Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 December 2016

* Watch Tesla’s Autopilot system help avoid a crash with superhuman sight >>
* Scientists track gene parts controlling the embryo’s early growth >>
* Deep Learning AI Listens to Machines For Signs of Trouble >>

* HRL confirmed lightest material as world record and it is 100 times lighter than Styrofoam >>
* A Promising Spot for Life on Mars >>

* If a Self-Driving Car Kills a Pedestrian, Who Is at Fault? >>
* Augmented Reality Apps That Help You Explore The World >>
* Apple leaps into AI research with improved simulated + unsupervised learning >>

* Orbital Determination for Proxima Centauri >>
* China’s New Year’s Resolution –“Far Side of the Moon by 2018, Mars 2020, Search for Extraterrestrial Life” >>
* Why the Latest AI Wave Will Gain Momentum in the Coming Year >>
* $160 billion hedge fund wants Artificial intelligence software to make 75% of all management decisions by 2022 >>

* Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells repair damaged spine in humans in clinical trial in a breakthrough for regenerative medicine >>
* Samsung’s New Beauty Products Are Very Judgmental >>
* America Sold $40 Billion Worth of Weapons to Other Countries Last Year >>

* South Korea makes 13 foot tall humanoid manned mech >>
* Your brain on alcohol: Experts reveal what REALLY happens when you get drunk >>
* Jerry Pournelle talks about China’s orbital tests of the EMDrive as a bigger than Sputnik moment >>

* How blockchain can create the world’s biggest supercomputer >>
* The World Reacts to Carrie Fisher’s Death >>

* The Mysterious Virus That Could Cause Obesity >>
* MIT Researchers Measure the Quantum Universe –“From the Planck Scale to Life” >>
* Apple’s first AI paper focuses on creating ‘superrealistic’ image recognition >>

* Taiwan Semiconductor says 10 nanometer chips are on schedule for first quarter of 2017, 7 nm also in 2017, 5nm in 2019 and 3nm around 2022 >>
* Construction Site Domino Bricks Magically Topple in Both Directions >>
* Megacities Will Gobble Up the Best Farmland, Leaving Humans Hungry >>

* Dutch Fertility Clinic May Have Mixed Up Sperm For Dozens of Couples >>
* Five Trailblazing Inventions That Uncovered The Ocean’s Deepest Mysteries >>
* LG Tone Studio wearable speaker provides a personal surround sound experience >>

* Samsung is bringing an Amazon Echo compatible robot vacuum to CES >>
* Ford’s new self-driving Fusion almost looks like a regular car >>
* Sylvania smart light bulb talks to Siri without a hub >>

* China finishing first domestic CV-17 aircraft carrier and preparing catapults for next CV-18 carrier >>
* China has test flight of an improved FC-31 Gyrfalcon stealth fighter >>

* Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye Tribe >>
* Deep learning could predict car trouble before you notice it >>
* Gene mutation leaves 1% of hearts ‘primed to fail’ >>

* Scientists develop a virtual breathalyser that can fit to smartwatches and phones >>
* Is this drug a new way to prevent heart attacks? >>
* Scientists to start sending messages into universe in hopes of getting a reply from aliens >>

* World’s smallest diamonds used to make wires 3 atoms wide >>
* Here’s What People Ate 780,000 Years Ago >>
* Scientists Catch Slimes Learning, Even Though They Have 0 Neurons >>

* Alzheimer’s Falls More Heavily on Women than on Men >>
* Is this why you take fewer risks as you get older? Levels of a feel-good brain chemical diminish over the years >>
* The reflective glasses that could make criminals ‘invisible’ to security cameras >>

* Why Haven’t We Invented A Sunscreen Pill? >>

* ‘Rogue One’ Visual Effects Guru Defends Using Technology To Bring Back Dead Actor >>
* Remembering Carrie Fisher, Princess of Star Wars and Hollywood >>
* Carrie Fisher In ‘star Wars’: Film’s Producers Confirm That The Late Actress Will Not Appear In Episode Ix? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 December 2016

* Ultrafast lasers capture elusive photosynthesis reactions >>
* Apple Publishes Its First Artificial Intelligence Paper >>
* Tangled Up in Spacetime >>

* Cucumbers grown in space show how plants sense gravity >>
* Ammonia detected in Earth’s troposphere for first time >>
* Researchers Send Information Using a Single Particle of Light >>

* 2016: The Year That Deep Learning Took Over the Internet >>
* Classic ‘RollerCoaster Tycoon’ comes to iOS and Android >>
* Progress towards next-generation solar cells >>

* 2017 will be Tesla’s biggest year ever — here’s what’s in store for the company >>
* A Vaccine for Cancer? >>
* This router is the secret to faster WiFi >>

* Imperial College of London makes world’s most heat resistant material at 4232 kelvin >>
* First true brain to brain communication could start in 2017 because of recent huge advances >>
* The Cost of Blowing up the Death Star? The Biggest Recession in the Universe >>

* AI was everywhere in 2016 >>
* NASA’s Europa Lander May Drill to Find Pristine Samples on Icy Moon >>
* The biggest losers of 2016 >>

* Self-Assembly Process Strikes Perfect Balance for Making Atoms-Wide Nanowires >>
* This Shark-attack Survivor Created A New Prosthetic To Get Back To Surfing >>
* This Scientist Re-wires Frogs To Grow Extra Limbs. Could It Work In Humans? >>

* Pros and cons: Our quick verdict on the Oculus Touch >>
* Watch this smartphone-assisted robot beat the pants off of humans in air hockey >>
* Gondolas soar above gridlock >>

* Stanford students discover how to build wires like Lego >>
* VR steps up in 2017 technology trends >>
* NASA uses space laser to study polar ocean plants >>

* Scientists Have Decoded The Genetic Sequence Of The Ash Tree >>
* Famous last words of 18 famous people >>
* Making the Case for Medical School >>

* Eye Contact Can Be Overwhelming >>
* World Transformed Year in Review: Best Stories of 2016 >>
* Nanoarray sniffs out and distinguishes ‘breathprints’ of multiple diseases >>

* Method discovered to remove damaging amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer’s disease >>
* World’s first ‘solar panel road’ opens in France >>
* It may not feel like anything to be an alien >>

* How technology is merging with the human body >>
* STOP STEALING DREAMS: Seth Godin at TEDxYouth@BFS >>
* Bionic eyes and Arms >>

* When everyone is in favor… It’s almost certain that there’s confusion about what’s being decided. >>
* Lunar Xprize landings are targeted for 2017 >>
* Chips for Deep learning continue to leapfrog in capabilities and efficiency >>

* Will technology prevent the next food shortage crisis? >>
* China ‘Smart Restaurant’ Uses Facial Recognition To Make Meal Suggestions >>
* The Most Stunning Space Photos of 2016 >>

* 2016: The Year That Deep Learning Took Over the Internet >>
* All 2.3 Million Species Are Mapped into a Single Circle of Life >>
* Some People’s Brains Are Wired for Languages >>

* VR, AR will be very real in 2017 >>
* The future is here, and it’s filled with robots taking jobs >>
* Vaccine against deadly Ebola virus coming up soon >>

* Starbucks has big plans for artificial intelligence >>
* This building changes shape every hour — and it’s mesmerising to watch >>
* An exercise scientist explains what everyone gets wrong about stretching >>

* 33 startups to watch in 2017, according to VC investors >>
* How Amazon can become the world’s first trillion-dollar business >>
* Researchers have developed a way to use smartphones to prevent drunk driving >>

* The world must resist the rise of a new USSR >>
* Trump is now doing many of the things he criticized Hillary Clinton for >>
* We are entering a ‘cold currency war’ >>

* Aerix Vidius HD Drone Review – VR Flight Meets Pocket-Sized Technology >>
* Developer Spaces Dedicated to AR And VR Are Becoming More Popular Than Ever >>
* Field in View: My VR Highlights Of 2016 >>

* Checking in on some 2010 Twitter predictions about 2016 >>
* The 43 Games We Can’t Wait To Play In 2017 >>
* The Wit And Wisdom Of Ross: A Supercut Of Bob’s Best Quotes >>

* Rewriting The Code Of Life >>
* In the race to build the best AI, there’s already one clear winner >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 December 2016

* French town just installed the world’s first ‘solar road’ >>
* Check Out NASA’s Asteroid-Catching Robot Arms >>
* Watch the giant MEGABOT pick up a car >>

* Elon Musk says Tesla’s vision neural net for Autopilot is “now working well” >>
* Bootstrapping space industry and a solar system wide civilization with Robots and 3D printing >>
* Google’s Free Wi-Fi in India Now Live in 100 Railway Stations; 15,000 New Users Connect to Web Everyday >>

* Trump says US must ‘expand its nuclear capability’ until ‘the world comes to its senses’ >>
* What’s standing between Donald Trump and nuclear war? >>
* How a Pandemic Might Play Out Under Trump >>
* Trump’s Newest Adviser Wants To Mine The Moon >>

* Encrypted messaging app Signal uses Google to bypass censorship >>
* In Cancer Fight, Artificial Intelligence Is A Smart Move For Everyone >>
* Google Knows Where You Live, And What Shoes You Want >>

* Uber just stopped its self-driving car service in San Francisco. Here’s what you need to know. >>
* A supervolcano that caused one of the biggest eruptions ever has started to wake up >>
* New drug possible breakthrough against progressive multiple sclerosis >>

* Precision Cancer Trials Are Booming Despite Skeptics Who Doubt Their Value >>
* Waymo enters formal talks with Honda to collaborate on self-driving >>

* Meet Tiny, the smallest snowman in the world: Researchers reveal miniscule silica figure just 3 microns tall >>
* iPhone 8 revealed: Leak shows new high end iPhone 8 will be launched alongside 7s and 7s Plus >>

* Trillions of bugs are buzzing over our heads, study finds >>
* Full Course of Antibiotics Is Best for Infant Ear Infections, Study Finds >>
* Laser-Based Propulsion System Could Get Us to Mars in Record Time—Just Three Days >>

* Faraday Future could be out of business by February >>
* Job recruiters may be swayed by signs of our sexuality revealed in our faces >>
* Tesla Updates Autopilot So It Can’t Break The Speed Limit: Report >>

* Virtual reality is new career path for actors >>
* With Netflix and live TV combined, Sling’s AirTV could be a cable killer >>
* Netflix January 2017: Here’s What’s Coming To, And Leaving, Netflix In January >>

* Eliezer Yudkowsky on Politics – Part 2 >>
* The 17 tech companies that lobby the government the most >>
* Serious Yoga Injuries Are Rare, But on the Rise >>

* Race for AI Chips Begins >>
* Encryption App ‘Signal’ Fights Censorship With a Clever Workaround >>
* Semantic Machines hopes to best Google in the conversational AI game >>

* Neurable nets $2 million to build brain-controlled software for AR and VR >>
* Artificial intelligence is going to make it easier than ever to fake images and video >>
* Are Stationary Bikes that Generate Electricity Making a Comeback? >>

* Simplify Sensor Connections with Modular IoT Software >>
* Friedwardt Winterberg believes gravitational wave background noise is masking gravitational waves >>
* New Technologies Extend Wireless Sensing Range >>

* A Chip to Protect the Internet of Things >>
* China’s military leaders talk up plans for the H-20 strategic bomber >>
* Pregnancy is brain structure mind altering for at least two years >>

* Inexact computing can improve quality of supercomputing answers by 1,000 times >>
* Intriguing New Details About Rey’ Training in Star Wars: Episode VIII >>
* A Brief Economic History of Time >>

* The Year in Pictures 2016 view-source: >>
* Amazon Hires Former Tribeca Director To Work On VR Content >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 December 2016

* China says tests successful of Propellentless EMDrive on Tiangong 2 space station >>
* Using graphene to detect brain cancer cells >>
* World’s first spintronics-based artificial intelligence >>

* Chang’e 3 Lunar 360 panorama: Lander Terrain Camera >>
* Second Life’s creator is building a ‘WordPress for social VR’ >>

* France is the first to use drones for its national mail service >>
* Documents suggest Palantir could help power Trump’s ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants >>

* A top futurist predicts driverless cars will kill at least 128 different jobs >>
* Unity CEO Predicts Progress But Not ‘Explosive Growth’ For VR in 2017 >>
* Why Did Obama Just Honor Bug-free Software? >>

* Relive 15 Years of Earthquakes in Four Mesmerizing Minutes >>
* This smart exoskeleton could help paraplegics walk again >>
* Peter Thiel pushes for commercial space flight in Trump’s NASA >>

* NIST Device for Detecting Subatomic-Scale Motion Has Potential Robotics, Homeland Security Applications >>
* A Japanese Startup Will Try to Land on the Moon Next Year >>
* The Hibernation Science In ‘passengers’ Is Not Far From Reality >>

* A surgeon put on Snapchat’s Spectacles to record a hernia operation >>
* New Evidence Threatens To Crush The Dreams Of Alien Megastructures >>
* Artificial Intelligence Pioneers: Peter Norvig, Google >>

* Uber losses expected to hit $3 billion in 2016 despite revenue growth >>
* What People Really Want from Customer Service >>
* The Biggest Tech Trends From China To Watch Out For In 2017 >>

* BMW to open a new autonomous driving development center near Munich >>
* Mark Zuckerberg reports on his year building A.I. for his home >>
* Top artificial intelligence stories of 2016 >>

* Why Isn’t Voice Recognition Software More Accurate? >>
* Microsoft Invents a Device Authentication System that Combines a ‘Slide to Unlock’ Feature with a Finger Print Scanner >>
* Why Humans Develop Sex Cells as Embryos–but Corals Don’t >>

* Seahorses’ Genome Explains Why They Are So Weird >>
* ‘Super Mario Run’ speeds past App Store records >>
* 20 New TV Shows You Should Watch in 2017 >>

* How Powdered Blood Could Revolutionize Medicine >>
* ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special 2016: Season 10 Episode 1 – Everything You Need To Know >>
* The long term jobs killer is not china its-automation >>

* Graphene able to transport huge currents on the nanoscale >>
* Eliezer Yudkowsky on Politics – Part 1 >>
* 20 years ago Apple re-hired Steve Jobs by buying his struggling startup for $400 million >>

* It Doesn’t Cost Much To Have A Decent Society >>
* ‘Mars Ice Home’: Team Chips Away at Off-Earth House’s Design >>
* Only Makes Sense that Spacex would use Raptor Engines for upgrading Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy >>

* Stanford’s First Hacking for Diplomacy Class Takes On Refugee Crisis, Radicalization, Space Debris >>
* How to enable soft robots to better mimick biological motions >>
* Researchers at Japan Tokai University found a room temperature Superconductor with critical temperature near the melting point of Tin >>

* India passes UK to become the fifth largest economy on a nominal GDP basis >>
* Carbon Nanotubes Make Aerospace Composites Conductive >>
* ‘Pregnancy fluid’ reverses aging bones >>

* Should Engineers Start Thinking Like Field Biologists? >>
* The Biggest Space Race Milestones of 2016 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 December 2016

* Mark Zuckerberg’s new Home AI video >>
* Brittle bone breakthrough: Cells from pregnant women can be used to treat osteoporosis >>
* Watch a human-carrying drone lift a snowboarder off a mountain >>

* LG’s Full HD laser projector is bright enough for daytime use >>
* Superflex’s robot suit is meant to help mobilize aging populations >>

* Scientists detect a quantum crystal of electrons and “watch” it melt >>
* Artificial intelligence can predict a woman’s personality, say researchers >>

* Japan successfully launches radical solid fuel rocket that could cut launch costs by a third >>

* What did you say? Our brains fill in the gaps to keep the conversation going through loud party noise >>
* Think chimpanzees are kind? Think again: The great apes are selfish and do not share our altruistic tendencies >>

* Batteries Need to Get Big—Like, Enormous—for Solar Power to Shine >>
* Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It >>
* Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back >>

* Cern uses lasers to analyze antimatter >>
* Revolutionary engine maker Liquid Piston seeks commercialization for 40HP engine that will be 30 lbs instead of conventional 2700 lbs for diesel >>

* Digitally Unequal >>
* Bladerunner 2049 teaser trailer >>
* Longer lasting superconducting qubits created >>

* The Most Forward-Looking Gadgets I Tried In 2016 >>
* Let’s Take a Second to Think About the Rogue One That Almost Was >>
* 2016: The Year VR Didn’t Meet Expectations, Sort Of >>

* Artificial Feathers Let Drones Morph Their Wings Like Birds >>
* NASA Presses Ahead With Asteroid Mission Despite ESA Funding Decision >>
* China’s Hunt for Signals From the Dark Universe >>

* Colossal Jet-Stream of Molten Iron as Hot as the Sun Revealed Revealed by X-Ray Satellite Flowing Under Alaska and Siberia >>
* Spectrum Of Antimatter Observed For First Time >>
* Bizarre Antimatter Emits Same Light As Regular Matter >>

* CERN Discovery –“We’re One Step Closer to Illuminating Mystery of the Big Bang” >>
* Milky-Way-Like Galaxies of the Early Universe –“Were Smaller, Hyper-Star Generating Objects” >>
* Cellular reprogramming turns back the aging clock in mice >>

* Can Reproduction Be Ageless? >>
* Tickle Experiments Reveal What A Happy Rat Looks Like >>
* Facebook’s Instant Verification app login platform replaces two-factor where SMS fails >>

* How VR Is Starting To Become Our Reality In 2017 >>
* Honda’s next-gen Clarity hydrogen cars land in California >>
* 11 Stock Picks In The $80 Billion Virtual Reality Market >>

* Sex robots could reveal your secret perversions: Handing over intimate data is a privacy risk, warns expert >>
* Bizarre robot ‘lips’ let you kiss long-distance lovers from anywhere in the world >>

* The $2500 holographic ‘girlfriend’ that can double as a virtual PA >>
* Heres How Experts Can Rebuild Trust In The Post Truth Era >>
* Hunting Dark Matter between the Ticks of an Atomic Clock >>

* Antimatter Observed For The First Time, According To Report From Alpha Researchers [Video] >>
* Could an Earthquake ‘Invisibility Cloak’ Shield Buildings from Damage? >>
* Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It >>

* Hands-on: TPCAST’s Wireless Vive Kit Really Works >>
* Build The Model Kits Of Your Dreams With ‘Monzo VR’ >>

* Mark Zuckerberg explains how he wrote his home AI >>
* Surprise: Mark Zuckerberg’s home is narrated by the voice of God >>
* ‘Life-changing’ routine injection to prevent millions breaking bones >>
* LG combines webOS, lasers, and lumens into another reason to replace your TV >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 December 2016

* Becoming a mother may change the brain to read baby’s mind >>
* Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time >>
* 25 predictions for 2017 >>

* Facebook Messenger just got a new feature you’ll actually want to use >>
* Researchers’ discovery of new verbal working memory architecture has implications for artificial intelligence >>
* One swab from the surface of your smartphone can tell scientists all about your lifestyle >>

* Transmitter tech opens the door to underwater radio >>
* Technology dispersion is accelerating >>
* How Did Music Get Its Groove? Scientists Made Rhythm Evolve In A Lab To Find Out. >>

* Motion-Planning Chip Speeds Robots >>
* Grail satellite analysis indicates lava tubes on the moon could be up to 1000 to 5000 meters wide which would be ideal sites for massive moon colonies >>
* Human Cells Eat Nanowires >>

* FOUR asteroids are set to make a ‘close approach’ to Earth on Wednesday >>
* New Galaxy S8 Leak Highlights Samsung’s Big Decision >>
* Creating Emotional Connections in a Global World >>

* Did China’s First Stealth Fighter Unit Just Go Operational? >>
* Sex Robots May Literally Fuck Us to Death >>
* This Towering 65-Foot Robot Arm Weighs Less Than a Puppy >>

* Computers Now Recognize Patterns Better Than Humans Can >>
* Should We Let Doctors-in-Training Be More Sleep-Deprived? >>
* Mark Zuckerberg experiment with Jarvis shows AI promise, limits >>

* The Biggest Scientific Discoveries of 2016 >>
* Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income >>
* Watch the first official trailer for Blade Runner 2049 >>

* These augmented reality robots will turn your living room into a battlefield >>
* Can You Tell if These Objects Are Real or Rendered? >>
* Virtual dating simulator that teaches men how to pick up women is slammed for encouraging uninvited ‘touching’ >>

* Scientists find new front line in war of the sexes: How peeved partners take revenge by getting the shopping all wrong >>
* The world’s best hotels for spa breaks >>
* Donald Trump, Entertainer-in-Chief >>

* Driverless shuttle bus that can hold 15 people to start service by early 2017 >>
* NASA to Test Parachute-Like Exo-Brake Tech to Return Stuff from Space >>
* China’s Hunt for Signals From the Dark Universe >>

* BMW HoloActive Touch system with its free-floating display to be shown at CES >>
* Learning More about Outer System Planets >>
* ‘The Weird Dark Side of the Universe’ (VIEW) >>

* Research team sets new mark for ‘deep learning’ >>
* IBM’s Watson Turns Its Computer Brain to NASA Research >>
* New device for detecting subatomic-scale motion may aid robotics, homeland security >>

* Pregnancy Causes Lasting Changes in a Woman’s Brain >>
* Pregnancy Actually Re-wires Your Brain >>
* Physicists Pin Down Antimatter in Milestone Laser Test >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 December 2016

* The Future 100: Trends and change to watch in 2017 >>
* Future of TV isn’t apps >>
* Elon Musk might start a literal “boring company” to tunnel under traffic >>

* Machine-Learning Software Scans Satellite Images to Find Hidden Poverty / >>
* Porn is about to get even more futuristic with live holograms >>
* Pitch-Aware Marmosets Provide New Model for Human Hearing >>

* Google Home’s new actions include food, news and more >>
* Quantum Satellites Are a Big Step toward the Unhackable Internet >>

* Fresh Ideas for Chasing Consciousness >>
* Satellite System Tracks Glaciers’ Flow in Real Time >>
* Black Phosphorus Enables Plasmonic Logic >>

* Oculus launches Rooms so you can ‘hang out’ with friends in VR >>
* Humans can now move complex robot arms just by thinking >>
* The 7 Unmissable Tech Predictions That Will Define 2017 >>

* Artificial intelligence tool can unearth bargain rugby players >>
* Find Cosmic-Blast Shields, Find the Aliens >>
* Next Entertainment wants to make it possible to live stream for a living >>
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* Sensor System Offers Real-Time Control of Drug Levels in Blood >>
* Machine Learning Will Change What We Value >>
* Quicker Camera Chips Coming >>

* Deepmind AI targets Starcraft >>
* Intermittent expression of genes normally associated with an embryonic state reverses aging in mammals and enables mice to live 30 percent longer >>
* The Fourth Transformation >>

* Investigators Reveal Why Facebook’s Internet Drone Crashed: Wind >>
* To prevent another crash, Facebook’s solar drone will get an airbrake >>
* Last two finalists for Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize Could join forces to go to market >>

* This $30,000 Coffee Table Floats Like a Hoverboard >>
* Dwarf planet Ceres is ‘oozing’ with water >>
* The top 15 events that happened in space in 2016 >>

* Liquid Biopsy Chip Detects Metastatic Cancer Cells in a Drop of Blood >>
* This Chrome Extension Will Fact-Check Trump’s Tweets for You >>
* California’s Fight with Uber’s Self-Driving Car >>

* Samsung is working on a new Gear VR and AR tech >>
* The university debate – a place for passion or a ticket to a job? >>
* Gear VR gets social with Oculus Rooms and Parties >>

* Netflix’s Mysterious The OA Is Your Holiday Break Must-Binge >>
* Two Billion-Year-Old Water Found in Canadian Mine >>
* How To Survive The Great Whipped Cream Shortage Of 2016 >>

* Researchers Make an Obvious Discovery For Improving Drones >>
* The State Of Virtual Reality In 2016 >>
* Google Maps now notes if a location is wheelchair accessible >>

* Japanese firm unveils ‘virtual wife’ to battle loneliness >>
* Sylvester Stallone Under Consideration For Trump National Endowment For Arts Appointment >>
* Virtual Assistant Lets You Imprison Your Anime Girlfriend and Feel Loved >>

* When Will ‘Super Mario Run’ Come Out On Android? >>
* US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change >>
* This MIT robot shape-shifts into various gadgets in seconds >>

* The top biotech stories of 2016 >>
* Artificial intelligence finds its way into business through sales >>
* Health wearables + big data collection = bad news for your privacy >>

* Video Friday: 20-Meter Long Robot Arm, Amazon Drone Delivery, and Mars Rovers in Utah >>
* US Navy would ideally like 653 ships but new plan calls for minimum of 355 ships navy >>
* How Much Insulation Would You Need To Survive Winter In Antarctica? >>

* Words you need to know in 2017 >>
* Google wants to use naked mole rats to find the secret to slow aging >>
* Apollo 11 Moon Rock Bag Belongs to Buyer, Not NASA, Judge Rules >>

* Science News That Stuck with us in 2016 >>
* New Theory of Gravity as an Emergent Phenomena in the Cosmos –“First Tests Looks Interesting” >>
* James Webb Space Telescope Celebrated In Stunning New Video >>

* 24 mind-blowing facts about Warren Buffett and his $70 billion fortune >>
* You Can Hail A Self-driving Uber In San Francisco Starting Today >>
* Q&A: Get to the top of Google search results >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 16 December 2016

* Aging Is Reversible—at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice >>
* First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter >>
* Facebook partners with fact-checking organizations to begin flagging fake news >>

* Researchers implant the first 3D-printed blood vessels into monkeys >>
* How to control a robotic arm with your mind — no implanted electrodes required >>
* Uber launches self driving cars in San Francisco >>

* The Great A.I. Awakening >>
* Why we are still light years away from full artificial intelligence >>
* Lucid motors reveals super luxury 1000 hp electric car which they will release in 2018 >>

* Facebook—Not a Media Company—Will Bankroll Original Video >>
* Asteroid Mining Could Become A Reality In As Soon As Ten Years >>
* NASA Just Launched Eight Hurricane-Sniffing Satellites Into Space From the Belly of a Plane >>

* Scientists Say the Clock of Aging May Be Reversible >>
* New cell treatment could help us live a THIRD longer: Life expectancy could leap to 108 with controversial cell rejuvenation technique >>

* Are We Entering the Photovoltaic Energy Era? >>
* The year of AI: Major developments in 2016 could pave the way for a future where ‘intelligent machines are omnipresent in our daily lives’ >>
* Facebook unveils first serious effort to wipe out fake news >>

* Dear President Trump: Here’s How to Make Space Great Again >>
* Elon Musk on Trump advisory board and other Spacex news >>
* Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: ‘No Formal Chain Of Command’ Here >>
* Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: I’m On Your Side >>

* A Dwarf Galaxy 10,000 Times Smaller Than Milky Way –“May Be a Portal to a New Physics” >>
* Mars’ Southern Polar Cap — Cool on Many Levels >>
* Exoplanet weather shows clouds of ruby and sapphire >>

* What Is The Polar Vortex (And Why Is It Happening Again)? >>
* Gene editing starts to save lives as human trials get under way >>
* Hack Brief: Hackers Breach a Billion Yahoo Accounts. A Billion >>

* Surviving the Journey: Spacecraft on a Chip >>
* Bioinformatics Tackles the Flu >>
* China mass producing fighter jets engines for the J11D fighter which is a copy of the Russian Su-35 >>

* China installed anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems on all seven major artificial south china sea islands >>
* South Korea KSTAR tokamak operates in high plasma mode for a record of 70 seconds >>

* US Navy has Autonomous Swarmboats >>
* Star Wars: Rogue One highlights an uncomfortable fact — military robots can change sides >>
* Amazon has first commercial drone delivery on December 7, 2016 >>

* Nvidia’s $129000 170 TeraFlop minisupercomputer for Artificial Intelligence >>
* Graphene and Silly Putty Creates a Super-Sensitive Strain Sensor >>
* Prototypes for vehicles to replace the helicopter in 2030 will fly in 2017 and they will be twice as fast >>

* Want Girls Attracted to Tech? Put A for Art in STEM >>
* IBM Wants To Build AI That Isn’t Socially Awkward >>

* Unity releases EditorVR preview so game designers can build VR inside VR >>
* Super Mario Run is now available on the App Store >>
* Videopath’s platform adds crucial context to video — could it fight fake news? >>

* Facebook Messenger gets a new camera with special effects >>
* All the Best Movies Coming to and Leaving Netflix In January 2017 >>
* BMW Partners With IBM To Add Watson’s Cognitive Computing Capabilities To Its Cars >>

* Pirate Bay, BitTorrent Websites To Be Blocked In Australia, Federal Court Rules >>
* Researchers Find the 1st Possible Negative Side Effect of Marijuana Use in Adults >>

* This smart grid program could save millions of tons of CO2 annually >>
* Tour the Wi-Fi enabled smart home of tomorrow, that you can totally buy today >>
* Is there life on Earth thanks to acid rain? >>

* Three-parent babies could be funded by the NHS from NEXT YEAR >>
* Cave glow-worms vomit long sticky urine threads to catch prey >>
* How Artificial Intelligence Is Getting More Human >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 15 December 2016

* Researchers use machine learning to pull interest signals from readers’ brain waves >>
* Netflix Gets New Global Rival: Amazon Prime Video Now Available In Over 200 Countries >>

* New Galaxy S8 Leak Reveals Stunning Technology >>
* Google debuts new IoT platform: Android Things >>
* Make a Solar Powered Survival Water Filter Out of Two Water Bottles >>

* Who is Peter Thiel and why is he advising Donald Trump? >>
* Musk, Bezos arrive at Trump Tower for tech summit >>
* Trump Adds Elon Musk, Travis Kalanick And Indra Nooyi To Panel Dedicated To Job Growth >>
* Here’s What Happened When I Tried To Contact Peter Thiel About Trump And Today’s Tech Summit >>
* Dear President Trump: Here’s How to Make Space Great Again >>

* Amazon makes its first delivery by DRONE >>
* Are algorithms controlling humans? Data that reinforces our interests can make us narrow-minded, says expert >>

* Super Mario is coming to theme parks >>
* Back to the Future’s original dark twist is revealed >>

* NASA to test a tiny parachute for spacecraft re-entry in 2017 >>
* Biggest Tech Failures and Successes of 2016 >>
* When We Look Into Space, We See More Time Than We Can Comprehend >>

* SpaceX’s 1st Mars Mission Won’t Carry NASA Science Gear >>
* Samsung has been granted a Patent for their Most Elaborate Scrollable Display Device to Date >>
* The future of chatbots >>

* LIGO’s Discovery of Gravitational Waves –“May Upend General Relativity and Usher In a New Exotic Physics” >>
* OSIRIS-REx to Hunt for Earth ‘Trojans’ >>
* Honeycomb-like structure to trap dangerous gases >>

* NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers 1st Evidence That Points to Life-Habitable Water on Ancient Mars >>
* Hydraulic Pump Glitch Aborts Nasa’s Hurricane Microsat Fleet Launch To Dec. 14 – Live Coverage >>

* Who’s Liable for George Hotz’s Self-Driving Software? >>
* Google’s Self-Driving Car Graduates to Stand-Alone Business Status >>
* Hubble Watches Spinning Black Hole Swallow A Star >>

* Drones Take to the Skies to Screen for Methane Emissions >>
* Macaque monkeys have the anatomy for human speech, so why can’t they speak? >>
* US Air Force progresses on engineering challenges to enable 10-100 KW combat lasers on C130s and then fighter jets >>

* Antacid aerosol particles could cool the planet and repair ozone damage >>
* The Year’s Best Videos Starring Really, Really Small Things >>
* Here’s What Would Happen If a Giant Asteroid Struck the Ocean >>

* Monitor and Play With Your Pets From Anywhere With This $79 Petcube >>
* LG Expands Roll Out Of TV HDR Game Mode >>
* Harman/Kardon readies a Cortana-powered speaker >>

* Airbus’ Vahana VTOL project asks what vehicle makes for the best self-flying taxi >>
* Robot Baristas In London Will Serve Up Coffee, Oral Sex >>
* The World’s Most Powerful People 2016 >>

* Giant ‘rivers in the sky’ could cause more deadly floods and wipe out entire species, warn scientists >>
* Drones might be used for urban warfare in the future >>
* 19 crazy facts about Bill Gates’ $125 million mansion >>

* MovieBob Reviews: ROGUE ONE – A STAR WARS STORY >>
* How We Fell In Love With Our Voiceactivated Home Assistants >>
* The Polar Vortex Has Returned to North America >>

* Filmmakers and journalists ask camera companies to embrace encryption >>

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* Future Today Institute’s 2017 Tech Trends Report >>
* Get ready to ‘Waymo’ a self-driving cab: Google creates new firm for its autonomous car technology >>
* Velodyne Says It’s Got a “Breakthrough” in Solid State Lidar Design >>

* Bill Gates Says Trump’s Ideas Are Like the Apollo Space Program >>
* Scientists Have a Crazy Plan to Nuke Deadly Asteroids Out of the Sky >>
* Synaptics’ new sensors point to button-free fingerprint readers >>

* Airbus’ New Jet Concept Features Swappable Spas and Cafes >>
* LeakSmart Sensor review: Emergency shutoff makes it worth a look >>
* DARPA wants your gaming tactics for its drone army >>

* A multi-material 3D printer that can create embedded circuit boards >>
* This super precise handwriting robot is so satisfying to watch >>
* What Makes Things Cool >>

* This car of the future comes with its own urban garden >>
* Loom.ai is building an avatar that can capture your personality >>
* ‘Super Mario Run’ On iOS Is Going To Be Huge >>

* Real-time motion capture system from Disney Research uses as few sensors as possible >>
* Robot glove reveals how our bodies are in sync >>

* China’s Huge, Eerie Tower Blocks That Will Soon House Millions >>

* ‘Internet of the road’: Government proposals call for ALL new cars to ‘talk’ wirelessly to each other to improve safety >>
* Future air conditioning could work by beaming heat into space >>
* Google’s Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in VR >>

* Robo-butlers, self-assembling made-to-order rooms and spa treatments based on DNA analysis: Inside the hotels of 2060 >>
* How SpaceX makes its rockets: Elon Musk tweets hypnotic ‘spinning fire’ video of giant nozzles taking shape >>
* Method ‘programs’ cement particles into tiny shapes >>

* A new surgery can give legally blind people 20/20 vision >>
* What Star Wars learned from its prequel problem >>
* Microsoft Ventures launches new fund for AI startups and backs Element AI incubator >>

* Quantum Gravity Research Could Unearth the True Nature of Time >>
* Tidal Disruption by Black Hole? >>
* StarTalk Radio –Exploring Alien Planets: “From Proxima b to ET Transmissions to Non-Carbon-Based Life” >>

* Reviewing Space developments in 2016 and the next big future in space >>
* LPP Fusion reviewed at Mars Conference >>
* Connected Cars USA 2017 >>

* Spacex efficiency and the efficiency of the Raptor engine >>
* Nvidia is the new Intel and its chips are used by most of the 3000 AI startups worldwide >>
* German Nuclear Fusion Stellerator operating with error rate of less than one in 100,000 >>

* University of Washington develops passive Wi-Fi that uses 10,000 times less power and should be commercially available by 2018-2019 >>
* Skype provides realtime language translation for nine languages works with skype, mobile phones and landlines >>

* If Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Freaked You Out, You Won’t Like What’s Coming >>
* Department of Energy Tells Trump to Go Screw Himself >>
* Spacex Won’t Launch Astronauts Until 2018 >>

* The Hospital Of The Future May Be A Tiny, High-tech Medical Kit >>
* Donald Trump’s Big Tech Summit Is All About Humiliation >>
* America’s First (And Perhaps Last) Offshore Wind Farm Is Finally Online >>

* Google spins out its self-driving car division >>
* IEEE puts out a first draft guide for how tech can achieve ethical AI design >>
* Microsoft To Bring Cortana To IoT Devices With Screens Next Year >>

* These Crazy Coin Stack Sculptures Seem Impossible >>
* What to Expect From Laurel Lance’s Mysterious Return on Arrow >>
* Surprise! Netflix’s Trippy New Metaphysical Drama Starts This Friday >>

* Smart Money: What to Look For Outside the Term Sheet >>
* Futurism, forecasting, and getting real about fake news >>
* Exclusive: ‘Balloon Chair Death Match’ Is Exactly What It Sounds Like, And It’s Awesome >>

* This tech generates realistic avatars from a single selfie >>
* Rogue One: Our Spoiler-free Star Wars Review >>
* Why a Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like “Mad Max” >>

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