electric motorbike >>
* Human brain’s ultimate barrier to open for first time >>

* The 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time >>
* Attempt At World’s Longest Car Jump Doesn’t Go According To Plan >>
* How Cities Use Design to Drive Homeless People Away >>

* A 3D-printed car is coming that stretches the boundaries of design >>
* Building Tiny Human Organs With 3-D Printing >>
* British university makes antibiotic resistance breakthrough >>

* Divemachine’s 3D audio tech adds motion-tracking sound to VR headsets >>
* Stunning Images Show Brain’s Fragile Beauty & What Happens When Wiring Goes Awry >>
* Forget touchscreens, 3D holographic displays are coming >>

* Supreme Court deals blow to computer patents in 9-0 ruling >>

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* Amazon Fire Phone: hands-on with the ultimate buying machine >>
* £1 billion Alma ‘time machine’ could reveal how universe formed >>

* This App Can Send Scented Text Messages >>
* African firm is selling pepper-spray bullet firing drones >>
* Search engines will be able to flirt with users by 2029 >>

* Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Send People to Mars in 10 to 12 Years >>
* 3D Systems Shows Off Its Super-fast 3D-Printing Assembly Line >>

* Real-Time Waste Water Analysis Can Show Who’s On What Drugs, and Where >>
* iBeacons Usher In The Contextual Shopping Era >>
* A “Nanodegree” May Be Your New Route To A Tech Job >>

* NASA Dark-Energy Mission Could Spot 3,000 New Alien Planets >>
* NASA Uses a Shadow Network That’s 1000 Times Faster Than Your Internet >>
* Dutch Trucks Will Drive Themselves >>

* Rendor Turns Your Single-Camera Smartphone Into A Real 3D Scanner >>
* LTE and GSM are getting hitched thanks to new technology >>
* AI’s dueling definitions >>

* Meet Bob, Britain’s first robotic security guard >>
* This drone made from chocolate can actually fly (video) >>

* Balloons, Drones and Submarines for exploring Saturn’s Moon Titan and other outer moons and planets >>
* This robot guard keeps an unblinking eye on suspicious activities >>
* Whirlpool Galaxy Hosts Black Holes Orbiting Sun-Like Stars | Video >>

* China’s New Tallest Building Adds a Floor Every 96 Hours >>
* The BBC Is Testing Facial Recognition to Gauge Viewer Response >>
* Combing Sensors and Rewards for Good Behavior with “Nudge Engines” >>

* Supreme Court To Decide When A Facebook Death Threat Should Send You To Prison >>
* Safelet is one alarming bracelet >>
* Scientists create biofuel using ground coffee beans >>

* Bits Blog: Intel Introduces Custom Cloud Chip >>
* Sprint Samsung Galaxy S5 update enables Wi-Fi calling >>
* Leukemia drug found to stimulate immunity against many cancer types >>

* How background electrical brain noise drives our decisions >>
* LPP Fusion Crowdfunding at $125K of $200K target >>
* Synchronized brain waves enable rapid learning >>

* What Am I Thinking About You? >>
* Neuroscience’s New Toolbox >>
* The Promise and Perils of Manipulating Memory >>
* Shining Light on Madness >>
* Eavesdropping on Neurons >>
* Reading the Mind >>
* The Importance of Feelings >>

* Algorithms Outperform Diabetics at Blood Sugar Control >>
* Dentists Found a Pain-Free Cavity Fix That Might Actually Work >>
* With Creopop, 3D Drawing Is Cool, Messy Fun >>

* What Bio Means to Techonomy >>
* Vodafone buys into Internet of Stuff, sinks fangs into Cobra >>
* Microsoft announces home automation accelerator to fast-track Internet of Things >>

* Marriott and MIT want to turn your hotel into a social network >>
* Humanoid Robot ASRA C1 Unveiled by SoftBank, Designed to Interact Safely With People >>

* The Shadow Internet That’s 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber >>
* Anatomy of a Solar Car >>
* 2014 Metaphysics Within and Without Physics Conference (all talks online!) >>

* WebMD App Now Tracks All of Your Health Data in One Spot >>
* The Chemistry Behind That New Car Smell >>
* Why We Breathe: Yoga >>

* Navy will test combat lasers on humvees this year and will field test 30 kilowatt lasers in 2016 >>
* Gigafactory would produce ten times all of the car batteries in 2013 double advanced battery shipments >>
* A Rare Peek Inside Amazon’s Massive Wish-Fulfilling Machine >>

* Human Genome Tinkering Could Be Our Best Bet to Beat HIV >>
* Testing Quantum Technology Means Getting Around Gravity >>
* Slow-Motion Earthquakes Caused by Natural Fracking? >>

* Microsoft Invents Eyewear with Multi-Touch Interactive Sensors >>
* Cable TV boxes become second biggest energy users in many homes >>
* Swell new sensors >>

* Molecular ‘onion’ could one day deliver drugs >>
* Smart glasses for the BLIND: Display turns the world into outlines to help people with poor vision ‘see’ obstacles and faces >>
* ROUNDUP MIT TECH REVIEW DIGITAL SUMMIT >>

* “White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria” Is Our New Favorite Suspense Movie >>
* Korean Galaxy S5 is Samsung’s first phone with a QHD display and Snapdragon 805 chip >>
* 4K Monitors: Not Now, But Soon >>

* Not for the faint-hearted! Medical website lets you virtually dissect dead bodies >>
* Rats, Regret and What Might Have Been (Op-Ed) >>
* ‘Cloak of Invisibility’ lets you hide from Google: Padded coat blocks radio waves to stop firms accessing your phone’s data >>

* Microsoft, designer create cellphone-charging pants >>
* VIDEO: Smartphone creates virtual reality >>
* Gene ‘switch’ reverses cancer in common childhood leukaemia >>

* Science of Fiction 2014 >>
* Dying Sun-Like Stars Contain Molecules Vital For Making Water >>
* NASA 3D Prints Injectors for ‘SLS-Mini’ Test Firing | Video >>

* This Microwave Helmet Can Sense Strokes >>
* Elon Musk: ‘I’m Hopeful That The First People Can Be Taken To Mars in 10, 12 Years’ >>
* Water-Building Molecule Found Around Dying Stars in Helix and Ring Nebulas >>

* Fire Phone’s Dynamic Perspective: A 3D Effect That Follows Your Face >>
* FireFly: Amazon’s Fire Phone Can Identify Almost Anything >>
* Amazon Puts A Cash Register In Your Pocket With Fire Phone >>
* Amazon’s Fire Phone Uses Depth And 3D Effects To Stand Out >>
* Amazon’s Fire Phone will come with free, unlimited cloud storage for photos >>
* Amazon’s Fire Phone to sell exclusively on AT&T for $199.99 starting July 25th >>
* The Amazon Fire Phone comes with free unlimited photo storage >>

* Video: What we’re expecting in wearables at Google I/O >>
* Scientists use lasers to understand how water stays liquid below its freezing point >>
* Can A Lightbulb Make For A Great Multi-Room Wireless Speaker? Meet The Whome Bulb >>

* Smartphone App Keeps Watch Over Schizophrenic Patients >>
* Fleksy Builds A Texting App For The Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch >>
* A Very Short History Of The Internet Of Things >>
* Most Of The Tech Industry Is Absurd And Unnecessary >>

* Personal anti-drone warning system launches on Kickstarter >>
* Elon Musk is worried that AI research could produce a real-life Terminator >>
* What is 802.11ax WiFi, and do you really need a 10Gbps connection to your laptop? >>

* Google Might Soon Unveil Its Plan To Take Over Your Car >>
* What Happens When Society Decides That Nerds Are Dangerous? >>
* A Jetliner For A Fuel-Starved Future >>

* How Nanotechnology Could Re-Engineer Our Bodies >>
* Sharp’s ‘Free-Form Displays’ with Ultra-Thin Bezels Make New Display Shapes Possible >>
* Galaxy S5 gets QHD display and latest Snapdragon processor, but only in South Korea >>

* The Smartphone Even The NSA May Have Trouble Hacking Is Coming Soon >>
* Elon Musk: We’re Only A Decade Away From Putting Humans On Mars >>

* Hands-On With The Amazon Fire Phone >>
* How Nanotechnology Could Re-Engineer Our Bodies >>
* Are We About to Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier, and Transform Medicine? >>

* Facebook has built its own switch. And it looks a lot like a server >>
* Harrison Ford Injury Update: Star Wars 7 Delayed And Robert Pattinson Cast In Han Solo Movie? >>
* A Cow Got Stuck On A Roof — We Have Nothing Else To Add, Really >>

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* Memory Cells Built on Paper >>
* This Robot Is Going To Hitchhike Across Canada By Itself >>
* Artificial Pancreas Shows Promise in Diabetes Test >>

* Researchers Hope ‘Super Bananas’ Will Combat Vitamin A Deficiency >>
* The Next 20 Years Are Going To Make The Last 20 Look Like We Accomplished Nothing >>
* Google Wants To Offer Balloon-Powered Internet Access As Early As Next Year >>

* Modern Armor Won’t Stand a Chance Against This New Missile Launcher >>
* Satellites Are Now Cleared to Take Photos at Mailbox-Level Detail >>
* It Only Takes This Electric Bus 15 Seconds To Charge At Every Stop >>

* GPS tracking case has left unsettled questions >>
* A gene that stimulates growth of new brain cells in adults >>
* Charging portable electronics to be super-fast, widely accessible >>

* New Methane-Hunting Tool Could Boost Search for Alien Life >>
* Zero-Gravity Espresso Machine Created By Italians | Video >>
* Fullauto StrainEye LSM-9000LE Simplifies Strain Measurements >>

* Gaia Space Telescope Team Battles ‘Stray Light’ Problems At Start Of Mission >>
* A ‘bionic pancreas’ might transform how diabetes is managed >>
* Does DNA determine betting behaviour? Risk-taking linked to chemicals controlled by genes >>

* Microsoft Unveils Machine Learning for the Masses >>
* Data point: Despite hurdles to adoption, wearables market will expand >>
* Google’s Acquisition Will Allow It To Spy On Apple, Predict When New Products Coming >>

* Microsoft to implement ‘Catapult’ programmable processors in its datacenters >>
* Robots Get Flexible and Torqued Up With Origami Wheels >>

* These Revolutionary Optics Could Make Battlefield Lasers a Reality >>
* U.S. Military Wants Laser-Armed Humvees to Shoot Down Drones >>
* New Sensor To Detect Food-Borne Bacteria On Site >>

* Game of Thrones Season Finale Sets New Piracy Record >>
* Crowd-control drones reveal the technology’s dark side >>
* Match.com Will Use Facial Recognition to Find People Like Your Ex >>

* Super-Elastic Battery Gets Ready for Electric Clothes [Video] >>
* Want your own cycle lane? Samsung’s smart bike uses LASERS to project lines on a road >>
* A drone’s eye view of the world: Map collates footage of landmarks >>

* Turn ANY watch into a smartwatch: £40 attachment connects with a phone >>
* Scientists use LiDAR, 3-D modeling software to intricately map active Chinese fault zone >>
* On-Demand Grocery Startup Instacart Raises $44 Million From Andreessen Horowitz >>

* Large-scale tests with self-driving cars to hit Dutch roads >>
* Movie Piracy Combated by Narrowing Theatrical Release Window >>
* This remote-controlled car moves on land, sea and air >>

* Samsung looks to backyard projects for IoT inspiration >>
* Facebook Paper’s New Trending Section Makes It A Better Real-Time News Reader >>
* Samsung hints that its next Galaxy Note phone will have a quad HD display >>

* Autonomous camera drone lets you shoot your own action scenes >>
* Jobs lost to automation: Doom and gloom? Maybe not, expert says >>
* Robot hand sees in 3D to get a grip >>

* Machines Teach Humans How to Feel Using Neurofeedback >>
* A Remote-Controlled Car That Fears No Terrain >>
* Printeer is the 3D printer your kids can use >>

* Microsoft readies public preview of cloud-based machine-learning service >>
* Bits Blog: Microsoft Unveils Machine Learning for the Masses >>
* Sensor in eye could track pressure changes, monitor for glaucoma >>

* ‘Computers might be able to steal our mind and tamper with thought processes’>>
* Smart Meters: Are They Spying On You? >>
* Harrison Ford Out Of ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ For Weeks Due To Broken Ankle >>

* Forget touchscreens, 3D holographic displays are coming >>
* US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images >>
* Are we about to see the rise of robot bosses? >>
* Robot doctors, online lawyers and automated architects: the future of the professions? >>

* Spin-Off Company Develops Drill-Less Tooth Cavity Treatment >>
* French soccer team watched by rogue drone at World Cup training base >>
* I don’t feel your pain >>

* The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is >>
* Google Glass just turned on an Enterprise site. >>
* Einstein vs quantum mechanics: Why he’d be a convert today >>
* Astronomy Cast Ep. 349: Mercury 7, How the US picked the first astronauts >>

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