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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 April 2016
* Watch A Guy Fly A Homemade Hoverbike Around His Backyard >>
* Samsung’s second gear vr may be a standalone wireless headset >>
* Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps arrive for Windows 10 >>
* Genetic Secrets to Youthful Looks Revealed >>
* Google CEO predicts AI-fueled future >>
* Gene therapy reverses sight loss and is long-lasting >>
* Sony Is On A Mission Impossible – Its Contact Lens Now Can Record and Play Videos Too ! >>
* Will lasers allow driverless cars to run dark? >>
* Movidius puts deep learning chip in a USB drive >>
* The Oceans Are Running Low on Oxygen >>
* How Did Neurons Evolve Their Current Behaviors? >>
* Report: Microsoft Announcing New Xbox Hardware At E3 >>
* First Rocket Blasts Off From Russia’s New $2.7bn Cosmodrome >>
* App Volume Control Lets You Change Your Phone’s Volume Per App >>
* Could a Cellular Tweak ‘Switch Off’ Gray Hair? >>
* Thumb PC uses Google software to give computer vision to robots and drones >>
* Nasa Says It Will Help Spacex With Mars 2018 Mission >>
* European space agency will use four larger ion thrusters >>
* Collaborative Robots >>
* World View lands $15 million Series B to bring new stratosphere-flying platform to life >>
* Global smartphone market shrinks, year over year >>
* HIV antibodies guarded monkeys from the disease for six months >>
* Dyson Launches New ‘Supersonic’ Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care >>
* Apple Pay now available to ANZ customers in Australian banking first >>
* This Laser System Foreshadows A New Era In Ground-Based Astronomy >>
* Philips’ Hue 2.0 app adds a host of new ‘smart’ features >>
* Google and Fiat Chrysler are reportedly partnering on autonomous cars >>
* SpaceVR has a new plan for filming virtual reality in space >>
* Stanford’s Humanoid Diving Robot Takes on Undersea Archaeology and Coral Reefs >>
* The Fight Over the .africa Domain Name >>
* By 2030 Electric Vehicles with a 200 mile range will be lower cost than the cheapest car sold in the US in 2015 >>
* Darpa’s Future Tank Will Think Its Way Out Of Fights >>
* Scientists Create Primitive Sperm From Skin Cells >>
* This homemade hoverbike is the future of personal aviation >>
* Creating a Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel >>
* Plasmonics Make Electrochromic Polymers Fast Enough for Video >>
* We Finally Know What Happened to Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite >>
* Zap! This Awesome Laser-Armed Telescope Is Fully Operational (Photos) >>
* Flying Boeing’s ‘Starliner’ – New Simulators Teaching Astronauts | Video >>
* Paris Police Want to Fly Drones Over Crowds to Make Everyone Safer >>
* Windows 10 update message interrupts live weather report >>
* Minecraft is now available on the Samsung Gear VR >>
* Microsoft Is Storing Data in 10 Million Strands of DNA >>
* Tesla claims $190/kwh cost for battery packs today >>
* China’s push for driverless cars accelerates >>
* Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence >>
* Comcast Is Raising Its Data Caps From 300GB To 1TB >>
* Mark Zuckerberg Gains $4 Billion To Become World’s Sixth Richest Person Ahead Of Larry Ellison >>
* Samsung Launches Cloud Service Just For The ‘Internet Of Things’ >>
* Users average 50 minutes per day on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram >>
* Apple needs a hot new product, and it can’t be another iPhone >>
* How Far Into The Future Are You Still Yourself? >>
* Could This Brain Circuit Curb Binge Drinking? >>
* High-tech brings its smarts to buildings >>
* Sony swings to $1.4 bn full-year profit as PlayStation sales soar >>
* German nuclear plant hit by computer viruses >>
* Google CEO’s vision for the future sounds a lot like Microsoft’s >>
* Self-driving trucks will hit the road more quickly than cars >>
* Armies of these 3D-printing spiders could someday build aeroplanes and ships >>
* Programmable Radio for Cellular, IoT Hub, Military & “Not-Yet-Thought-Of” Applications >>
* Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study >>
* Mark Zuckerberg thinks AI will start outperforming humans in the next decade >>
* AltspaceVR Integrates With Slack For Private Meetings In Virtual Reality >>
* The secretive billionaire backed plans to harness fusion >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 April 2016
* Three Words: Spacex… Mars… 2018 >>
* Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk’s Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free >>
* Elon Musk’s Artificial Intelligence Group Opens A ‘gym’ To Train A.I. >>
* First drone command center installed on a Aircraft Carrier >>
* A 3d Map Of The Brain Shows How We Understand Language >>
* Oh Great, a Deep Diving Robot Is Going to Steal All Our Pirate Treasure >>
* Microsoft is buying 10 million molecules of custom DNA from a San Francisco startup >>
* Peter Thiel and Mitt Romney invested $100 million in a company that wants to be the Apple of smart homes >>
* You can now play ‘Minecraft’ in VR >>
* Japanese Monks Recorded the Climate for 700 Years >>
* Researchers create a first frequency comb of time-bin entangled qubits >>
* Bell Labs Forecasts Mobile Capacity Crunch >>
* Experimental cancer drug reverses intellectual disability in mice >>
* Brain-Controlled Drone Race: Pilots Use Only Thoughts To Maneuver Drones [Video] >>
* Big Data Tamps Down HIV Outbreaks >>
* Alarming Security Defects in SS7, the Global Cellular Network—and How to Fix Them >>
* Microsoft Buys Into DNA Data Storage >>
* Super Smart Ping Pong Table Teaches You How to Play Like a Pro >>
* The World’s Smallest Thermometer Is Made of DNA >>
* Samsung’s Gear 360 VR camera gets a release date >>
* Map of the brain’s word filing system could help us read minds >>
* Milky Way’s nearest galaxies may be new to the neighbourhood >>
* Massive lake discovered beneath Antarctica’s ice >>
* Turner, Criterion team up for movie service >>
* NASA releases ‘stunning’ solar flare video >>
* Nasa astronauts prepare for flight on commercial spacecraft >>
* Are Engineers Designing Their Robotic Replacements? >>
* Yahoo has caved to the man who wants Marissa Mayer fired — here’s what happens next >>
* You Can Protect Yourself from HIV After Unprotected Sex >>
* IoT Library: Mesh Networks Ideal for Smart Home Control Applications >>
* Is the internet causing dementia? >>
* Mars Comes to Earth: Scientists ‘Visit’ Red Planet with Augmented Reality >>
* This Dude Just Has A Working Jet Engine In His Garage >>
* SpaceX Will Launch Private Mars Missions as Soon as 2018 >>
* Warp Speed: The Hype of Hyperspace >>
* Cassini flybys probe the depths of Titan’s methane sea >>
* Do you trust robots? >>
* Seagate Starts Volume Shipments Of 10TB, Helium-Filled Enterprise Hard Drives >>
* 3-D printed foam outperforms traditional cellular materials in long-term stress >>
* “Peter Pan” generation costing parents £456 a year – as adult children demand luxuries including Netflix >>
* Tomorrow’s buildings: Smarter by design >>
* Real-time videos both amaze and disgust >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 April 2016
* ‘VR LAN party’ software launches for free on Thursday >>
* Your smartphone could be covered with camera ‘eyeballs’ in a few years >>
* ‘Death ray’ could be used at Heathrow to shut down flying drones >>
* ‘Network-Ready’ Dimmable LED Lighting Offers More Energy Savings >>
* Dubai wants 25 per cent of its cars to be driverless >>
* Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins >>
* Bathing in blue light before surgery may prevent organ damage >>
* James Webb’s mirror is revealed >>
* Customize Your Virtual Home With Holos From TuringVR >>
* Roll-to-Roll Flexible Electronics to Hit 100GHZ? >>
* The future of TV is arriving faster than anyone predicted >>
* When the new guy’s a robot >>
* Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts solar industry dominance in 12 years >>
* Former Spacex Founding Member Is Starting A New Small Rockets Company >>
* German Texters Get Street Signals In The Sidewalk >>
* DARPA is developing smarter, faster armored vehicles >>
* Scientists Create New Quantum State Of Water By Squeezing It >>
* Future Smartphones Will Tell You What’s Killing Your Plants >>
* Ford, Volvo, Google, Lyft and Uber start coalition for self-driving cars >>
* China’s New Security Dalek Is A Bad Idea >>
* Alert: Plants May Have Memories >>
* Plexiglass Gel Boosts Nanowire Battery Lifespan >>
* New Exoskeleton is less than half the price and weight of competition >>
* Russian future PAK-DA stealth bomber will have hypersonic weapons when the first planes are delivered in 2023 >>
* Your Phone Costs Energy—Even Before You Turn It On >>
* Ultra Powerful Burst from a Huge Distant Galaxy “May Help Find Missing Matter of the Universe” >>
* 6 VR Talks To Watch For At Google I/O >>
* Sensors in body armor will enable safe full contact weapons-based martial art competition >>
* When will AI and NLP actually turn Siri into your best friend? >>
* What If the Robot Utopia Leads to an Existential Crisis for Humans? >>
* Zero Zero’s Camera Drone Could Be a Robot Command Center in the Future >>
* The GeoOrbital Wheel Lets You Make Your Bike Electric in Minutes >>
* The Search for a Better Battery >>
* How the Power to Control Objects With Our Minds Stopped Being Science Fiction >>
* It’s the End of the Job as We Know It >>
* The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs >>
* Physicists might soon be able to prove one of Stephen Hawking’s theories on black holes >>
* These copper-clad luxury apartment buildings — will gradually turn green over time >>
* Basic income is a great idea, but one justification will guarantee its failure >>
* You’ve Never Seen Insect Portraits Like These >>
* Creeps Are Using a Neural Network to Dox Porn Actresses >>
* Nokia to acquire digital health company Withings >>
* Seeing atoms and molecules in action with an electron éye’ >>
* Chernobyl’s Radioactive Ruins Get a New Tomb >>
* I’ve screened over 300 people in the last 4 months — there are 2 huge mistakes job applicants are making right now >>
* Canada Confirms First Sexually Transmitted Zika Case >>
* Introducing Hover, An AI-Powered Indoor-Safe Camera Drone >>
* Gene Helps Mice Live Longer If They Exercise >>
* Does Anybody Have An Oculus Rift Yet? >>
* Oculus Rift’s Shipment Woes Are A Huge Opportunity For Playstation VR >>
* The flying camera that lets you take selfies without a stick >>
* Will IoT change how we interact with mobile apps? >>
* Hover, a self-flying camera drone, lands $25M for better aerial shots >>
* Mobile will play a key role in IoT rollout: Forrester Research >>
* India mandates all smartphones must come with a panic button >>
* Why Facebook Messenger Is A Threat To Google, Not Apple >>
* What the Google I/O schedule tells us about the future of Android >>
* Einstein’s theory of relativity faces satellite test >>
* Where in the world? The toughest travel quiz ever >>
* ‘We could destroy you,’ Obama warns ‘erratic’ North Korean leader >>
* Apple Is About To Report Its Worst Quarter In 13 Years >>
* Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy >>
* Two of SpaceX’s founders are working on a new rocket to launch micro-satellites >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 April 2016
* Machine learning rivals human skills in cancer detection >>
* Google is creating a startup haven to prevent staff from leaving >>
* The future is the trust economy >>
* Drone deliveries are arriving at a Japanese golf course >>
* Molecular mechanical computer design 100 billion times more energy efficient than best conventional computer >>
* Fully understand the IoT with this report >>
* NASA Is Launching a New X-Planes Program to Test Green Aviation Technology >>
* Drastic disruptions are underway in the energy market >>
* “E-tattoo” the next big thing in contactless payments? >>
* Drones Could Speed Up HIV Tests In Remote Areas >>
* British Astronaut Tim Peake Sets Off-World Record Running Marathon in Space >>
* Google launches start-up incubator Area 120 >>
* The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts >>
* How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running >>
* San Francisco becomes first US city to require solar panels on every new building >>
* Why your wallet is becoming the next platform >>
* Solar-powered plane lands after 3 day flight >>
* Final piece of type 1 diabetes puzzle solved >>
* Samsung Galaxy Note 6 could have curved screen and huge battery >>
* Can Wi-Fi industry keep up with IoT? >>
* Sensors in body armor will enable safe full contact weapons-based martial art competition >>
* IoT Sparks Clash of Carriers >>
* The Rise of A.I., Shifting Economies, and Corporate Consciousness Will Define the Future >>
* A New Theory of Time: X-tention is Simultaneously Discrete and Continuous >>
* CERN releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider data into open access >>
* Stunning Auroras From The Space Station In Ultra Hd – Videos >>
* Build a Twitter-Based Home Automation System with a Raspberry Pi >>
* IoT revenues up 15%; cloud computing a big driver >>
* Baidu building a self-driving team in Silicon Valley >>
* First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Aging? >>
* 10 Predictions For ‘Game Of Thrones’ As We Leave The Books Behind In Season Six >>
* Ready to throw away your keys? There’s an app for that >>
* Amazon same-day delivery less likely in black areas, report says >>
* First happiness genes have been located >>
* When will AI and NLP actually turn Siri into your best friend? >>
* ‘Reanimation’ firm is looking for ways to bring brain-dead people back to life >>
* Robots with human vision on the horizon after scientists crack brain’s ‘Enigma code’ >>
* Imagination: The Critical Future Skill >>
* Starshot and the Gravitational Lens >>
* Nearing affordable extraction of uranium from seawater >>
* Kiss Your TV Goodbye >>
* Scientists Have Been Using a Flawed Method to Diagnose Pain >>
* This Weekend, North Korea Launched A Missile From A Submarine >>
* The Raspberry Pi Camera Module Gets Upgraded to 8-Megapixels, Still Costs $25 >>
* NASA conducts the toughest test yet for drone traffic control >>
* 50% Of The Great Barrier Reef Is Dead Or Dying >>
* Penguin Populations Are Changing Dramatically >>
* Microsoft’s one-handed iPhone keyboard is here >>
* Researchers at MIT are using Legos to build interactive transportation maps >>
* More than 10 companies want to buy Yahoo, with some willing pay $8 billion for the core business >>
* Elon Musk: Tesla’s Autopilot is twice as safe as humans >>
* Tinker With a Neural Network in Your Browser >>
* Can AI fix education? We asked Bill Gates >>
* Zotac stuffed a PC into a backpack for untethered VR gaming >>
* MakerBot will no longer make its own 3D printers >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 April 2016
* Gene therapy has been used to reverse shortening telomere aging marker by 20 years in a human beings white blood cells >>
* Earth Day 2016 >>
* A battery you never have to replace >>
* First autonomous car track day set for this May >>
* Doom will be AI’s next big gaming challenge >>
* How virtual tourism will help enhance real-world travel >>
* Dog Claimed World’s Oldest Dies at 30 >>
* Carriers Creep to Virtual Networks >>
* Ray Kurzweil looks at progress and the future of nanotech, genetics and robotics over ten years after the Singularity is Near >>
* Highlights of Ray Kurzweil Playboy Interview >>
* Artificial Intelligence Fights Wildlife Poaching >>
* This mirror creates a 3D scan of your body to track your fitness >>
* The US smart home market has been struggling — here’s how and market will take off >>
* People buy smart home products for this one main reason >>
* Google believes its superior AI will be the key to its future >>
* MIT uses 4D maps to help robot teams navigate moving obstacles >>
* Chip Tracks Cells By Giving Each One A Digital Code >>
* The automation revolution and the rise of the creative economy >>
* How to make the world’s fastest flexible silicon transistor >>
* Why Super ‘clean’ Mice Make Lousy Test Subjects >>
* IoT gets down and dirty in Australian smart sewers trial >>
* Microsoft’s Translator app gets image recognition on Android >>
* Is the $400 Billion F-35’s ‘Brain’ Broken? >>
* Researchers Accidentally Make Batteries Last 400 Times Longer >>
* Find Out How Loud Your New Neighborhood Will Be Before You Move In >>
* Watch Out Spacex: China’s Space Start Up Industry Takes Flight >>
* How IoT security can benefit from machine learning >>
* Meet Brad, the AI interrogator: Virtual persona taught to tell when people are REALLY telling the truth >>
* Periods in Space Are Not That Different, Though a Bit More Complicated >>
* Lithium ion batteries could still enable an electric plane revolution >>
* Stanford Builds A Wind Tunnel For Birds And Drones >>
* Great Computers Never Die >>
* In Privacy Versus Security, End-to-End Encryption Is Definitely Winning >>
* When is making $20bn in three months not enough? When your name is Google’ >>
* New stronger steel will affordably make cars lighter and more fuel efficient >>
* Dawn Just Wants To Make All The Other Probes Look Bad >>
* Senate Bill Cuts Other NASA Programs to Fund SLS and Orion >>
* Violent Events in Milky Way Clusters of Massive Stars –“The Source of Rare Cosmic Rays” >>
* The Kepler Space Telescope Is Alive Again After Scaring the Hell Out of Everyone >>
* This Chatbot Is Like Having a Music Genius In Your Pocket >>
* Video: Leonardo Dicaprio Urges United Nations To Take Paris Climate Agreement Seriously >>
* The World’s Longest Rail Slide on Skis Feels Like It Goes on Forever >>
* Independence Day: Resurgence Trailer >>
* The Paris Climate Agreement Will Be Signed By More Than 150 Countries Today >>
* US Armed Services studying restart of F-22 stealth fighter production >>
* Join NASA for a #24Seven Celebration of Earth Day >>
* E.R. MEETS V.R. >>
* Elon Musk Is Working on Some Kind of Self-Driving Bus >>
* MIT creates a control algorithm for drone swarms >>
* Siri meets Apple’s recycling robot in new video — what could go wrong? Oh. >>
* Judge gene-edited crops by what they do, not how they are made >>
* First direct evidence of ancient Mars’s oxygen-rich atmosphere >>
* Tech Five: Microsoft, Alphabet shares tumble >>
* Artificial intelligence used to combat poaching >>
* IIST scientists set on cool research feat at its new Cold Atom Lab >>
* Facebook, Google campuses at risk of being flooded due to sea level rise >>
* This mega-yacht is a floating piece of family-friendly art >>
* Theory establishes a path to high-performance 2D semiconductor devices >>
* Tip your Uber driver >>
* NASA invests $67 million into solar electric propulsion for deep space exploration >>
* Don’t Run A 21st Century Business With 20th Century Phones >>
* Chinese Space Baby Research Lands In Mongolia >>
* 3d Systems Set To Show Off Their Industrial 3d Printing Tech As Part Of The Largest Hannover Messe 2016 Us Business Delegation >>
* Is Stonehenge a CEMETERY? >>
* Build Networks, Not Bots >>
* Technology Becomes Us: The Age of Human-Computer Interaction >>
* Scientists Closing in on Theory of Consciousness >>
* NASA seeks industry ideas for an advanced Mars satellite >>
* First gene therapy successful against human aging >>
* Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 April 2016
* Elon Musk just hinted Tesla working on autonomous mass transit service for crowded cities >>
* This smartphone-sized device can diagnose cancer in 20 minutes >>
* First Blood Test For Parkinson’s Detects Disease Much Sooner >>
* Sleeping away from home? Half your brain is still awake >>
* The foundations of schizophrenia may be laid down in the womb >>
* How the FCC’s massive airwaves auction will change America — and your phone service >>
* These Crazy Robots Are 3D Printers That Build Together >>
* Opera Now Has a Totally Free and Unlimited Built-In VPN >>
* To the Moon! Lunar XPRIZE team looks to send Wikipedia to space on homemade rover >>
* Facebook Messenger gets group calling with up to 50 friends >>
* Scientists design fast, flexible transistor for wearables >>
* We Still Haven’t Found a Fountain of Youth in Our DNA >>
* Emdrive experiments showing thrust replication and superconducting, Cannae drive demo, May 2016 >>
* System Can ID You by Your Brainwaves With 100 Percent Accuracy >>
* Google is turning its search engine into a live TV guide >>
* 30 million U.S. homes could add smart tech over the next year >>
* The 50 games you can’t miss in 2016 >>
* Hubble Catches A Star Blowing A Bubble >>
* This Futuristic Ion Engine Could Carry Our Luggage To Mars >>
* Summer Movie Preview: 35 Movies to Watch Out For >>
* Airbus Wants Your Delivery Drone Designs >>
* How One Blind Marathon Runner Is Using Technology To Run Solo >>
* “Smart Homes?” Not Until They’re Less Dependent On The Internet >>
* New Nanowire Batteries Can Be Charged More Than 100,000 Times >>
* YouTube, Advanced Technology, And The “Billion-People Problem” >>
* Acer reveals new Predator gaming desktop, notebook and display >>
* What Chatbots Reveal About Our Own Shortcomings >>
* Meet the nanomachines that could drive a medical revolution >>
* Windows 10 Mobile preview lets you text from your PC >>
* The buzz of your skull can be used to tell exactly who you are >>
* Containing Chernobyl for the Next 100 Years >>
* We Need More Space Probes to Venus >>
* Half a degree extra warming would lead to catastrophic impacts >>
* Scientists unveil the ‘most clever CRISPR gadget’ so far >>
* UC Irvine invents nanowire battery material with off-the-charts charging capacity >>
* Hacking the Origins of Visible-and-Dark Matter >>
* What Are Cosmic Rays? >>
* Hologenomes –“Complex Microbial Communities Steer Human Evolution” >>
* A Two Million Year Old Explosion Is Raining Debris On Our Planet >>
* Sun-powered Solar Impulse resumes its round-the-world flight >>
* Flying selfie stick ready to upgrade your selfie game >>
* This Solar Power Plant Can Run All Night >>
* Magic Leap used Robert Scoble’s infamous Google Glass shower shot in its patent filings >>
* Ring Video Doorbell >>
* Mapping the unborn >>
* What’s virtual reality without a headset? >>
* Alphabet’s crazy moonshots are growing revenues faster than losses >>
* Antbo is an insect robot you can build >>
* IBM Layoff Epidemic Spreads Worldwide >>
* How To Land A Job Before Graduation >>
* This Kid Knows His Way Around a Deck of Cards >>
* Queen Elizabeth II turns 90 >>
* Prince remembered in Silicon Valley as innovator, advocate for Black youth >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 April 2016
* Magic Leap’s Newest Project Is Hololens Meets Google Glass >>
* Can We Shift Asteroids’ Orbits? Propose Mission >>
* Moon Rocks’ Radioactive Iron Suggests Supernova Blasted Earth >>
* Sewer Robots Sift Data From Raw Human Waste >>
* Watch The Air Force Set A Maglev Speed Record 663mph >>
* Nasa Wants New Designs For Ways We Could Live In Deep Space >>
* Watch SpaceX bring its history-making rocket back home on an epically long trailer truck >>
* Scientists want to use nanobots to suck pollutants from the ocean >>
* The Way Cancer Cells Spread Is Even Scarier Than We Thought >>
* 3d Printed Microscope Chamber Cuts Cost By 50x >>
* Ge Global Research Uses 3d Printing To Create Mini Turbine That Can Power 10,000 Homes >>
* This duck is waddling around again thanks to his new 3D-printed feet >>
* If Magic Leap is really that good, Apple should buy it >>
* Don’t call it a lens: Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz displaying his company’s mysterious photonic lightfield chip >>
* Exclusive Footage of What It’s Like to See Through Magic Leap >>
* Huawei VR is first with 360-degree sound >>
* MIT students invented a robotic kitchen that could revolutionise fast food >>
* The Long Decline of the Dinosaurs >>
* Australian Postal Service Tests Drone Delivery >>
* MIT boffins build AI bot that spots ’85 per cent’ of hacker invasions >>
* You Can Cram 96 TB Into LaCie’s Absurd Hard Drive Tower >>
* Vodafone says collaboration and gaming will fuel future office design >>
* MIT’s Teaching AI How to Help Stop Cyberattacks >>
* Stronger Ceramic Parts for Airplanes and industrial applications can now be 3D printed >>
* Common medicines ‘SHRINK the brain and slow down thinking’ >>
* ‘Big Data’ Angst Might Foster ‘IoT Fatigue’ >>
* Graphene-Based Sensor Detects Gases in the Home >>
* Researchers can identify you by your brain waves with 100 percent accuracy >>
* PillDrill does smart medication tracking in style >>
* Virtual Reality Lures Media Companies to a New Frontier >>
* Watch a robotic snake swim eerily like the real thing >>
* Start-Up Plans 3-D Visualizations of Pot Strains, Using Genetic Data >>
* Meet Root, the robot that helps students understand programming >>
* IoT making kids and schools smarter >>
* Next up in IoT: The Internet of shirts and shoes >>
* Nanofiber-Coated Windows Tune from Clear to Cloudy [Video] >>
* These futuristic driverless pods will run on Singapore’s roads by end of the year >>
* 21-million-year-old fossil is North America’s first monkey >>
* Mice in space showed liver damage after two weeks >>
* The Xbox 360 era is officially over >>
* Isro’s spin-off: Low-cost artificial heart pump >>
* Indian-American scientist creates T-cells to treat pancreatic cancer >>
* Greenery near home increases life-span: Study >>
* Nasa Is Making A Drone-traffic Control System >>
* Futurist Ray Kurzweil wants to use nanobots to fight disease and live forever >>
* Google’s chief futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we could start living forever by 2029 >>
* A futuristic vision of the age of holograms >>
* 12 Netflix originals that will use new technology Netflix is calling ‘next generation of TV’ >>
* FBI Tells Congress It Needs Hackers To Keep Up With Tech Company Encryption >>
* Will Dispatch’s robot army soon knock on your door? >>
* Chrome reaches 1 billion monthly mobile users with 50th release >>
* LG’s 360 Cam makes it easy to take 360-degree photos and videos >>
* NASA Probes Identity of Billions of Free-Floating Objects in the Milky Way –“Outnumber Stars” >>
* The World’s Biggest Wind Farms >>
* India will buy 36 French Rafale Fighter Jets for nearly $9 billion >>
* Our Sun May Have Eaten A Super Earth For Breakfast >>
* Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has A Tentacle >>
* Viber to add encryption to its messaging app >>
* Google Camera 3.2 lets you snap pictures while recording video >>
* Update on laser enrichment of uranium >>
* Insects Are Conscious and Egocentric >>
* Novel miniaturized circulator opens way to doubling wireless capacity >>
* Petahertz optical drive with wide-bandgap semiconductor >>
* First quantum computing data bus nears >>
* Nasa Welds First Flight Section Of Sls Core Stage For 2018 Maiden Launch >>
* Nasa Invests In Radical Game-changing Concepts For Exploration >>
* Focus on Alpha Centauri >>
* Possible Light Flash from Black Hole Collision Spotted >>
* Scientists shoot anticancer drugs deep into tumors >>
* Mismatched 2-D Layers Combine to Create New Optoelectronic Devices >>
* Mobileye Bullish on Full Automation, but Pooh-Poohs Deep-Learning AI for Robocars >>
* Mobile Forensics CEO Proposes Controversial Access Tech for Smartphones >>
* 3d printing of rocket parts and liquified natural gas fuel could dramatically lower launch costs >>
* China Bohai undersea tunnel 123 kilometers will break ground this year >>
* Many accurate enough chips will use software for correction for up to 10,000 times higher speed and lower power usage >>
* Robot Arm Helps You 3D Print By “Guided Hand” >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 April 2016
* YouTube First Major Platform To Launch Live 360 Video >>
* Mammal Embryos Develop Normally In Space >>
* Brain caught ‘filing’ memories during rest >>
* Start Your Week Off Right By Watching Ultra-HD Footage Of The Aurora Borealis Captured From Space >>
* ISS beams down 4K footage of Earth shot with the RED Epic Dragon >>
* Watch a stuntman do a terrifying blind backflip over a speeding Formula E car >>
* Artificial Intelligence Helps Diagnose Cancer >>
* AI-powered cameras make thermal imaging more accessible >>
* New smart mattress will tell you if your partner is cheating >>
* What Marketers Need to Understand About Augmented Reality >>
* Is machine learning the next commodity? >>
* Researchers: 3d Printing & Bandage Of The Future May Eliminate Antibiotics Issues >>
* Bananas Genetically Modified Not to Rot >>
* Do Honeybees Feel? Scientists Are Entertaining the Idea >>
* 38 genes influence when you lose your virginity. But so what? >>
* Risk-taking genes may influence when you first have sex >>
* Ancient Peruvian Mystery Solved From Space >>
* Cosmic Ray Tech May Unlock Pyramids’ Secrets >>
* First quantum computing data bus nears >>
* Hasselblad’s new H6D is a return to form and a look toward the future >>
* Breakthrough Discuss: Initial Thoughts >>
* US Air Force Hypersonic weapons roadmap >>
* The Secrets of X: These 5 Principles Will Help Your Company Make Moonshots Happen >>
* Turning hands and packages into displays >>
* NYU Holodeck to be model for year 2041 cyberlearning >>
* The Internet of and for Things >>
* Germans Plan Petawatt Laser to Zap Brain Tumors >>
* A Super-Stretchy Self-Healing Artificial Muscle >>
* Creativity Is Much More Than 10,000 Hours of Deliberate Practice >>
* The #1 Problem In Families, According to Kids? Chaos And Stressed Out Parents. >>
* This live 3D tech at Coachella was originally meant for Michael Jackson >>
* GoPro launching new virtual reality camera, online platform >>
* DJI sells new filmmaking drone with rooftop karate and stunt racing >>
* Two-Year Delay for SpaceX’s Private Spaceport >>
* $1,500 Onewheel skateboard is the new hipster way to ride to work >>
* Is Fog Computing The Next Big Thing In Internet of Things? >>
* Oculus and ‘Ratchet and Clank’ studio reveal two more VR games >>
* Teradata launching new IoT analytics group >>
* Petahertz optical drive with wide-bandgap semiconductor >>
* Stylish smartwatch is the first with Alexa voice commands >>
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* ‘WOW!’ Signal Was…wait For It…comets >>
* Tech giants can decay and die too >>
* Apple reveals lifespan of iPhone >>
* YouTube introduces live 360 video, the gateway drug to virtual reality >>
* YouTube adds 360 livestreaming >>
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* A Giant Galaxy Orbiting Our Own Just Appeared Out of Nowhere >>
* Samsung just patented smart contact lenses with a built-in camera >>
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* How Augmented and Virtual Realities Might Change Productivity Forever in the Next 10 Years >>
* Toyota wants to deploy 5,000 ‘talking’ cars to Michigan >>
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* Intel claims storage supremacy with swift 3D XPoint Optane drives, 1-petabyte 3D NAND >>
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* May 17-18th @ San Francisco: Experiential Technology and NeuroGaming Conference >>
* US fighter jets couldget a drone wingman: AI drones could take to skies in 2018 >>
* Researchers’ wireless leak detection system bound for International Space Station >>
* Wireless signals sent through meat prove our BODIES could soon connect to the web >>
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* World’s Smallest Pacemaker >>
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* 3 Big Technologies To Watch Over Next Decade – Genomics, Nanotechnology and Robotics >>
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* How deep-sea creatures survived dinosaur-killing asteroid >>
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* ‘Avatar’ director James Cameron slams Sean Parker’s in-home theater streaming service >>
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* Microsoft’s new AI bot tries to put captions on images, some of the responses are hilarious >>
* The Ambiguity Of 3d Printing Liability, Or Who Is To Blame If A 3d Printed Part Fails >>
* This computer will grow your food in the future >>
* What really happens when you mix medications? >>
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* Calcium atom heat engine created and output measured >>
* This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 16) >>
* Turn your skin into a screen with a super-thin digital display >>
* The making of David Attenborough’s virtual reality tour of the Great Barrier Reef >>
* Chip used to restore use of paralyzed hands in spinal injured patient >>
* Space Station Gets Experimental New Room With Installation Of Beam Expandable Habitat >>
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* Exomars Takes First Hi-res Image With The Lens Cap On >>
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* MIT’s new bug finder uncovers flaws in Web apps in 64 seconds >>
* Scientists Build Smallest, Single Atom, Working Heat Engine >>
* World first: Japanese robot enrolls in high school >>
* New ‘Time Slice’ Theory Suggests You’re Not as Conscious as You Think You Are >>
* Human mind excels at quantum-physics computer game >>
* Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets >>
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* Weekly Space Hangout – Apr. 15, 2016: Dr. Howard Trottier >>
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* IBM disrupts the Tour de France with IoT >>
* Solar powered bid to bring modernity to developing world >>
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* Hand-Powered Wheelchair That Can Scoot Around Upright Is Brilliant >>
* CropX unveils new soil sensors >>
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* Peter Jackson says the next big revolution in movie viewing ‘is going to happen’ >>
* NASA NIAC project to place 3D printers on near earth asteroids >>
* SkinHaptics Uses Ultrasound to Generate Haptic Feedback Through Your Body >>
* IBM Watson Health is helping researchers solve a huge problem in the race to cure cancer >>
* 5G wireless networks will transform the industry – and wireless carriers are already racing to roll them out >>
* Sharp’s robot smartphone coming in May for $1,800 >>
* Why AI Should Augment, And Not Replace, Staff >>
* This Is How Spacex Unloads A 15-story Rocket Off A Drone Ship >>
* One-Step Process Could Lead to Roll-to-Roll Production of Touchscreen Displays >>
* Google unleashes TensorFlow 0.8 for your distributed machine learning needs >>
* British University Tests Drones That Scan For Evidence Of Landmines >>
* GE has a prototype 10 Megawatt supercritical CO2 turbine that is ten times smaller than the equivalent steam turbine >>
* VR live streamed surgery brings you straight to the operating room >>
* Windows 10’s Bash shell can run graphical Linux applications with this trick >>
* Facebook’s Aquila Drone Creates a Laser-net In the Sky >>
* The Minecraft Generation >>
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* How the brain produces consciousness in “time slices” >>
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* CDC confirms Zika virus causes birth defects and the more that has been learned is scarier than initially thought >>
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* Autonomous Weapons “Could Be Developed for Use Within Years,” Says Arms-Control Group >>
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* Space Treasures in the Rockies: Inside Lockheed Martin Spaceship Factory >>
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* ‘Game Of Thrones’ Vr 360-degree Trailer Debuts At F8 2016 >>
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* Intel launches $250 kit to build robots with Kinect-like vision >>
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* This $36 million penthouse would be the most expensive condo ever sold in Hawaii >>
* Deep in the virtual world: A newbie’s first brush with VR >>
* Facebook’s new gigabit Wi-Fi system >>
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* E-Glider: Active Electrostatic Flight for Airless Body Exploration >>
* Ultrasound Data Transmission Through Meat Is Fast Enough To Stream Movies >>
* This 3D-printed jacket wants to change how you shop >>
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