Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 August 2016

* Drive.ai Solves Autonomous Cars’ Communication Problem >>
* ‘Hibernating’ Astronauts May Be Key to Mars Colonization >>
* What That ‘Strong Signal’ From a Nearby Sunlike Star Really Means >>

* Engineering Will Soon Be ‘More Parenting Than Programming’ >>
* Mark Zuckerberg meets Pope Francis, gives him a drone >>
* Mystery radio signal may be from distant star system — or a military transmitter >>

* Look Out Walmart, Amazon’s VR Shopping Experience May Be On Its Way >>
* “Life’s Cosmic Catalyst” –Meteorites Delivered the Backbone of DNA to Earth >>
* Becoming four times more productive at work #gsummit >>
* Graphene Enables Next Step Towards the Age of “Valleytronics” >>

* Interstellar Starshot Project Update >>
* Battery developers should emulate semiconductor technology roadmap >>
* Centimeter-Level GPS Positioning For Cars >>

* China forms $7.5 billion commercial jet engine company >>
* The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors >>
* Online simulator lets you explore the workings of a simple microprocessor >>

* Features and marginal cost in the digital age >>
* Follow up on HD164595 signal >>
* Moon Express to mine hydroxyl from the moon and provide it to fuel orbital and other space missions >>

* Capture proof is the winner of the Singularity University Health Grand Challenge 2016 #gsummit >>
* Harvest is the winner of the 2016 Singularity University Food Grand Challenge Prize #gsummit >>
* Environment – SU Global Grand Challenge winner #gsummit >>

* How We’ll Get Our First Big Clue About Life on Proxima b >>
* SpaceX Is Finally Sending a Used Rocket Back Into Space >>

* Astronauts Finally Tested Their Alien Detecting DNA Sequencer in Space >>
* Missing Milky Way mass blown away by bingeing supermassive black hole >>
* Uc Berkeley Is Investigating How To Design Robots That Can Learn Human Values >>

* Google said to undercut Uber with expanded ride-share service in San Francisco >>
* Riding an electric longboard to work just got even better >>
* DARPA sees IoT and AI as weapons to dominate wars >>

* The Anthropocene: We’ve Begun a New Era, and It’s Not Looking Good >>
* The new Google+ is coming for all users soon >>
* PlayStation Now Is Available On Windows PC >>

* MIT makes pesticide safer by making it sticky >>
* Intel’s 7th generation Core CPUs will devour 4K video >>
* There’s a new $7 Android smartphone in India but.. >>

* Kim Dotcom will be allowed to stream his extradition appeal >>
* What Robots Can Learn from Babies >>
* NASA uses a DNA sequencer in space for the first time >>

* LG delivers three new super-sized ultrawide monitors >>
* Mystery ‘alien’ signals did NOT come from ET: New observations by ‘Breakthrough Listen’ suggest they’re something else entirely >>
* Apple prepares to kill off the headphone socket: Firm to unveil wireless ‘airpods’ alongside iPhone 7 next week >>

* The mysterious ‘age-defying’ star deep in the Milky Way: Baffled astronomers say celestial body shows signs of being young AND old >>
* Dogs May Understand More Than We Thought >>
* Dogs process language like us and can tell when we praise them >>

* Superbug Resistant to 2 Last-Resort Antibiotics Found in U.S. for First Time >>
* Russia reveals world’s first test of radical pulse-detonation ‘super-rocket’ >>
* Mark Zuckerberg to reveal personal home control AI butler next month – and admits his wife DOESN’T have access to it >>

* Far out: Most distant galaxy cluster discovered 11.1 billion light years >>
* How Virtual Reality Could Change Computers As You Know Them >>
* Chemotherapy warning as hundreds die from cancer fighting drugs >>

* Drone captures stunning view of Uluru >>
* Berkeley SETI Challenges Yesterday’s Reports of a “Strong Extraterrestrial Signal from the Constellation Hercules” >>
* The Verge fall movie preview: from Snowden to Star Wars >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 August 2016

* They’re not saying it’s aliens, but signal traced to sunlike star sparks SETI interest >>
* Ultrasound jump-starts brain of man in coma >>
* Implantable cell-size ‘neural pixel’ device senses and blocks epileptic seizures >>

* Watch a Helicopter Project a Video onto an Enormous Banner Towed by Another Helicopter >>
* New sensor system can predict when senior citizens are heading for a fall >>
* Apple Announces Event On September 7: iPhone 7, Apple Watch 2 Expected >>
* The iPhone 7 Apple reveals launch event and hints it will have a radical dual lens camera >>

* Dimensions: Cosmic Eye HD >>
* Designing new ultrasound imaging tools with Lego-like proteins >>
* The AI drones helping California beat the drought: Smart craft can scour farmer’s fields to look for leaks and analyse soil >>

* Meet the doctor behind the surgical bus; we put an operating theatre into a bus >>
* Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Doctors Find Breast Cancer Risk 30 Times Faster >>
* Amtrack reveals America’s ‘bullet train’: $2bn project will bring 186mph next generation trains to Washington, New York and Boston by 2021 >>

* Finnish Carrier Sets New World Record for 4G Download Speeds >>
* Malawi and South Africa Pioneer Unused TV Frequencies for Rural Broadband >>
* Injectable Nanowires Monitor Mouse Brains for Months >>

* “We’re Living During the Most Extraordinary Time Ever in History” >>
* Retooling AI for the workplace >>
* Six Million Years Ago Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Erupted –“When First Humanoids Walked the Earth” >>

* Northern Lights By Drone? You Won’t Believe Your Eyes >>
* Facebook’s Trending News Is A Total Mess >>
* Alien Hunters Spot Freaky Radio Signal Coming From Nearby Star >>

* One-Year Mock Mars Crew ‘Returns to Earth’: HI-SEAS Photos >>
* Hubble Discovery –A Strange Alien: “Blue Planet That Rains Glass Sideways in 4,500 MPH Winds” (VIDEO) >>
* NASA GOES WITH ATLAS V TO LAUNCH MARS 2020 ROVER >>

* Global Grand Challenge #gsummit >>
* Geocosmo can forecast earthquakes weeks in advance – Grand challenge #gsummit >>
* Exponentials 101: Energy By Ramez Naam >>

* Exponential Computing and Networking by Brad Templeton #gsummit >>
* SU Global Summit #gsummit – Diamandis talks to Steve Jurvetson >>
* Philips Hue System Adds a Motion Sensor That Will Turn Your Smart Lights On Automatically >>

* IBM Watson AI Xprize #gsummit >>
* Daniel Kraft digital Health #gsummit >>
* Graphene Quantum Dots in Quantum Computing >>

* Democracy Earth Governance Singularity Grand Challenge Winner #gsummit >>
* New 3D Composites Could Help Store Energy for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles >>
* Unworkable Concept for Solar Express Space Train for travel at 1% of light speed – >>

* Daenerys May Make a Surprising Visit in Game of Thrones >>
* Siri And Alexa Don’t Sound ‘Real’ Now, But Technology Will Catch Up >>
* Track Three Trends In The 2016 Gartner Hype Cycle For Emerging Technologies >>

* The Great Semantic Divide: Virtual Reality vs. 360-Degree Video >>
* Facebook’s Trending Topics algorithm already screwed up >>
* Facebook’s AI plan to analyse your photographs: Firm says it will be able to check your health, analyse your meals and even let you shop from uploaded pictures >>

* Firm that beat Google and Uber to self driving taxis in Singapore plans to be running in 10 cities by 2020 >>
* The First Tinkering with Human Heredity May Happen in the Infertility Clinic >>
* Early human ancestor Lucy ‘died falling out of a tree’ >>

* Mark Zuckerberg will unveil his futuristic AI home assistant within weeks >>
* These eye-tracking heat maps show what people really care about >>
* Legendary Actor Gene Wilder Dies at 83 >>

* Dotcom allowed to livestream court hearing >>
* Let’s overanalyze the Apple event invite >>
* Surgeons want to attempt first ever head transplant >>

* Astronomers have picked up a strong radio signal from space — but it doesn’t mean aliens >>
* SaferVPN Basic: Lifetime Subscription >>
* Online Language Learning System ‘Fluent Worlds’ Plans VR Jump >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 August 2016

* ‘Longest Living Human’ Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 >>
* Say hello to the Internet of Robotic Things >>
* MIT’s shape-shifting 3D-printed objects could improve medicine and solar-power >>

* Researchers Are Building a Tear Bank to Better Understand Why We Weep >>
* The sponge that can BOIL water using nothing but sunlight >>
* Artificial Intelligence Defined As A New Research Discipline: This Week In Tech History >>

* Innovation Needs To Shift From Disrupting Markets To Tackling Grand Challenges >>
* Singapore is the first country in the world to unleash self-driving taxis. >>
* Apple files Touch ID fingerprint patent to catch thieves >>

* Growing up in the intelligence era >>
* Medical device security ignites an ethics firestorm >>
* Will smart cities need AI to truly flourish? >>

* Some “Goldilocks” Planets May Be Too Hot-Blooded for Life >>
* This Weird Galaxy Is 99.99 Percent Dark Matter >>
* Resetting the Body’s Thermostat with a Molecular On/Off Switch >>

* How a Seed Collection Could Save Humanity >>
* Mind-controlled nanobots could release drugs inside your BRAIN: Tiny machines may help treat depression and epilepsy >>
* Mathematician solves the puzzle of the perfect parking lot – and says leaving your car at an angle is key >>

* Amazon Is Testing a 30-Hour, 75% Salary Workweek >>
* Flirtey flies pies for Domino’s in New Zealand >>
* Volkswagen’s 2019 electric car said to get 300 miles on a 15-minute charge >>

* 3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes >>
* Apple Patenting a Way To Collect Fingerprints, Photos of Thieves >>

* Mr. Robot’s mobile game is about the power and danger of texting >>
* Russia’s search giant is making a self-driving shuttle bus >>

* 5 ways beacons are transforming the enterprise >>
* The Price of Solar Is Declining to Unprecedented Lows >>
* MIT brainiacs triple the speed, double the range of Wi-Fi >>

* Ride-Hailing Crashes Triple In NYC As More People Turn To Apps >>
* 25 core chip designed for cloud applications >>
* Thought-Controlled Nanoscale DNA Robots in a Living Host >>

* CIA reveals Spacenet ‘AI in the sky’ that could constantly monitor activity on Earth via high resolution satellites >>
* The next 5 years for Apple? – podcast >>
* SpaceX cargo ship back on Earth after splashdown >>

* NASA: Earth is Vulnerable to Invisible, Microscopic Black Holes –“Universe is Filled with Primordial Black Holes Speeding Through Space Like Bullets” >>
* NASA/Hubble: “For Far-Future Milky Way Civilizations Evidence of Big Bang and Evolution Will be Erased” >>

* An Interesting SETI Candidate in Hercules >>
* Nextbigfuture liveblogging Singularity University Global Summit 2016 >>
* Giant micrometer sized atoms that are thousands of times larger than regular atoms >>

* Year-Long Simulation of Humans Living on Mars Comes To an End >>
* 100 Arrested In New York Thanks To Better Face-Recognition Technology >>
* The FACE of criminals could one day be revealed from their DNA >>

* Unfriendly skies: Piston engine aircraft pose a significant health threat >>
* Ford’s app lets you find and pay for garage parking >>
* The new wave of crazy gadgets >>

* Video Friday: Octopus Robot, Solar Drone, and Humanoid Neck Test >>
* DIY Emergency Button: Hack a Nike+iPod Sport Kit to Create an Elder Alert System >>
* Setting a Land Speed Record with a Sidecar Motorcycle >>

* Nanoscale Wireless Communication Operates at Visible Wavelengths for the First Time >>
* What’s It Like On Our Neighbor, Proxima b? >>
* Planets in the ‘Habitable Zone’ Might Not Actually Be Hospitable to Life >>

* This Weird Galaxy Is Actually 99.99 Percent Dark Matter >>
* How Surgical Theater Changes The Way Neurosurgeons Operate >>
* Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in September >>

* Startup’s software can find a photo that fits the mood >>
* Implanted microchips give Jedi powers to lifelong Star Wars fan >>
* Imagine a private, global super court that empowers corporations to bend countries to their will. >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 August 2016

* Facebook opens its advanced AI vision tech to everyone >>
* The Flying Bum Just Crashed—So Why Are We Building Airships? >>
* Facebook is identifying your photos at the pixel level >>

* The first self-driving taxis are cruising around Singapore >>
* AI And The Future Of Smartphones >>
* MIT accidentally discovered a cleaner smelting process >>

* Radical train concept could travel at 3,000km/s and take man to Mars in just 37 HOURS >>
* Creepy robot octopus moves by pumping chemicals through its body >>
* Rewinding memories may help us recall where the good stuff is >>

* China’s Martian Lander Looks For 2020, And A Name >>
* Cancer Passes Heart Disease For Leading Cause Of Death In These States >>
* Boeing Wants Artillery To Fight Forest Fires >>

* Why Uber Is Losing Money Faster Than Any Tech Company Ever >>
* Cia Wants To Train A.I. To Understand Satellite Photo >>
* Water Beads Are Completely Invisible When Submerged >>

* WhatsApp will now share your phone number with Facebook >>
* Mind-controlled nanobots could release drugs inside your brain >>
* Getting to Proxima b might become an existential requirement >>

* Scientists Invite Conspiracy Theorists to Check Out Alleged Mind-Controlling Weather Machine >>
* This Ancient Protein Might Help Us Understand Alzheimer’s Disease Better >>
* Supersized molecules stretch a thousand times further than usual >>

* How We Could See The New ‘earth-like’ Planet Up Close >>
* Interactive Map Shows How Animals Will Migrate In Response To Climate Change >>
* A Reality Check for the World’s Largest Radio Telescope >>

* Upcoming Telescopes that will provide a better look at the Proxima Earth Like Exoplanet and find more of earthlike exoplanets >>
* Tackling Air Quality Prediction in South Africa With Machine Learning >>
* Deadly earthquake hits Italy >>

* Hybrid Airlander 10 Airship crashed on second test flight but minor damage will be repaired >>
* South Korea mass producing tritium breeder pebbles for the $20 billion international experimental nuclear fusion reactor project >>
* Real-Time Crowd Simulator Could Help Prevent Deadly Stampedes >>

* 19th century had John Henry vs the steam drill and in 21st century smartphone speech recognition is 3 times faster than human typists >>
* New method of cancer immunotherapy developed >>
* MIT MegaMIMO algorithms can boost wireless data speed more than three times and double the range >>

* Nearby Star Proxima Centauri –“Could Prove to Be Twice the Age of Earth and Harbor Intelligent Life” >>
* Shields Up, Mr. Sulu! Cruising At 20% Speed Of Light Has Some Inherent Risks >>
* Just how dangerous is it to travel at 20% the speed of light? >>

* Harvard’s Octobot is the first autonomous machine to be made with all soft robotics >>
* The Milky Way has a strange twin with a dark secret, and it might help us solve one of the biggest mysteries in science >>
* The Navy’s F-35 variant has successfully completed testing with a max weapon load >>

* Uber Loses at Least $1.2 Billion in First Half of 2016 >>
* People will lie to robots to avoid hurting their feelings >>
* All Aboard the Most Tricked-Out Science Ship in America >>

* ‘Extremely Dangerous’ Tornado Flattens Starbucks in Terrifying Bystander Video >>
* Are IoT return on investment expectations over-hyped? >>
* Dotcom Wants Extradition Hearing Live-Streamed, U.S. Does Not >>

* Mobileye and Delphi aim for autonomous tech by 2019 >>
* Singapore Launches World’s First ‘Self-driving’ Taxi Service >>
* Facebook open sources AI image recognition software >>

* Google is going all in on content for its Daydream VR platform >>
* This test could help thousands of cancer patients avoid chemotherapy >>
* Coffee Cravings May Spring From Your DNA >>

* Impressive VR Animation Software ‘Tvori’ Now Available [Exclusive Mixed Reality Video] >>
* Dexmo Exoskeleton Tugs On Your Fingers To Simulate Touch In VR >>
* VR Ping Pong Experience That Includes Beer Pong >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 August 2016

* World’s Longest Airship Goes Bottoms Up In Crash >>
* Earth-Like Planet in Habitable Zone Orbiting Proxima Centauri 4.25 Light-Years Away >>
* Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri >>

* PowerEgg, the ovoid flying robot, lands this October for $1,288 >>
* Seeing New York City in Ridiculous 8K Is Pretty Sweet >>
* YouTube gets a new TV app >>

* Google is using AI to compress images better than JPEG >>
* Why Virtual Reality Games Will Be a Technological Revolution >>
* NASA seeks Small spacecraft Tipping Point technologies >>

* Why Today’s Earthquake In Italy Was So Destructive >>
* Mind Aglow: Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain >>
* Alien World ‘Proxima b’ Around Nearest Star Could Be Earth-Like | Video >>

* Scientists Reprogram Brain With a Beam of Light –“Human Brain is Plastic, Not Hardwired” >>
* PowerEgg, the ovoid flying robot, lands this October for $1,288 >>

* People will lie to robots to avoid hurting their feelings >>
* Best Buy bets on VR for the holidays with 500 stores demoing Oculus Rift >>
* Tim Cook has led Apple through 5 years of winning >>

* Introducing The First Voice-Activated Hotel Room >>
* One Year Later, Face Transplant Recipient Just A Normal Guy >>
* Deep Space Industries announces Prospector-1- First Commercial Interplanetary Mining Mission with target date by 2020 >>

* Alien spacecraft or personal drone? Meet the PowerEgg. >>
* China Unveils Plans for a Manned Radar Station on the Moon >>

* Future Radio Telescope’s Brains Pass First Tests on Huge Supercomputer >>
* 520 Days and Counting: Jeff Williams Tops U.S. Record for Time in Space >>
* Proxima b: 6 Strange Facts About a Potentially Earth-Like Exoplanet >>

* Google’s Antiaging company Calico will use Computational Biology and Machine Learning >>
* MIT is dragging hard-wired network chips into the agile era >>
* At 25, the World Wide Web Is Still a Long Way From Reality >>

* The ‘BioRing’ Could Be The Next Evolution In Wearable Tech >>
* Open source 25-core chip can be stringed into a 200,000-core computer >>

* Humans have been changing the climate for 180 YEARS: Warming started during the Industrial Revolution >>
* Soft robot octopus uses chemical fuel gut to explore untethered >>
* Experience The Glorious Night Sky Over Yellowstone National Park >>

* Watching This Guy Unicycle on Top of a 70-Story Chimney Will Scare Your Pants Off >>
* Team Great Britain Thought It Was Being Helpful By Providing The Luggage >>
* Traffic Comes To A Halt In A Major City Due To…Pokemon? >>

* Good Drones Pilot Tests Refugee Drone To Save Others >>
* Scientists Want To Bring A Bird Back From Extinction >>
* Virtual Reality Video Games Using Real Bullets: The Latest Billionaire Toy >>

* The world’s largest pyramid is hidden inside a mountain in Mexico >>
* iRobot mopping robot drops to $169 >>
* We may not be alone, scientists discover a new planet similar to Earth >>

* This LG fridge lets you see what’s inside without opening it >>
* ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7: Jason Momoa To Return As Khal Drogo? >>
* ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 13 Spoilers: Cristina & Izzie Returning? >>

* The next-generation Xbox could be even more different than we thought >>
* Samsung says there were so many pre-orders for the new Galaxy Note 7 phone that it’s having shortages >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 August 2016

* HoloLens secrets revealed: Microsoft details its 24-core ‘holographic processor’ >>
* Ingenious Power Tool Uses Machine Vision to Make Perfect Cuts >>
* What Is The Great Rewrite? | Chapter 1 Of The Great Rewrite >>

* Edible Battery To Power Internal Medical Devices >>
* US Navy modifies bacteria to produce electric wire 60,000x thinner than human hair >>
* Google’s Daydream VR could debut in the next few weeks >>

* MIT’s smarter routers promise to fight crowded networks >>
* Parasitic Fungi Can Fuse A Nematode’s Gut Into One Cell >>
* Scientists Just Found Signs of Supernovae on the Sea Floor >>

* Crowded Wi-Fi Networks Could Soon Get Three Times Faster >>
* MIT Researchers Radically Boost Wi-Fi With Smart Routers That Talk To Each Other >>
* Meet Alrobot, Iraq’s New Anti-isis Weapon >>

* Watch a World Record Domino Tower Attempt Collapse at the Last Second >>
* Beyond Wi-Fi >>
* Braiding of Light >>

* AI’s Research Rut >>
* Parrot’s Disco Drone Lets You Take to the Sky in Immersive FPV >>
* Where the Tech Jobs Are: 2016 >>

* Drug-free IVF could be cheaper and faster way to get pregnant >>
* A bad night’s sleep messes with your brain’s memory connections >>
* Is this the future of cancer treatment? ‘Edible’ batteries could help power medical devices inside the body >>

* Boomerang uses AI to help you write emails people will read >>
* This all-analog DNA circuit calculates without going digital >>

* Engineered Bacterium Turns Carbon Dioxide into Methane Fuel >>
* Why Gene Tests for Cancer Don’t Offer More Answers >>
* Tesla makes its cars Ferrari-fast with super Ludicrous mode >>

* Staying cool with my new learning thermostat >>
* Probes in Orbit Spot Radiation Belt Zap from the Sun >>
* Microsoft Invents a Futuristic Tangible 3D Light Full Wall Display that could be designed for Xbox >>

* Tabby Star abnormalities in dimming are still consistent with Alien Dyson Swarm construction confirmed with 4 year Kepler data >>
* The Future of Healthcare Is Arriving—8 Exciting Areas to Watch >>
* How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Diagnose Mental Disorders >>

* For The First Time, Scientists Watched Brain Circuitry Work In Real-time >>
* Google’s Daydream VR reportedly launching soon with original YouTuber content >>
* New Experiment Finds Neutrino Oscillation Isn’t ‘Real’ >>

* Solar dish sets steamy thermal energy efficiency record >>
* MIT’s programmable routers let old network hardware learn new traffic tricks >>
* HoloLens’ 24-core chip; trillion operations per second. >>

* SpaceX Founder Set to Unveil Humans-to-Mars Plan in September >>
* This gadget turns your iPhone into a 360 camera, but it has some quirks >>
* Augmented reality power tool helps anyone craft things >>

* I Used This Amazing 3-D ‘Battle Simulator’ to Answer All of Life’s Questions >>
* Think It’s Hot Now? Just Wait >>
* NASA’s hopes for Mars and the future are at stake in the 2016 election >>

* Delphi and Mobileye Will Offer a Fully Self-Driving System By 2019 >>
* ‘Island 359’ Early Access Review: Welcome to Jurassic Park >>
* 25 Years Later After The Crash, Web and VR Are Finally Converging For Real >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 August 2016

* Chinese scientists study usefulness of manned lunar radar station >>
* Alien life harder to find: ‘Goldilocks’ planets must have the right internal temperature to be habitable >>
* Scientists Create See-through Rodents For Brain Science >>

* Apple acquires AI medical start-up Gliimpse: report >>
* 1 World, 10 Billion People: Who Thrives, and Who Falls Behind? >>

* Bubble Wrap: The Key to a New Floating Solar Thermal System >>
* NASA Funds Plan to Turn Used Rocket Fuel Tanks Into Space Habitats >>
* This is your brain on Google Glass >>

* ‘Memories’ in your DNA could keep permanent record of your life: Gene-editing trick turns cells into recorder >>
* Can a Supercomputer Suggest the Best Cancer Treatment? >>
* Nasa makes ALL its research available to read online for free >>

* Scans and 3D printing recreate a mummy’s face >>
* Mouse’s body made entirely transparent to reveal nervous system >>
* LTE-U’s window is closing and bigger 5G disputes may be coming >>

* New camera uses just 1 photon per pixel >>
* Pollination isn’t just for bees and butterflies: Fossils reveal BEETLES have helped spread pollen grains for 45 million years >>
* Is THIS the new PlayStation 4 ‘Slim’? Images emerge online which show a thinner console with rounded edges >>

* First ‘real’ $600,000 ‘flying motorbike’ can hit 112mph on land AND in the airm >>
* The Known: Cancer Is Really, Really Old. The Unknown: How Common It Was. >>

* Microsoft app helps you coordinate with fellow shift workers >>
* Is YOUR brain supertuned? Researchers find they can tell more intelligent people by their brainwaves – even when they are not thinking hard >>
* At $13.75 million, this is now the most expensive American car ever sold >>

* A Brain Injection Of Dna Could Help Control Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms >>
* Android Nougat Is Out Today >>
* The Ultimate Guide to Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Show on TV This Fall >>

* China’s next cruise missiles, modular construction and a high level of artificial intelligence >>
* One micron thick solar cells and three micron thick OLED displays >>
* Apple Wants A ‘gliimpse’ At Your Medical Records >>

* A Powerful Conversation on Schools, Poverty, and Race >>
* SpaceX’s Elon Musk Set to Unveil Master Plan for Mars in September >>
* Gene Therapy produces Dopamine in the Brain as path to Parkinsons treatment >>

* NASA Scientists –“Vast Ocean of Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Could Be the Site of a Second Genesis” >>
* Spacewalk Highlights – International Docking Adaptor Installed On ISS | Video >>
* Gillmor Gang: Predictions >>

* Here’s what the F-35’s final aircraft carrier trials look like >>
* Family, not friends, lowers death risk in older age >>
* How White Space Wi-Fi Could Bring Internet to the Rural Poor >>

* Netgear’s plan to solve awful Wi-Fi is a second router >>
* ‘Duckpocalypse’ is What Happens When the Laughing Dog Wins in Nintendo’s ‘Duck Hunt’ >>
* Chinese scientists study viability of manned radar station on the moon >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 August 2016

* UK ultra-lightweight UAV Zephyr X can fly at 70,000 feet for up to 45 days at a time >>
* Hypersonic missile threat is focus of space and missile defense symposium >>
* A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold the key to quantum gravity >>

* Intel Launches Silicon Photonics Chip with 100G tranceivers and preps Next-Gen Phi for machine learning >>
* Low-power Always-on Camera With Gesture Recognition >>
* Columbus’ smart city win may lead to autonomous trucks >>

* Gartner Hype Cycle For Emerging Technologies, 2016 Adds Blockchain & Machine Learning For First Time >>
* US Air Force wants to plasma bomb the skies to improve radio reception >>
* Intel Demos A New Robotics Controller Running Ubuntu >>

* From Printer to Plate: How Might 3D Food Printing Transform the Grocery Store? >>
* Why I Watch People Play Videogames on the Internet >>
* Why R&D Spending Is Not A Measure of Innovation >>

* Offshore wind farm a green-energy milestone >>
* Tokyo 2020: Everything we know about the next Olympic Games >>
* This Google Chrome extension weeds out politics from your Facebook >>

* The 37 highest-paying jobs in America >>
* Apple’s retail boss thinks Apple stores should be a social ‘gathering place’ >>
* How to ace a salary negotiation, in 15 steps >>

* Genetically modified insects may be the key to the US military’s new armor >>
* World’s Astronomers –“Our 21st Century Technology Too Primitive to Detect an Advanced Alien Civilization” >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 August 2016

* DARPA wants artificial intelligence to explain conclusions and reasoning to humans >>
* Airbus plans to begin test fights of a flying taxi in 2017 with commercial service by 2026 >>
* The Technology That Will Build Our Future May Be Found In Mushrooms >>

* Scientists realize they can use fire tornadoes to clean up oil spills >>
* How carbon nanotubes could give us faster processors and longer battery life >>
* Breakthrough Tech: Scientists Make Swarms of Nanorobots Precisely Target Cancer Cells >>

* New Hydrogel Film Repairs Corneal Cells >>
* Windows 10 Anniversary Update Broke Millions of Webcams, Here’s How to Fix It >>
* NASA wants to hand over the ISS to a private corporation by the mid 2020s >>

* Beyond Siri, The Next-Generation AI Assistants Are Smarter Specialists >>
* An Algorithm Can Tell If You’re Depressed Just By Looking At Your Instagram Photos >>
* All of the Creepy Things Facebook Knows About You >>

* This New Xbox Game Lets You Literally Battle Cancer >>
* New Software Can Perfectly Forge Handwriting >>
* Smartphone batteries with twice the life may arrive in 2017 >>

* Mercedes’ New Concept Is a Maybach for the Electric Age >>
* Hacking and AI: Moral panic vs. real problems >>
* Tiny robot caterpillar can move objects ten times its size >>

* Prototype of Nasa aircraft completes its first test flight that will fly on Mars? >>
* Netflix Is Coming To More Hotel Rooms: Can This Boost The Company’s Revenues? >>
* Duel your friends ‘Tron’ style in ‘Project Arena’ VR >>

* LG’s latest gadget lets you watch an 80-inch display anywhere >>
* Intel’s new Atom chips bring 4K video to VR headsets, robots >>
* Microsoft’s HoloLens sells out, goes commercial >>

* Is smart dust the IoT vector of the future? >>
* The Colonel’s original KFC chicken recipe found in scrapbook >>

* Fish Pee May Be Helping Coral Reefs More Than We Think >>
* Is This Hololens Game The Future Of Crime Fiction? >>
* Research suggests sleep wearables could reduce PTSD risk >>

* Why We Toss and Turn in an Unfamiliar Bed >>
* Hyperactive galaxy could run out of gas in just 8 million years >>
* Your contact lenses could soon ‘talk’ to your phone via WiFi to reveal vital clues about your health >>

* The computer that can read your mind: AI is able to predict sentences before you say them >>
* Map reveals average penis sizes from around the world >>

* Most Extensive Reengineering of an Organism’s Genetic Code Now Complete >>
* Six things I learned playing ‘No Man’s Sky’ >>
* How your Facebook profile could cost you a job >>

* New T-Mobile, Sprint tout unlimited data plans as CEOs spar >>
* President Obama joins Twitter with @POTUS account, breaks fastest million follower count record >>
* Stranger Things: How Netflix Destroyed The Millennial Sex Life >>

* A History Of Violence: Iron Found In Fossils Suggests Supernova Role In Mass Dying >>
* Nasa Successfully Test Fires Mars Mega Rocket Engine With Modernized ‘brain’ Controller >>
* Wave Computing massively parallel Deep learning system is 100X improved on inference versus GPU and FPGA systems >>

* Neuroscientists identify cortical links to adrenal medulla (mind-body connection) >>
* Artificial intelligence can help track, monitor and predict global poverty from space images >>
* Festo’s Fantastical Flying Robots >>

* Genetically Modified Bacteria Conduct Electricity, New Era of Green Electronics >>
* UCLA physicists discover ‘apparent departure from the laws of thermodynamics’ >>
* Glowing Protein Warms Up Low-Power Laser >>

* Nanocrystals Enable a New Generation of Visible-Light Communication >>
* Get Our Best Look Yet at Westworld With a Ton of New Stills >>
* Will The U-2 Cold War Spy Plane Get A Laser? >>

* The First Step To An Artificial Womb >>
* Watch Live: Astronauts Install The Space Station’s New Private Parking Spot >>
* Our First Look at Lynda Carter on the Set of Supergirl >>

* Watching someone suffer extreme pain has a lasting effect on the brain >>
* Illumina Would Like You to Sequence More DNA, Please >>
* New research says there are 4 types of modern workers — find out which you are >>

* A sociologist surprised’ with the result of her research on breadwinners in marriages >>
* A Navy F-35C landed so precisely that it tore up a runway >>
* A new database is giving scientists more realistic vision of how we differ from each other genetically >>

* Some major changes are ahead for The CW’s lineup of superhero shows >>
* Researchers reveal plan to use DNA to bring back flightless seabird, extinct for 200 years >>
* Brain-s-face-recognition System Is Easy to Fool >>

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* MIT engineers human cells to store ‘memories’ in DNA >>
* Uber’s self-driving cars will pick up their first customers this month >>

* Restoring Fertility With 3d Printers >>
* A Map Showing Every Single Cargo Ship In The World >>

* IBM Scientists Imitate the Functionality of Neurons with a Phase-Change Device and each neuron update uses less than five picojoules >>
* White dwarf star Nova caught in the act which occurs every 10,000 to 1 million years >>
* Boston Dynamics Founder Marc Raibert and the SpotMini robot will be joining us at Disrupt >>

* HDR10 vs. Dolby Vision: The new TV format war >>
* Elon Musk says AI could inadvertently start wars: Herzog doc >>
* The Dark Side of Going for Gold >>

* NASA to Launch Asteroid-Sampling Mission in 3 Weeks >>
* Sea Anemone Proteins Might Help Reverse Hearing Loss >>
* This Paraplegic Man Used A Wii Balance Board To Stand Again >>

* Doubling battery power from lithium metal batteries for smartphones and other devices >>
* By 2021, combat lasers with hundreds of kilowatt power will demo shooting down ballistic missiles in the boost phase >>
* How to separate out semiconducting carbon nanotubes >>

* Darpa Wants A New Anti-drone Weapon By 2020 >>
* CNN is launching a drone-based news collecting operation >>
* Scientists solve mystery of deja vu – and say it’s a good thing >>

* This Hyperloop VR app is a good reminder of how claustrophobic Hyperloop pods will be >>
* T-Mobile shifts to unlimited plans in the latest bid to stand out from the competition >>
* T-Mobile’s New ‘Unlimited’ Plan Doesn’t Sound Very Unlimited >>

* Autonomous AI guards to stalk the internet fighting hackers >>
* Tiny, Soft Robotic Caterpillar Creeps, Climbs, And Crawls >>
* Adding a Gas-Powered Propeller Makes a Towering 360 Swing Even Crazier >>

* Fighting Poverty With Satellite Images and Machine Learning Wizardry >>
* Sloppy Spinal Stimulation Studies Scrutinized >>
* Could Proxima Centauri Be Our Interstellar Getaway? >>

* Supernova Ashes Found in Fossils Hint at Extinction Event >>
* Cooking Up Life In The Cosmic Kitchen >>
* Getting Ready for OSIRIS-REx >>

* China’s Scientists Propose the Human ‘Quantum Brain’ –“The Source of Our Dominance on the Planet: More Complex Than a Galaxy” >>
* Deus Ex’s cyberpunk future makes for a brilliant puzzle game >>
* Here’s a Clever Way To Hide Your Flatscreen TV >>

* What Comes After Solar Impulse? >>
* People with high self-control have a cunning approach to healthy eating >>
* Did A Current In The Rio Swimming Pool Give Some Swimmers An Unfair Advantage? >>

* The Retooled MacGyver Reboot Adds a Sense of Humor to All the Gadgets and Explosions >>
* Forget the chord. The Tesla Model S now has wireless charging >>
* Whyd announces its voice-controlled connected speaker for $299 >>

* Recording analog memories in human cells >>
* The robots of war: AI and the future of combat >>
* ScienceLogic acquires AppFirst to bolster its IT infrastructure monitoring service >>

* Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity >>
* miniPCR: Enabling the era of personal DNA >>
* The hack that lets you see everything you’ve ever watched on Netflix (and delete the dodgy selections!) >>

* World’s Smartest Physicist Thinks Science Can’t Crack Consciousness >>
* Robots will NOT destroy humankind, says Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook founder believes AI is a force for good >>
* These 5 Incredible HoloLens Videos Will Make You A VR/AR Believer >>

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