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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 06 November 2014

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* 50 independent processes are at work in human brain >>
* Star Trek-style communicator lets you talk to friends at the touch of a button: $99 Onyx ‘comm-badge’ sends messages to up to 15 people >>
* Anti-burglary BULB: £124 light mimics your switching habits for to trick thieves when your house is empty >>

* MIT’s Augmented Reality Room Shows What Robots Are Thinking >>
* Plastic 3D-Printed Guns Just Got Ammo That Actually Works >>
* Could Dark Matter Make Invisible, Parallel Universes? >>

* Detangling Quantum Computers >>
* Why Google’s Cancer-Detecting Pill Is More Than Just Hype >>
* 5G is NOT 4G+1 >>

* Mercedes-Benz unveils concept vehicle that doubles up as a SOLAR PANEL >>
* Could we soon record our DREAMS? Headset uses brainwaves to give viewers snapshots of their subconscious mind >>
* Oculus CEO: New virtual reality headset ‘months away’ >>

* Limb cells ‘can turn into genitals’ >>
* Should marriage come with an expiry date? >>
* Drone on your doorstep: UK start-up trials delivery service >>

* World’s first solar cycle lane opening in the Netherlands >>
* 10 Innovations That Will Change Medicine In 2015 >>
* ‘Interstellar’: timely ode to space conquest >>

* The Quest for the Fountain of Youth >>
* SpaceShipTwo Crash: Mach 1 Is Still the Worst Place to Be In >>
* Digital is slippery >>

* India and China in 2025 >>
* How to Exchange Encrypted Messages on Any Website >>
* Google’s Half-Finished Attempt to Take Over the Living Room >>

* A Near-Term Sail Niche >>
* Building A Space Base, Part 3: Making Remote Robots Smart >>
* Satellite Debris Forces Space Station To Evade Threat Hours Before Collision Threat >>

* Is the Dark Matter 27% of the Universe Massive? “May be Dense as a Neutron Star, or the Nucleus of an Atom” >>
* Scallop-Like Nanobots Could Someday Swim Through Your Blood and Eyeballs >>
* Egg shape ‘helped birds survive’ asteroid impact >>

* UK’s fatty 4G networks SLOW DOWN. Too much Bacon, perhaps? >>
* A Clock So Precise That It Detects Tiny Shifts In The Flow Of Time >>

* A Wearable Walkie-Talkie Inspired by Star Trek’s Communicator >>
* The LHC Is Going to Produce 400PB of Data Every Year >>
* Watch This Carrier Drone Let Another Drone Take Off From It >>

* Fujitsu waves 50PB+ MONSTER at hyperscale storage freaks >>
* Google Drive Now Works Better With Desktop Applications >>

* See Google’s Smarter Take On Smart TV In Our Android TV Video Walkthrough >>
* Does Watson Know the Answer to IBM’s Woes? >>
* Bionic Bird Is An App-Controlled Drone That Flies Like A Flappy Bird >>

* Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again >>
* Gigabit Internet Connections Make Property Values Rise >>
* Orbital Sciences to Stop Using Suspect Russian Rocket Engine After Explosion >>

* Gmail Will Give Anyone an Invite to Inbox for One Hour Today >>
* How Sex Organs Get Their Start >>
* AGI, Consciousness, Science, and Self Governance: The Revolutions of Scientific Structure (55min) >>

* More Antiaging work from Harvard’s Sinclair Lab >>
* Wax Fuel Gives Hybrid Rockets More Oomph >>
* Orbital Science might turn to Spacex to Fulfill NASA Space Station Contracts >>

* Body Sensors Help Dogs ‘Talk’ to Humans >>
* Noviosense Eye Glucometer May Get Rid of Finger Pricks for Diabetics >>
* Experts fear privacy implications of Internet of Things >>

* The future of books is on your phone, not your tablet >>
* Can Brazil break away from the American web? >>
* Tech giant Intel backs schoolboy inventor >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 05 November 2014

November 5, 2014 Leave a comment

* DARPA-Funded Researchers Have Tested a Drone That Can Learn >>
* Scientists reverse ageing process in mice; early human trials showing ‘promising results’ >>

* This Video Proves How Incredible Video Game Graphics Are Going To Be Next Year >>
* Oculus Rift’s  $200 consumer version ‘months’ away >>
* Robotic Micro-Scallops Can Swim Through Your Eyeballs >>

* Samsung Will Start ‘From Scratch’ To Build Its Next Big Smartphone >>
* Microsoft’s top legal gun decries privacy “arms race” >>
* THE FUTURE OF GROCERY SHOPPING: 2014 [SLIDE DECK] >>

* World’s Most Powerful X-Ray-Making Accelerator To Open This Year On Long Island >>
* Drone shows airport operations from new cool perspective >>
* New F-35 fighter jet in first sea landing >>

* In Time For The Holidays, Stores Add Robot Sales Clerks >>
* The Internet-Connected Engine Will Change Trucking >>
* Drones And Eye-Trackers Inspire Intel’s $62 Million Venture Spree >>

* BlueSnap Raises $50 Million For Its Global Payment Processing Tech >>
* Oculus CEO Says Consumer Oculus Rift VR Headset Is “Months, Not Years” Away >>
* Nine Things You Don’t Know About The Gathering Of Your Personal Data >>

* Artificial intelligence: summoning the demon >>
* Google’s Nest thermostat becomes a faster learner with major software update >>
* DARPA’s Terahertz Breakthrough Could Help Ease Spectrum Crunch >>

* Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S now packs speedy LTE-Advanced data >>
* Well Balanced: hands-on with the final version of the Onewheel skateboard >>
* Skype’s Translator preview goes live for Windows 8.1 users >>

* In Smart Home, Retrofit May Be The Next Big Thing >>
* New ultrasound chip could be a leap forward in cheap medical imaging >>
* Scientists create possible precursor to life >>

* Ebola breakthrough as researchers reveal mouse that can display human symptoms when infected – allowing vaccines to be tested >>
* Struggling in the shadow of Silicon Valley wealth >>
* India’s ‘Uber’ for auto-rickshaws >>

* Scientists see mechanism for spontaneous HIV ‘cure’ >>
* Track your dog with a GPS collar to save 20pc on insurance >>
* This Video Proves How Incredible Video Game Graphics Are Going To Be Next Year >>

* Why Fabrics May Soon Yield More Health Data Than Devices >>
* Buying about $ 8 trillion of foreign assets and companies will prevent Chinese yuan from strengthening beyond 5 to 1 until about 2045 >>
* CMB Part 2: The “Smoking Gun” of the Big Bang (Synopsis) >>

* Tiny Cancer-Killing Death Rays: Spaser Therapy Proposed >>
* A Brain-Inspired Chip Takes to the Sky >>

* Moon and Earth from Chang’e 5-T1 >>
* Building A Space Base, Part 2: How Much Money Would It Take? >>
* Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Reveals Identity of Unknown Object at Center of Our Galaxy >>

* A New Kind of Atom Trap Chip for Quantum Computers >>
* The Internet Archive’s Created a Free Online Arcade With Over 900 Games >>
* This is how much better Batman ’66 looks on Blu-Ray >>

* How Wikipedia Data Is Revolutionising Flu Forecasting >>
* How to create metamaterials that work in all directions >>
* ‘Quantum holograms’ for information storage and computation >>

* Biomedical Entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg Is Up to Something Again >>
* Ending the age of steam with Supercritical CO2 >>
* First Terahertz Amplifier “Goes to 11” >>

* A New Voting Machine Could Make Sure Every Vote Really Counts >>
* How Wikipedia Data Is Revolutionising Flu Forecasting >>
* The Official Trailer For ‘Minions,’ The ‘Despicable Me’ Spinoff >>

* Genetic mechanism could offer new strategy in AIDS fight >>
* What if humans abandoned half the planet to wildlife? >>
* We may have a dengue vaccine by 2015, trial suggests >>

* Rosetta comet mission: Landing site named ‘Agilkia’ >>
* A Brain-Inspired Chip Takes to the Sky >>
* Nestlé 1st big buyer of Softbank’s Pepper robot >>

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