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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 August 2014

* Test Ebola drug ‘100% effective’ >>
* One apartment’s Wi-Fi dead zones, mapped with a physics equation >>
* Scientists are recording the sound of the whole planet >>

* Wired Magazine’s Cofounder Shares 3 Books That Can Change Your Life >>
* AI systems will prove useful long before they become self aware >>
* Part human part machine cyborgs are becoming a reality >>

* Darpa’s ElectRx Project: Self-Healing Bodies Through Targeted Stimulation Of The Nerves >>
* Sure, you can hack a network: what about your fitness? >>
* What time is it in the universe? >>

* Hotel rooms aren’t yucky – you colonize them with your own personal bacteria within hours >>
* What Happens When You Try To 3D Print A Rocket Engine? >>
* “Detecting Alien Planet Particles Smaller than a Human Hair” –New SETI Breakthrough >>

* Intel unleashed octo-core speed demon for the power-crazed crowd >>
* Facebook testing mobile searches for old posts >>
* Neuroscientists Make Huge Strides Toward Solving the Mysteries of the Teenage Brain >>

* Scientists Cannot Explain This Crazy Ant Behavior, but They Love It >>
* Fog lights; Smart windscreen display plots the location of other cars in extreme weather conditions >>
* Has the humble password had its day? >>

* See Every Single Device Connected to the Internet >>
* How do you keep the Space Launch System’s liftoff quiet enough to tolerate? NASA knows >>
* Improving memory with transcranial magnetic stimulation >>

* This Is Your Brain On Coffee >>
* Ocean Thermal Energy: Back From the Deep >>
* Massive Internet Outage Points to Flaws in Policy and Technology >>

* Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds >>
* Researcher creates a new kind of microscope to study the brain >>
* PCs: Not Dead Yet >>

* Improving memory with transcranial magnetic stimulation >>
* Medicine’s Next Big Mission: Understanding Wellness >>
* Proto-Planetary Smashup Discovered Around Baby Star >>

* MIT student creates Jolt, a real-time head sensor that detects concussions >>
* Transforming Digital Business in ‘Real-Time’ >>
* Video ruins your childhood by listing everything wrong with Toy Story >>

* Tiny “cannon” shoots single light particles >>
* Children with autism learn imitative behavior from socially assistive robot >>
* Researcher creates a new kind of microscope to study the brain >>

* PCs: Not Dead Yet >>
* Improving memory with transcranial magnetic stimulation >>
* Medicine’s Next Big Mission: Understanding Wellness >>

* Ocean Thermal Energy: Back From the Deep >>
* Massive Internet Outage Points to Flaws in Policy and Technology >>
* “Detecting Alien Planet Particles Smaller than a Human Hair” –New SETI Breakthrough >>

* Dell’s 34-inch curved display wants to surround you >>
* World’s Smartest Cities >>
* What Lies Beneath Stonehenge? >>

* Baidu’s Surprising Search For The Holy Grail Of Artificial Intelligence >>
* 13 movies and TV shows we’re most looking forward to this fall >>

* Ebola Drug Saves Infected Monkeys >>
* Study Says ZMapp Works Against Ebola >>
* Ebola breakthrough as new drug cures all monkeys in trial >>
* Ebola virus mutating rapidly as it spreads >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 August 2014

* Inside Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program >>
* IBM Watson now answers your questions before you ask >>
* Neurons reveal the brain’s learning limit >>

* Is Dyson About To Unveil A Robot Vacuum Cleaner With Computer Vision? >>
* Dyson’s New Teaser Explains Why They’ve Been Spending So Much On Robots >>
* Sorting out circulating tumor cells in the blood with sound waves >>

* Taming of the bunny rewrote rabbit genome >>
* Moving home? Your microbes will make the trip too >>
* Google Exec Megan Smith Might Be The Next CTO Of The United States >>

* Hidden Obstacles for Google’s Self-Driving Cars >>
* Progress on a Powerful New Way to Generate Electricity >>
* Your Family’s Germs May Move With You >>

* Scientists raised these fish to walk on land >>
* Electromagnetic Warfare Is Here >>
* 10 Finalist Teams Announced for Tricorder XPrize >>

* Am I boring you? Google glass app can read the emotions of everyone you talk to >>
* Google Lunar Xprize has big Milestones to late 2015 >>
* Graphene Drumheads Could Lead to New Sensors for Mobile Phones >>

* UK Ebola vaccine trial to start >>
* Ebola outbreak: WHO warns that virus could infect 20,000 >>
* Genetic clues to spread of Ebola >>
* Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone Is Tied to One Funeral >>
* Ebola Is Rapidly Mutating As It Spreads Across West Africa >>

* I Flew Like a Bird Using Oculus Rift >>
* Schrödinger’s cat caught on camera! Ghostly image captured using light that NEVER touched lens >>
* Small molecule acts as on-off switch for nature’s antibiotic factory >>

* Tiny, Battery Powered Real-Time PCR Machine for DNA Field Testing >>
* Does Alcohol Kill Brain Cells? [VIDEO] >>
* A new, tunable device for spintronics >>

* DNA tells story of Arctic peopling >>
* A to zinc: What supplements are worth taking? >>
* Smart Antennas Could Open Up New Spectrum For 5G >>

* Germany’s Grid: Renewables-Rich and Rock-Solid >>
* 8 Futuristic Home Improvements You Can Buy Right Now >>
* How We Can Get Submarines to Travel at Supersonic Speed >>

* Atoms to product: aiming to make nanoscale benefits life-sized >>
* DIY Muscle-Memory Programmer >>
* Tissue regeneration using anti-inflammatory nanomolecules >>

* Can You 3D Print Emotions? New “Love Project” Uses Biometric Sensors to Create Household Objects >>
* An Architectural Robot To Explore Other Worlds >>
* Singularity University’s GSP Class of 2014 Blasts Off to the Future >>

* Make a Motion-Triggered Night Light for Under the Bed >>
* Thinking about Magnetic Sails >>
* NASA Approves Construction of the World’s Most Powerful Rocket >>

* Apple looks to patent animating iPhone sidewalls >>
* Report: iPhone 6 Will Have NFC Mobile Payment Capability >>
* Samsung and LG launch new watches while Apple waits >>

* Researchers working on nanobots that directly attack tumors to cure cancer >>
* NASA Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy >>
* IBM Watson’s Startling Cancer Coup >>

* New Neurons Make Room for New Memories >>
* India To Add Five Percent Of Global Rare Earth Supply >>
* Scientists learn to control reactions with the shape of a rare-earth catalyst >>

* Did an ENERGY BUBBLE cause the mystery lights in the Pacific? >>
* How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience >>
* Presenting RoboThespian, the first robot that behaves like a human: >>

* Scientists Have Found an Algorithm That Could Turn Us All Into Sheeple >>
* Doctors Implanted a 3D-Printed Vertebra for the First Time >>
* A Map of Every Device in the World That’s Connected to the Internet >>

* Supercomputers Have Taken Research to a Whole New Level >>
* How to Turn Tires Into Batteries for Electric Cars >>

* Google trials drone deliveries >>
* Google is testing delivery-by-drone too, say hello to Project Wing >>
* Project Wing: Google’s Secret Program for Delivery Drones >>
* Google Has Been Working On A Top-Secret Drone Program For Package Deliveries  >>

* Nod TV Show Is Set In World Where Humanity Loses The Ability To Sleep >>
* 3D Printing Underwear And Clothing That Communicates Feelings? Future Of Fashion >>
* Dead stars ‘can re-ignite’ and explode >>

* Your Cellphone Company Says Your Location Info Is Private. Think Again. >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 August 2014

* Shanghai to San Francisco in 100 minutes by Chinese supersonic submarine >>
* Intel builds ‘world’s smallest’ 3G modem >>
* Lasers Switch Bad Memories to Good in Mice >>

* Neuroscientists reverse memories’ emotional associations >>
* Instagram shows how Hyperlapse stabilizes your jittery videos >>
* Hypersonic Gliders, Scramjets, And Even Faster Things Coming To China’s Military >>

* Would you run a super-powerful, super-fast operating system if it were made in China? >>
* Apple to reveal wearable device next month >>
* $33 Smartphone For India That Could Ruin Samsung’s Android Business >>

* In the Future, Your Clothes Will Be Cleaned By Schools Of Robotic Fish >>
* Satellite Towing Service Developed | Video >>
* New Cray GPU supercomputer will provide a petaflop of power in 4 Cabinets >>

* The World’s First Handheld DNA Sequencer Is a Genetics Lab In a Box >>
* A Chip for Longer-Lasting Wearable Computers >>
* Nanoscale Material Enables Cheap, Emission-free Hydrogen Production >>

* Quantum Entanglement Camera Images Object With Photons That Never Come Near It >>
* Beaming to a Magnetic Sail >>
* Seagate starts shipping 8TB hard drives this week >>

* Stanford bioengineers close to brewing opioid painkillers >>
* From batteries to nuclear power and 3D printing, here’s who to keep an eye on >>
* VIDEO: ‘White space’ internet developed >>

* CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing corrects Duchenne muscular dystrophy in mice >>
* Solar Energy Isn’t Always as Green as You Think >>

* How Will We Know If The Ebola Drugs Worked? >>
* Why Do Humans Grow Up So Slowly? Blame the Brain >>
* Digital Divide: How Social Media Silences Debate >>

* Why Can’t the Government Run Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications? >>
* Children with autism have extra synapses in brain >>
* Functional thymus organ grown in mice from lab-created cells >>

* A fully transparent solar concentrator for windows >>
* Proximal micromagnets increases the speed of quantum manipulation in silicon without adding measurable noise >>

* DARPA project to develop revolutionary miniaturization and assembly methods at scalesa 100,000 times smaller than current state-of-the-art technology >>
* A Headset Meant to Make Augmented Reality Less of a Gimmick >>
* Efficient robotic components under development using fundamental mechanism research >>

* Is Our 3-D Universe an Illusion? –“Everything Could Actually be Encoded in Tiny packets in Two Dimensions” >>
* “When the Visible Unive rse was Less than One Microsecond Old” –Researchers Simulate Birth of the Cosmos >>

* The Man Who Grew Eyes From Scracth >>
* Could This Camera Prevent Police Brutality? >>
* New Oculus Rift game allows you to train like a real Jedi >>

* Slow motion video captures people’s faces as they get hit with tasers >>
* Your Windows 9 upgrade could be free >>
* Get your car to tell you what’s wrong with a $50 dongle >>

* Controlling a NASA robot on the Web >>
* How Google’s Driverless Car Detects Aggressive Drivers >>

* European Space Agency chooses potential landing sites for its comet probe >>
* Five Myths and Facts About Robotics Technology Today >>
* Nanodiamonds are forever >>

* Laser pulse turns glass into a metal >>
* Could a robot army help us find alien life? Nasa’s ant-like ‘swarmies’ will scour hostile planets for water and rocket fuel >>

* Workshop: Current Challenges for Wireless Power Transfer >>
* DARPA 5 beyond GPS technologies for position, navigation and timing >>

* Furniture Shopping with Augmented Reality >>
* Supercavitation projectiles potentially have 200,000 less drag than a regular object in water >>
* NASA says new heavy-lift rocket debut not likely until 2018 >>

* Could A 2-Year-Old Boy Be ‘Patient Zero’ For The Ebola Outbreak? >>
* Snapdragon 615: Qualcomm’s 64-bit octa-core race horse >>

* Researchers Discover Proteins That Block Both HIV And Ebola Virus Release >>
* Forget Hot Air: Disney Parade Floats Could Soon Fly Under Drone Power >>
* China’s Future Submarine Could Go The Speed Of Sound >>

* How Apple Thinks About Smart Homes >>
* Toshiba’s New Robovac Uses Three Times the Sensors For Less Collisions >>
* What’s Up With That: Your Fingernails Grow Way Faster Than Your Toenails >>

* Intel’s tiny 3G modem will put always-on data in your smartwatch >>
* Samsung starts production of 3D DDR4 DRAM modules >>
* The Death of Film: After Hollywood Goes Digital, What Happens to Movies? >>

* How Eating a Poor Diet Makes Us Feel Depressed >>
* What Happened to NASA’s Valkyrie Robot at the DRC Trials, and What’s Next >>
* DARPA Project Starts Building Human Memory Prosthetics >>

* Ignore the IQ test: your level of intelligence is not fixed for life >>
* A Response to Comments on ‘Sails Driven by Diverging Neutral Particle Beams’ >>
* Proton Fusion, the Sun’s Power Source, Explained (Infographic) >>

* X-Shaped Rubik’s Cube >>
* Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls >>
* NASA Crams Six Months Of Earth’s Surface Activity Into A 6-Second Clip >>

* Where Does The Moon’s Smell Come From? >>
* World’s Oldest Wine Cellar Fueled Palatial Parties >>
* Meet The Guy Who Makes $1,000 An Hour Tutoring Kids Of Fortune 500 CEOs Over Skype >>

* Will We Ever Have a “Star Wars Moment” in Pop Culture Again? >>
* Broadcom wants to let 1,000 IoT devices bloom with $19.99 development kit >>
* Real-Life ‘Star Trek’ Tech Could Diagnose Diseases >>

* Midlife crisis? Time to get a skateboard, gentlemen >>
* Instagrams Hyperlapse iPhone app rockets up the charts >>
* US Drones Are Flying Over ISIS Areas In Syria — Without Assad’s Approval >>

* Could airships replace satellites? Nasa planning contest for giant airships to house surveillance equipment, telescopes >>
* Research paves way for development of cyborg moth ‘biobots’ >>
* An aspirin a day could keep recurrent blood clots away >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 August 2014

* RoboBrain¿ to power millions of machines around the world >>
* Sounds of Street View takes you on a virtual vacation >>
* Spherical Display Lets You See 3-D Animations from Any Angle >>

* Amazon will pay $1 billion to buy video-game streaming site Twitch >>
* Rosetta mission: Potential comet landing sites chosen >>
* Life doesn’t make trash >>

* Medigus Created The World’s Smallest Camera Now Being Used By NASA Robots >>
* The Store Of The Future Will Be All About You >>
* VIDEO: Will smartphones change shopping? >>

* ‘Hypersonic’ weapon blown up after lift-of >>
* NASA’s Robot Army of ‘Swarmies’ Could Explore Other Planets >>
* Smart Tattoo: New Technology Could Use Sweat To Power A Smart Phone [Video] >>

* The Most Connected Man Is You, Just a Few Years From Now >>
* Cracking the code for single-molecule junctions >>

* TiVo Releases A $49.99 Over-The-Air DVR For Cord Cutters >>
* Surveillance Companies Are Secretly Selling Tech That Tracks Your Phone’s Location >>
* Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified >>

* The Ultimate Challenge For Recommendation Engines >>
* Electromagnetic Warfare Is Here >>
* Gillmor Gang: WineQuake >>

* Data from fitness bands reveals half of residents were woken by huge quake >>
* Robo Brain will teach robots everything from the Internet >>
* Hawaii volcano lava flow could threaten homes >>

* LG teases a circular smart watch >>
* Uranus: Why we should visit the most unloved planet >>
* First Nations learn to map territories using Google Earth >>

* LG Announces 4K OLED TVs For Sale >>
* LG to sell ‘the first 4K OLED’ TV >>
* The First 4K OLED TV You Can Buy Will Cost $11,000 >>

* Airships That Carry Science Into the Stratosphere >>
* NASA Spacecraft Reaches Neptune on Its Way to Pluto >>
* Amazon buys game site Twitch >>

* Take a Flight Over a Massive Aurora >>
* What Problems Most Demand Science’s Attention Right Now? >>
* Robotics: How machines see the world >>

* Royal Caribbean’s New Cruise Ship Is One Giantic Floating Gadget >>
* Royal Caribbean’s latest ship sports a robot bar, super-fast connectivity >>
* The cruise ship of the future has robot bartenders and huge virtual balconies >>

* The rise and fall and rise of virtual reality >>
* Physicists remove outcome unpredictability of three atoms binding at ultracold temperatures >>
* What Can a Robot Bellhop Do That a Human Can’t? >>

* Ebola fight a ‘war’, says United Nations >>
* Ebola outbreak: Congo becomes fifth country with confirmed cases >>
* Ebola in Britain, is it time to panic? >>

* Can Solar Power Go Truly Transparent? >>
* Unbounded Robotics to Shut Down Due to Issues With Willow Garage Spin-Off Agreement >>
* Future phones to use blood, speech to monitor HIV, stress, nutrition >>

* New Hoverbike design Is A High-Flying Mix Between A Motorcycle And A Helicopter >>
* The Credit Card That’ll Replace All Your Plastic Is Finally Here (Kind Of) >>
* Seeing and touching a single synthetic molecular machine >>

* NSA built ‘Google-like’ search engine for metadata >>
* In The Future, Will Only Robots Celebrate Labor Day? >>
* How Skype Translator Learns Language from Social Media >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 August 2014

* Whole organ ‘grown’ in world first >>
* Methane vents bubble up off US coast >>
* New Eye Sensor Could Be Boon for Glaucoma Patients >>

* Baby X, The Intelligent Toddler Simulation, Is Getting Smarter Every Day >>
* 5 artificial organs getting better by the day >>
* Are you as old as what you eat? Researchers learn how to rejuvenate aging immune cells >>

* ‘Lemon Meringue Pie’ Could Be Android’s Most Delicious Branding Yet >>
* Northrop Grumman Shows Off Its Experimental Spaceplane Concept >>
* This Mooring Tool Is Next-Level Design Sorcery >>

* Breakthrough offers hope for diabetics >>
* Many staff let boss see Facebook page >>
* Internet of Things will cost companies more than they’re ready for >>

* Antarctic microbes can survive for millennia >>
* Can we trust robots? Better question: can robots trust us? >>
* The future of self-driving cars: welcome to Autocon 2035 >>

* Disney thinks it could turn drones into flying TV screens and puppet masters >>
* This robotic suit lets you sit in mid-air instead of a chair >>
* Goals and Predictions from the SENS 2014 Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference >>

* MIT Scientists Say Humans Would Rather Take Orders From Robots >>
* Actor Richard Attenborough dies at 90 >>
* Microsoft Has Nearly $93 Billion In Overseas Cash, And It’s Reduced Its Tax Bill By Almost $30 Billion >>

* Welcome to Mars. Here’s where you’ll be staying >>
* Hints of Mysterious Particle Detected in ‘Big Bang Soup’ >>
* Researchers Exploring The Use Of Quantum Physics To Enhance AI Technology >>

* Immune Reactions Against The Network Society at Singularity University >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 August 2014

* Wearables has become a household name. Could nearables be next? >>
* This robotic suit lets you sit in mid-air instead of a chair >>
* Microsoft DeLorean Kills Streaming Game Lag By Predicting Your Next Move >>

* If A Computer Can Diagnose Cancer, Will Doctors Become Obsolete? >>
* 3D-printed vertebra used in spine surgery >>
* Doctor Who episode 1: a guide to the cool science bits >>

* How lizards regenerate their tails: researchers discover genetic ‘recipe’ >>
* Will Quantum Dots Dominate Displays? >>
* SENS Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference-Keynote: Jim O’Neill >>

* Engineers develop damage-detecting ‘skin’ for airplanes >>
* Is Technology Shifting Our Moral Compass? >>
* Neuroscientists Discover Why Effective Motor Learning Requires Ample Sleep >>

* In the Future: Why the Robots Might Not Take Our Jobs After All: They Lack Common Sense >>
* Can a robot be too nice? >>
* Windows 9 Preview Could Feature Rapid Build Updates >>

* Google’s Voice Search App Will Now Understand Five Languages At Once >>
* Google’s Testing Self-Driving Cars In a Matrix-Style Simulation >>
* F-16s low level fly over Greenland look like snowspeeders over Hoth >>

* This Insane Stealth Attack Boat Is Begging to Be Part of the Navy >>
* Sails Driven by Diverging Neutral Particle Beams >>
* GPS Network Weighs Drought in the U.S. West >>

* Skype’s Real-Time Translator Learns How to Speak From Social Media >>
* Drone Fleets Could Monitor Bridge Safety >>
* This Is The Cat Experiment That Should Make You Feel Better About The Future Of Humanity >>

* Doctors Worry Over Apple HealthKit >>
* Ebola scare shuts down police cells for 8 hours >>
* Is it a plane? No, it’s a hoverbike >>

* Why some movie theaters encourage texting >>
* Scientists develop water splitter that runs on ordinary AAA battery >>
* Drinking coffee: Researchers say a cup of Joe ward off gum disease >>

* How to Catch Brain Waves in a Net >>
* Rejuvenation Biotech Conference has started in Santa Clara >>
* To Zero Out Data Center Air Conditioner Bills, Build It Next to an LNG Port >>

* FlipBot Is Why Your Car Needs a Tail >>
* Driving Tracker Zubie Wins First Nokia Connected Car Funding >>
* Graphene rubber bands: flexible, low-cost body sensors >>

* Remote-controlled cyborg moth ‘biobots’ to monitor emergency-response operations >>
* Navy uses high power laser to accelerate thin plastic foils to over 1180 kilometers per second >>
* Hypertelescope spread over 1 AU would allow imaging to 100 light years down to 2 meter resolution >>

* Matter-Antimatter Propulsion on-board Schwinger electron-positron pair becoming technically feasible >>
* Atomic Clock Will Fly to Space Station in 2016 >>
* Space station cosmonauts find life in the vacuum of space >>

* What Technological innovations Changed Life For The Worse? >>
* Scientists Have No Idea Why U.S. Teens Are Having Fewer Babies Than Ever >>
* Oracle CEO Larry Ellison turns 70 with no retirement in sight >>

* Baby, You Can Crash My Simulated Car >>
* The Top 7 Technology Trends Dominating 2014 >>
* Microsoft’s Windows 9 Unveil Said To Be Coming September 30 >>

* Storytelling App Steller Becomes More Of A Social Network >>
* Your smartphone can now tell you if you have a heart condition >>
* Google Glass’ new features let you switch chat methods on a whim >>

* Netflix Plus Oculus Hack Shows What Binging in Virtual Reality Is Like >>
* New Era in Safety When Cars Talk to One Another >>
* High ‘n’ Dry: GPS Offers New Way to Measure Drought >>

* We’re ALL aliens: Scientist claims discovery of plankton on ISS is proof that life on Earth came from outer space >>
* Traces of One of Universe’s First Stars Detected >>
* Researchers use 3-D printers to create custom medical implants >>

* Smartphone-loss anxiety disorder >>
* Zombies and Prosthetic Limbs? The Many Uses of 3D Scanners >>
* DOCOMO and Huawei confirm LTE network over unlicensed spectrum >>

* Razor-sharp TV pictures >>
* Hacking Gmail with 92 percent success >>
* Sprint unveils new unlimited data, talk and text plan >>

* Report: Microsoft to reveal Windows 9 next month >>
* ‘Star Wars’ infiltrates mobile with new ‘Commander’ game >>
* ‘Flappy Bird’ creator returns with ‘Swing Copters’ >>

* This app knows when your food will go bad >>
* Possible Ebola case in Ireland >>
* VIDEO: Google boss on taking down videos >>

* Bioengineering for Gene Therapy by David Schaffer #rejbio >>
* Peter Diamandis Delivers Keynote at SENS Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference >>
* Spacex reusable test rocket has exploded in midair >>

* UPower wants to make a container sized nuclear fission reactor by 2019 >>
* Graphene and Rubber Bands Could Revolutionize Health Monitoring >>
* Do Telepresence Robots Need Arms? >>

* Cell-Phone Data Might Help Predict Ebola’s Spread >>
* A Startup Hopes to Teach Computers to Spot Tumors in Medical Scans >>
* Microsoft DeLorean Kills Streaming Game Lag By Predicting Your Next Move >>

* NASA satellite set to help farmers combat drought >>
* Here’s a 4K time lapse of a spaceship burning up in the atmosphere >>
* Galileo satellites on wrong orbit >>

* An Astrophysicist in Search of E.T. >>
* Scientists can control a moth by using an implant >>
* Next Technologies! >>

* A Cure for Our Deflated Sense of The Future >>
* Andres Agostini Updates >>
* Study reveals how loud noises can damage hearing >>

* Happiness in schizophrenia ‘is not an oxymoron’ >>
* Children with autism ‘have too many synapses in their brain’ >>
* Blood sugar measured by laser may do away with pin pricks >>

* Brain teaser to exercise your mental rotation cognitive abilities >>
* How to speak the language of thought >>
* Virtually Human: The Promise—and the Peril—of Digital Immortality >>

* Our future government will work more like Amazon >>
* Man jailed for filming Fast And Furious in cinema >>
* How Artificially Intelligent Digital Textbooks Can Speed Learning >>

* Wireless location beacons are now the size of stickers >>
* New algorithm lets drones monitor their own health during long package-delivery missions >>
* Alzheimer’s patients to be treated with the blood of under-30s >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 August 2014

* World’s First 3D Printed Estate Coming To New York >>
* World’s first 3D printed vertebra implanted in 12-year-old boy >>
* Theaters in China, Screen Movies, and Viewers Text Messages >>

* Google Receives Takedown Request Every 8 Milliseconds >>
* Google Asked to Remove 1 Million Pirate Links Per Day >>
* How to Turn YouTube Into the Ultimate Streaming Music Service >>

* Adaptive Color-Changing Sheet Inspired By Octopus Skin >>
* PushBullet adds universal copy and paste across Windows, Android >>
* Russia’s New Space Program: Killing Asteroids and Lunar Exploration >>

* Google Patents a Less Obvious Tech-on-the-Inside Version of Glass >>
* Google claims to have made 890 improvements to search over the past year >>

* Less than two percent of the Hiroshima bomb’s uranium actually detonated >>
* Brain drain: Are we evolving stupidity? >>
* Life Found 800 Meters Down in Antarctic Subglacial Lake >>

* How the Human Brain Gets Its Wrinkles >>
* ADT refines its ‘recipes’ on smart home automation >>
* Most new jobs self-employed, ONS says >>

* Ebola Treatment May Emerge From Drug For Another Virus >>
* This Enormous Tablet Could Replace Your Kid’s TV >>
* You Can Unlock This High-Tech Padlock With Your Phone >>

* Coca-Cola’s Future Isn’t About Soda Anymore >>
* ‘Game Of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage To Star Off-Broadway With Taylor Schilling >>
* Wild Hong Kong Concept Tower Would Have Its Own Fish Farms And Rice Paddies >>

* This Scientist Is Creating The Perfect Pancreas To Treat His Son’s Diabetes >>
* The future is now and it’s terrifying – new cafe in China is run entirely by robots >>
* MIT Develops Brilliant Graphite Sponge that Converts Solar Energy into Steam >>

* LEDs Bring New Light to Car-to-Car Communication >>
* Silicon Valley Goes Long on Nuclear Fusion >>
* Google Wants Option to Test Autonomous Motorcycles and Trucks in California >>

* NASA Training ‘Swarmie’ Robots for Space Mining >>
* In the Center of the Lagoon Nebula >>
* Do gut bacteria control your mind? >>

* To Build the Ultimate Telescope >>
* Skype chat notifications will now only hit the device you’re using >>
* Researchers Find Security Flaws In Backscatter X-ray Scanners >>

* Robot apocalypse: unmanned drone flies autonomous recon droid to the battlefield >>
* Tiny accelerometer adds motion detection to clothes and cheap phones >>
* Parallels Desktop 10: Run Windows on Your Yosemite Mac >>

* It’s still pretty easy to hack traffic lights >>
* Netflix made an awesome virtual reality interface for the Oculus Rift >>
* The amateur geneticist who surprised science >>

* New dates rewrite Neanderthal story >>
* What will Google’s next decade look like? >>
* #ALGORITHMS: “Free Process Design Kit for 15 nanometer” >>

* SF Residents Can “Yo” A Smart Car To Take Them Anywhere >>
* A Second Act For The Internet Of Things >>
* The First Automata Trailer Is Finally Out and It Looks Spectacular >>

* Hakuto Dual Rovers Could Explore Moon Caves | Video >>
* Despite the Latest Creaks, the Internet Isn’t Close to Breaking >>
* The Next Battleground In The War Against Quantum Hacking >>

* How to Break Cryptography With Your Bare Hands >>
* Are copyrighted works only by and for humans? >>
* US Navy will Evaluate Lockheed Martin Industrial Exoskeletons >>

* Google’s fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank >>
* Researchers create engineered energy-absorbing material >>
* Bubbling down: Discovery suggests surprising uses for common bubbles >>

* Hate doing laundry? There’s an app to help you >>
* ‘Big Data’ Is One Of The Biggest Buzzwords In Tech That No One Has Figured Out Yet >>
* Your Every Wish Is Her Command >>

* Exploring the Multiverse in Modern Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Beyond >>
* The future of bacteria >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 August 2014

* A New Chip Could Add Motion Sensing to Clothing >>
* DARPA Thinks Less Armor Could Make Tanks Safer >>
* Your Phone Can Now Identify You Based On How You Type >>

* Hand Gesture Armband Myo Integrates With Google Glass >>
* Google’s Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit >>
* Watch A Robotic Copter Land On A Moving Platform >>

* Artificial cells mimic natural protein synthesis >>
* Baidu’s unmanned self-driving bicycles for China, prototype by end of year >>
* MIT Researchers Turn Used Car Batteries into Solar Cells >>

* 2014 Visionaries | Innovators Under 35 >>
* Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain >>
* Facial Recognition: Now Helping You Find Hot Dates, Cute Pets >>

* Future phones to use blood and speech to monitor HIV, stress, nutrition >>
* NASA Wants You to Sift Through Its Astronauts’ Photos >>
* Google Reportedly Prepping ‘Child-Safe’ Version of Services >>

* 2015 Corvette has a video recording of everything the valet did in your car >>
* How the World’s Largest Solar Plant Wants To Fix Its Fried Bird Problem >>
* The Smartwatch for Comprehensive Health >>

* Five Reasons We Think Dark Matter Exists (Synopsis) >>
* Steve Ballmer Leaves Microsoft Board After Sealing Deal For Clippers >>
* 2014 ISEC Space Elevator Conference >>

* The Myo Armband Can Make Google Glass Truly Hands-Free >>
* A Ride on the Not-So-Wayback Machine >>
* Start-up Profile: Pristine Is Bringing Google Glass to the Hospital >>

* Google Acquires Smart Travel Guide Startup Jetpac >>
* Vehicle-to-vehicle networks could save over 1,000 lives a year, US says >>

* Neuron circuit may enable pitch perception applications >>
* Secrets of how worms wriggle uncovered >>
* New loss mechanism for global 4G roaming >>

* Laser “lightning rods” channel electricity through thin air >>
* Google cars ‘designed to speed’ >>
* Brain stimulation ‘helps in stroke’ >>

* Rats in Spaaace! NASA Wants to Put Rodents on Space Station >>
* The World’s Biggest Cargo Ship Carrying Over 17,000 Crates, NBD >>
* NASA’s Greased Lightning Tests Vertical Takeoff >>

* The Bizarre History of X-Ray Records and Early Music Piracy >>
* Hirobo Unveils HX-1 Unmanned Electric Rescue Helicopter >>
* Device monitors key step in development of tumor metastases >>

* Why pygmy is only five feet tall: height allows tribesmen to travel through thick rainforest easily >>
* DARPA GXV-T developing technologies for armored fighting vehicles more mobile, effective >>
* New type of solar concentrator doesn’t block the view >>

* Sherpa: new Android assistant excels >> >>
* How Wi-Fi Could Revolutionize The Way We Use The Web >>
* Researchers demo ultra low-field nuclear magnetic resonance using Earth’s magnetic field >>

* Someone Calculated How Much Water Has Been Used in all ‘Ice Bucket Challenges’ >>
* Space Plane Tech Could Power Hypersonic Aircraft for US Military >>

* Don’t fear the robot car bomb >>
* Here’s What ‘Business Casual’ Really Means >>
* Google Glass App Connects Patients With Specialists Quickly >>

* Which cyborg implant should you get? >>
* Is this a superintelligent machine? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 August 2014

* Humin Adds Contexts of Time and Place to Contacts >>
* Pigs’ hearts transplanted into baboon hosts remain viable more than a year >>
* 500 million year reset for the immune system >>

* Scientists bypass spinal column non-invasively to trigger walking >>
* Could your workout charge your smartphone? >>
* Unmanned Drones Landing Autonomously Next to F-18s Is a Very Big Deal >>

* Here’s a Terrible Idea: Robot Cars With Adjustable Ethics Settings >>
* Body scanning: a hi-tech alternative to tailoring >>
* Cinema-style age ratings for online videos >>

* Motion controllers make great virtual reality lightsabers >>
* Tumblr to let your images get scanned for #brands >>
* ‘Stem cells show promise in stroke recovery’ >>

* Camouflage Technology Copies Cuttlefish Trick >>
* Spacex Falcon 9 First Stage Reentry Footage from Plane >>
* Optical Solver extrapolated to 240 zettaflops on a desktop in 2030 >>

* Scientists able to zoom in and out as the brain processes sound >>
* VertiKUL UAV Explores Practicalities of Delivery Drones >>

* The Emerging Pitfalls Of Nowcasting With Big Data >>
* How Fast You Drive Reveals Where You Drive >>
* The Routing Wall of Shame >>

* Spacewalker Throws 17,500+ MPH ‘Pitch’ To Deploy Satellite | Video >>
* ‘Ringing’ Star Enables Exoplanet’s Exact Diameter Calculation | Video >>
* Wanted: Unmanned Space Plane to Fly On the Cheap >>

* Scientific Error Delayed the Search for Alien Life >>
* Google Can Now Delete Your Past — But How Much Should Be Erased? >>

* South Africa’s New AHRLAC Fighter Is A Drone Alternative >>
* Google brings robust cluster scheduling to its cloud >>
* ‘Minecraft’ add-on helps you learn programming while you play >>

* Humin: The Next Billion-Dollar App? >>
* Julian Assange press conference this morning to announce that, he is leaving embassy >>
* Autonomous X-47B Flies In Formation With Fighter Aircraft >>

* This LED Flashlight Is Powered by Spherical Solar Cells >>
* Researchers Find Hundreds of Thousands of Woefully Insecure IoT Devices >>
* Machine Vision Reveals Previously Unknown Influences Between Great Artists >>

* Oculus Rift and STEMs make the ultimate lightsaber game possible >>
* Windows 9 public preview download expected in September >>
* The Internet will get worse, before it gets better >>

* Origami ‘space flowers’ to beam energy down to Earth: Huge orbiting power plant could unfurl like folded paper, says Nasa >>
* Time Travel: Dark Spots in Our Knowledge of Neptune >>

* Brain scans show ‘imbalance’ in emotional regulation circuits in teenagers >>
* Artificial cells act like the real thing >>
* Robotic Exoskeletons Giving (and Gaining) Support >>

* Microchip reveals how tumor cells transition to invasion >>
* Robot butlers dismissed as ‘gimmick’ >>
* Self-drive lorries ‘to get UK test’ >>

* “Lucy”: A Movie Review >>
* Vehicle-to-vehicle networks could save over 1,000 lives a year, US says >>
* The Bird Who Can Mimic Laser Guns and Camera Shutters >>

* Why not make a game of the gym? >>
* The World Looks A Lot More Sci-Fi With Real-Time Face Projection Mapping >>
* Hair loss reversed in alopecia areata sufferers >>

* Community Health Systems data hack hits 4.5 million >>
* How to speak the language of thought >>
* Could computers captain the world’s cargo ships? >>

* Own your body’s data >>
* Sharp’s New Phones Have So Little Bezel It’s Ridiculous\ >>
* Nasa plans to invade asteroids with cubes >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 August 2014

* How This Algorithm Detected The Ebola Outbreak Before Humans Could >>
* The internet is so big that it’s breaking routers >>
* Pattern Recognition Algorithm Recognizes When Drivers Are on the Phone >>

* Looking Ahead To Windows 9 >>
* World’s first ‘smartphone’ celebrates 20 years >>
* Gillmor Gang: What’s That Sound >>

* This Smartphone-Connected Device Will One Day Quickly Detect Your STDs >>
* Do Different Kinds Of Alcohol Get You Different Kinds Of Drunk? >>
* How DNA barcodes can beat the wildlife traffickers >>

* Robot hitchhiker nears end of 6000km journey across Canada >>
* Latest Google’s Voice Search allows you to choose up to five languages as your default >>
* Google Protects It Undersea Fiber Optic Cables… From Sharks >>

* This Pill Can Stop HIV >>
* Wonder What Google Street View Is Like With Sound? (Spoiler: Awesome) >>
* Paper; NASA Warping space time experiments need better detectors by 1 million x >>

* Could ‘genetically edited’ fruits avoid the GMO backlash? >>
* “Holey” Graphene Boosts Energy Density of Supercapacitors >>
* Video Friday: George Takei Meets Baxter, Jibo Origins, and Underwater Cake >>

* Introducing Project Voyager – Interstellar Trajectory and Mission Planning Tool >>
* Star Explosion’s Strange Shape Revealed in 3D (Video) >>
* How a 3D-Printed Wind Turbine Could Power Your Gadgets >>

* Cat owners claim their pets love ice cream and doughnuts, but it’s the fat they enjoy. >>
* Samsung + SmartThings: Will the Internet of Things Stay Open? >>
* You Are Not Nearly Scared Enough About Ebola >>

* Startup builds intrusion prevention system for home networks >>
* Flying Cars? Not Yet — But Electric-Powered Skates Have Finally Arrived >>
* In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty >>

* 60,000 Oculus Rift DK2 Orders, 20,000+ Units Shipped, New Orders Ship In October >>
* Bill Gates Answers Ice Bucket Challenge With World’s Nerdiest Video >>
* Cars may soon know when you’re on the phone behind the wheel >>

* Intel’s next Xeon chip stuffs up to 18 cores into very powerful PCs >>
* Can’t Wait for Windows 9? It Could Be Coming Sooner Than You Think >>
* Are Google’s Underwater Cables at Risk for Shark Attacks? >>

* Cheaper solid state batteries hint at longer-lasting wearables >>
* Does net neutrality really matter? >>
* The next industrial revolution will be robot-based (video) >>

* Drug Could Regrow Hair in Some with Hair Loss >>
* Smart Tattoo Produces Electrical Power From Your Sweat >>
* Researchers develop defense against cyberattacks >>

* Revolutionary Optalysis Optical Computer will reach exaFLOP speeds >>
* Quantum Machine Learning Google Tech Talk >>
* Huge advance in optical telescope interferometry developing to enable imaging exoplanets >>

* Megaprojects often needed for transformational impact but too many have budget overruns >>
* Icarus Interstellar has the X-Physics Propulsion & Power Project (XP4) >>
* Hospitals in the U.S. Get Ready for Ebola >>

* Would you pay $400 for a wearable personal trainer? >>
* New vaccine to prevent chikungunya developed >>
* With Ebola Cases Still Few, Populous Nigeria Has Chance to Halt Its Outbreak >>

* When will CGI actors replace human ones? >>
* China has 740 million living in cities now, 840 million in 2020, 1 billion 2030 >>
* Automated ‘road trains’ of lorries coming to Britain next year >>

* This $500 Machine Could Change How You Do Laundry >>
* How to hack the net-connected home >>
* Singularity 1 on 1: The Curiosity Cycle >>

* Workaholism: The Addiction of this Century >>
* What?! The universe appears to Be missing some light >>
* ‘Shape-shifting’ material could help reconstruct faces >>

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