Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 October 2014

* Laser physicists built a reversible tractor beam capable of retrieving tiny part >>
* Intel tablet’s 3D scanner will gauge depth of objects like a human eye >>
* Scientists create fully functional ‘organoids’ of human intestines >>

* Scientists can now simulate curved space-time in a lab >>
* New Organic Molecule, Precursor to Life Detected in Interstellar Space >>

* In Conversation MARC ANDREESSEN >>
* ANDREESSEN: The American Middle Class Is A Historical Accident >>
* Marc Andreessen Asks This Optimistic Question Every Time He Critiques A Startup >>

* Nigeria is Ebola-Free: Here’s What They Did Right >>
* FCC, Google cast eye over millimetre wireless >>
* Microsoft Poised to Launch Smartwatch With 2-Day Battery >>

* Scientists track Internet usage as it pulses across the globe daily (w/ Video) >>
* Predatory Fish Have Declined by Two Thirds in the Last Century >>
* Go Download iOS 8.1 Right Now >>

* ‘Starfish’ crystals could lead to 3D-printed pills >>
* The World’s Largest Battery-Electric Vehicle Is This Articulated Bus >>
* World’s biggest ship so big it can lift an OIL RIG, takes to the seas >>

* Wearable tech lets boss track your work, rest and play >>
* Power Plants Seek to Extend Life of Nuclear Reactors for Decades >>
* Watch amazing self driving car reach 150mph: Audi reveals first smart race car >>

* How An Intelligent Text Message Service Aims To Tackle Ebola In Western Africa >>
* Physics Explains Ingrown Toenails >>
* New Gold Rush: why banks are racing to be the first card in your Apple Pay >>

* African solar plan to power UK homes >>
* IBM to pay $1.5B to spin off chip division >>
* Listen up: It’s time to rename the smartphone >>

* Beyond LEDs: brighter, new energy-saving flat-panel lights based on carbon nanotubes >>
* Real Robots to Help Fight Ebola >>
* A tiny ultrasound-powered chip to serve as medical device >>

* Q&A with Futurist Martine Rothblatt >>
* Updated Prospects for Commercial Nuclear Fusion >>
* Teach-in: Techno-Utopianism & the Fate of the Earth >>

* What You Need To Know To Get Started With Apple Pay >>
* Ask Watson or Siri: Artificial intelligence is as elusive as ever >>
* Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” >>

* A mission to Mars should have an all-female crew, says Kate Green >>
* Visual voicemail hack makes your messages a hack snack >>
* CloudCannon Raises $500K To Make Designing Static Websites Simpler >>

* Manhattan, the TV Season’s Secret Weapon >>
* New 100 Gbps high-speed transatlantic network to benefit science collaborations >>
* FREEdi YouTube Player Enables Background YouTube Videos >>

* Whole exome sequencing closer to becoming ‘new family history’ >>
* Art Is Best Displayed In a Frame That Follows You Around >>
* 17 Things You Can Do in OS X Yosemite That You Couldn’t Do in Mavericks >>

* Resilience Is Key To Success For Most Startups, According To YC’s Justin Kan >>
* Ebola Is Ruled Out After Cruise Ship Carrying Hospital Worker Returns to Texas >>
* ‘Science gives children the skills to ask the right questions of society’ >>

* X-37B ‘very likely’ to be a SPY PLANE watching other countries, expert claims >>
* Apps Could Screen for Glaucoma When Doctors Can’t >>
* Suddenly, Google Looks Shaky >>

* White House halts research into ‘super strains’ of infectious diseases >>
* Mobile ambulance transforms healthcare >>
* How Ebola survivors’ blood is saving lives >>

* At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law >>
* Florida’s space race: The politicians battling over the cosmos >>
* BOW – First map hidden universe, pursuit of compact fusionm, new clues about depression >>

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