Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 September 2016

* I barely survived on a dinosaur planet in PlayStation VR >>
* NASA and DARPA working towards quiet supersonic planes with XPlanes >>
* Scientists ‘pickle’ and map a fly’s brain for the first time >>

* How smart materials will literally reshape the world around us >>
* Tesla is still going to win the driverless-car race >>
* Forget Mars, Why Not Colonize Venus Instead? >>

* Survival rates 10 years after cancer diagnosis predicted for first time >>
* Humans Destroyed One-Tenth Of Earth’s Wilderness In Just 2 Decades >>

* NASA tested a rocket engine — and did something unusual in the process >>
* SolarCity has a long way to go to boost rooftop solar in one of the nation’s sunniest states >>
* Skype will let you text your friends through your PC >>

* China’s Atomic Clock in Space Will Stay Accurate For a Billion Years >>
* Self-Driving Cars Coming In Months, Not Years >>
* This VR accessory lets you realistically horseback ride in your living room >>

* Elon Musk says the future of AI is in linking it to our brains >>
* Meet MOTI, a smart companion and life coach >>
* Run Android 6.0 Marshmallow on Your PC With Android-x86 6.0 >>

* SpaceX’s Mars Colonial Transporter can go “well beyond” Mars >>
* This Online Course Teaches You How to Survive on Mars >>
* Six technologies that produce clean, safe drinking water >>

* DARPA applying Artificial Intelligence for realtime cognitive electronic warfare >>
* Robot sales and growth are solid but not yet showing growth that might drive mass human unemployment >>
* Silver Nanowires and Graphene Join Forces for Touch Screen Displays >>

* How Crytek’s ‘Robinson: The Journey’ Brings the Joy of Adventure to PlayStation VR >>
* Programmers Can Examine Code Structure In VR Using ‘Primitive’ >>
* The Best Palmer Luckey Moments From Tokyo Game Show 2016 >>

* Secrets Of Success: Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life >>
* David Letterman Returns to TV for First Time Since Leaving ‘The Late Show’ >>
* Week’s Most Viewed Posts –“Mystery Alien Signal” to the “Human Quantum Brain” (Weekend Feature) >>

* Crowdfunding Replaced The Ads At A London Underground Station With Cat Photos >>
* Apple put a barometric vent in the space where the iPhone 7 headphone jack would have been >>
* Donald Trump gets the mobile game everyone imagined, and it’s amazing >>

* NASA studies Antarcticans ahead of space travel plans >>
* Video Friday: Faceless Humanoid, Robot Inside Eyeball, and Marc Raibert on Robotic Progress >>
* Playing Pong While Climbing a Wall Looks Like a Lot of Stupid Fun >>

* Watch a Train Get Assembled for the Subway >>
* Need Some AI? Yeah, There’s a Marketplace for That >>
* Weekly Space Hangout – Sept 16, 2016: Universe Sandbox >>

* Incredible Images Of Mars From Earth >>
* Project Orion: A Nuclear Bomb and Rocket – All in One >>
* Have We Really Just Seen The Birth Of A Black Hole? >>

* Don’t Like Their Faces? Train Your Brain to Feel More Positive >>
* DARPA seek aerial dragnet to track drones in cities >>

* Big advances in superstrong glued wood will enable lower cost 80+ story wooden skyscrapers >>
* Solar-powered Helicopter Takes Flight >>

* Pluto Is Emitting X-Rays, and That’s Really Weird >>
* How We Swagger Speaks Volumes About Our Personalities >>
* Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Robot Grabs Gun From Suspect >>

* The Best Astronomy Images of 2016 Are Truly Out of This World >>
* Tesla: Lithium-ion battery project is world’s largest >>
* Have scientists found the cell that causes the spread of breast cancer? >>

* Jeff Bezos’s plan to see ‘trillions’ of humans spread across the solar system in nuclear-powered space ships >>
* From VERY packed public swimming pools to queues that stretch for miles: Astonishing photos reveal the daily crush in China >>
* Arctic summer sea ice melts to second lowest level ever recorded >>

* These 410 mouse genes are deadly if they mutate >>
* Peru Signals Space Ambitions with Earth-Monitoring Satellite >>
* Skynet Anti-drone Rifle Can Jam Signals In The Air >>

* Where Creativity Comes From >>
* Visualizing Polls >>
* Human Brain Map Gets a Bold New Update >>

* Holographic scans of blood find malaria in cells >>
* Rize teaches 3D printing some long-awaited new tricks >>
* DARPA wants an ‘Aerial Dragnet’ to monitor urban drone traffic >>

* How WD-40 Created a Learning-Obsessed Company Culture >>
* Highlights from Disrupt SF 2016 >>
* 23 Years Later: the Apple II Receives Another OS Update >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 16 September 2016

* Riding an animatronic horse while wearing a VR headset is the best of everything >>
* iPhone 7: Initial stock of some models has sold out >>
* Microsoft is finally giving people a reason to use the Windows 10 app store >>

* China Successfully Launches SpaceLab Tiangong-2 -International Space Station to Follow >>
* Researchers see individual atoms keep away from each other or bunch up as pairs >>
* VR’s Big Surprise: 3-D Worlds Have Little Appeal >>

* Gaia Completes First Mind-Blowing 3-D Galactic Map >>
* Gaia’s new star map will also reveal asteroids and dark matter >>

* A ‘Memory Hacker’ Explains How to Plant False Memories in People’s Minds >>
* What does ‘instantaneous’ REALLY mean? mathematician, it all comes down to your point of view >>
* Double bubble plane could take to the skies in 2027 >>

* Walmart Patents Robot Carts For Better Shopping >>
* Scientists Force Snails To Exercise To See If It Affects Their Decision-making Skills >>
* Highlining Between 9,000-Foot-Tall Mountain Peaks Takes a Special Kind of Courage >>

* Microsoft’s Loftis on Xbox gaming and Scorpio >>
* Amazon Alexa can now help you make dinner—by talking to your appliances >>
* Google street view blurs cow’s face in Cambridge >>

* ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Delayed Until May 2017 >>
* Fall TV 2016 Premieres: 5 New Network TV Shows To Watch This Season >>
* Uber should be operating 100 self driving cars by the end of this year >>
* $100M from Laurene Powell Jobs to remake schools for high tech age >>

* Peter Diamandis Explains the Potential of Exponential Medicine >>
* Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year >>
* Fetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise welcomes our new robot overlords >>

* MSI’s new VR gaming backpack looks like an angry robot >>
* People who ‘see’ scans of their brain activity can learn to control it >>
* SETI Astronomers Discuss Discovery of Nearby Planet Proxima b and Mystery Alien Signal from the Hercules Constellation (VIDEO) >>

* Google’s DeepMind AI Creates a Machine That Sounds Exactly Like a Human >>
* Spacex Hopes For Falcon 9 Return To Flight In November; Shotwell >>
* 30-ton Chunk Of 4,500 Year-old Meteorite Unearthed In Argentina >>

* Terrestrial Energy applying for $800M to $1.2B US loan guarantee to make a breakthrough first commercial molten salt nuclear reactor >>
* Putting Humans in Stasis is the Best Way of Getting Us to Mars >>
* Uber should be operating 100 self driving cars by the end of this year >>

* Book: Technology vs. Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine (Futurescapes) >>
* ‘Perfect’ low-cost, defect-free graphene directly from graphite >>
* Book: Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead >>

* Eternal Sonata: A Thriller of the Near Future >>
* AFRL Technology Demonstration Program progresses to AR1 Engines to replace Russian RD-180 rockets >>
* Research towards enabling minds as healthy and productive as twenty year olds in people who are 60-80 >>

* The New Moana Trailer Is an Epic Start to Adventure >>
* Ex-HTC CEO hints at the future of VR headsets >>
* Need Some AI? Yeah, There’s a Marketplace for That >>

* Video Is Everywhere and Regulators Have Noticed >>
* Nissan is developing an AI to design its cars >>
* The IoT Is Coming To Healthcare >>

* Augmented reality studio castAR picks up ‘Disney Infinity’ devs >>
* Google’s latest virtual tour takes you inside 10 Downing Street >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 15 September 2016

* Military Wants A Way To Track Drones Flying Over Cities >>
* How do you feel? ‘Mind-reading’ system can pinpoint emotions flickering across your brain >>
* mFluiDx uses mobile and the cloud to enable disease diagnosis in the field >>

* Scientists found 63 ancient cosmic objects that could shine light on ‘one of greatest mysteries in astronomy >>
* This Robotic Tank Wants To Kill Mosquitoes With A Laser >>
* Your Blue Jeans Can Trace Their Origins To Peru, 6,000 Years Ago >>

* Future medical wearables could be powered by body heat >>
* A New Map Will Help Predict Earth’s Response To Space Weather >>
* Velodyne adds a high-res version of its LiDAR sensor for autonomous driving >>

* Scientists Explain Pluto’s Red-Headed Moon >>
* New Billion-Star Map Reveals Secrets of the Milky Way >>
* Asteroid assault on early planets was more like a gentle massage >>

* Bonkers Real-Life Plan to Drain the Mediterranean and Merge Africa and Europe >>
* How To Make A Baby Without An Egg >>

* What scientists think aliens could actually look like >>
* Stanford has developed a roadside breathalyzer for weed >>

* China Plans To Launch A Live-in Space Lab Tomorrow >>
* Drone racing is coming to Sky Sports next month >>

* Stilla is a ridiculously simple security system >>
* Facebook to roll out tech for combating fake stories in its Trending topics >>
* Cruise has around 30 self-driving test cars on roads right now >>

* Boeing 737 Max jets will launch the age of $69 one way trans-Atlantic fares in March 2017 >>
* The Pentagon Wants To Get Better At Spotting Photoshop >>
* Jeff Bezos Swaps Spots With Warren Buffett To Become World’s Third Richest In Wake Of Wells Fargo Scandal >>

* Borderless societies >>
* $29 for This Premium 4-Course Training on Amazon Web Services- Deal Alert >>
* Will Self-driving Cars Make Us More Productive? >>

* Facebook Messenger Just Made Some Serious E-Commerce Strides. Here’s Why We Should Care. >>
* Boom times in Silicon Valley for a chosen few >>

* A Time-Loop Generator Causes Relationship Beef in New Clip From Netflix’s ARQ >>
* The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Be Like Nothing In Earth’s History >>
* The World’s Most Sophisticated ATM Skimmers Are Starting to Appear in America >>

* Baby mice made from non-egg cells and could lead to babies using cells not from eggs >>
* Russia shows video of new Armata tank driving over terrain and firing its gun >>
* Paralympics 2016 >>

* Where’s SCiO, my Pocket-Sized Molecular Sensor? >>
* A Ride In Ford’s Self-Driving Car >>
* Dwave Systems offers a course on programming the Dwave 2X Quantum Computer >>

* Weekly Space Hangout Live With Sondy Springmann And Morgan Rehnberg >>
* Blue Origin’s Huge New Rocket Heats Up Billionaire Space Rivalry >>
* Virgin Galactic Signs Sky and Space Global to Four-Launch Deal >>

* When Lights Came On In the Cosmos -New Radio Telescope Array Probes a Pivotal Epoch >>
* Clinton Supports Human Mars Exploration >>
* International Cooperation Key to Spaceflight’s Future, NASA Chief Says >>

* New EU Rules Promise 100Mbps Broadband and Free Wi-Fi For All >>
* VR documentary puts you inside the 2016 NBA Finals >>
* Man claims footage shows Alphabet’s drone making a burrito delivery >>

* PS4 Update: Folders Aren’t All You Get On PlayStation 4, HDR Compatibility >>
* TV networks are spending a whopping $60 to $80 million just to promote Emmy nominations >>
* Google-free wifi kiosks scrapping web browsing because too many people using it for porn >>

* The Airbus A380 just got some bad news from its second largest customer >>
* NZ internet; 1Gbps high speed internet service >>

* The Sad Story Of The Man Who Figured Out An Equation For Altruism >>
* In these games starring AI bots, chatting is the new shooting >>
* New York’s Wi-Fi hubs shut down tablet web access after complaints of homeless users >>

* The Man Who Coined The Term ‘Metaverse’ Speaks About VR’s Future >>
* ‘future First’: This Is Your Brain On Vr >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 14 September 2016

* Monkey Types 12 Words per Minute With Brain-to-Keyboard Communication >>
* Skin cells could be used instead of eggs to make embryos, say scientists >>
* Aggressive Quadrotors Zip Through Narrow Windows Without Any Help >>

* Researchers Train Ai To Defeat Face Blurring Technologies >>
* Drones Will Use Lasers So Other Lasers Can’t Shoot Them Down >>
* Alexa functionality is coming to the Onyx wearable walkie-talkie >>

* Apple’s iOS 10 update goes horribly wrong on some iPhones >>
* Need a hand in the kitchen? Just ask Amazon Alexa. >>
* Jeff Bezos has designs for larger reusable rockets than the Spacex Falcon Heavy >>

* Here’s why “two-dad” babies aren’t yet a biological reality >>
* Experts reveal new computer defense system that uses a DECOY network to mislead hackers >>

* Trio of Nations Aim to Hook Asia Super Grid to Grids of the World >>
* New programming language delivers fourfold speedups on Big Data problems >>
* Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy >>

* Qualcomm’s IoT Challenge – 3 Days To Invent A Lifesaving Device >>
* Shell may launch a UK EV charging network in 2017 >>
* Google’s new museum tours bring dinosaurs to life >>

* Scientists Have Bred Live Mice with No Need for Fertilized Eggs >>
* BMW and VW finish installing EV chargers along US coastlines >>

* Virus Pumps Up Male Muscles—in Mice >>
* To fix heartbeat, replace shocks with red light? >>
* PlayStation update add support for HDR >>

* South Africa: Virtually There By Bill Gates >>
* This Water-Jet Cutter Can Slice Through Anything: Steel, Glass, or Steak >>
* Interconnectivity: A Key Ingredient for the Mobile-Money Ecosystem >>

* Medical nanobots approach for curing Alzheimers in a 433 page write up by Robert Freitas >>
* Novel Semiconductor Has Double-Helix Structure of DNA >>
* China to Launch New Tiangong-2 Space Lab Soon >>

* The ‘father of the self-driving car’ wants to solve the talent drought by training a new legion of driverless car engineers >>
* Sony’s Making a Movie Out of Scott Kelly’s Year in Space >>

* Astronomers Are Watching A Star Evolve In Real Time >>
* Can safety wearables really stop crimes against women? >>

* Moon’s Birth May Have Vaporized Most of Earth, Study Shows >>
* Will We Ever Find E.T.? NASA Talks First Contact ‘Star Trek’-Style >>
* Blue Origin Capsule’s Solid Rocket Motor Push In Case Of Emergency | Animation >>

* “Is Our Nearest Star’s Planet Proxima B Habitable?” –Three Top Astrophysicists Ponder >>
* Biologists Really Can’t Help Naming Species After Obama >>

* Black Holes May Be the Missing Piece of Star Cluster Puzzle >>
* China high speed rail network has passed 20,000 kilometers in total length >>
* Ford: Robotaxis in 2021, Self-Driving Cars for Consumer 2025 >>

* Our World Is Getting Hotter and This GIF Shows It >>
* Smart Sex Toy Maker Sued for Sneakily Collecting ‘Intimate’ Data >>
* Welcome To The Rare Metal Age >>

* Marc Andreessen on the atomization of AI >>
* iOS 10 review: the coming of age of apps >>
* iOS 10 is now available to download >>

* Ex-Google Car Chief, Mercedes, Nvidia Partner To Train Self-Driving Car Engineers >>
* The Eye-Sync system can diagnose concussions in one minute >>
* TP-Link’s new Wi-Fi light bulbs shun smart bridges for easier, cheaper setup >>

* These $16 Bluetooth Earbuds Are Perfect For Your New iPhone >>
* AI Is The Future Of Salesforce >>
* 2016 Could Be Fact-Checking’s Finest Year—If Anyone Listens >>

* Nvidia Chases Bigger (And Better) Chunk Of Burgeoning Artificial Intelligence Market >>
* Are you ready for a fully digital credit card? >>
* ZTE’s top crowdfunding ideas include an AR diving mask and educational robotic gloves >>

* One Simple Comic Explains Climate Change >>
* There is more than one kind of Alzheimer’s disease >>
* ‘First-responder’ protein spurs gene to repair DNA >>

* Jeff Bezos to launch bigger rocket in race with Musk’s SpaceX >>
* You can finally delete Apple’s pre-installed apps from your iPhone >>
* A.I. Speech Sounds More Human than Ever >>

* Netflix September 2016: The Best Netflix Movies & Series Still To Come >>
* The 20 best new TV shows this fall you need to watch >>
* Every Netflix Original Series, Ranked (Again) >>

* There Are 12 Black Dots In This Image And You Will Never See All Of Them At Once >>
* The deadly epidemic America is ignoring; The Uncounted >>
* InstaVR Raises $2 Million For Its 360-Degree Content Creation Platform >>

* NVIDIA Kicks Off CES 2017 With Keynote Covering VR >>
* Chess Championship Will Stream Live In Virtual Reality >>
* Artificial intelligence is the new electricity? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 13 September 2016

* From Toilet to the Tub—Google’s Smart Bathroom Will Evaluate Everything >>
* DARPA working on safe Gene Editing Research >>
* Atlas robot shows off new skill: balancing on nearly anything >>

* With PeppAR Waiter, SoftBank’s cute robot shows you your food in 3D before you order >>
* Stunning New Images Of Mars From The Curiosity Rover >>
* MIT scientists invented a camera that can read books without opening them >>

* Netflix wants annoying data caps to be illegal >>
* TiVo’s new Bolt+ has six 4K tuners and a 3TB drive to hold it all >>

* Bloostar: Launching Satellites Via Balloon >>
* Walk Around in the Sun to Power Wearables With This Cloth >>
* Philae Lander Found on Comet 67P >>

* New System Could Break Bottleneck in Microprocessors >>
* ‘Bionic Olympics’ Bring Cyborg Technology To Competition >>
* This Simple 3D-Printed Door Handle Works Without Any Moving Parts >>

* Welcome To The Rare Metal Age >>
* August Ties July For Hottest Month Ever >>
* Full Moons Can Trigger Enormous Earthquakes >>

* Microsoft thinks time crystals may be viable after all >>
* Nobody Is Watching Kim Dotcom’s Livestreamed Extradition Hearing >>
* Triple Domino Spiral Is a Marvel of Destructive Engineering >>

* Facebook Messenger chatbots now support payments >>
* Blue Origin unveils big new rocket that will put humans in orbit >>
* Full and new moons linked to timing of largest, deadliest quakes >>

* Teacher uses facial recognition technology to see if students are BORED >>
* By 2030, police could use AI to predict and prevent crimes BEFORE they happen >>
* Human sperm grown in a lab for the first time, claims study >>

* Facebook Messenger to offer bot-assisted payments >>
* Google app turns smartphone photos to 360 >>
* Move over Tesla, electric bus drives 600 miles >>

* Otto aims to have trucks drive themselves >>
* This adorable robot dispenses your pills and vitamins >>
* Genesis 1.0 –Creation of the Milky Way Galaxy Moments After Birth of the Universe (Caltech VIDEO) >>

* Astronomers discovered a second ‘alien megastructure’ star that’s even stranger than the first one >>
* First multicellular organism inspires the design of better cancer drugs >>
* China: 3D Printed House Makes Debut in Shandong Province, Phase One of Ongoing Project >>

* VR and AR: Getting Real Gets Complicated >>
* Swarm robots can learn by simply observing >>
* The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe >>

* Why Transistors Are One Of The Most Important Inventions Of All Time >>
* Google’s $500 Million Learning Investment Pays Off With an AI That Mimics Human Speech >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 12 September 2016

* Chemistry Could Save Billions of Baby Male Chickens >>
* Even the Most Remote Islands Harbor Human Messes >>
* World’s first ‘nanofish’ could be used as guided drug missiles >>

* Airport Scanner Flags Common Cyst as a Security Threat >>
* DNA Reveals Giraffes are 4 Species–Not 1 >>
* Does YOUR face lose you friends? Researchers reveal ‘resting b*tch face’ can see you dumped for looking ‘cold and incompetent’ >>

* Bilingual people have ‘superfocus’: Study finds switching between languages boosts attention spans >>
* The secret feature of the iPhone 7 plus: Experts say dual camera could be used for radical augmented reality apps >>

* How Close is North Korea to Targeting the U.S. with Nuclear Missiles? >>
* The drone you can EAT: Edible craft to have wings stuffed with food and medical supplies for humanitarian missions >>

* Machine-learning Algorithm Generates Videos From Stills >>
* Google Is Making It Harder To Pick Out Fake Voices >>

* Google’s AI finds its voice … and it’s surprisingly human >>
* Remember When People Laughed at the ATLAS Robot When It Fell Over? WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?! >>
* Protein In Your Hair Is Better Than Dna At Identifying You >>

* World’s First ‘Nanofish’ Coming to Swim Drugs Up Your Bloodstream >>
* Taking Health Monitoring to the Next Level >>
* These Nightmare Videos Are Generated From Still Baby Photos by a Neural Network >>

* Some interesting youtube videos with Aubrey de Grey, Kurzweil and Kaku >>
* EEG Identification Can Steal Your Most Closely Held Secrets >>
* The Ethics of Human Enhancement >>

* Video Friday: Atlas Balancing, Giant Drone With Arms, and Modified Racing Roomba >>
* Drones armed with anti-laser lasers that trick controls of enemy lasers into missing the drone >>
* Graphene Enables Flat Speakers for Mobile Audio Systems >>

* Tackle This: Football’s Newest Most Valuable Player is a Robot >>
* Video shows Perdix microdrone launched from fighter jet flare dispenser >>
* Private police and security outnumber public police by five times and private security industry is $35 billion per year >>

* Nanodust Cloud Shrouding the Moon Is Spawned by Meteoroid Impacts >>
* China’s Largest Telescope Sights an Asteroid Approaching Earth >>
* Star Trek Plus Fifty >>

* Everything I Know About Leadership I Learned from Star Trek >>
* Watch the birth of a SUPERBUG: Incredible experiment shows how bacteria evolve on a giant petri dish >>
* Spacex Falcon 9 Failure Investigation ‘most Difficult’ Ever: Musk >>

* Aubrey de Grey’s SENS life extension research team made a mitochondrial advance to preserve two out of 13 expressed proteins >>
* Small asteroid passes ten time closer than the moon >>
* Boeing testing blended wing plane for potential new super-efficient subsonic plane within 10 years >>

* Tesla Autopilot 8.0 uses radar to prevent accidents like the fatal Model S crash >>
* Smart city success requires road maps, not free association >>
* Can Humankind Establish a Supply Chain in Space? >>

* Apple’s rumored car project suffers major layoffs, report says >>
* Gillmor Gang: The Enterprise Show >>
* Technology May Someday Change The Way We Communicate With Our Dogs >>

* Microsoft Is Bringing WebVR To Microsoft Edge On Windows 10 >>
* Every single part of this camera is 3D printed >>
* Books Would Be So Much Better if They Could Read Your Mind >>

* Google’s DeepMind Develops New Speech Synthesis AI Algorithm Called WaveNet >>
* Amazon’s Alexa can tell you what’s trending on Twitter >>
* Who Is Getting Left Behind In the Internet Revolution? >>

* Bissell SmartClean 1605 Robot Vacuum Review >>
* Apple shifts into reverse on car project: report >>
* Apple revealed its next design innovation—and nobody noticed >>

* ‘Interscatter’ Tech Lets Implants Talk Wi-Fi >>
* Watson for the Masses >>
* Gillmor Gang: The Enterprise Show >>
* There’s a lot of junk fMRI research out there. Here’s what top neuroscientists want you to know. >>

* The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe >>
* A Conversation with Ray Kurzweil >>
* Physicists have caught signs of a new particle: the Madala boson >>

* Uranus & Neptune May Keep “hitler’s Acid” Stable Under Massive Pressure >>
* Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity Takes 1st Flight with Mothership ‘ >>
* Visit to ‘Armageddon Asteroid’ Could Save Future Earth from Impact >>

* Health experts give British woman, 60, the go-ahead to get pregnant with her dead daughter’s frozen eggs >>
* New trailers: Matthew McConaughey acting weird, Ben Affleck directing again, and more >>
* Arrival review: a soulful sci-fi instant classic >>

* Field In View: Why Sony Failed To Impress This VR Enthusiast With Its PlayStation 4 Pro >>
* 3 Reasons WebVR Is The Future of Virtual Reality >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 9 September 2016

* The Virtual Assistant Powering Amazon’s Echo is Coming to Tablets >>
* Robots and computers will commit more crime than humans by 2040, expert warns >>
* Apple’s future lies beyond the iPhone >>

* Fingerprint scanners on the front door, blast resistant windows and a helipad for emergency evacuations: How the super-rich keep their homes secure >>
* To catch a hairy thief! Humans can be identified by the proteins in their hair even 250 years after their death >>
* Stem cells delivered via Skin gun can reduce second degree burn treatment from 3 to 4 weeks to days >>

* Kirk and Spock Still Fascinate as ‘Star Trek’ Turns 50 >>
* Osiris-rex Asteroid Mission Seeks To Search For Origin Of Life Chemistry >>
* The deadliest bug: DNA confirms identity of bacteria behind London’s Great Plague in the 17th Century >>

* Single low dose anti-malaria drug successful in mice >>
* Costa Rica has been running on 100% renewable energy for 2 months straight >>
* Swarms of Robots Manage to Not Run Into Each Other >>

* Portable chemical cooler can maintain cold chain for vaccines which will save millions of lives >>
* Mercedes Tries to Conquer the Last Mile With Cute Delivery Drones and Bots >>
* A Chip-Scale Source for Quantum Random Number Generators >>

* Alphabet partners with Chipotle to deliver burritos using drones >>
* Apple is trying to turn the iPhone into a DSLR using artificial intelligence >>
* “China May Be Earth’s First Nation to Detect Alien Life” –Poised to Flip ‘On’ Switch of World’s Largest, Most Powerful Radio Telescope >>

* Handy Device + Phone App Tells if Fruit Is Ripe >>
* Nanoparticles Found in Brains Come From External Sources >>
* Teaching certainty >>

* NASA NIAC E-sail Phase 2 Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System >>
* Projects investigating neural regeneration in the retina funded by NIH >>

* The Two-Camera iPhone 7 Plus Is Just the Beginning of the Camera Count Competition >>
* Why the Headphone Jack Had to Die >>
* Watch as Bacteria Evolve Antibiotic Resistance in a Gigantic Petri Dish >>

* Blue Origin Will Likely Blow Up Its Next Rocket >>
* The Gulf’s Flesh-eating Bacteria Isn’t Taking Over >>
* Complex Organic Molecules Discovered on Rosetta’s Comet >>

* Cancer Cures Could Already Exist In Big Data >>
* Oculus Story Studios won its first Emmy for an interactive film >>
* Intel may make chips specially for mixed reality headsets >>

* Linking RNA structure and function >>
* Star Trek’s 50-Year Mission To Inspire Is A Success >>
* Star Trek’s Warp Drive Might Become A Reality >>

* The importance of emotion in AI systems >>
* Will Human Skin Revolutionize Batteries? >>
* Apple unveiled the $159 wireless AirPods >>

* PlayStation 4 will play Netflix and YouTube videos in HDR >>
* Sony says the 4K PS4 Pro is ‘where we think the market wants to go’ >>

* A Nanoscale View Of Enamel Might Help Us Treat Tooth Decay >>
* Is the US military preparing for GENE WARFARE? Darpa reveals new program to address ‘safety gaps’ in gene editing techniques >>

* Microbiome impacts tissue repair and regeneration >>
* A tenth of Earth’s wilderness has disappeared since 1990s as global biodiversity sees ‘staggering’ declines >>
* Cosmic Danger Zones: Star Cluster Discovered to Harbor Several Hundred Black Holes –“A Phenomenon Thought Impossible” >>

* P&O unveils plans for its biggest ever cruise ship >>
* Very Large Asteroid Being Monitored By NASA As It Travels Towards Earth >>
* NASA is about to launch a spacecraft to an asteroid to learn more about life on Earth >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 8 September 2016

* The PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro Are Here >>
* iPhone 7 and 7 Plus announced with water resistance, dual cameras, and no headphone jack >>
* Everything Apple Announced Today >>

* Nasa’s Em Drive Passes Peer Review, But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up >>
* Artificial ovary may boost fertility and postpone the menopause >>

* Protein Test Could Complement Crime Scene DNA Analysis >>
* Your distinctive hairprint can identify you even when DNA fails >>
* Cancer “Moon Shot” Plans Should Include Tumor Profiling, Panel Urges >>

* IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence Xprize -Using AI in new ways to solve the World’s biggest problems #Gsummit >>
* Nintendo Is Bringing Super Mario Run to Apple iPhone and iPad in time for Christmas >>
* Tiny ‘Fitbit’ can track your body from WITHIN: Dust-sized wireless sensors to be tested on humans in two years >>

* Mercedes-Benz and Matternet unveil vans that launch delivery drones >>
* Magazino’s TORU inventory-grabbing robot rolls into major German logistics center >>
* “Far, Silent Side of the Moon” –Upcoming NASA and China Missions to “Fill a Void” in Our Knowledge of the Universe >>
* “Gigantic Compared to Our Solar System” –Two Massive Holes Caused by Dark Matter Observed Just Outside Milky Way” >>

* Russia working on railguns with space launch speed, robot avatars, exoskeletons and smart bullets >>
* Scientists Discover Different Flesh-eating Disease Bacteria Strains Share Features >>
* Genesis Project: Should We ‘Gift’ the Cosmos With Life? >>

* Designing Ultrasound Tools with Lego-Like Proteins >>
* New Breed of Optical Soliton Wave Discovered >>
* Quantum Enigma Encryption Machine >>

* Kuangchi plans to invest US$1.5 billion in stratospheric balloon tourism >>
* Carbon Nanotube Transistors Finally Outperform Silicon >>
* The Mission To Visit A Killer Asteroid >>

* Super Mario Is Coming To The Iphone >>
* ‘future First’: Where Are All The Aliens? >>
* Jeff Williams Has Broken The Record For Living In Space 534 days >>

* Qualcomm, AT&T get together to test mobe networks for delivery drone control >>
* PlayStation VR will ship with an 8-game demo disc >>
* Machine Learning Is Creating A Revolution In Digital Advertising >>

* A Bus-Size Asteroid Just Gave Earth a Close Shave >>
* A hierarchy of value when everything functions >>
* The Grocery Store Items That Will Be More Expensive in 2017 >>

* Cloudy Days Ahead: The State Of The Cloud Industry For 2016 And Beyond >>
* Fasten Your Seat Belt, Connected Car Data Worth $1.5 Trillion >>
* The five tricks guaranteed to make ANYONE fall in love with you >>

* An Airbus jet wound up in the wrong city thousands of miles away from its destination >>
* Sony unveils $399 PlayStation 4 Pro, slimmer standard console >>

* Could Good Sex Be Bad for an Older Man’s Heart? >>
* ‘Impossible engine’ set for space test: Controversial technology to be launched on shoebox-sized satellite >>
* Watch a Volvo executive play chicken with a self-driving truck in an underground mine >>

* Live from Sony’s PlayStation 4 slim and Neo event >>
* Sony’s 4K game console is called PlayStation 4 Pro >>
* How 3D Printing Is Revolutionizing Stop Motion Animation >>

* Just The Good Stuff From Today’s Apple Event >>
* Apple just fixed the biggest problem with smartphone cameras >>
* The iPhone 7’s new home button isn’t a real button >>
* Apple kills 16GB smartphone with iPhone 7, now starts at 32GB >>
* Two cameras in iPhone 7 Plus allow synthetic zoom, soft-focus backgrounds >>
* Apple’s wireless buds are called the AirPods, and they just might be great >>
* Apple’s iOS 10 Is Coming to Your iPhone Sept. 13 >>

* Apple unveils its quad-core A10 Fusion chip >>
* Apple is changing the way you use the home button on the iPhone 7 >>
* The iPhone is finally waterproof! >>
* The iPhone 7 Is Here: Everything You Need to Know >>
* Apple’s first wireless chip is the new W1 for wireless AirPods >>

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* Google’s self-driving cars could soon detect the POLICE: Patent shows how AI will dodge emergency vehicles >>
* Scientists Just Made a Working Laser Using Blood >>
* Cancer diagnosis? Simple blood test ‘finds disease BEFORE the symptoms start’ >>

* Apple’s wireless headphones will use something better than Bluetooth >>
* Stressed? We’re teaching computers to help handle our feelings >>
* Apple’s iMessages will be more visual in iOS 10 >>

* OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Blazes Trail for Asteroid Miners >>
* Apple’s iPhone 7 announcement: what to expect >>

* Turning off this newly discovered brain pathway could help us block fearful memories >>
* ‘Halcyon’ From SyFy Premieres Sept. 22 As A Combined Television/VR Series >>

* Indian researchers recycle fish scales into energy nanogenerator >>
* Distant asteroid may help us understand where our solar system came from >>
* How Facebook News Feed Works >>

* The world is facing a growing snakebite crisis — and there’s a serious shortage of antivenom >>
* How to Use Your Favorite Mobile Apps on Your Computer >>
* Blood samples from 9-year-olds can predict bipolar symptoms >>

* The Voice of Star Trek’s Computers Could Be Coming to Both Discovery and Your Phone >>
* A Vaccine for Flesh-Eating Bacteria Is Now in Sight >>
* ILM Plays God In This Crazy New Force Awakens VFX Reel >>

* Think a Tesla’s battery is good? Researchers say sodium ‘superbatteries’ could go 650 miles on a single charge >>
* The Future Of Energy Is Blowing In The Wind >>

* Digitizing The Oceans In Real Time >>
* A cheap, long-lasting, sustainable battery for grid energy storage >>
* Rice University-led team morphs nanotubes into nanodiamonds for spacecraft and satellites >>

* NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts – Directed Energy Phil Lubin laser propulsion for interstellar travel and laser arrays for kilometer sized telescopes >>
* NASA NIAC Brane craft that is solar powered with 4000 ISP and weighs about 50 grams >>
* NASA NIAC space laser for analyzing chemical composition of asteroids >>
* NASA NIAC Making asteroids into spacecraft >>
* NASA NIAC – Tensegrity Approaches to In-Space Construction of a 1g Growable Habitat >>
* NASA NIAC – Precise Extremely Large Reflective Telescope Using Re-configurable Elements >>
* NASA NIAC – Cryogenic surface materials that would emit heat and get to temperatures for taking liquid oxygen to Mars >>

* How AI may affect urban life in 2030 >>
* The Whirlpool Galaxy and Beyond >>
* Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History >>

* A Familiar Face Is Returning to Arrow Sooner Than You Think >>
* Could We Build A Starship Enterprise With Our Current Technology? >>
* Instagram is dropping photo maps >>

* 4K Projectors Get Serious: Hands On With The JVC DLA-Z1 And Sony VPL-VW550ES >>
* Ten Ways ‘Proxima b’ Is Different From Earth >>
* AT&T tests drones on its LTE network to prepare for deliveries >>

* IFA 2016: All things mobile >>
* Pet wearables are here and they want to ‘gamify’ your four-legged friends >>
* How an Inventor You’ve Probably Never Heard of Shaped the Modern World >>

* Giving tomatoes new DNA now takes less time >>
* As long as robots look adorable and make us coffee, we’ll be eating out of their robotic hands >>
* Biohacking Will Let You Connect Your Body to Anything You Want >>

* New CERN LHC Experiments –“Predict a Boson Beyond the Higgs That Could Unlock Clues to Existence of Dark Matter” >>
* China Speeding Efforts to Build a Manned Oceanic “Space Station” >>
* Early Earth Collided With a Mercury-Sized Planet –“Set the Stage for Carbon-Based Life” >>

* How to Follow NASA’s Asteroid-Sampling Mission Launch Online This Week >>
* Flight of the Prandtl: NASA’s Mars Airplane Prototype Tests in Photos >>
* SpaceX Falcon 9 Explosion Could Have Ripple Effects Across Space Industry >>

* Biker Mice From Mars Gets An Advance Wars Style Prequel >>
* Watch 116 Excavators Demolish a Massive Overpass In Just One Night >>
* Vitamin B12 as Protection for the Aging Brain >>

* The woman who received the world’s first face transplant has died >>
* New leaked files reveal more about NSA satellite eavesdropping >>

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* A wristband and your finger can replace your phone, but you still need a phone to use it >>
* The threat of robot guards is not enough to stop people stealing >>
* Scientists figured out how the month you are born in is linked to your health >>

* Nanomaterial Offers First Fabric That Can Keep Us Cool >>
* DARPA working on jam resistant communication will also enable better usage of Wi-fi and other wireless spectrum >>
* DARPA Room-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition could enable new electronics >>

* Watch over 100 excavators dismantle a Chinese overpass overnight >>
* Gillmor Gang: Monetize This >>

* We’ve Never Seen The Solar Wind Like This Before >>
* Acer’s 21-inch ‘laptop’ gives ridiculous a new name >>
* Plague Genome Sequenced From 6th Century Woman’s Teeth >>

* LG’s smart fridge has Windows 10 on a transparent display >>
* Digitizing Your Analog Movies Is Just the Beginning >>
* NASA’s Dawn Mission Spies Ice Volcanoes on Ceres >>

* Researchers find a SECOND ‘Dyson sphere’ star – but say strange fluctuations on both could simply be caused by dust >>
* Facebook Messenger launches ‘instant video’ in swing at Snapchat >>

* Forget Mars: SpaceX Competitor Building Space Trucks For New Economy In Orbit Above Earth >>
* The Google of China announces new AI and Internet of Things initiatives >>

* This gadget will let you take phone calls with your finger like a secret agent >>
* Watch over 100 excavators dismantle a Chinese overpass overnight >>
* Drone captures views of incredible new Apple Campus >>

* Google’s new phones, 4K Chromecast, and Daydream VR headset are coming at October 4th event: report >>
* “Giant Comets from the Kuiper Belt Pose a Real Threat to Earth” –NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft to Probe These Outer Reaches >>
* Talk About A Crowded Neighborhood: Closest Binary Stars With Multiple Planets Found >>

* We Visited Mock Mars: Here’s What It’s Like to Live There >>
* “The Genesis Project”— Scientists Propose Transplanting Earth Life to Alien Planets >>
* NASA to Launch Asteroid-Sampling Mission Next Week >>

* NASA’s Delayed Mars Lander Will Launch in 2018 >>
* NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Plasmonic Propulsion >>
* NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts – update on the Topor study >>

* China has a new long range bomber program >>
* AMD, GlobalFoundries Focus on Path to 7 nanometers >>
* Cannae will launch demo cubesat to prove it has thrust in space >>

* For first time, carbon nanotube transistors outperform silicon >>
* Video Friday: Self-Driving Tractor, Robot Sumo, and Trolley Problem Solved >>
* Germany’s Engineering Gap Increasing Fast With Rise of New Technologies >>

* Step toward eliminating cancer recurrence >>
* A 60-Year-Old Pattern in the Stratosphere Just Reversed >>
* Your Bad Driving Is the Reason Traffic Jams Exist >>

* The Biggest Air Cannon in the World Would Dominate Vaping Competitions >>
* Elevate your selfie game with this pocket-sized drone >>
* Why Are Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 Phones Exploding? >>

* Getting lost in LG’s magical OLED tunnel >>
* New trailers: Netflix’s sci-fi Groundhog Day, Donald Glover’s new series, and more >>
* The Verge fall movie preview: from Snowden to Star Wars >>

* How the Falcon 9 explosion may change SpaceX’s launch schedule >>
* US hospitals try giving patients a dose of VR >>
* If aliens visited us they would hate our guts >>

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