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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 April 2015

* Windows 10 with Holograms Looks Freaking Awesome >>
* Nasa unveils shape-changing bird-like plane wing >>
* IBM Shows First Full Error Detection for Quantum Computers >>

* French firm proposes ‘submarine river’ to beat California drought >>
* Neurons constantly rewrite their DNA to store information >>

* Microsoft Build 2015 keynote in 9 minutes >>
* Huge news: Windows 10 can run reworked Android and iOS apps >>
* Microsoft Just Nonchalantly Showed Us the Single-Device UI of the Future >>
* Microsoft’s new browser is called Edge >>

* Microsoft HoloLens gets real with robotics, surgery, architecture >>
* Microsoft’s Continuum turns Windows 10 phones into tiny, full-blown Windows PCs >>
* This Is How Microsoft’s HoloLens Could Boost the Race to Colonize Mars >>
* Microsoft used this adorable robot to show off new HoloLens features >>

* Microsoft’s audacious plan to transform Android apps, iOS apps, and even websites into universal Windows apps >>
* Microsoft shows off how Cortana launches apps >>
* Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate With Support For Universal Apps >>
* All the Important Stuff Microsoft Announced at Build 2015 Today >>
* Windows 10’s web browser is called Microsoft Edge >>

* Smart pedals will track your stolen bike for $149 >>
* Fetch Robotics Introduces Fetch and Freight: Your Warehouse Is Now Automated >>
* How Oculus Story Studio Learned Storytelling in Virtual Reality >>

* 3d-printed Biomaterial Restores Babies’ Breathing >>
* Carrier billing is coming to all Windows devices >>
* NASA successfully tests shape-changing airplane wings >>

* Researchers Can Tell Twins Apart Because Of Environmental Changes To Dna >>
* Switching on one-shot learning in the brain >>
* New insight into how the brain makes memories >>

* Now Any Team Can Buy Performance Analysis Engine that Helped Win World Cup >>
* Sentinel’s Mission to Find 500,000 Near-Earth Asteroids >>
* Robot Taxis Will Reshape Urban Landscapes >>

* This “Liver On A Chip” Lets Researchers Forgo Animal Testing >>
* Is It Time To Phone E.T.? >>
* This Is What Happens Inside and Out When a Li-On Battery Explodes >>

* LG slaps SIX CORE Snapdragon 808 in LEATHER G4 >>
* A Computer Algorithm Can See When You’re Drunk >>

* One Doctor’s Quest to Save the World With Data >>
* You’re Worrying About the Wrong Bees >>
* HD 7924: Planets with a Robotic Assist >>

* Ten things you might not know about antimatter >>
* Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft to crash into Mercury, ending mission >>
* Bill Gates made these 15 predictions in 1999 — it’s scary how accurate he was >>

* Spectacular 5th SpaceX Launch Sets Record Pace, Clears Path for Critical Flights Ahead >>
* How to Stop Killer Asteroids >>
* Novel Process Promises Atomically Thin Semiconductors for Electronics >>

* Reinforced microfibers for soft hydrogels breakthrough for printed cartilage 3D printed body parts >>
* IBM has four superconducting qubit error detection could eventually lead to large scale universal quantum computer >>
* Transparent Spinel aluminum for transparent armor, next generation lasers >>

* Dark Matter Is Necessary For The Origin Of Life >>
* Dark tattoos can throw off Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor >>
* IBM Researchers Can Now Spot Errors In Quantum Calculations >>

* Paper turned into an eco-friendly light-emitting display >>
* The Billion-Dollar Race to Reinvent the Computer Chip >>
* Human gene editing has arrived – here’s why it matters >>

* Most Countries Woefully Unprepared to Fight Resistant Superbugs >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 April 2015

* Feeding Tomorrow’s Billions: Bioprinted Meat, Vertical Farms, AI-Designed Recipes, and More >>
* Why you should root for a robot to take your doctor’s job >>
* This cuddly Japanese robot bear could be the future of elderly care >>

* China’s Hypersonic weapon project has underpowered supercomputer >>
* “Water May Have Been Abundant in First Billion Years After the Big Bang” >>
* DSAC: Paradigm Changer for Deep Space Navigation? >>

* DORA Telepresence Robot Gives You Fully Immersive Experience >>
* Micromotors to Boost Hydrogen Fuel Cells >>
* First X-ray Views Inside Overheating Lithium-ion Batteries >>

* The Hackers’ New Weapons: Routers and Printers >>
* App to Driver: Get Ready to Roll! >>
* A New Bionic Eye: Infrared Light-Powered Retina Implant Coming >>

* Progress to Magnesium ion battery which theoretically could double lithium ion battery energy density >>
* Video: Star Wars Fan Builds Tiny Working Droid >>
* Google Now pulls info from 70 more Android apps >>

* Do We Live In A Hologram? The Idea Just Became A Little Less Crazy >>
* These leaked Windows 10 notification sounds hint at a soothing OS experience >>

* Tiny robot can carry 100 times its weight while climbing a wall >>
* 4B Vs. 7B: Can Facebook Overtake YouTube As No. 1 For Video Views And Advertisers? >>
* The best video editing apps for Android >>

* In-flight noise set to disappear thanks to lightweight membrane >>
* Tencent Introduces An Operating System For Smart Devices And Wearables >>
* ‘knobs’ Let Malaria Stiffen Up Blood Cell >>

* High-tech Lotion Heals Diabetic Wounds >>
* The Amazon Trees that Do Most to Slow Global Warming >>
* Neurons Translate Noises Into Brain ‘languages’ >>

* Nano Device Measures Molecule Shape >>
* Rna Catalogue Reveals Key To Brown Fat >>
* Ventless Heat Pump Dryer >>

* Track your stuff anywhere in the world, without GPS >>
* Lucasfilm veterans launch new VR outpost in L.A. >>
* Scientists discover reset ‘button’ for body clock >>

* The Theory of Cumulative Stress: How to Recover When Stress Builds Up >>
* Dog poo to be DNA tested in council plan to track down lazy owners >>
* The future could be filled with cyborgs roaming the streets just waiting to hack your Android phone >>

* Tomorrow, Microsoft will make a bunch of announcements that are vital to the company’s future >>
* When Robots Collude: Computers are adopting a legally questionable means to crush the competition >>
* Windows that act like an LCD screen >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 April 2015

* 5 billion people worldwide have no access to surgery: Report >>
* Facebook Messenger Launches Free VOIP Video Calls Over Cellular And Wi-Fi >>
* Novel polarization forms promise to radically increase data speeds >>

* DARPA’s steerable bullet proves it can hit moving targets >>
* Supersonic air keeps train tracks clear when weather sucks >>
* Ultrathin membrane makes plane cabins 100x quieter >>

* Google exec says that in the future the internet will be able to tell us things before we ask >>
* Drone footage shows utter devastation after massive Nepal earthquake >>

* A Portable Washing Machine That Doesn’t Need a Drop of Electricity >>
* This Tiny Robot Can Pull Weights 2,000 Times Heavier Than It >>
* ‘Airbag’ jacket gives riders extra protection >>

* Location Is Your Most Critical Data, and Everyone’s Watching >>
* ’4-D printing’ objects that morph based on stimuli like water and heat >>
* A cheaper magnetic material for cars, wind turbines >>

* Screw Wearables—Now Wi-Fi Will Monitor Your Body >>
* Printing Out the Internet Would Take About 136 Billion Pages of Paper >>
* The connected card ‘wallet replacement’ >>

* Experts stress on creating awareness about management and care in haemophilia >>
* Swollen neck glands may indicate cancer >>

* Easily Cut People and Objects From Photos With This Camera App >>
* Stephen Hawking issues ultimatum to humanity: Live in space or die out >>
* First HIV self-testing kit goes on sale in UK >>

* SpaceX Prepares Falcon 9 For Launch—and Reminds Us How Big Rockets Are >>
* Google Launches a Marketplace To Buy Patents From Interested Sellers >>
* Police can now tell identical twins apart – just melt their DNA >>

* Welcome To The Age Of 4D Printers >>
* The Future Of Marketing Automation >>
* Rethinking the Manufacturing Robot >>

* Cheaper Robots, Fewer Workers >>
* Why Facebook’s R&D spend is huge right now >>
* THIS IS HOW YOU’LL SHOP IN 2020 >>

* NASA Launches Project to Help Search for Alien Life >>
* NASA’s Messenger Mission Is Set to Crash Into Mercury >>
* Snacks On Space Station – Italian Astronaut Reveals Menu | Video >>

* SpaceX Picks Up Launch Pace; Sets April 27 Commercial Launch and May 5 Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test >>
* The Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors >>
* Computer Models Show Terror Birds Hunted by Sound >>

* 500 kilogram Esails could each provide 50 tons of water from Asteroid mining >>
* US plans at sea railgun tests in summer of 2016 >>
* Russian Navy wants eight supercarriers >>

* See The Microscopic World In Motion >>
* This Week’s TV: JK Rowling’s Post-Harry Potter Story Comes To Television >>
* Massive Earthquake Shakes Nepal; Avalanches On Everest >>

* A fast, high-quality, inexpensive 3-D camera >>
* Scanadu Raises $35M Series B To Check Your Pee And Scan Your Vitals >>

* uBeam’s Ultrasound Wireless Charging Is Real, And About To Be Really Funded >>
* How to download your entire Google search history >>
* How Exoplanets rebooted NASA’s search For life beyond Earth >>

* Neil Tyson’s ‘StarTalk’ Turns TV Talk Shows Topsy-Turvy (Op-Ed) >>
* Power of Nepal earthquake was equivalent to 20 huge atomic bombs >>
* It’s easy for investors to get caught up in the romance of the space industry. >>

* The coming problem of smartphones more intelligent than us >>
* Closer look at DNA reveals new clues to chronic diseases >>
* Armageddon is a bad model for saving Earth, but nukes might still be useful. >>

* Lenovo and Acer smartphones pack huge batteries >>
* A Cheap, Ubiquitous Earthquake Warning System >>
* Five billion people ‘have no access to safe surgery’ >>

* Graphene Could Enable Holographic 3-D Imaging on a Mobile Device >>
* Elon Musk’s SpaceX in space race breakthrough >>
* Dna Test Detects Beer Gone Bad >>

* Take X and add AI Entering an era of intelligent automation >>
* Potential Game Changers for the Near Future >>
* NASA –“Is It On the Verge of Discovering ‘Warp Bubbles’ Enabling Dreams of Interstellar Travel?” >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 April 2015

* NASA May Have Accidentally Created a Warp Field >>
* An Algorithm Set To Revolutionize 3-D Protein Structure Discovery >>
* Tiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their weight >>

* ULA’s New Vulcan Rocket Comes Back to Earth via Helicopter >>
* Scientists create the sensation of invisibility >>
* Navy researchers make bulletproof glass out of clay >>

* SpaceX’s Elon Musk Says Valve Glitch Caused Rocket Landing Crash >>
* MIT team’s wireless Vital-Radio could follow breathing, heart rate at home >>
* Generating broadband terahertz radiation from a microplasma in air >>

* Virtual reality experiment tricks people into thinking their body has disappeared >>
* There’s a startling difference between what men want in a wife and in a daughter >>

* Google’s core business is slowing down >>
* 15 smart questions to ask at the end of every job interview >>
* Cheaper Robots, Fewer Workers >>

* Microsoft, HP & Others About to Upend the 3D Printing Space Via New File Format >>
* 10 Things You Don’t Know About the Future >>
* Touching down on Mars could still be a far-off prospect >>

* Scientists Have Sequenced the Entire Genome of a Woolly Mammoth >>
* Hubble Telescope 25th Anniversary: NASA Celebrates Milestone With Stunning Photos >>
* ELON MUSK: I think we’ve got a decent shot of sending a person to Mars in 11 or 12 years >>

* Hackers briefly take over Tesla Twitter account, offer fake free car >>
* Facebook and Google help find Nepal earthquake survivors >>
* Game Of Angels Maps Tech Influence Networks >>

* Oculus Rift: 2015 Launch Unlikely, But Not Impossible >>
* Gillmor Gang: Time Machine >>
* Designing a roller coaster that’ll make you weep >>

* Age Of Companion Robots: Jibo, Pepper And Now Buddy >>
* Earthquake Devastates Nepal, Killing More Than 1,300 >>
* Google Deploys Person Finder Tool to Aid Victims of Nepal Earthquake >>

* Medical Robots Can Be Hacked During Surgery, Researchers Find >>
* Weekly Space Hangout – April 24, 2015: Bas Lansdorp, CEO of Mars One >>
* The Quantum Fabric of Space-Time >>

* How Will the Hubble Space Telescope Die? >>
* Huge Mirrors + Computers = Golden Age Of Astronomy | Video >>

* Google’s Project Fi aims to speed up mobile communications by tapping into free WiFi hotspots >>
* Charged holes in graphene increase energy storage capacity >>
* Project Fi: Innovating in connectivity and communication >>

* Seeing Buildings Shake With Software >>
* Brain cancer may grow faster the more you think >>
* Why Intel Is on the Cutting Edge of Smart Clothing >>

* Chip-card security remains scarce in wallets >>
* World’s first malaria vaccine could be available by October >>
* How our brain decodes sound >>

* Inside the US ‘border industrial complex’: spy tech meets immigration crackdown >>
* ‘Baby Shusher’ Device Shushes Crying Babies To Sleep With Sound [Video] >>
* Mitochondria editing tried in mice >>

* New Sony Ultra HD TVs speak Android just like your smartphone >>
* Scientists develop first liquid nanolaser >>
* Digital tattoo lets you control devices with mind power alone >>

* 3-D printed food >>
* There are at Least 11 Runaway Galaxies Screaming Across the Universe >>
* Amazing Video Happens To Capture Cabulco Volcano As It Starts Erupting >>

* Security Experts Hack Teleoperated Surgical Robot >>
* Liquid mercury found under Mexican pyramid could lead to king’s tomb >>
* You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 April 2015

* Digital tattoo lets you control devices with mind power alone >>
* Japan is sending a Smart Lander to the Moon in 2018 >>
* Microsoft Releases New Windows 10, It’s The Big One >>

* Mit Invention Turns Salt Water Into Drinking Water Using Solar Power >>
* Google Wants To Be Your Wireless Carrier >>
* Summer Movie Preview: 28 Movies To Geek Out On! >>

* A Smartphone Eye Exam Service Launches in New York >>
* Homemade Iron Man Glove Fires Lasers >>
* I want the world’s first head transplant’ – video >>

* Virtual Telescope Readied To Image Black Hole’s ‘Ring of Fire’ >>
* iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area >>

* You can pre-order Samsung’s new Gear VR for Galaxy S6 on April 24 >>
* Matternet To Test The First Real Drone Delivery System In Switzerland >>

* 3D-printed model of London’s buildings lets you see the future >>
* Blame Genes If Mosquitoes Like The Way You Smell >>
* Controversial Gene-Editing Approach Gains Ground >>

* Thousands of Apple Watch apps tested without the device — will they be any good? >>
* Audi and Amazon to try car-boot delivery service >>
* Tinnitus mapped inside human brain >>

* Mammoth genome sequence completed >>
* Hubble Telescope celebrates 25th anniversary >>

* The first YouTube video uploaded 10 years ago >>
* Facebook investors find out true cost of WhatsApp deal >>
* Sci-Fi Fans Rejoice! Avalanche of Sci-Fi Movie Trailers Released >>

* A test soon to detect kidney disease early >>
* Kerala scientist develops innovative emergency exit system >>
* This atomic clock will be accurate for 15 billion years >>

* Should We Arm the International Space Station With Lasers to Destroy Space Junk? >>
* Tesla Isn’t an Automaker. It’s a Battery Company >>
* Fly Through A 3D City Of Stars To Honor Hubble | Video >>

* “Alien Light” –A Key to the Discovery of Habitable Worlds >>
* NASA Mulls Spy Agency’s Telescopes for Dark-Energy Mission >>
* 3-D Printed Graphene Aerogels Could Improve Sensors and Batteries >>

* Documentary on eSports Shows Video Games in Transition >>
* Android Creator Andy Rubin’s Playground for Hardware Startups >>
* Proposal Would Put Laser Cannon on ISS to Blast Space Junk >>

* Baseball’s Player-tracking Statcast System Debuts >>
* Astronomy Picture of the Day >>
* Interactive biotechnology learning and design using games and remote-control labs >>

* How to identify which cancer drugs work best for each patient >>
* High-speed MRI technique captures complex vocal movements at 100 frames per second >>
* A research team finds that gene editing isn’t yet reliable enough to engineer the human species. >>

* Tesla’s New Battery Could Solve One of Solar Power’s Biggest Problems >>
* Pesticides giving bees a nicotine habit – study >>
* Emotional Intelligence Doesn’t Translate Across Borders >>

* Increasing the accuracy of genome editing >>
* How the movies are preparing us for our new robot overlords >>
* X Prize and Disney Team Up For ‘Create Tomorrowland’ Challenge | Video >>

* The Whole Universe Is MUCH Bigger Than The Observable Universe | Video >>
* NASA Uses Mars Rover Tech to Design the Perfect Urban Car >>
* A GPS-Equipped Falcon Could Keep Birds From Flying Into Wind Turbines >>

* For The First Time, Visible Light From An Exoplanet Detected >>
* Computer Program Diagnoses Cancer >>
* An Algorithm Set Revolutionizes 3-D Protein Structure Discovery >>

* Ancient Viruses, Once Foes, May Now Serve as Friends >>
* Google is still the Internet company to beat >>

* Ultra-sensitive sensor detects individual electrons >>
* Scientists use nanoscale building blocks and DNA ‘glue’ to shape 3D superlattices >>
* Mark Zuckerberg shared some simple advice for success: Don’t give up >>

* A 4D Printed Valve That Actuates According to Water Temperature >>
* 3D Printed Liver Model Saves Man’s Life in China >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 April 2015

* Google launches Project Fi mobile phone network >>
* Facebook launches Hello, aims to replace your Android phone’s dialer >>
* Not for everyone: Intel Compute Stick is a PC that fits in your pocket >>

* Wireless routers could spy on your breathing and heartbeat >>
* Device Automatically Tests Different Drugs In An Actual Tumor To Find The Best >>
* Drone Bombs Crops With Beneficial Bugs >>

* Tesla’s home battery: Elon Musk will unveil power pack next week, could slash electricity bills >>
* IQ Prediction from Structural MRI using Machine Learning >>
* Autism risk genes also linked to higher intelligence >>

* Drones Smuggle Contraband Over Prison Walls >>
* For The First Time, Researchers Edit The Genes Of Human Embryos >>

* Laser-enabled Iron Man glove could shoot your eye out >>
* Can the U.S. Go All-Electric? >>

* Here’s How The Moon Was Made | Video >>
* Researching Biomimetic Applied Technology to Mimic Biological Functions >>
* Soggy Computing: Liquid Devices Might Match the Brain’s Efficiency >>

* Baidu’s Boffin Describes Beijing’s Homegrown Self-Driving Car >>
* Building a New Home? Better Make It Solar Ready >>
* New WiFi system uses LED lights to boost bandwidth tenfold >>

* Scientists turn old smartphones into all-seeing eyes >>
* Acoustically driven controls go beyond a smartphone’s touch screen >>
* Augmented Reality Glasses Are Coming To The Battlefield >>

* Project Fi: Google’s Plan To Fix Your Wireless Service Is Here >>
* Google finally pulls the curtain off ts Project Fi wireless service >>
* Google’s ‘Project Fi’ wireless service is officially here >>

* Say hi to Fi: A new way to say hello >>
* Don’t expect Google’s wireless phone service to have a major impact just yet >>
* Google Introduces Wireless Service Called Project Fi >>

* Facebook Hello shows who’s calling your Android phone >>
* Facebook launches Hello, aims to replace your Android phone’s dialer >>
* The 3D Future of Sound >>

* Intel Compute Stick Review: Don’t Buy It >>
* Intel ‘Compute Stick’ PC-Over-HDMI Dongle Launched, Tested >>
* Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer >>

* Virtual Reality Games Can Improve Memory Retention of Safety Instructions >>
* Mini’s weird-looking AR goggles are actually useful >>
* It’s No Hoverboard, But This Levitating Light Bulb Is Still a Neat Trick >>

* Trillions Will Depend on Whether Driverless Cars Require Human Drivers >>
* Emerging technologies are disrupting product design life cycles >>
* Predicting A Future Where Products Are Parented >>

* The Vast Implications Of The Networked Economy >>
* Mobile money transfers to Africa expected to hit $33 billion this year >>
* Could Scientists Re-grow Teeth In The Lab? >>

* The Age of Wind and Solar Is Closer Than You Think >>
* Defense Mobile launches wireless service for vets >>

* Computer-assisted diagnosis tool helps physicians assess skin conditions >>
* Lethal liver cancer can be spotted early >>
* Russia wants to build a supercarrier, and it’s a total waste >>

* Intel’s 10nm Secrets likely Quantum well FETs, germanium, InGaAs >>
* TSMC discusses 10 nanometer roadmap >>
* Asleep-Yet-Aware Electronics Could lower power usage of Remote Wireless Sensors by 1000x >>

* NASA 3D Prints the World’s First Full-Scale Copper Rocket Engine Part >>
* Germ-Line (inheritable) human “improvement” via genetic engineering? The “Heinlein Solut >>
* The Future And You–April 22, 2015 >>

* A small drone found on roof of Japanese prime minister’s office — laced with radiation >>
* What about Earth’s Microbiome? >>
* New Genetic Tests for Breast Cancer Hold Promise >>

* Check Your Vitals w Wi-fi; Radar-inspired System Could Make Health-monitoring Devices Obsolete >>
* 3D Printer; Capable of Printing Advanced Materials Using New Pressurized Spray Technology >>
* 3D Printed Rocket Engine Project Goes to Next Level With Ignus Engine & Kickstarter >>

* China set for 20 gigawatts of solar after first quarter splurge doubles previous year >>
* Amazon wants to deliver packages to the trunk of your car >>
* Smart guns: They’re ready. Are we? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 April 2015

* Fungal Dna Can Be Used To Track Where A Speck Of Dust Came From >>
* Japan train breaks speed record >>
* Google’s wireless phone service may launch tomorrow and it will put the squeeze on big phone companies >>

* MIT Turns Thumbnail into Trackpad >>
* From Engineer to Manager: How to Cope With Promotion >>
* All-photonic Quantum Repeaters: a Major Step Towards a Worldwide Quantum Internet >>

* Laser-printed polysilicon transistors on paper >>
* How Benford’s Law Reveals Suspicious Activity on Twitter >>
* PR2 Robot Figures Out How to Make a Latte >>

* Russia printed mouse thyroid gland and are targeting a functioning bioprinted kidney in 2018 >>
* Better Architecture >>
* Genome Gambits >>

* Peace Through Grids >>
* Editing Human DNA >>
* Eat Your Veggies >>

* 40 Percent of Hanford Nuclear Waste Would Fit in One 5-km Deep Borehole >>
* Robots Test George Clooney’s Home Security In New Tomorrowland Trailer >>
* MIT’s Self-Assembling Table Could Change The Way You Build Ikea Furniture >>

* Maglev Train Exceeds 600km/h For World Record >>
* 3.46-Billion-Year-Old ‘Fossils’ Were Not Created By Life Forms >>
* Welcome to the Smart Garden of Edyn >>

* Gaming on the Apple Watch >>
* Babies feel pain just like adults: Study >>
* Listen to your heart to control behaviour >>

* Human hibernation may be possible >>
* ‘Liquid biopsy’ using blood test is latest weapon against cancer >>
* Scientists Have Discovered the Biggest Known ‘Structure’ In the Universe >>

* New gene therapy may cure childhood immune condition >>
* SpaceX has discovered what caused its Falcon 9 rocket to crash land and explode >>
* Elon Musk’s first wife explains what it takes to become a billionaire >>

* Study Tests Powdered Insulin to Prevent Diabetes >>
* Researcher warns of increased cancer risk with excess supplement use >>
* Scientists Are Using Electrodes to Remote-Control People >>

* New tabletop detector ‘sees’ single electrons >>
* Whiteboards of the future: New electronic paper could make inexpensive electronic displays >>
* 3D Printers Are Changing The Way People Think About Manufacturing >>

* Russia printed mouse thyroid gland and are targeting a functioning bioprinted kidney in 2018 >>
* 3D printers are churning out made-to-order bones and rudimentary organs >>
* Tomorrowland’s Problem Isn’t Tomorrow, It’s Yesterday >>

* “Supermassive Black Hole Exists Where It Shouldn’t Be” –Inside a Blob Galaxy >>
* Internet of Everything Is a Simply Massive Opportunity: $19 Trillion in Next Decade >>
* My bank is now staffed by a helpful robot >>

* Judge gives chimpanzees human rights for the first time (update) >>
* Drone-proofing The Boston Marathon >>
* Creepy Robot That Imitates Facial Expressions May Soon Greet You At Hotels >>

* New mass extinction event identified by geologists >>
* New Postal Service fleet could include drones >>
* 170-year-old champagne found in seabed reveals winemaking history >>

* IEEE chaps propose QoS for SDN across the public internet >>
* $250 DIY test for breast cancer: 10x times cheaper than existing tech >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 April 2015

* Incredible Technology: NASA’s Wild Airship Idea for Cloud Cities on Venus >>
* Unlucky Robot Gets Stranded Inside Fukushima Nuclear Reactor, Sends Back Critical Data >>
* Distributed and Cooperative Control Theory and its Application to Network Control Systems >>

* Camera Array Gives You Real-Time Third Person View As You Drive >>
* How Nicaraguan Villagers Built Their Own Electric Grid >>
* New Theory Leads to Gigahertz Antenna on a Chip >>

* A Potato Made with Gene Editing >>
* A New Source of Hydrogen for Fuel-Cell Vehicles >>
* Why Norway Is Ditching Fm Radio >>

* The Webb Telescope Construction Looks Like The World’s Best Erector Set >>
* Meet the Humanoid Robot Greeting Retail Customers in Japan Today >>
* This Is the First 3D-Printed Part That’s Approved for a Jet Engine >>

* How Do You Handle A Medical Emergency On A Mission To Mars? >>
* How Google’s Nest Will Make Residential Solar ‘Smarter’ >>
* Microsoft Embraces Apple Watch With OneDrive Update For Viewing Photos From Your Wrist >>

* Make Your Own BB-8 Droid From A Sphero >>
* How Facebook’s React Native Will Change Mobile Apps >>
* Emotional Intelligence Doesn’t Translate Across Borders >>

* New Browser Hack Can Spy On Eight Out Of Ten PCs >>
* ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk >>
* XPRIZE Contender Astrobotic Strives To Be FedEx To The Moon >>

* Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe >>
* Beating Internet Censors With Bittorrent’s Maelstrom Browser >>
* Can Fasting Slow Aging? >>

* Signs Ebola Spreads in Sex Prompt a C.D.C. Warning >>
* How location-aware app can get lost on WiFi >>
* Nasa scientists join search for extraterrestrial life >>

* Did you know there are 6 types of obesity? >>
* It’s official: Girls’ brains mature faster >>
* Google search changes will promote mobile-friendly sites >>

* Meet the personal robot chef >>
* New Jurassic World trailer shows why it took $190 million to make this summer blockbuster >>
* Researchers succeed in light-controlled molecule switching >>

* Bionic Ants, Robotic Butterflies and robotic chameleon tongue grippers >>
* The Machines Are Coming >>
* A Robot That Bought Drugs Online Is Now Free From Police Custody >>

* US Air Force confirms hypersonic SABRE engine is feasible >>
* Ocean floor submarines could hide forever like a Titanic wreck that actively evades detection >>

* Artificial meat tipped to flood low-end market >>
* Best power to weight ratio for electric motors in the 5 to 10 kilowatt per kg range >>
* How Facebook stumbled into India’s fight for net neutrality >>

* The Verge summer movie guide: the biggest and buzziest films of the season >>
* This designer made his own BB-8 Star Wars droid >>
* Sony’s Android-powered 4K TVs and new soundbars are coming in May >>

* Google-funded troll algorithm targets antisocial behavior >>
* Looking Ahead as Moore’s Law Turns 50: What’s Next for Computing? >>
* Solar plane aims for Chinese coast >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 April 2015

* Car Predicts Driving Mistakes Before They Happen >>
* Intelligent Streetlights To ‘watch’ Florida Residents >>
* Game-changing new method to treat stroke >>

* 50 galaxies could be hiding advanced alien life? suggests beings using stars for energy, >>
* Alien Supercivilizations Absent from 100,000 Nearby Galaxies >>

* Smell-o-phone creator attaches scents to eBooks and songs >>
* Raytheon given funding for DARPA hypersonic missile project including flight demonstrations  >>
* Software Could Automatically Put Your Vacation Photos in Perfect Order >>
* Gillmor Gang: Money for Nothing >>

* Scientists want to blast space debris with frickin’ lasers >>
* Rocket Lab Unveils “Electric” Rocket Engine >>
* Comcast to bring two-gigabit Internet service to Bay Area, boost existing tiers >>

* Google’s Project Loon close to launching thosands of balloons >>
* Shape-shifting robot reveals secrets of Fukushima reactor >>
* Japanese maglev train breaks its own world speed record >>

* Microsoft shows impressively accurate hand-tracking system for VR >>
* How Will The Transition To Self-Driving Cars Work? >>
* The X-47B’s first aerial refueling test will also be its last >>

* Landmark Deal Curbs Flaring Pollution >>
* How Corn Roots Got Better By Accident >>
* Learning to Make a Stone Age Axe Gives Clues to How the Brain Evolved >>

* Brain Scans Show Rebellious Teens React To Parents >>
* More than 800 million now use WhatsApp monthly >>

* SpaceX shipment arrives at space station with first espresso maker >>
* Forget TV — This Is the Best Streaming Service for Movies >>
* Q: How far away from earth will humans travel? >>

* A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport >>
* Material Development for reversible control of magnetism and superconductivity upon photoirradiation >>
* Nanoscale Bioinspired Metamaterials, breakthrough quantum laser tech from DARPA  >>

* The Year Of Mobile Payments >>
* Alpha-rhythm brain stimulation shown to boost creativity >>
* Amy Shira Teitel and “Breaking the Chains of Gravity” >>

* Scientists Map the Dark Matter Around Millions of Galaxies >>
* Mars Rover Curiosity Runs 10K on Red Planet >>
* The End is Near: NASA’s MESSENGER Now Running on Fumes >>

* Elon Musk Battery Singularity 1000 factories for Grid Storage and car domination >>
* Molybdenum Disulfide Gets a Boost as a Li-ion Electrode Material >>
* Singapore to Open Robocar Testing Facility >>

* Steering the epigenome to turn specific genes on >>
* Watch This Autonomous Drone Eat Fuel In The Sky >>

* Video Friday: Robotic Kitchen, Swarming Drones, and Robots Want Your Blood >>
* The Right Dose of Exercise for a Longer Life >>
* Giant galaxies die inside out >>

* 3D Printed Remote Controlled Snowblower Hits Kickstarter >>
* What it feels like to fly a drone with your brain >>
* If Algorithms Know All, How Much Should Humans Help? >>

* SpaceX’s biggest competitor is a company you’ve never heard of >>
* 24 of the toughest interview questions heard at Facebook >>

* How computers got amazing: Moore’s Law at 50 >>
* People don’t believe China’s growth figures, truth about the economy could be far worse >>
* Fintech Startups Navigate Legal Gray Areas To Build Billion-Dollar Companies >>

* R&D grant boost for sensory product >>
* Sony’s Ultra HD 4K TVs that are thinner than an iPhone 6 will arrive this summer >>

* In the beginning: How Earth got its continents >>
* Blood Test Shows Promise as Alternative to Cancer Biopsy >>
* Cutting the Cord: Few options for streaming live news >>

* Mini augments ride with X-ray specs >>
* Humanoid Robot Han Can Respond To, Facial Expressions, Make Eye Contact, Engage In Conversation  >>

* The Unexplored Planet –NASA Spacecraft Begins 1st stage of Epic Pluto Probe >>
* Startup Ninebot with Smartphone Giant Xiaomi backing buys Segway for alternative transportation unification >>
* What directional shifts will technology take in the next 10 years? >>

* World’s First Battery Powered Rocket Could Slash Launch Costs >>
* Solar Power Battle Puts Hawaii at Forefront of Worldwide Changes >>

* Google is making a giant change this week that could crush millions of small businesses >>
* Microsoft demos another important Windows 10 feature for phones >>
* Germanwings Crash Exposes History of Denial on Risk of Pilot Suicide >>

* The Star Wars Teaser Trailer Has Added $2 Billion to Disney’s Value >>
* Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage >>
* Star Wars: Rogue One will be a prequel to the original trilogy >>
* George Lucas has not seen the new ‘Star Wars’ trailer >>
* First time George Lucas understood ‘Star Wars’ was a big hit, he was vacationing in Hawaii >>
* Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer 2 >>

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* Second Teaser For Star Wars: The Force Awakens >>
* Leaked Barge Video Reminds SpaceX How Close To Perfect The Landing Was >>

* Control your phone with a flick of your fingernail: Researchers reveal tiny trackpad that can be stuck to a thumbnail >>
* X-47B Demonstrates Unmanned Aerial Refueling For The First Time >>
* US navy shows off cannon-launched ‘swarming’ drones >>

* Putting a New Spin on Space Elevators >>
* Paper microphone may help charge your cellphone >>
* NASA released the most amazing video you’ll see all day >>

* What’s next after Hubble? Earth’s eye gets an epic upgrade >>
* 2025 tech predictions both thrilling and scary >>

* This self-heating coffee mug operates wirelessly >>
* How to get the entire immune system to attack cancer >>
* BMW’s Mini Will Augment Your Vision >>

* Giant Radio Telescope Peels Away Magnetic Field Shrouding Black Hole >>
* Made In Space Launches ‘Space-Grade’ 3D Printing Material for Sale >>
* A Pair Of Robot Hands To Help In The Kitchen >>

* G-HAT: Searching For Kardashev Type III >>
* DARPA 2016 Includes 150 kilowatt laser live fire tests >>
* Rethinking Radio; A novel changes my perception of radio waves >>

* University of Pennsylvania Unleashes Robot Jerboa Upon the World >>
* Warrior Web exosuit gets about a 10% net improvement in walking with load >>
* Robocop Delivers Pizza, Prevents Suicide >>

* What Microsoft Was for PCs, This Company Hopes to Be for Drones >>
* Into the Future: Transport >>

* The Navy Wants Anti-drone Lasers On Trucks >>
* How It Works: Large Hadron Collider To Chaotically Combine Particles >>
* A Failed Lab Experiment Accidentally Invented a Replacement For Cement >>

* Graphene spintronics is latest candidate to extend Moore’s Law >>
* Windows 10 finally gets drag-and-drop support for virtual desktops >>
* New Chemical Tools Lead To Targeted Cancer Drugs >>

* Netflix Sets Pricing Based On Local Piracy Rates >>

* HDMI 2.0 finally appears in a pair of Viewsonic 4K monitors >>
* Ubiquitous Commons: How To Regain Ownership Of Your Data In The Internet Of Things Era >>
* Beat the traffic and find cheaper gas with the best Android apps for drivers >>

* Mobile wallets more popular in Sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else >>
* It’s official: Meerkat is finally coming to Android >>
* Eye of the beholder: How colour vision made us human >>

* Blood Test Predicts Future Breast Cancer Risk >>
* Plane creates vibrant landscape painting by firing laser pulses >>

* New Test Lets Women Pick Their Best IVF Embryo >>
* Robots go deep inside Fukushima nuclear plant to map radiation >>

* Hackers Could Commandeer New Planes Through Passenger Wi-Fi >>
* The 4 Steps That Transform Physics Theories Into Groundbreaking New Technologies >>

* Facebook brings back the away message in a new mobile experiment >>
* Happiness passed between people by scent, say scientists >>
* The next pill you swallow might have a computer chip in it >>

* Stumbled Upon a 3D-Printed Movie and Video Game Prop Wonderland >>
* Leaked barge video shows SpaceX rocket landing up close >>

* MIT develops wireless trackpad for your thumbnail >>
* Parasitic populations solve algorithm problems in half the time >>
* Why Scientists Are Making Brain Cells From Skin >>

* Google adds ‘find my phone’ to Android app >>
* Device to help blind board bus >>
* NASA reveals first-ever colour image of Pluto >>

* NETFLIX CEO ON THE TV INDUSTRY: It had a great 50-year run, but it’s over now >>
* British snowboarder lands 1800 quadruple cork – video >>
* A top Internet of Things device will help reduce energy use on a large scale >>

* Google has an ingenious way to find your lost phone >>
* An electronic micropump to deliver treatments deep within the brain >>
* Kim Dotcom could be deported from New Zealand for a speeding conviction from 2010 >>

* Watch As Researchers Create Beating, 3D Printed Heart Organoid >>
* Japanese Designers Unveil an Amazing 3D Printed Titanium Bike >>
* The drone that never has to land: US Navy’s X-47B successfully completes first ever unmanned refuelling test in mid-air >>

* Scientists discover protein that boosts immunity to viruses and cancer >>
* Dark Matter –“Is a Parallel Universe That Could Harbor Rich Physics and Complex Behavior” >>
* Newfound Alien Planet Is One of the Farthest Ever Detected >>

* There is now an R2-D2 airplane >>
* J.J. Abrams shows off Apple Watch at Star Wars Celebration >>
* EP. 373: BECQUEREL EXPERIMENT (RADIATION) >>

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