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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 October 2014

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* Microsoft Band is a $199 smartwatch with GPS and two-day battery life >>
* Google Invents a Version of Google Glass with a built-in Projector >>

* VIDEO: Smart glasses light up for messages >>
* Projecting a robot’s intentions: New spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots’ minds >>
* Google Announces Project Ara Developer Conference, Shows Off First Prototype >>

* Scientists Set Their Sights on First Whole-Eye Transplant >>
* Google DeepMind acquisition researchers working on a Neural Turing Machine >>
* Why Everyone Wants to Kill the Mouse and Keyboard >>

* “3D Printer Creates World’s Best Inverter” >>
* Facebook gives away homebrewed OS monitoring tool >>
* Scripps Research Institute scientists capture picture of ‘MicroRNA’ in action >>

* Can Robots Learn Right From Wrong? >>
* FAA to drone pilots: fly near big sports events and face prison time >>
* Google AI project apes memory, programs (sort of) like a human >>

* Computers Could Talk Themselves into Giving Up Secrets >>
* Spain’s New “Google Tax” Could Be Bad for Everyone >>
* IBM’s New Computer Chip Copies Brain Function >>

* People are more likely to believe in aliens and ghosts than God, poll reveals >>
* Ebola Exacerbates West Africa’s Poverty Crisis >>
* Anarchic Autism Genetics Gain a Touch of Clarity >>

* New world record for a neutron scattering magnet >>
* Supersonic laser-propelled rockets >>
* NASA Releases Photos of Aftermath of Launchpad Explosion >>

* A Sexually Charged Turing Test Gets Creepy In Trailer For Ex Machina >>
* Brain Abnormalities Linked To Chronic Fatigue >>
* How Sneeze Particles Travel Inside An Airplane >>

* This Brain Decoder Can Read the Words of Your Inner Monologue >>
* Around A Star System | Space Wallpaper >>
* How To Give A Mouse Ebola >>

* Microsoft Unveils Fitness Smart Band That Understands Voice Commands >>
* Microsoft Band Hands-On: An Activity Tracker That’s Actually Smart >>
* Data for Your Watch Could Cost As Much As Data for Your Tablet >>

* MIT Visualizes What Robots Are Thinking >>
* LG’s New Smartphone Display Has the World’s Thinnest 0.7mm Bezel >>
* Nevada’s Mission To Build The Detroit Of Drones >>

* This Calculator Shows How Long It Will Take to Save a Million Dollars >>
* What Technologies Allow Airplanes To Carry On-Board WiFi? >>
* uBeam Nabs $10 Million In Funding From Upfront Ventures To Make Wireless Charging A Reality >>

* The Most Subscribed-To YouTube Channels >>
* The Last Phone You’ll Ever Buy: Google Demos New Lego-Style Smartphone >>

* MIT Professor Advocates Ending Asteroid Redirect Mission To Fund Asteroid Survey >>
* Lenovo Has Completed The $2.91 Billion Acquisition Of Motorola From Google >>
* Everything You Need To Know About The Internet Of Things >>

* Physicists pave the way for quantum interfaces >>
* China ramping up production of J15 fighter jet and HK6 bomber with cruise missiles >>

* Chinese Drivers Welcome Our New Robocar Overlords >>
* The Defibrillator Drone Is Another Good Drone Idea But Will It Work? >>

* Has Moore’s Law Become Moot for PCs? >>
* Harman Cancels Out Road Noise, Without Headphones >>
* The Origin of Democracy >>

* Sprouting ideas in 3D with a novel ‘blended reality’ device >>
* Army wants Soft Exoskeletons for 90% of the Soldiers >>
* Will a Breakthrough Solar Technology See the Light of Day? >>

* Scientists make human stomach tissue with stem cells >>
* The 10 greatest changes of the past 1,000 years >>
* Young Adults Are Living With Their Parents, But Not As Much As (Or Why) You Think >>

* Top 100 papers – Nature explores the most-cited research of all time. >>
* Life is quantum >>
* How Much Income Puts You in the 1 Percent if You’re 30, 40, or 50? >>

* The Big Future: What is the future of food? >>
* Samsung’s Gear S smartwatch coming to the US on November 7th >>
* How important is cross-platform support to the Microsoft Band? >>

* Ebola quarantine test looms in US >>
* Skin Patch Detects Multiple Protein Biomarkers for Blood-Free Disease Detection >>
* FUTURISM UPDATE (October 30, 2014) >>

* Solar electric cars: When your gas station is the sun >>
* Identifying the source of stem cells >>
* Autodesk Invests $100 Million Toward The First 3D Printing Fund >>

* POYNT >>
* BITalino’s Next-Gen Sensors Squeeze The Costs of Building Connected Health Apps >>
* 11 free tools to protect your online activity from surveillance >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 October 2014

October 30, 2014 Leave a comment

* Aerial Burton 3D display projects images into mid-air >>
* You Can Feel This Touchscreen That’s Made of Thin Air >>
* Computer with human-like learning will program itself >>

* Computers are learning to see the world like we do >>
* Tiny Human Stomachs Grown in Lab >>
* Android smartwatch ‘lasts a week’ >>

* YouTube now supports 60fps playback, and video games look amazing >>
* YouTube could soon charge for ad-free viewing >>

* Antares Explosion Won’t Alter Long Road To Asteroid Mining >>
* What Science Lost in the Antares Rocket Explosion >>
* Self-Driving Vehicles May Usher in a New Era of Extreme Driving >>

* Apple vs. Retail – who wins mobile payment war? >>
* Does the Universe Violate the Laws of Thermodynamics? >>
* Take a Google Seaview Tour of the World’s Most Stunning Coral Reefs >>

* Supersonic laser-propelled rockets >>
* Google’s Secretive DeepMind Start-up Unveils A “Neural Turing Machine” >>
* Tim Cook says the Apple Watch will run about one day on a charge >>

* Launchable Anchor for Rapid Bridging and Picosat links to improve radio communication >>
* Microwave Stethoscope Lets Physicians Peer Into the Lungs >>
* Facebook will give you serious money to make the internet more secure >>

* Service Robots Will Now Assist Customers at Lowe’s Store >>
* Experience design is shaping our future >>
* Google X plans to use magnetic nanoparticles and wearable detector to detect diseases >>

* Gas-spewing Icelandic volcano stuns scientists >>
* Using Big Data to Fight Range Anxiety in Electric Vehicles >>
* A Credit Card Terminal That Takes Apps >>

* The Planck Spacecraft: An Epic New Picture of Our Invisible, Dark Universe >>
* Say Hello to the USS North Dakota, America’s Newest Attack Sub >>

* The rise of the ‘quantified self’ >>
* Researchers At Brown University Shattered a Quantum Wave Function >>
* Microsoft cuts another 3,000 employees as part of its layoff of 18,000 >>

* Drones Could 3D-Map Scores of Hectares of Land In Just a Few Hours >>
* Internet TV services would get a massive boost from FCC’s proposed rule changes >>
* Flying car prototype could get you to work faster than a ‘Jetsons’ episode >>

* Cloth app uses weather forecasts to plan the perfect outfit >>
* How The Tech Sector Can Help Stop Ebola >>
* HP’s 3D-scanning ‘Sprout’ PC is unlike anything else the company has made >>

* 3D Printed Virus To Attack Cancer Cells >>
* Unmanned U.S. Atlas rocket blasts off with GPS satellite >>
* Ebola May be Slowing in Liberia, W.H.O. Says >>

* There Are 48 Billion Reasons Why Retailers Are Going To War With Apple >>
* MCX explains why CurrentC retailers can’t use Apple Pay >>
* ‘Operation’ inventor needs operation >>

* First Look: HP pushes into 3-D printing, Blended Reality >>
* Even World War III Won’t Prevent A Population Bomb, Say Scientists >>
* Stopping Ebola: How Small Changes Make a Big Difference >>

* Urban seismic network detects human sounds >>
* The science of charismatic voices >>

* The 8 Indispensable Elements of Real Wealth >>
* Autism screening closer as 100 genes linked to disorder are identified >>

* Does sex with more than 20 women really protect against prostate cancer? >>
* World’s richest man would take 220 years to spend his wealth >>
* First Direct Observations of How Roots Grow >>

* Microsoft Employees Are ‘Worn Out’ Over So Much Change >>
* Fiat Chrysler To Spinoff Ferrari With Public Offering >>
* Pope Francis says evolution is real and God is no wizard >>

* How Bay Area startups are altering the cinematic experience >>
* World’s fastest network can transmit 32 terabytes per second >>
* Google voice search with third-party apps is about to get really cool >>

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