Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 April 2017

* What will the future look like? Elon Musk speaks at TED2017 >>
* This electric surfboard can move without the waves >>
* DNA-Based Test Can Spot Cancer Recurrence a Year Before Conventional Scans >>

* Scientists Are Teaching Robots to Laugh >>
* TED 2017: UK ‘Iron Man’ demonstrates flying suit >>
* Artificial intelligence shows potential to fight blindness >>

* The nuclear powered Dragonfly drone that could scour Titan for signs of alien life – if it wins NASA’s approval >>
* NASA’s $200M Spacesuit Problem Threatens Its Deep-Space Exploration Plans >>
* Why NASA is running out of spacesuits >>

* Solving Identity Crisis In developing countries, one in three children under age five has no record of their existence >>
* Scientists Transplanted A Rat’s Head Onto Another Rat, Hoping to Replicate It in Humans >>
* Is Eating Late Bad for Your Heart? >>

* Ask Slashdot: Could We Build A Global Wireless Mesh Network? >>
* Artificial intelligence may help diagnose tuberculosis in remote areas >>
* Are We Having Too Much Fun? In 1985, Neil Postman observed an America imprisoned by its own need for amusement. >>

* Video Friday: Friendly Cobot, Drone Swarms, and Robotic Recycling >>
* China Is Racing Ahead Of The US In The Quest To Cure Cancer With CRISPR >>
* The next generation of VR enhancements coming to HTC Vive >>

* The future us: The talks of Session 11 of TED2017 >>
* In Case You Missed It: Mind-bending thoughts from day 3 of TED2017 >>
* In Case You Missed It: The personal talks from day 4 of TED2017 >>

* The O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference >>
* Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference 2017 >>
* The AI Conference >>
* AI and Machine Learning World 2017 >>

* The Galaxy S8’s home button shifts to prevent screen burn >>
* Breakthrough Listen Publishes First Analysis Of 692 Stars In Et Search >>
* New artificial photosynthesis process converts CO2 in air to fuel >>

* What you can do to prevent Alzheimer’s >>
* His Holiness Pope Francis: Why the only future worth building includes everyone >>

* Straight Out of ‘Star Wars’: This ‘Death Star’ Laser Actually Works >>
* No ‘Star Wars’ game has ever looked this real >>
* Moon ‘Logical Next Step’ for Trump Milestone in Space, Bigelow Says >>

* What does your phone really know about you? >>
* Four of the wildest ideas from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos >>
* The average salary for Americans at every age >>

* Portland plans to convert poop into fuel >>
* Elon Musk Layers on the Crazy With His Plan for Traffic-Killing Tunnels >>
* How to photograph the night sky like a pro >>

* Flying cars, Dr. AI and more >>
* Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? >>
* Is hydrogen the new holy grail of anti-ageing? >>

* Consciousness Is Made of Atoms, Too >>
* Scientists set record resolution for drawing at the one-nanometer length scale >>
* The unexpected ways our lives will change when cars drive themselves >>

* Google is super secretive about its anti-aging research. No one knows why. >>
* “Out of his mind” surgeon plans human head transplant, revival of frozen brain >>
* Coming and going from Netflix next month >>

* Trump’s Wall Is Worthless if He Doesn’t Back It Up With Tech >>
* The First 100 Days: What Trump Has Done on Space So Far >>
* The First 100 Days of President Trump’s Critics Went Surprisingly Well >>
* President Trump’s Next 100 Days May Look a Lot Like the First 100 >>
* Trump Says He Thought Being President ‘Would Be Easier’ >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 April 2017

* The Myth Of A Superhuman AI >>
* Researcher reveals the math of time travel and says it IS possible >>
* We could detect alien life by finding complex molecules >>

* Google’s Classroom is open to anyone with an urge to teach >>
* Wireless power could enable ingestible electronics >>
* You Can Make A Phone Call With Acer’s Holo 360 Camera >>

* A New Approach to 3D Printing Removes the Limitations of Gravity >>
* Apple patents wireless charging using Wi-Fi routers >>

* This Sick Video Drone Is the Future of Inescapable Advertising >>
* Brains of people in the same group are in sync >>
* With Secret Airship, Sergey Brin Also Wants to Fly >>

* Elon Musk’s massive tunneling machine revealed >>
* Researchers Probe Viability of Amino Acids in Alien Environments >>
* Does mind hack tech mean your brain needs its own legal rights >>

* Summer Movie Preview: 37 Movies to Watch Out For >>
* What Happens To Summer TV Binges If Hollywood Writers Strike >>
* Why every mammal (including humans), takes 12 seconds to poop >>

* Bubble of Spacetime –“A ‘Time Machine’ That Moves Greater Than Speed of Light Allowing It to Travel Back and Forward in Time” >>
* The Future of Big Data: Distilling Less Knowledge Per Bit >>
* What Bullets Do To Bodies >>

* Cassini’s Journey into the Unknown: NASA Engineer Talks Saturn Risks & Rewards (Video) >>
* NASA Returns First RED Camera From Orbit, Demos First Live 4K Video From Space >>
* On Saturn’s Moon Titan, Twilight Outshines Daylight >>

* Lsd Microdoses Make People Feel Sharper, And Scientists Want To Know How >>
* Google launches a virtual reality artwork gallery on the web >>

* Europe & China Discuss Moonbase Partnership >>
* AI Medicine Comes to Africa’s Rural Clinics >>
* Software Start-Ups Aim to Automate Bio Labs >>

* AI will upload and access our memories, predicts Siri co-inventor >>
* Robotic Construction Platform Creates Large Buildings on Demand >>
* Amazon Echo Look uses a camera and AI to judge your outfit, sell you stuff >>

* Mind and meaning: The talks of Session 5 of TED2017 >>
* At TED, BMW i announces a search for mobility visionaries >>
* In-depth conversations in a special session at TED2017 >>

* Xbox Chief: We Need To Create a Netflix of Video Games >>
* The Breast Pump Finally Joins the 21st Century >>
* Autonomous robot 3D printers like this could help build homes for us on other planets >>

* New algorithms are able to diagnose disease as accurately as expert physicians. >>
* 3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings >>
* 550,000 year old Neanderthal DNA is discovered in caves without any signs of bones in discovery that could shed new light on human evolution >>

* How we perceive the world is based on what our brains expect to see >>
* Brain science needs your help, so play this game >>
* US military bosses reveal radical plan to hack soldier’s brains to give them superhuman capabilities >>

* The AI that could decode what dolphins say >>
* Humanity could face a ‘gorilla problem’ as AI evolves to become smarter than us >>

* For first time, researchers measure forces that align crystals and help them snap together >>
* ARM designed an image signal processor, and that’s a big deal >>
* Facebook’s Messenger Lite app launches in 150 more countries today >>

* NASA is running out of space suits — and it’s years away from having new ones ready >>
* Starbreeze Reveals New StarVR Experiences At Today’s Acer Event >>
* Hands On: Tracking The Progress With Acer’s Development Edition Windows VR Headset >>

* Tilt Brush Launches Social Platform And Pro Features >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 April 2017

* NASA Alert: Cassini Takes 1st Dive Through Narrow Gap Between Saturn & its Rings Today >>
* $160 bluetooth kegel exerciser, lets women play phone games with their pelvic floor muscles >>
* Smartphone-controlled cells release insulin on demand in diabetic mice >>

* Stanford professor uses math to create hypnotic ‘neverending bloom’ >>
* Latch Blamed for James Webb Space Telescope Vibration Test Anomaly >>
* The first ever 4K video live stream from space left us wanting more >>

* Why it matters that Google Home can now identify you by voice >>
* Watson could be the key to smarter manufacturing robots >>
* Amazon launches $200 style assistant smart camera to analyse your outfit with AI >>

* Computers of the future could monitor, store and DELETE your thoughts without you ever knowing >>
* VR’s latest victim: ‘live’ standup comedy >>
* This Artificial Womb Could Revolutionise The Way We Treat Premature Babies >>
* Forget flying cars – Google’s Brin secretly builds an airship >>

* One move ahead: The talks of Session 1 of TED2017 >>
* Our robotic overlords: The talks of Session 2 of TED2017 >>
* The human response: The talks of Session 3 of TED2017 >>
* Health, life, love: The talks of Session 4 of TED2017 >>

* Self-driving cars are about to take on the worst drivers in America >>
* Lsd Microdoses Make People Feel Sharper, And Scientists Want To Know How >>
* Is Another Universe Sitting Too Close To Us On The Multiverse Bus? >>

* First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago >>
* SOBRO: The smart coffee table for cold beers and chill tunes >>
* India’s Energy Landscape Is Rapidly Changing >>

* Google’s bizarre robot DOG is now delivering packages to homes in Boston >>
* Remember where you parked with Google Maps >>
* Creepy tech is bad for innovation >>

* Google cooks up a tasty update to Home with step-by-step recipe instructions >>
* Now we’re cooking—the Assistant on Google Home is your secret ingredient >>
* Man arrested after knocking over a 300-pound security robot >>

* Designing The Hanging Gardens Of Mars >>
* 2D Materials Go Ferromagnetic, Creating a New Scientific Field >>
* Speculations on Habitable Zone Waterworlds >>

* Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells Climbs >>
* The Human To Mars Summit 2017 >>
* AT&T Launches Fake 5G Network in Desperate Attempt to Seem Innovative >>

* Uber to test flying cars in Dallas and Dubai by 2020 >>
* Cassini Out of Radio Contact Before Final Ring Dives and Death Plunge –“Will Gather Amazing New Data” (VIDEO) >>
* As Cassini Makes 1st ‘Grand Finale’ Dive, More Saturn Mysteries Remain >>

* TED Day One: Elite Idealists Push Back Against Politics >>
* Apple’s AI expert says the rise of augmented ‘superhumans’ is inevitable and says technology will ‘make personal memory enhancement a reality’ >>
* TED Prize; How we’ll get health care to the billion people who lack it >>

* How we’ll face a fundamental threat to the market economy: Martin Ford at TED2017 >>
* Harnessing the intelligence of the collective: Radhika Nagpal speaks at TED2017 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 April 2017

* Artificial womb helps premature lamb fetuses grow for 4 weeks >>
* AI learns to play video game from instructions in plain English >>
* Google self-driving cars will finally take passengers >>

* Google’s next trick for Android is ‘copyless pasting’ >>
* There Will Always Be Limits to How Creative a Computer Can Be >>
* A fleet of driverless cars will travel from London to Oxford in 2019 >>

* Billionaire Jack Ma Says CEOs Could Be Robots in 30 Years, Warns of Decades of ‘Pain’ From AI >>
* World’s First Vaccine Against Malaria To Arrive Next Year >>
* WhatsApp just added an important feature for Siri >>

* Google Translate now understands more Indian languages >>
* How the brain predicts speech: Key region found that could help create accurate mind-reading devices >>

* AI report fed by DeepMind, Amazon, Uber urges greater access to public sector data sets >>
* The 3-D Printer That Could Finally Change Manufacturing >>
* Elon Musk’s gamble on automated assembly lines for Tesla’s Model 3 is ‘risky’, experts warn >>

* The first IMAX VR arcade is a huge hit—and I can see why >>
* Google’s next-gen VR camera was designed for seamless video >>
* Why you can’t (yet) shake hands with a robot: Experts admit recreating the human hand is holding back the rise of the roboworkers >>

* ‘A Moment in Time’ shows the charming potential of art in VR >>
* A 3D-printed patch could help you recover from a heart attack >>
* Scientists create radical artificial photosynthesis system that can clean polluted air and produce energy >>

* Uber announces partners in its master plan for flying cars >>
* MIT NEWDIGS hosts design lab on new gene and oncology therapy financing models >>
* Wilson’s Heart review: Not a perfect virtual reality game, but certainly the best so far >>

* What it would actually take to get to Mars by 2020 >>
* Watch This Stabby Robot Play the Knife Game With a Human Hand >>
* Will Amber Heard and Elon Musk Die on Mars Together? >>

* Amazon’s driverless tech team focuses not on building it, but on how to use it >>
* Man turned his prosthetic eye into a tiny camera and it’s mind-boggling >>
* Creepy AI can clone anyone’s voice with just ONE minute of audio >>

* Imagine the future of ourselves: Notes from TED Fellows Session 1 at TED2017 >>
* Who wins evolution? TED Fellows speak at TED2017 >>
* “Humans must face our fears”: Garry Kasparov speaks at TED2017 >>

* The AI Summit San Francisco >>
* The first 2D microprocessor — based on a layer of just 3 atoms >>
* A shortage of women in technology? Not in Russia >>

* How to blind an AI: Researchers warn patterns could be used by hackers to stop self-driving cars from spotting pedestrians or hide crimes on CCTV >>
* IBM’s Watson AI to help Wall Street firms catch rogue traders >>

* Graphene Makes Infinite Copies of Compound Semiconductor Wafers >>
* Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Tries Something Different, and Still Ends Up Being Awesome >>
* This personal helicopter would make commuting to work way more adventurous >>

* Kitty Hawk’s Flyer isn’t the flying car you were promised >>
* First look at Larry Page’s flying car project >>
* Honda Will Do Nearly Anything to Get You in a Hydrogen Car >>

* Tesla’s Model 3 production plans said to include a risky manufacturing move >>
* Why Some People Are Born Anxious >>
* Netflix to raise $1 billion in foreign debt financing for content and more >>

* Running with an AI ‘personal trainer’ is fun, but expensive >>
* Trump’s About-Face on WikiLeaks Sums Up Why He’s So Untrustworthy >>
* All the Shit That Happened in North Korea While You Were Asleep >>

* Radical experiments analyse how extreme environments on Mars, Enceladus and Europa may have led to extraterrestrial life >>
* Google’s AI could kill off cut and paste by predicting what you want to do >>

* DNA test may miss some disease-causing genes >>
* Are you a chocoholic? Blame your DNA: Scientists discover gene variant that affects how the brain reacts to junk food >>
* Meet Steve, A Most Peculiar Aurora >>

* Sun’s Magnetic Shield May Be a Bubble, Not Comet-Shaped >>
* China’s Cargo Craft Docks with Space Lab >>
* India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste >>

* AI’s PR Problem >>
* Will We Ever Get a Better Male Contraceptive? >>
* Star Wars: Episode IX Moves To 24 May 2019 >>

* Behold the James Webb Telescope in all Its Unfurled Glory >>
* Marissa Mayer Set to Receive $186 Million for Failing Because This Is How Corporate America Works >>
* NASA Is Developing 3D-Printed Chain Mail to Protect Ships and Astronauts >>

* Talkdesk launched an app store for enterprise call center customers >>
* Waymo opens up pilot program for its self-driving cars in Phoenix, Arizona >>
* XPrize winner says its Tricorder is better than ‘Star Trek’ >>

* Iris Scans Come to Nursing Homes. Next Stop, Your Phone >>
* Nissan signs up to Mobileye’s crowdsourced real-time maps for autonomous cars >>
* Vodafone’s failed TV ambitions are costing it dearly >>

* Netflix enters China via licensing deal with top video streaming service iQiyi >>
* How virtual reality is helping patients alleviate their pain >>
* 20 Tech Visionaries Who Are Creating The Future >>

* How Gut Bacteria Tell Their Hosts What to Eat >>
* Algorithm predicts epileptic seizures in real-time >>
* Breakthrough Listen Data Becoming Available >>

* Most Exciting Exoplanet We’ve Seen in the Last 10 Years >>
* Scientists Search for Amino Acids That Might Form the Basis of Extraterrestrial Life >>

* Building a Telepresence App with HoloLens and Kinect >>
* The Race To Build An AI Chip For Everything Just Got Real >>
* McKinsey: AI, jobs, and workforce automation >>

* Facebook’s latest drone delivers internet during a disaster >>
* A Prototype Of A Flying Car Had Its Maiden Voyage, And It’s… Not Quite What We Imagined >>
* IMAX LA VR Theater Sees 20,000 Visitors, New Location Coming To New York >>

* Google Has A New VR Camera And A ‘Roadmap’ For Answering Facebook >>
* Preorders Now Open For Insta360’s 8K VR Camera >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 April 2017

* Controlling Robot Swarms With Augmented Reality >>
* Quickest we could visit another star is 69 years – here’s how >>
* Google wants 10,000 people to let them monitor their health for 4 years >>

* Experience the TED2017 conference in movie theaters, with other curious minds >>
* Will AI Create as Many Jobs as It Eliminates? >>
* Genius Bot: Chat with ‘Einstein’ Via Facebook Messenger >>

* No Aliens Yet for $100 Million E.T. Hunt >>
* Bizarre biology of the naked mole rat means oxygen is a bonus >>
* Mars Missions Need To Be Neat Freaks At Key Sites >>

* New documents provide a glimpse into Apple’s self-driving car program >>
* Insta360’s ‘affordable’ 8K VR camera is up for pre-orders >>

* Neuroscientists Offer a Reality Check On Facebook’s ‘Typing By Brain’ Project >>
* New research on eyeballs just might lead to a jet lag cure >>
* Machine intelligence is the future of monetization for Facebook >>

* uTorrent Will Move to The Web Browser >>
* Researchers build a microprocessor from flexible materials >>
* Elon Musk’s masterplan for humanity’s future is beyond your wildest sci-fi dreams >>

* Integrated Photonic Circuits Shrunk Down to the Smallest Dimensions Yet >>
* Video Friday: RoboCup, Drone Magic, and NotBot Is Pedro >>
* Achieving Top Performance in Capacitive Touchscreens with Simulation >>

* Why Georgia Tech Built a Tarzan Robot That Swings Around on Wires >>
* First Detailed Image Of Accretion Disk Around A Young Star >>
* What’s Apple’s Filings Say About Its Self-Driving Car Program >>

* Gillmor Gang: Fossil Fuel >>
* Google’s New Chip Is a Stepping Stone to Quantum Computing Supremacy >>

* Exciting New Views Of Opportunity’s Remarkable Landing Site >>
* The augmented reality gold rush is afoot >>
* The world’s smartest vending machine will be used to sell weed, of course >>

* ‘Avatar’ sequels start arriving on December 18th, 2020 >>
* The X Files to return with 10 new episodes >>

* Earth Beams From Between Saturn’s Rings In New Cassini Image >>
* 5G Progress, Realities Set in at Brooklyn 5G Summit >>
* Ss John Glenn Arrives At Space Station With Science And Supplies >>

* This Machine Makes It Easy for Libraries to Clean Thousands of Books >>
* No, Scientists Didn’t Just Create Negative Mass or Defy the Laws of Physics >>
* Are Drylanders The Minority On Habitable Worlds? >>

* China successfully launches its first robot space truck >>
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* New Research Shows Electric Brain Stimulation Can Help Memory >>
* Volkswagen shows off its vision for a driverless future >>

* Mercedes-Benz is getting the best of both worlds with Alexa and Google Assistant connectivity >>
* MISTI funds over 80 MIT faculty projects >>

* Monica Pham: Advancing nuclear power and empowering girls >>
* Ad-Blocking Just Might Save the Ad Industry >>
* Ultrasonic Dryer Cuts Drying Time In Half >>

* Ada AI is Your Personal, Mobile Physician >>
* Leaked Microsoft document confirms Windows 10 Cloud and a Chromebook competitor >>
* The death of retail is greatly exaggerated >>

* Drones listen in on bats to reveal their in-flight secrets >>
* The Seafloor Is Eroding Faster Than Scientists Thought >>
* Is soda making your brain age faster? >>

* Mystery human hobbit ancestor may have been first out of Africa >>
* Map shows potential landing spot for Mars 2020 rover >>
* Submersible drone gives us a peek at what’s hiding under the sea >>

* New trailers: Sophia Coppola’s Civil War thriller, American Assassin, and more >>
* Another TV format war is looming >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 April 2017

* Scientists are racing nanocars on a solid gold track >>
* Velodyne Announces a Solid-State Lidar >>

* Watch this all-electric ‘flying car’ take its first test flight in Germany >>
* The Lilium Jet – The world’s first all-electric VTOL jet >>
* Doctors are using car technology to help stroke patients walk again >>

* Facebook wants people to type from their brain and hear with their skin >>
* Facebook Announces “Typing-by-Brain” Project >>
* Facebook Aims to Remake Telecom With Millimeter Waves and Tether-tennas >>

* Facebook F8 Day 2: AR glasses, brain typing, skin listening, and more >>
* Smartphones will officially become glasses in 2022, Facebook exec brashly predicts >>
* Mark Zuckerberg’s quest to kill the smartphone could have some scary side effects >>

* Whose Drone Was That? Should drones broadcast an identifying code by radio? >>
* A warp in space-time just gave us four views of one exploding star >>
* MasterCard Wants to Turn Your Thumbprint Into a PIN Number >>

* A drug derived from marijuana may be the first of its kind to treat a rare form of epilepsy >>
* Sony hopes its full-frame A9 makes pros forget about DSLRs >>
* Apple Files Patent For AR Tech That Conceals Virtual Objects Behind Real Ones >>

* First Evidence For Higher State of Consciousness Found >>
* This Mars-Bound Pasta Maker Will Help Earthlings First >>
* Facebook’s top VR researcher explains why augmented reality is the future >>

* Talking fiber, drones and open-source hardware with Facebook’s Yael Maguire >>
* Meet CRISPR’s Younger Brother, SHERLOCK >>
* Pirate Bay Founder Launches Anonymous Domain Registration Service >>

* Here’s A Plan To Send A Spacecraft To Venus, And Make Venus Pay For It >>
* Hubble Snaps Pair of Spiral Galaxies | Video >>
* “Most Habitable Planets May Have Oceans Spanning 90% of Their Surface” >>

* The Rise of AR Will Recreate Your Filter Bubbles In the Real World >>
* Advancing core AI research through academic collaboration >>
* Microsoft launches new IoT services for the enterprise >>

* Lazada, Uber and Netflix team up ahead of Amazon’s expected entry into Southeast Asia >>
* Scaling machine learning >>
* A new value chain for next-generation mobility >>

* Facebook is working on a way to let you type with your brain >>
* The Untold Story of the Back-Room Team That Saved Apollo 13 >>
* NASA Scientists to Discuss Search for Habitable Planets, Signs of Life off Earth >>

* Science in America – Neil deGrasse Tyson >>
* Climate Scientists Provide Photographs of Melting Glaciers Around the World –100 Years Ago vs Today >>
* Melding Mind and Machine: How Close Are We? >>

* Kees Immink: The Man Who Put Compact Discs on Track >>
* Sparking Memories With Electrical Stimulation >>
* Three Computer Games That Make Assembly Language Fun >>

* The Future Of F1, Designed By Renault >>
* Five Studios Are Duking It Out for the Rights to James Bond >>
* Where does the poop go?: The hidden machines of cruise ships >>

* ISP Can’t Have Blanket Immunity From Pirating Subscribers, Court Rules >>
* Facebook’s new 360-degree cameras change the virtual reality game >>
* The incredible naked mole rat can survive with hardly any oxygen >>

* Interstellar Projectiles Zoom around Us at Blistering Speeds >>
* Sir David Attenborough to be turned into a HOLOGRAM >>
* Eating with your eyes is hardwired in the brain >>

* ‘Emotional’ robotic dog that loves to be stroked could provide friendship and care for the elderly >>
* Are ‘machine values’ replacing our principles? >>
* Google Home can now tell who’s talking >>

* Google Maps just added real-time location sharing >>
* What Would Life On Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Look Like? >>
* Psychedelic drugs induce ‘heightened state of consciousness’, brain scans show >>

* Jimmy Kimmel Rips Facebook Spaces In New Video >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 April 2017

* Facebook’s latest drone delivers internet during a disaster; Tether-antenna’ helicopter >>
* In Facebook’s Future, You Live Through Your Phone >>
* Asteroid Misses Earth Narrowly, by Cosmic Standards >>

* Facebook will license its new 360 cameras that capture in six degrees of freedom >>
* AI Isn’t Smart Enough (Yet) to Spot Horrific Facebook Videos >>
* Facebook’s first social VR app is cool — but there’s a problem >>

* Oculus’ Michael Abrash Says ‘Full’ AR Is ‘At Least 5 Years’ Away >>
* Alphabet seeks 10,000 volunteers — and their health data — for a massive medical study >>

* Our machines now have knowledge well never understand >>
* Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes >>
* World’s biggest airliner – pictured rearing up from its moorings just months after crashing on test flight >>

* Just 100 ‘Gigafactories’ could power the ENTIRE world with sustainable energy >>
* Watch Big Asteroid 2014 JO25 Tumble In New Radar Imagery | Video >>
* Enormous iceberg causes tourists flock to tiny Newfoundland town >>

* ‘Negative mass’ created at Washington State University >>
* Cern Declares War On The Standard Model >>
* Antarctica is leaking from the inside out >>

* Malaysia Airlines: First Major Airline To Use Satellite Technology To Track Own Fleet >>
* Augmented reality could slow down the loss of jobs to robots — here’s how >>
* Facebook’s millimeter-wave radio tech hits new bandwidth records >>

* Tiny reflective implant could test eye pressure >>
* A New Exoplanet May Be Most Promising Yet in Search for Life >>

* New super-sized Earth may be close enough to detect signs of life >>
* TRAPPIST-1 Has Some Serious New Competition For Best Place to Find Aliens >>

* Here’s The First Look At Syfy’s Krypton Show >>
* Las Vegas Is Installing Drug Needle Vending Machines >>
* TED Wants To Remind Us That Ideas — Not Politicians — Shape the Future >>

* SnapLogic’s AI simplifies enterprise software connections >>
* A Bottle That Grows On You >>
* Facebook’s augmented future could involve brain implants, but it’s not ‘1984’ yet >>

* This Robot Baby Factory Is the Stuff of Nightmares >>
* Watch Facebook’s F8 keynote in under 10 minutes >>
* The five best exoplanets in the galaxy to check for alien life >>

* Small Satellites Could Be Playing A Dangerous Game Of Bumper Cars In Space >>
* How to protect your smartphone privacy >>
* This Browser Extension Will Help You Read Paywalled Science Papers for Free >>

* All the Best Movies Coming to and Leaving Netflix In May 2017 >>
* How Facebook’s Hardware Lab Helped Build The VR Industry’s Most Advanced Camera >>

* Facebook Is Going All In on Augmented Reality >>
* Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Marks 700 Days in Orbit >>
* Has Intel Invented a Universal Memory Tech? >>

* Toyota’s Still Serious About Hydrogen—It Built a Semi to Prove It >>
* Wozniak Predicts Google, Facebook Still Vital in 2075 >>
* Blood from human babies make brains of elderly mice young again >>

* 1,000-mph winds, shock waves deadliest effects of asteroid strike >>
* The new Google Earth will blow your mind >>
* IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters — but it used to run its business very differently >>

* 53 movies you need to see in your lifetime >>
* Facebook Announces 360 Capture SDK To Record And Share VR Experiences With Cube Mapping >>
* Can Parents Sue If Their Kid Is Born With The ‘Wrong’ DNA? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 April 2017

* Facebook’s New VR Experience Looks Like Hell on Earth >>
* Google Earth for Chrome & Android gets upgraded with guided tours, more >>

* Courts Are Using AI to Sentence Criminals. That Must Stop Now >>
* Could Space Travelers Melt As They Accelerate Through Deep Space? >>
* Audi’s latest concept is a new all-electric Tesla Model X competitor >>

* Facebook F8 Liveblog: Get The Latest News As It Happens >>
* Five Things to Know About Facebook’s Huge Augmented Reality Fantasy >>
* Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for your Facebook augmented reality >>

* Mark Zuckerberg’s F8 Keynote: Here’s what you need to know >>
* Now Oculus Rift users can experience the awesome power of Google Earth VR >>
* Mark Zuckerberg confirms it IS developing a ‘mind reading’ brain interface >>

* You can now ‘feel’ objects in VR, thanks to this wearable feedback system >>
* Scientists Shock VR Users Into ‘Feeling’ Non-Existent Walls >>
* Welcome home to the new Google Earth >>

* The wristband that can diagnose diseases like diabetes and cystic fibrosis by studying SWEAT >>
* A look at China’s most exciting hypersonic aerospace programs >>
* Can Parents Sue If Their Kid Is Born With the ‘Wrong’ DNA? >>

* End Pain Forever How A Single Gene Could become A Volume Knob For Human Suffering >>
* Facial recognition is coming to US airports, fast-tracked by Trump >>
* Mission Concepts: Bound Orbits around Other Stars >>

* Treating Depression With Deep Brain Stimulation Works—Most of the Time >>
* Streamers flock to YouTube Live, but the money (and crowd) is still at Twitch >>
* Facebook launches beta of Spaces, its goofy and fun social VR platform >>

* Facebook updates Messenger with support for QR codes, food delivery through M and more >>
* Facebook Workplace gets equipped with doc sharing, legal compliance and video >>
* Mark Zuckerberg hopes Facebook can help build local communities >>

* Samsung Gear VR and Controller is a virtual reality marriage made in heaven >>
* Driverless cars learn from Grand Theft Auto >>
* Netflix expects to sign up its 100 millionth subscriber this weekend >>

* Astronomers Scan Thousands of Stars for Alien Laser Signals >>
* Blastoff! Orbital ATK Cygnus Launches To Space Station | Video >>

* Algorithm Aims to Predict Bickering Among Couples >>
* How humans have fought over—and weaponized—water >>
* Are ultra-long airplane flights bad for your health? http://www.popsci.com/are-long-airplane-flights-bad-for-your-health?dom=rss-default >>

* Wait, Does Donald Trump Know the Leader of North Korea’s Name? >>
* No, Google Hire Won’t Share Your Search History With Employers >>
* Someone invented a thermometer that is perfect for squirmy kids >>

* NASA reveals image of mysterious raised areas on the red planet’s surface >>
* The incredible map of the ‘hydrogen halo’ surrounding the Milky Way that sheds new light on dark matter >>
* Explosion in space junk will cause satellite crashes ‘to soar by 50%’ as experts warn of new mega-constellations >>

* Electric shocks could help VR headset wearers feel objects (and even walk into walls) >>
* No, an asteroid hitting the ocean wouldn’t cause waves of destruction >>
* Kiwis still clinging on to old tech >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 April 2017

* Berlin Startup Holoplot Tests Steerable Sound in German Train Stations >>
* Facebook Streams a Murder, and Must Now Face Itself >>
* The Last Person Born in the 19th Century Died >>

* Deep sea tourism could become a thing soon >>
* What To Expect At Facebook’s 2017 F8 Developer Conference >>
* Two Million Stars on the Move >>

* An anti-drone squad will now police prisons in the U.K. >>
* To Get Consumers to Trust AI, Show Them Its Benefits >>
* ‘Breakthrough’ LI-RAM Material Can Store Data With Light >>

* A Chip Revolution Will Bring Better VR Sooner Than You Think >>
* Facebook’s Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing >>
* The Woman Whose Phone ‘Misdiagnosed HIV’ >>

* Researchers simulate walls in VR by shocking your muscles >>
* Smart bandages will use 5G data to track your health >>
* The AI that could warn you if your wife is having a bad day >>

* AI app lets you create personalities for ‘smart’ silicone dolls that bond with humans >>
* Mattel’s New AI Will Help Raise Your Kids >>
* LSD Deactivates the Brain’s Fear Center, Study Finds >>

* Tech Roundup: A Busy Week to Come >>
* Facebook’s future will blend physical and digital worlds >>

* Scientists Create ‘Negative Mass’ –“Will Help Explore More Challenging Concepts of the Cosmos” >>
* How AI is transforming the future of fintech >>
* CubeSats – Small Spacecraft Tech Explained by NASA | Video >>

* Saturn Moon Titan’s ‘Electric Sand’ Would Make Super Castles >>
* Proxima Mission: Fine-Tuning the Photogravitational Assist >>
* The Saddest Facebook Live Video Is 20 People Kissing a Car >>

* AAA Is Planning For A Future Where We Don’t Own Cars–Starting With A Car-Share >>
* Mark Hamill Had a Great Idea for Getting Luke and Han Together in The Force Awakens >>

* New York’s Taxi commission to propose in-app tipping requirement for Uber >>
* Intel scraps annual IDF event as it looks beyond PCs >>
* On-Board Cams Deliver Awesome Views of Rocket Landing Test | Video >>

* How Running a Marathon Puts Your Body Through Hell >>
* How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict >>
* Sorry, Facebook, but social VR will never be a thing >>

* India’s food voucher space has a new entrant, a digital one >>
* Turns Out, a Horrifying Number of People Use Their Phones While Driving >>
* Supercomputers Help Researchers Find Two New Kinds Of Magnets >>

* Is this the iPhone 8? >>
* SpaceX reveals Hyperloop ‘drag race’ will take place in August >>
* We Must Track How Technology Is Changing Work >>

* Google dismisses claims its new recruitment tool will let employers snoop on your ENTIRE search history >>
* More than 8 million people in the US have mental health problems >>
* Netflix’s earnings make for dramatic content >>

* 3D-printed patch can help mend ‘broken’ hearts >>
* Machine learning driving innovation at Amazon >>
* 5 Unresolved Issues Facing Robo-cars >>

* Roboze One 3D Printer, Now Capable of 3D Printing with 10 Materials >>
* 3D Printing Helps a Man Grow a New Ear on His Arm >>
* Researchers invent a way to transmit drinks over the Internet >>

* This color-shifting lizard’s skin morphs just as Alan Turing predicted >>
* Flying EYE Is A 360-Drone That Broadcasts In 6K Resolution >>
* F8 2017: 5 Oculus Reveals We Want To See This Week >>

* The Journey to Mars has a price tag $450 billion >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 17 April 2017

* Wozniak’s world in 2075: ‘bigger’ Apple, Google, Facebook — and we’ll be living in deserts >>
* AI can predict heart attacks more accurately than doctors >>
* This ‘edible water bottle’ could put an end to plastic packaging >>

* The future of jobs: More men doing ‘women’s work’ >>
* SpaceX is taking SpaceVR’s cameras into orbit to deliver the astronaut experience to everyone through VR >>
* Why go on safari when you can feed an African lion live, via VR >>

* Species Split When Mountains Rise >>
* The end of FM radio >>
* NASA Satellite Will Watch Earth Breathe from Space >>

* Brothers Win XPrize for “Star Trek”-Inspired Tricorder >>
* Earth Shadow over Damavand >>
* Russia adds gun slinging to its humanoid space robot’s list of helpful skills >>
* Exercise improves your VISION: Low-intensity workouts boost the part of the brain that processes information >>

* Drinking gin can speed up your metabolism, study finds >>
* Could phones change the way our spines curve? Scientists warn an entire generation is plagued by ‘text neck’ >>
* AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals >>

* Randomness peaks when you’re in your 20s, study finds >>
* How will future cars stay up-to-date? Make them open like a PC >>

* Apple gets the OK to test autonomous cars in California >>
* Microsoft Says US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Requests More Than Doubled >>
* Classic puzzle-platformer ‘Fez’ is coming to iOS >>

* Komodo Dragons may hold the key to fighting infections >>
* Trump administration is killing its open data portal >>
* GM plans to deploy hundreds of autonomous vehicles across the country for testing >>

* The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis: Panic Buying, $12 Bags >>
* SpaceX announces date for second Hyperloop pod competition >>
* Robert Taylor, Innovator Who Shaped Modern Computing, Dies at 85 >>

* SS John Glenn To Debut As World’s 1st Live 360 Degree Video Of Rocket Launch April 18 >>
* The Crisis of Attention Theft—Ads That Steal Your Time for Nothing in Return >>
* Final design for Light’s insane 16-lens camera >>

* WTF is ‘80% lean’ ground beef, and why should I care? >>
* BARC scientists develop cancer drugs from Rampatri >>

* The world’s oldest person has died at 117 >>
* Space Agency Heads See the Moon on the Path to Mars >>
* Doctor Who: The Pilot, series 10 episode 1: a lovely start to the new season >>

* Lander Designed for Titan’s Methane Seas Tests Tech on Chilean Lake >>
* Researchers Image Dark Matter Bridge Between Galaxies >>
* NASA’s “Ocean Worlds” Discovery –Reveals Giant Geysers of Saturn’s Moon Enceladus as Prime Potential Life Habitat >>

* NASA Announcement: Enceladus Has Hydrogen Energy Source for Life | Video >>
* Luminous Salar de Uyuni https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170415.html >>
* In the U.S., Flying Drones Out of Sight Is Still Out of Mind >>
* 5 Things You Missed: AI Algorithms Are Biased, They Know What You’re Watching, and More >>

* Neuron-recording nanowires could help screen drugs for neurological diseases >>
* Video Friday: Volleyball Robots, Bioinspired Design, and Deep Robotic Learning >>
* How to condense water out of air using only sunlight for energy >>

* The bunker-busting nuclear bomb that almost was >>
* 23andMe Is Selling Your Data, But Not How You Think >>
* Look at the Profound Difference Between California’s Drought and California Today >>

* 15 Idiotic Internet of Things Devices Nobody Asked For >>
* This Ball-Balancing Segway Clone Uses Physics to Safely Scoot You Around >>
* Elon Musk Wants Fully Reusable Rockets—But That Won’t Be So Easy >>

* The Glorious First Trailer For Star Wars: The Last Jedi Is Here >>
* These The Last Jedi Set Pics From Director Rian Johnson Are Amazing >>
* Everything The Last Jedi Trailer Reveals About The Future of Rey, Luke And The Star Wars Galaxy >>
* The Last Jedi Will Be Carrie Fisher’s Final Star Wars Film After All >>
* Star Wars Battlefront II Will Tell a Canon Story of Imperial Revenge (and Have Last Jedi DLC) >>
* Touching Tribute to Carrie Fisher at Star Wars Celebration | Video >>
* Star Wars at 40: ‘I’ll miss Carrie Fisher,’ says Harrison Ford >>

* Fast-Forward Through Two Years of Stunning Seasonal Changes With This Drone Timelapse >>
* Apple Is Buying All The Good Trees For Its New Campus, And The Tree People Are Fighting Back >>
* Smart running shoes won’t make you faster, but they could help you avoid getting hurt >>

* Recommended Reading: Technology hasn’t improved the airline experience >>
* Genetically Modified Humans Are Pure Fiction—But Not for Long >>
* GM aims to put 300 more self-driving Chevy Bolts on the road >>

* North Korea Probably Can’t Strike the US Yet—But It’s Still Plenty Scary >>
* Weekly Space Hangout – April 14, 2017: Brad Peterson And Luvoir >>
* Good news: the robot that takes your job might be cute enough to go viral >>

* Nasa Releases Spellbinding Images Of Earth At Night >>
* Robot Ray Swims Using High-Voltage Artificial Muscles >>
* Emulate the Golden Age of the Macintosh Thanks to the Internet Archive >>

* This next level electric skateboard might make you never want to walk again >>
* Circuit programs human cells to add and subtract >>
* The Possibility of Silicon-Based Life Grows >>

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