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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 July 2015

* Facebook Ready To Test Drones That Can Deliver Internet At 10 Gigabits A Second >>
* Google’s Balloons Will Provide An Entire Country With Wi-fi >>
* The World’s Biggest Free Form 3D Printer Is Being Used to Build Houses >>

* Robotic Rhythmic Gymnastics Should Be an Olympic Sport >>
* ScopeAR Beams An Expert To You Through Augmented Reality >>
* Trouble waking up? This ejector bed should fix that >>

* Google Will Start Mapping Pollution The Same Way They Map Streets >>
* A Cardboard Skateboard Is Surprisingly Durable >>
* Watson Can Help You Treat Your Diabetes >>

* Military Drone Looks For Missing School Teacher >>
* I Can’t Stop Watching This Automated Ping-Pong Death Machine >>
* The World’s Longest Urban Gondola Is Growing Into a Huge Network >>

* Farmers Stumbled on Genetics That Stop Chickens Loving Their Offspring >>
* UBER TO LEASE CARS DIRECTLY TO UBERX DRIVERS >>
* This Is How NASA Tests Planes for Safety >>

* How to uninstall programs and apps in Windows 10 >>
* Microsoft Office apps built for touch come to Windows 10 >>
* Women Significantly More Likely To Use 3-D Printers Than Men >>

* The Best Windows 10 Features You Probably Haven’t Heard About >>
* IBM Watson wants to give you health advice from your local CVS >>

* Use Windows 10’s individual display scaling to perfect your multi-monitor setup >>
* Windows 10 App For Xbox One Could Render Steam Machines Useless >>

* How to Tweak Windows 10 and Fix Its Minor Annoyances >>
* NASA plans smart air traffic control for drones >>
* Can We Spot Soldiers at Risk for PTSD? >>

* Facebook reveals plans for drone-based Internet in the sky >>
* First impressions: ‘Angry Birds 2’ takes flight >>
* ‘Men are more prone to mouth cancer, women breast cancer’ >>

* Build a Readable Bicycle Computer >>
* Robots Reveal How Water Striders Jump on Water >>
* Sri Lanka is the first country to sign up for Google Loon >>

* Speed Record for Light-Emitting Quantum Dots Hints at Faster Computing >>
* Jets, rockets, and computer models will help a British team break 1,600 km/h >>
* Finding Earth 2.0: 100 Year Starship Public Symposium 2015 >>

* Astronomy Picture of the Day >>
* Ride Along With The Philae Lander As It Crashes Into A Comet >>
* Let’s Talk About NASA’s Mission to Europa >>

* Sri Lanka is the first country to sign up for Google Loon >>
* Researchers engineered a protein factory inside a living cell for the first time >>
* MIT: “An Interior Ocean May be Driving Geologic Activity on Pluto” >>

* Sun’s Nudge On Asteroids Can Trigger Earth-Hit… Or Miss | Video >>
* Should Scientists Be Looking for the Last Life-Forms on Mars? >>
* NASA Working to Avoid Traffic Jams at Mars >>

* This Super Tall, Super Thin Tower Was Built Just To Test Elevators >>
* Meet The World’s Most Controversial Inflatable Yellow Duck >>
* Apple TV with Siri and App Store could finally arrive in September >>

* Here’s what’s next for Windows 10 >>
* How did you get that job: designing a parachute for NASA’s Mars rover >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 July 2015

* Nuclear Thermal Turbo Rocket with supercharged air augmentation >>
* Japan’s NTT to put home care robot’s in the homes of the elderly >>
* Researchers engineered a protein factory inside a living cell for the first time >>

* How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Drugs Better And Faster >>
* Half of Biomedical Research Studies Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny >>
* Japanese Telecom Companies Are Having a Robot Showdown >>

* The Most Important Movie of 2015 Is a VR Cartoon About a Hedgehog >>
* A Programming Language For Robot Swarms >>
* Nuclear Thermal Turbo Rocket with supercharged air augmentation >>

* Google App Puts Neural Networks on Your Phone to Translate Signs Offline >>
* The brain’s got rhythm >>

* How Stem Cells May Save Your Life—and Even Extend It >>
* Oculus Rift is letting travellers experience destinations in a whole new way before they visit >>

* Babies’ social skills linked to learning second language >>
* Plants send animal-like signals when under threat >>
* Smeg’s Newest Wall Ovens Hide Your Messes >>

* Inside the world’s quietest room >>
* GE describes its vision of next generation robots >>
* Subway Teams Up With PayPal On Mobile Payments >>

* Google search now helps users avoid long lines >>
* Search for Alien Life Ignites Battle over Giant Telescope >>
* Hackers take control of smart car via the internet >>

* As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change >>
* US Navy will field 100 kilowatt or stronger lasers and ten shot per minute railguns by 2020 >>
* We Should Not Ban ‘Killer Robots,’ and Here’s Why >>

* First MERS vaccine to be tested in monkeys shows promise >>
* Gene Mutation Early In Life Tied To Schizophrenia >>
* Drone Delivery Wouldn’t Mess Up Blood Samples >>

* Oculus premieres ‘Henry,’ a warm and fuzzy intro to virtual reality films >>
* Intel and Micron 3D XPoint Memory Kicks Off A Revolution >>
* Japanese scientists fire the world’s most powerful laser >>

* VR Chat Room AltspaceVR Raises $10.3M To Sell Virtual Events >>
* Japan’s NTT to put home care robot’s in the homes of the elderly >>
* What 3D XPoint says about the PC of the future >>

* Windows 10 launches with its fair share of bugs >>
* How to Do a Clean Install of Windows 10 >>
* Smart mirror monitors your face for telltale signs of disease >>

* Found! The Missing Piece in a Long-Standing Milky Way Puzzle >>
* Nova Blast Site Reveals Lithium In Astronomical First | Video >>
* NASA’s Next Megarocket Could Launch Mission to Europa >>

* Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crash Traced to Co-Pilot Error >>
* How ‘A Pac-Man’ Satellite Will Gobble Up Space Debris | Video >>
* When Innovation Fails >>

* Why Automated Cars Need New Traffic Laws >>
* Solar Cells Could Capture Infrared Rays for More Power >>
* Intel and Micron Announce “Revolutionary” Mystery Memory >>

* 10 Facts Everyone Should Know About Dark Matter >>
* Package Delivery by Drone >>

* How to Help Self-Driving Cars Make Ethical Decisions >>
* Drone Control: Here’s How Amazon Thinks Drones Should Fit Into U.S. Airspace >>
* A Health-Tracking App You Might Actually Stick With >>

* A Sensor for Logging People Traffic at the Gym or Café >>
* Non-volatile memory, 1000 times faster, 10 times denser than NAND Flash memory >>
* A simulated robot with bacterial brain >>

* How hybrid solar-cell materials may capture more solar energy >>
* Amazon Lays Out Its Vision for a Sky Thronging with Delivery Drones >>
* Google Translate Adds 20 Languages To Augmented Reality >>

* Why the Argument Against a Ban on Autonomous Killer Robots Falls Flat >>
* Japan Is a Sunkissed Paradise In This 4K Drone Footage >>
* Samsung sensor puts 16-megapixel cameras into slim phones >>

* MIT researchers figure out how to break Tor anonymity without cracking encryption >>
* MobileBeat 2015: How much do you drive a mobile-centric mentality across the organization? >>
* This Dutch windwheel holds 72 apartments and could power an entire town >>

* The Story Of Windows 10 From Inside Microsoft >>
* Windows 10 launch is a ‘new era’, says Microsoft boss >>

* This ultra-advanced luxury car feature is on affordable cars now >>
* Google’s Project Loon will cover the entirety of Sri Lanka with internet coverage >>
* Aurora found around brown dwarf beyond our Solar System >>

* How Do Ultra-Dense Galaxies Form? | Simulation >>
* How to Help Self-Driving Cars Make Ethical Decisions >>
* Scientists successfully edit human immune-system T cells >>

* Keeping a Steadier Eye on Proteins >>
* A scientist found a way to dry clothes using barely any energy >>
* Google is combining still images from Street View to animate real life >>

* It only took 2 weeks for the world’s most dangerous hacking forum to get back online after the FBI shut it down >>
* ‘Trillion-Dollar Asteroid’ Zooms by Earth as Scientists Watch (Video) >>
* The Military Will Test a New Terrifyingly Loud Noise Gun >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 July 2015

* The Windows 10 Era Is Now >>
* Stanford Students Teach Robots to Play Ping-pong, Land a Drone >>
* 3D XPoint storage technology 1,000 times faster than current SSDs >>

* Gobbling Up Space Debris: A Pac-Man Approach Proposed >>
* Neil Armstrong Spacesuit Funded, Smithsonian Takes Next ‘Giant Leap’ on Kickstarter >>
* Supersymmetry? –“Standard Model of Universe Fails to Explain Dark Matter/Energy” >>

* Let’s Build a Global Power Grid >>
* Terminator-like Vision Could Help Robots Do Our Dishes >>
* EmDrive Back in the News >>

* Directed energy combat lasers and microwave weapons brings dawn of entirely new era >>
* Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems >>

* Predicting the future isn’t easy >>
* Nintendo Wants To Turn Sleep Into A Game >>
* 60Tbps internet cable from Asia to America will plug into Telx barn >>

* Why Pluto Lacks Craters, and Why That’s So Freakishly Weird >>
* No, German Scientists Have Not Confirmed the “Impossible” EMDrive >>
* Scientists Tweak T Cells Using Crispr >>

* Scientists Can Turn Human Cells Into Working Lasers >>
* Intel and Micron Unveil 3D XPoint Memory, 1000x Speed and Endurance Over Flash >>
* Cloud-Based IDE Nitrous Names New CEO As It Starts Going After Professional Developers >>

* Set Win10’s Wi-Fi connections as metered to download forced updates at your own pace >>
* Windows 10 review >>
* Huge traffic expected for Win 10 upgrade >>
* Windows 10 installation files already sneaking onto Windows 7 and 8 PCs >>
* Windows 10: 7 Important Things To Know >>

* Google: Lock up your Compute Engine data with your own encryption keys >>
* Intel-Micron’s 3D XPoint: ‘1,000 times faster than flash, works like RAM’ >>

* Researchers boost solar energy by tapping infrared light >>
* Microsoft continues Android push with Arrow Launcher >>
* How To Talk About The Future Of Work >>

* Only 100 tigers left in Bangladesh after last count got it wrong >>
* New Material Would Win For Highest Melting Point >>
* ‘leaky’ Vaccines Can Make Viruses More Deadly >>

* Robotics Are Disrupting What It Means to Be Disabled >>
* MasterCard wants to let you purchase items by taking selfies >>
* SpaceShipTwo Crash – Sir Richard Branson Responds To NTSB Report | Video >>

* Ceres Resembles Saturn’s Icy Moons >>
* Hitchhiking Robot Can’t Get Out Of Massachusetts >>
* Scientists have discovered a new taste that could make food more delicious >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 July 2015

* The First White Laser >>
* Smart mirror monitors your face for telltale signs of disease >>
* This Tiny Light-Emitting Device Flashes 90 Billion Times a Second >>

* Flood-proof Testing >>
* Leading AI researchers, scientists call for a ban on autonomous weapons >>
* Optional Windows 10 utility blocks bad updates from messing with your PC >>

* Robots aren’t taking your jobs— and that’s the problem >>
* Wi-Fi ‘reflector’ hooks you up at 0.1 per cent of current power budget >>
* Decoded: How Malaria parasite enters liver >>

* China sets up first unmanned factory; all processes are operated by robots >>
* How the New Science of Game Stories Could Change the Future of Sports >>

* With Nuclear Deal, India Looks to Iran for Natural Gas >>
* Making Pig Fat into a Laser >>

* Google Rethinking User Profiles, Logins >>
* Kepler 452 b: What It Would Be Like to Live on Earth’s “Cousin” >>
* Do Blood Vessels Get Better As We Age? >>

* Simple Cooking Method Flushes Arsenic out of Rice >>
* GFSU researcher develops tool for treating DNA >>
* IISc stduent develops micro-hydro turbine for villagers >>

* What if a black hole met an antimatter black hole? >>
* Superfast light device for future computers >>
* Tiny ‘Cellular Lasers’ Could Aid Targeted Cancer Treatments >>

* Musk, Hawking, and Chomsky warn of impending robot wars fueled by AI >>
* Gallery: from nets to lasers, there’s a lot of new ways to take down drones >>

* The guys behind MegaBots say their giant fighting robot will pioneer an entirely new, worldwide sport >>
* Autonomous trucks: Daimler seeks licence for road tests >>
* New Horizons: Pluto may have ‘nitrogen glaciers’ >>

* Windows 10 release week: what to expect and how to download >>
* The Oculus Rift needed two years to get gaming right >>
* Deep Genomics applying Deep Learning AI to genomics >>

* When Machines Can Do Most Jobs—Passion, Creativity, and Reinvention Rule >>
* Moon Base Would Be Cheap with Help from Private Industry: Report >>
* Windows 10, Days Three and Four >>

* Andromeda Galaxy’s Secrets Revealed By Going Beyond Visible Light >>
* Windows 10 Suffers Last-Minute Control Panel Bug >>
* Microsoft tries the nearly-impossible with windows 10 launch >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 July 2015

* The ‘smart’ suit that can purify air >>
* IKEA has created the kitchen of 2025 — and there’s no stove or refrigerator >>
* China launches two satellites as it builds GPS rival >>

* A Scientist Deploys Light And Sound To Reveal The Brain >>
* Eye Drops Could Dissolve Cataracts >>

* Is The Windows 10 Store The Next Step For PC Apps And Games? >>
* Direct Thrust Measurements of an EMDrive and Evaluation of Possible Side-Effects >>

* Tiny surgical robot can bend and operate on hard-to-reach areas >>
* A Monitor With Built-In Wireless Charging Actually Makes A Lot of Sense >>
* Sky will reportedly launch its ‘SkyQ’ 4K box within weeks >>

* Scientists discover 113-million-year-old snake fossil with four legs >>
* You can now play the original Half-Life on Android watches >>
* The Internet Of Sound >>

* MIT Is Improving Object Recognition For Robots >>
* Geo-blocking Caused Massive Tv Piracy 20 Years Ago >>
* From Meals-on-Wheels to Dinner-by-Drone >>

* Using Algorithms to Determine Character >>
* HEVC Advance Announces H.265 Royalty Rates, Raises Some Hackles >>
* Currently Quantum computers might be where Rockets were at the time of Robert Goddard >>

* Studies show that spacing out learning over time works best >>
* Cutting the Cord: The shape of streaming things to come >>
* Pendulum clocks synchronise using sound pulses, scientists discover >>

* Sea surface temperatures to predict rainfall >>
* 30 movies that will inspire you to travel around the world >>
* New Zealander’s Self-Built ‘Skysphere’ Is The Retreat Of Your Dreams >>

* How Tiny Lab-Grown Human Brains Are Giving Big Insights Into Autism >>
* New Horizons Discovers Flowing Ices on Pluto >>
* China selling more military equipment to South American countries >>

* New night vision gear allows Soldiers to accurately shoot from hip >>
* Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human? >>
* Artificial Intelligence >>

* Robotics enhusiast creates genie for self >>
* Why pendulums swing in sync? Clock riddle solved >>
* Russia may put lasers on some Armata T-14 tanks and plans new missiles in Baltics >>

* Antibiotic Resistance Actually Makes Some Bacteria Stronger >>
* Intel Core I7-5775C Desktop Broadwell With Iris Pro 6200 Graphics Tested >>
* YouTube stars face off against old media at VidCon 2015 >>

* Sleep essential to remember learnt things >>
* Scary plane landing caught on camera >>
* Japan’s Asimo robot now speaks three languages >>

* Scientists remote control mouse brain with drugs and light >>
* Watch A Fighter Jet Take Off And Go… Straight Up >>
* You’ve been using antiperspirant the wrong way all this time >>

* Things I learned driving a supercar for the first time >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 July 2015

* Unreal Engine 4 Is Showing Gamers What High-powered Nostalgia Looks Like In 4k >>
* Star Wars VR Tech Demo Trailer >>
* Star Wars fan-made VR experience puts you in an X-Wing Fighter >>

* Metal Foam can allow lighter radiation shielding that is twice as effective as Aluminum >>
* Terrafugia premiers new next generation flying car TF-X™ Outer Mold Line >>

* Peter Diamandis on Disrupting the Education System >>
* Super-elastic conducting fibers for artificial muscles, sensors, capacitors >>

* Scientists have developed an eye drop that can dissolve cataracts >>
* This Week’s Awesome Stories from Around the Web >>
* Windows 10 Automatic Updates Start Causing Problems >>

* Climate Change Doomed the Mammoths >>
* Video gamers face tournament drug tests >>
* Unlocking rice immune system will benefit humanity: Scientists >>

* Researchers shed light on how damaged DNA is repaired >>
* TV maker VIZIO files for IPO >>
* Digital Life: Top 10 texting abbreviations >>

* Here’s the First Phone With an Antimicrobial Screen >>
* Oculus Rift took me for a ride in a real car during Honda’s trippy Dream Drive >>

* Gigabit Internet Access Now Supported By 84 US ISPs >>
* 9 reasons not to upgrade to Windows 10 — yet >>
* Mpaa Sues Movietube Sites Over Mass Piracy >>

* Terrafugia premiers new next generation flying car TF-X™ Outer Mold Line >>
* Researchers Boost Wireless Power Transfer with Magnetic Field Enhancement – five times better than metamaterials >>
* Super-elastic conducting fibers for artificial muscles, sensors, capacitors >>

* Building a Single-molecule Transistor from Scratch >>
* An anti-inflammatory ‘smart drug’ that activates only in high-inflammation areas >>
* Fly Through The Solar System At The Speed Of Light With This Video >>

* Windows 10, Day Two >>
* Hitch a Ride on New Horizons in Latest Flyover Animation from Pluto >>

* What Would Happen if a Massive Comet Struck the Sun? >>
* Gillmor Gang: Fare Trade >>
* A new technology could drastically extend your phone battery — but cellphones companies don’t want to use it >>

* Scientists warn that new drugs will require earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s >>
* Crackdown on hackers is bad for innovation >>

* iPhone 7 Concept Pictures And Video Released, Will The Next Generation iPhone Look Like This? >>
* Step forward for computing >>
* New drug treats depression in less than 24 hours with minimal side effects >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 July 2015

* The Web-Connected Car Is Cool, Until Hackers Cut Your Brakes >>
* Fly-bag Could Buffer Planes From Luggage Bombs >>
* Glaucoma Drug Stops Tb From ‘deploying Its Weapons’ >>

* Honda unveils new Silicon Valley innovation lab >>
* The flying car drives closer to reality >>
* Finally, a viable vaccine for Malaria, but can only fight one strain >>

* Drug companies eye ‘superhuman’ genes >>
* Soon, smart windows to control heat, light >>
* Have scientists found the key to eternal life? Discovery of how to switch off ageing process in worms could lead to mechanism being delayed in humans >>

* Windows 10, Day One >>
* I Installed Windows 10 and Now I’m Talking to My Computer >>
* Microsoft’s Windows 10 Store app will finally sell some decent games >>
* DirectX 12 FAQ: All about Windows 10’s supercharged graphics tech >>
* Windows Search Doesn’t Suck Anymore >>

* Scientists Identify Sixth Taste: Fat >>
* A Breathtaking View Of Pluto’s Hazy Atmosphere >>
* Remote Control of a Car, With No Phone Or Network Connection Required >>

* Watch This Swarm of Simple Robots Do Surprisingly Complex Things >>
* Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons >>
* Project Free Tv Streaming Site Shuts Down >>

* NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Exoplant closest to being like Earth >>
* New Pluto Color Images And Unexpected Atmospheric Discovery | Video >>
* Galaxy Graveyard May Be Overflowing with Dark Matter >>

* Earth’s ‘Older Cousin’ Orbits Sun-Like Star | Video >>
* China Building World’s Largest Radio Telescope–“Will Search for Intelligent Life Outside of Milky Way” >>
* Ripple at Edge of the Milky Way –“Reveals Veil of Dark Matter Cloaking a Dwarf Galaxy” >>

* Stretchable Conducting Fiber Provides Super Hero Capabilities >>
* Video Friday: Atlas Kicked, Tea-Brewing Robot, and Rodney Brooks’s Giant Brains >>
* VIDEO: Baseball Goes High Tech With Wearables for Pitchers >>

* Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons >>
* Could ‘Windbots’ Someday Explore the Skies of Jupiter? >>
* Nanostructured Glass Can Switch Between Blocking Heat and Blocking Light >>

* Ridiculously Elastic Conductive Fibers for Stretchable Circuits >>
* Controlling the Police Cameras >>
* How Next-Generation Fabrics Will Keep You Cool in Summer Heat >>

* World’s First Malaria Vaccine Takes Another Step Forward >>
* Adam Sandler Has Never Ruined A Movie As Much As He Ruins Pixels >>
* Watch planes cut straight through Paris by flying on top of a street >>

* Dogfights Of The Future Will Be Unmanned >>
* Hypersciences Wants To Drill Into The Earth With A Huge Gun >>
* Pluto is Something Way More Awesome Than a Mere Planet >>

* Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits >>
* Learning to cope with work in future >>
* Beam Of Light To Brain Turns On Stress In Mice >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 July 2015

* NASA discovers first near-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star >>
* Windbot Could Float Through the Clouds of Jupiter >>

* Hackers Commandeer a Moving Jeep >>
* Comet PanSTARRS, Moon, and Venus >>
* Visualization Scientist Robert Hurt Takes NASA’s Space Images And Makes Them Beautiful >>

* Scientists Want To Use Drones To Capture Whale Snot >>
* New Evidence That Sending People to Prison Makes Crime Worse >>
* App Used 23andme’s Dna Database To Block People From Sites Based On Race And Gender >>

* The Application Builder – Revolutionizing the Simulation Industry >>
* Skype Translator Likes to Swear in Chinese >>
* Apple patent shows TV remote with fingerprint scanner, smart home capabilities >>

* A Programming Language For Self-Organizing Swarms of Drones >>
* 3D-printed DNA ‘bunnies’ could deliver drugs into your body >>
* Engaging With the Sci-Tech of Self/Less’s Sci-Fi >>

* Menopause Moves Fat To Women’s Hearts >>
* Most Americans Live In Poverty At Least Once >>
* Android TV Review: Just What Your TV Doesn’t Need >>

* ADT and Nest team up to make the smart home more secure >>
* The personal value of IoT is all about connections >>
* So, Um, Starbucks May Be a Big Player in the Future of News >>

* Deep neural network program recognizes sketches more accurately than a human >>
* Scientists Are Hoarding Data And It’s Ruining Medical Research >>
* Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. >>

* Why is the Scale of the Universe so Freakishly Large? >>
* NASA Finds Closest Earth Twin Yet in Haul of 500 Alien Planets >>
* Exoplanet Kepler-452b: Closest Earth Twin in Pictures >>

* Earth’s ‘Older Cousin’ 60 Percent Bigger (And That’s A Good Thing!) | Video >>
* Astronomers Spot a Intriguing ‘5-Star’ Multiple System >>
* ULA Delta IV Rocket Launches July 23 with USAF High Capacity Satcom: Watch Live >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 July 2015

* Scientists want to send wind-powered robots to Jupiter >>
* Microwave Power Beaming May Launch Space Planes into Orbit >>
* The coolest flying car concept has helicopter blades and an electric motor >>

* Robots playing soccer at this year’s RoboCup is like watching toddlers learn to kick >>
* Can Big Data Algorithms Tell Better Stories Than Humans? >>
* Magic Leap patent reveals what may be the next augmented reality system >>

* System Does Wi-Fi in Occupied TV Channels >>
* Current nuclear reactors have 40-60 year operating lives but new nickel alloy could make 120 year reactor vessel >>
* Porous Silicon Battery Electrodes from Reeds >>

* British Navy Warship Tests a 3-D-Printed Drone at Sea >>
* Deep Genomics launches, uniting deep learning and genome biology >>
* NASA Tests New Robotic Refueling Hardware on International Space Station >>

* Bamboo-like Crystals Help Tiny Chip Wires Keep Shrinking >>
* Gamma-ray Rain from 3C 279 >>
* Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution >>

* XBMC’s Kodi media player officially hits the Play Store >>
* YouTube for Android Will Now Thankfully Display Vertical Videos Properly >>
* Oceans on Mars may have never existed: Study >>

* Star Wars VR Pitch Looks Like The Perfect Star Wars Game >>
* Military-grade drones could soon be chasing Australia’s feral animals >>
* Scientists Arm Cells With Tiny Lasers >>
* Quantum of solace – information can be rescued from a black hole >>

* Non-Stick Pans Lead the Way to More Efficient Solar Cells >>
* 3D printed smart cap can detect spoiled food via embedded sensors >>
Genetic engineering creates rice strain that makes less methane >>

* Woman is HIV-free for 12 years without taking drugs >>
* How to Build a Better Ocean Sensor Far from the Sea >>

* Will ‘factories’ Churn Out Billions Of Stem Cells? >>
* NASA to announce planet-hunting discoveries >>
* Humans may be able to live on moon in next decade >>

* Skin gets thinner in space. Experts look for a remedy >>
* Our Exclusive Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation Video May Self-Destruct >>
* Xprize Winner Garners $1.5 Million To Fix Oceans >>

* Do Computers Die Of Old Age? >>
* Could a Massive Collision Produce a Subsurface Ocean on Pluto? >>

* I Have A Radical But Possible Idea What The Apple Car Will Be >>
* Let This Video Show You How Air Bubbles Form, Rise, and Erupt in Sand >>

* Skype for Android 5.6 adds ‘Recent’ tab to catch up on all your conversations >>
* Watch this: The Soyuz rocket launch >>
* Xbox One Keyboard and mouse support ‘aren’t far away’ >>

* YouTube is making vertical videos more bearable on Android screens >>
* See Neil deGrasse Tyson explain the universe in 8 minutes >>
* Netflix Upgrades Its TV Apps To Save You A Few Clicks >>

* Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator from Boeing >>
* Scientists at work: understanding human cooperation in a changing world >>

* A Better Way to Keep Milk Fresh >>
* Computer Software Folds Dna Into Bunny Shapes >>
* What the Next Generation Needs to Thrive in Exponential Times >>

* Pluto’s Atmosphere Is Swept Back Like a Comet’s Tail >>
* Queen’s Dr. Brian May Assembles First Stereoscopic Pluto Image | Video >>
* New Horizons: New Mountains, Pluto’s Moons >>

* Mars Rover Curiosity Gives Advanced Sunspot Warning from Sun’s Far Side >>
* SpaceX ‘Complacent’ Before Rocket Explosion, Elon Musk Says >>
* Queen’s Dr. Brian May Assembles First Stereoscopic Pluto Image | Video >>

* Innovators Recognized at the 2015 IEEE Honors Ceremony >>
* Evidence of small scale farming 23000 years ago well before when full scale farming was “invented” some 12000 years ago >>
* The Internet Makes You Think You’re Smarter Than You Are: An Interview with Matthew Fisher >>

* GSP 2015 Closing Ceremony: Meet 20+ Startups With Revolution on the Brain >>
* Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator from Boeing >>
* Future Vertical Lift Twice as Far and twice as fast >>

* Chrome for iOS talks to smart devices through the web >>
* Robots cleaning up at Auckland Airport >>
* Korean researchers grow wafer-scale graphene on a silicon substrate >>

* International RoboSub Competition Happening Now In San Diego >>
* NASA Unveiling New Exoplanet Discovery from Kepler Telescope Thursday >>
* The CRISPR craze: genome editing technologies poised to revolutionize medicine and industry >>

* Phosphorene could lead to ultrathin solar cells >>
* 3D-printing basic electronic components >>
* The Frontiers Of Subatomic Physics (Synopsis) >>

* Common chemicals may act together to increase cancer risk, international study finds >>
* Deep neural network program recognizes sketches more accurately than a human >>
* Google’s Self-Driving Car Chief Defends Safety Record >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 July 2015

* NASA’s robotic gas station can now also inspect satellites >>
* Self-driving cars are coming to Australian roads >>
* Cars May Soon Understand More of What You Say >>

* Windows 10 launch events will include celebrities, concerts, and yes, upgrade help >>
* Space X Dragon spacecraft to get survival software update >>
* Mandatory Windows 10 updates will keep coming for a full decade >>

* Cortana in Windows 10 is coming to 6 more countries >>
* Microsoft’s first Windows 10 ads pull out the big guns: cute little kids >>
* Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2015 is available for download >>

* Virtual-Reality Films Could Put The Whole Industry In The Spotlight >>
* Camera Behind Awesome Pluto Imagery Explained | Video >>
* New Method Finds Best Exoplanet Candidates for Telescope Time >>

* The Habitable Planet Sweet Spot –Kepler Mission Yields Eight Candidates >>
* Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution >>
* Track your dog’s behavior with this smart collar >>

* Airport builds world’s first animal terminal – complete with flat-screen TVs >>
* Why a technologically enhanced future will be less good than we think >>

* Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It >>
* Pluto’s Moons! Oddly Shaped Hydra And Color Nix Images Reach Earth | Video >>
* Ernst Stuhlinger: Ion Propulsion to Mars >>

* Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2015 >>
* Hive: Planning To Turn The Hum Of Thousands Of Smart Meters Into A Supercomputer Platform >>

* “3-D Printable Electronics are Here with the Help of a Syringe” >>
* YouTubers will be the stars of its subscription service >>
* How Software Will Transform Employee Engagement >>

* Researchers Test Out a New Method of Managing Fear >>
* 6 Things You Should Know About Lab-grown Diamonds >>
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