Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 May 2017

* Pentagon successfully shoots down mock nuclear warhead >>
* Boom in human gene editing as 20 CRISPR trials gear up >>
* Amazon’s share price tops $1,000 for the first time >>

* Experts reveal three genetic mutations that can give you extraordinary abilities >>
* Removing 1 protein may slow cancer cell growth >>
* Artificial Intelligence Helps in Learning How Children Learn >>

* CRISPR causes many unwanted mutations, small study suggests >>
* Using the Sun as a Cosmic Telescope >>
* Meet the Laundroid: $16,000 laundry folding robot can respond to its owner’s voice >>

* Newly-evolved microbes may be breaking down the plastics polluting our oceans >>
* Gene tweak in gut bacteria could turn faeces blue if you’re ill >>
* Satellites capable of tracking CARS from space will capture high-resolution video of Earth >>

* Startup Uses AI To Create Programs From Simple Screenshots >>
* Kids of tomorrow are going to have a very different arcade experience >>
* Intel claims 8th-gen chips will be 30 percent faster than 7th-gen >>

* A connected electrode could end the shame of sweaty palms >>
* Step inside McLaren’s ultramodern, robot-free supercar factory >>
* Intel reveals its new 18-core, 36-thread “extreme” Core i9 processor at Computex >>

* The Father of Android Is Back, and He’s Built the Anti-iPhone >>
* Get Ready for Skyscrapers Made of Wood. (Yes, Wood) >>
* NASA Testing Inflatable Habitat’s Radiation Levels >>

* Navy wants to recruit you — with Virtual Reality >>
* US government is eyeing technology to 3D-photograph people through walls using Wi-Fi >>

* How Machine Learning Is Helping Us Predict Heart Disease and Diabetes >>
* We’re looking for robotics companies to demo at TechCrunch Sessions Robotics >>
* Watch Kitty Hawk’s early test pilots learn to love the flying motorbike >>

* Scientists take a big step toward creating custom organisms >>
* NVIDIA aims to build better robots with the Isaac Initiative >>
* See how a self-driving car views the world >>

* NASA is testing solar panels that unfurl like Fruit Roll-Ups in space >>
* This tiny frog has transparent skin to show its organs off to the world >>
* All the Latest, Most Exciting Robotics Research From ICRA 2017 >>

* AI Designers Find Inspiration in Rat Brains >>
* Vagus Nerve Stimulation Succeeds in Long-Term Stroke Recovery Trial >>
* Soft Robotic Structures Fold Themselves Up in Hot Water >>

* Juno Is Ready To Tell Us What It Found At Jupiter >>
* NASA Announcement on 1st Mission to ‘Touch the Sun’ Expected Wednesday >>
* Comments on Near-Term Interstellar Probes >>

* How Ice Age Europeans travelled thousands of miles in their lifetime >>
* Intel’s Core i9 Extreme Edition CPU is an 18-core beast >>
* As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating >>

* The app that lets you ‘talk’ to a loved one after they die by creating a realistic avatar of them using a single selfie >>
* Today US will test whether it can stop a nuclear missile attack >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 May 2017

* Solar-powered futuristic grill cooks your food in half the time >>
* ARM’s new mobile processors are built for AI on the go >>
* Differential Lidar Catches “Fugitive” Methane on the Fly >>

* Newborn baby’s incredible first steps just minutes after leaving the womb >>
* ‘Missing DNA’ could hold clue to why some get breast cancer young >>
* Elon Musk: Automation Will Force Universal Basic Income >>

* ‘Anti AI AI’ earpiece warning you if a machine is impersonating a human >>
* Apple Co-founder Thinks Apple Is Now Too Big To Come Up With Next Big Thing >>
* Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak predicts TESLA to create next ‘Next Big Thing’ in tech >>

* FDA Assembles Team to Oversee AI Revolution in Health >>
* TARS Heads-Up Display Brings Augmented Reality to the Battlefield >>
* British Airways CEO Won’t Resign, Says Outsourcing Not To Blame For IT Failure >>

* Pacemakers are far more vulnerable to hacking than we thought >>
* Walt Mossberg’s Last Column Calls For Privacy and Security Laws >>
* Silicon-laced diamonds could lead to practical quantum computers >>

* Silicon Valley Continues To Explore Universal Basic Incomes >>
* Neuromorphic Chips Are Destined for Deep Learning—or Obscurity >>
* Dell’s new 8K display is pretty amazing, but do you need it? >>

* The ‘turbocharged’ tests for self driving cars than can cram the equivalent 100 million miles of real world driving into just 1,000 >>
* Best HIV test ever? Scientists develop a way to detect ‘hidden’ traces of the virus – bringing us closer to a cure >>
* ASUS’ Tango-powered ZenFone AR will hit the US in July >>

* Robot priest grants auto-blessings in Germany >>
* The incredible selfie AI that can turn you into a talking bronze statue or copy any painter’s syle >>
* The interactive fidget spinner you can use on your computer and phone >>

* Cities should reduce the impact of global warming by painting building roofs WHITE, study claims >>
* NASA to announce new details on mission to ‘touch the sun’ >>
* Google co-founder to build $100M+ blimp: Report >>

* “Apeman to Spaceman” –‘Changes in Earth’s Orbit and Climate Made Us Intelligent’ >>
* Small Business: Virtual reality revamping real estate – Apartmint >>
* Alpha Go defeats world’s top Go player. What’s next? >>

* Shaking the Dinosaur Family Tree >>
* Cutting H-1B Visas Endangers Scientific Progress For Everyone >>
* Conch shells hold the secret to impact-resistant armor >>

* New cellular target may put the brakes on cancer’s ability to spread >>
* Apple ‘Neural Engine’ chip could power AI on iPhones >>
* Curious Kids: What Plants Could Grow in the Goldilocks Zone of Space? >>

* BIKI Robot Fish Paddles Past Crowdfunding Goal >>
* Japanese family life is falling apart — and the reasons why go back to World War II >>
* Chemists reveal amyloid structure >>

* Is China Outsmarting America in AI? >>
* A 10-foot great white shark jumped right into a fisherman’s boat in Australia >>
* U.S. Dominates World’s VR Market as Chinese Consumers Yawn >>

* ARM’s new processors are designed to power the machine-learning machines >>
* Apple can make the iPhone easier to use with a simple fix in iOS 11 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 May 2017

* Apple ‘Neural Engine’ chip could power AI on iPhones >>
* UCF Research Could Bring ‘Drastically’ Higher Resolution To Your Phone and TV >>
It takes 30 seconds for this BMW to morph into a real-life Transformer >>

* NASA To Make Announcement About First Mission To Touch Sun >>
* ‘Wearable’ PET brain scanner enables studies of moving patients >>
* The exciting world of credit card terminals is coming to VR >>

* Truly intelligent enemies could change the face of gaming >>
* Your job might be automated within 120 years, AI experts reckon >>

* The search for a habitable second Earth >>
* SmartCar connects Facebook’s chatbot to your Tesla >>

* Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech >>
* The way our brains age helps us develop more self-control as we get older >>
* Star Should Have Gone Supernova, But It Imploded Into A Black Hole Instead >>

* A Paris school is using AI to monitor distracted students >>
* Sergey Brin’s giant airship will be world’s largest, serve humanitarian role >>
* Can machine learning and AI help Facebook better moderate troubling content? >>

* Toddlers born via IVF are more developed than naturally-conceived kids – research >>
* Google’s AlphaGo AI defeats team of five leading Go players >>
* Android’s creator teases modular phone with some kinda huge camera attachment >>

* Radio-Controlled Genes >>
* First Utility-Scale Microgrid in U.S. Enters Service >>
* Nanogenerators Could Charge Your Smartphone >>

* This robot arm’s AI thinks like we do about how to grab something >>
* Scientists are counting atoms to figure out when Mars last had volcanoes >>
* Automatic umbrella makes us want to sing in the rain >>

* Jamie morton goes inside the immunotherapy revolution. >>
* The Zero-emission Bmw Mission >>
* Drones aren’t having their mainstream moment yet >>

* AlphaGo’s next move >>
* 20-most-memorable-quotes-of-disrupt-new-york-201 >>
* Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era >>

* International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM 2017) >>
* International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) >>
* Intelligent Systems Conference 2017 (IntelliSys 2017) >>

* World of Watson – 2017 >>
* Synthetic biology 7.0 >>
* Ray | Supporting universal basic income as step in world progress >>

* New Zealand’s First Rocket Launch To Space! >>
* Could Lead to a Dystopian Future. Can We Ensure That Doesn’t Happen? >>
* DNA Could Power the Hard Drives of the Future >>

* The original ‘Crazy Taxi’ is free to play on your smartphone >>
* Construction starts on the world’s largest optical telescope >>
* Assistants, Please >>

* Curious Kids: Does Space Go on Forever? >>
* Mossberg: The Disappearing Computer >>
* Mark Zuckerberg Should Really Listen to Himself >>

* Apple rumored to go all out with a bigger screen ratio for the iPhone 8 >>
* 3D-printed ‘bionic skin’ could give robots and prosthetics the sense of touch >>
* Trump Proposes $19.1 Billion 2018 Nasa Budget, Cuts Earth Science And Education >>

* Video Friday: DJI Spark Drone, Google Tango, and 18-DOF Hexapod Robot >>
* The Most Complex 2D Microchip Yet >>
* From Macro to Micro: A Visual Guide to the Brain >>

* Sergey Brin’s secret airship will deliver aid and schlep his family >>
* Roborace autonomous car takes a lap in Paris >>
* No, menstrual blood does not attract sharks >>

* Internet providers have backdoor access to customers’ modems >>
* Is China Outsmarting America in A.I.? >>
* Researchers find a more effective way to test self-driving cars >>

* Mind-controlled bionic hand can help stroke patients move again >>
* AlphaGo’s Designers Explore New AI After Winning Big in China >>

* Amazon opens its first drive-through grocery store >>
* Giant KITES flying 300 metres in the air will power more than 5,000 British homes by 2020 >>
* Researchers reveal technique to ‘drastically improve’ screens on everything from phones to TVs >>

21 TV Shows You Need to Watch This Summer >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 May 2017

* AmazonFresh opens its grocery Pickup locations in Seattle >>
* Samsung shows off stretchable screen, and it’s both awesome and weird >>
* Scientists are using gene editing to try to slow cancer growth >>

* Oculus software now fully supports three-sensor roomscale tracking >>
* Augmented reality might be a nifty way for flight attendants to remember you >>
* Google’s AlphaGo AI wins against Go world champion again >>

* For creating jobs, spending on schools beats military >>
* A Robot Cop Is Now Patrolling the Streets of Dubai >>
* Machine learning is a moonshot for us all >>

* DARPA orders spaceplane capable of ten launches in ten days >>
* See-through frog has heart you can see beating through its chest >>
* Waltzing robot teaches beginners how to dance like a pro >>

* Jupiter’s Super-Weird Atmosphere Is Astonishing Scientists >>
* Instagram adds new features to direct messages >>
* Robots are still laughably awful at playing soccer >>

* Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever >>
* Watch SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy booster static test fire >>
* Rocket Lab launches orbital-class rocket from a private site for the first time >>

* Study Finds Magic Mushrooms Are the Safest Recreational Drug >>
* This ultra-twee soft robotic gripper was inspired by Venus flytraps >>
* Poachers are using data from wildlife scientists to target and kill rare species >>

* Baby marmosets learn to ‘speak’ just like humans through call and response training from their parents >>
* Humans Are Not the Only Creatures Who Mourn >>
* Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months >>

* Isro’s unmet targets puts India on a long transponder trek; at least 200 more needed >>
* NASA Reveals ‘Stunning’ Jupiter Juno-Mission Science Discoveries –“Swirling Polar Storms the Size of Mars” >>
* New Way To Make Plasma Propulsion Lighter And More Efficient >>

* 2 Us Astronauts Conduct Unplanned, Rapidly Executed Contingency Space Walk On Space Station >>
* Neil armstrong moon bag up for sale >>
* How Google’s ‘smart reply’ is getting smarter >>

* Honest Trailers Celebrates Its 200th Video And A Vision For Its Future >>
* Balcony Desk Will Have You Working From Home! >>
* The DJI Spark drone might actually be simple enough for the average person >>

* 11 ‘Star Wars’ gadgets that seemed cool in ’77, but we’re way beyond now >>
* Researchers tracked how microbes spread in a newly opened hospital >>
* Judah Vs. The Machines >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 May 2017

* This university is using facial recognition to keep intruders out of dorms >>
* Scuba dive tankless with this floating air caddie >>
* In ‘Enormous Success,’ Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence >>

* Google’s huge 4K touchscreen whiteboard is now on sale for $5K >>
* Facebook is letting you invite your friends into your Live experience >>
* The Galaxy S8 iris scanner can be hacked with aging tech >>

* Learning to read as an adult might change the way your brain works >>
* Toyota Joins Coalition to Bring Blockchain Networks to Smart Cars >>
* VR has a hard time showing you things up close, but Oculus might have a fix >>

* Google now mingles everything you’ve bought with everywhere you’ve been >>
* Augmented reality glasses may be the future, but this AR window is what you can use today >>
* Cryogenics, Robot Dinos, and Other Visions of the Future >>

* Our brains predict events in fast-forward to avoid danger >>
* Drones will help this company get a ton of stuff to China’s hard to reach places >>
* In China, an e-commerce giant builds the world’s biggest delivery drone >>

* AI-powered dynamic pricing turns its gaze to the fuel pumps >>
* Doomed Mars lander wasn’t equipped for supersonic conditions >>
* Artificial Venus flytrap grabs things over 100 times its weight >>

* FDA approves a more ‘personalized’ cancer drug >>
* Virus Hunters Draw a Map of Zika’s Spread With DNA >>
* JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS >>

* DJI Spark drone is crazy small and just wants to be loved by consumers >>
* The Long Now: Planning for a future 10,000 years away >>
* Have a robotics or machine learning startup? Pitch at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics >>

* Google’s AlphaGo Levels Up From Board Games to Power Grids >>
* NASA tests its ‘megarocket’ engine that will blast man to Mars >>
* Intel’s Plan to Thunderbolt 3 All of the Things >>

* Scanner ‘listens’ to sperm to find the good ones >>
* App lets stadium crowds display giant messages with their phones >>
* Interviews May Lead Us Astray When Hiring Someone >>

* US Military’s XS-1 Space Plane Will Be Built by Boeing (Video) >>
* DARPA just announced it’s one step closer to building a hypersonic space plane >>
* Your fitness tracker could be way way off >>

* NASA Tracks Strange Supermassive Black Hole Moving Away From Elliptical Galaxy’s Center (VIDEO) >>
* Mars Rover 2020: Here’s What NASA’s New Red-Planet Car Will Look Like >>
* DEFCON Conference To Target Voting Machines >>

* Oculus founder thinks this wild anime film is the likely future of AR >>
* Stanley Robotics is building robots that can park your car for you >>
* AI in the newsroom: What’s happening and what’s next? >>

* IKEA’s super cheap smart bulbs will soon work with all your favorite assistants >>
* Experts warn VR could lead to major ethical issues as users create copies of their real-life partners that ‘never say no’ >>
* America’s Cup 2017 boats: all you need to know >>

* IGNITION 2017: WEEK left to lock in extra early-bird rates >>
* For the first time in 4 years, the cost of renting in the suburbs grew faster than that of city rentals >>
* Airbus A380 superjumbo is the next big thing in private jets >>

* Supercomputer study unlocks secrets of brain and safer anesthetics >>
* Smart graphene contact lenses bring wearable electronics to the eye >>
* Magnetic order in a two-dimensional molecular chessboard >>

* Controlled creation of large-scale quantum emitter arrays >>
* Graphene-based sensor could improve evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of asthma >>
* An Improved AlphaGo Wins Its First Game Against the World’s Top Go Player >>

* Joint Utsa-swri Study Shows How Radioactive Decay Could Support Extraterrestrial Life >>
* This RoboCop has its own drone >>
* Do Gravitational Waves Permanently Alter The Nature Of Spacetime? >>

* Harmonious Universe on Display Again in TRAPPIST-1 System | Video >>
* Parasitic Robot Steers Live Turtle With Tasty Snacks >>
* C Spire and Phazr Complete 5G Trial with Millimeter Waves in Mississippi >>

* A Neuromorphic Chip that Makes Music >>
* When AI improves human performance instead of taking over >>
* How Flexible IT Can Solve Complex Business Problems >>

* Do probiotics actually do anything? >>
* Three-quarters of IoT projects are failing, says Cisco >>
* MIT used bacteria to create a self-ventilating workout shirt >>

* You Have To See Rocket League Played With HoloLens >>
* Hands-On: Brass Tactics Is Basically Age Of Empires VR >>

* Microsoft Research Reveals New, Slimmed Down AR Glasses >>
* The new Game of Thrones season 7 trailer shows war is about to begin >>
* The huge plot points teased in Game of Thrones’ season 7 trailer >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 May 2017

* Freeze dried mice sperm space station >>
* Supernova Face-Off May Solve 40-Year-Old Antimatter Mystery >>
* Bricks 3D Printed Using Simulated Moondust | Video >>

* Inside Facebook’s plan to eat a $350 billion market >>
* XENON1T: World’s Largest Dark Matter Detector –“Listens for Its Very Weak Voice” >>
* Origins of Life –Building Blocks of RNA Cornerstone of All Life on Earth “Formed as a Single Process” >>
* What If People Run Out of Things to Do? >>

* Stretchable Electronic Patch for Infants in Clinical Trials >>
* Volvo Takes the Right First Step in Autonomous Garbage Collection >>
* Astronauts are set to perform an emergency spacewalk on Tuesday >>

* Has AI gone too far? DeepTingle turns El Reg news into terrible erotica >>
* Toyota pushes into blockchain tech to enable the next generation of cars >>
* This RoboCop has its own drone >>

* Wireless Charging Road for Electric Busses Will be Built in Israel >>
* A Guide to All the Best, Worst and Weirdest 2017 TV Pilots You’ll Probably Never Watch >>
* A Curious Plan to Save the Environment With the Blockchain >>

* Medicine Is Going Digital. The FDA Is Racing to Catch Up >>
* Fight ransomware by running Windows in Linux as a virtual machine >>
* How AI Can Infer Human Emotions >>

* Google, A.I. and the rise of the super-sensor >>
* Elon Musk defends his ‘Boring Company’ and claims ‘fast to dig, low cost tunnels’ are the only way to beat congestion >>

* Scientists find 40 new ‘intelligence genes’: Discovery suggests smart people are tall, thin and unlikely to smoke >>
* Brain’s internal compass is revealed: Scientists pinpoint neurons needed to maintain orientation in tiny flies >>

* Menstrual Cycle “on a Chip” Offers a New Window into Female Physiology >>
* Who needs friends anyway? Drone plays catch with a human with pinpoint accuracy >>
* The jaw-dropping moment ‘real life Iron Man’ defies gravity in jet engine-powered flying suit >>

* Eliminating The Human >>
* Building The VR Experiences And Worlds of the Future >>
* Kuang-Chi invests $5 million in SkyX, a maker of drones to monitor oil and gas pipelines >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 May 2017

* Microsoft’s true holographic display fits in your glasses >>
* Researchers Create a T-Shirt That Monitors the Wearer’s Breathing Rate In Real Time >>
* Researchers Grow Brain Cells on a Chip >>

* Why astronomers are scrambling to observe the weirdest star in the galaxy this weekend >>
* Google’s New AI Is Better at Creating AI Than the Company’s Engineers >>
* Google isn’t building the ultimate VR headset. It’s setting the foundation for one >>

* Space Station-based Experiment Might Have Found Evidence Of Dark Matter Destroying Itself >>
* Princeton/Adobe technology will let you edit voices like text >>
* 22-Year-Old Lidar Whiz Claims Breakthrough >>

* More Baby Boomers Are Drowning In Student Loan Debt–And No One Knows How Bad It Will Get >>
* SteamVR makes its launcher ‘more social’ with Home >>
* IPTV Providers Counter Premier League Piracy Blocks >>

* Scientists Claim ‘Cold Spot’ In Space Could Offer Evidence of a Parallel Universe >>
* London City First In UK To Get Remote Air Traffic Control >>
* Deep Algo offers simple code visualization for people who don’t know how to code >>

* Exocomets Light Up 100 Billion Kilometers of Space >>
* Artificial intelligence can use still images of people and turn them into FAKE video – and even put words in their mouths >>

* New Concrete Recipes Could Cut Cracks >>
* Rides in Airbus’s self-flying cars will cost ‘the equivalent of a normal taxi >>
* Fixing the Tomato: CRISPR Edits Correct Plant-Breeding Snafu >>

* ‘Doomsday’ seed vault meant to survive global disasters breached by climate change >>
* The America’s Cup Ultimate Guide >>
* 50,000 year-old artefacts provide the earliest evidence of Aboriginal occupation of the Australian coast >>

* An end to sweaty runs? Self-ventilating workout suit keeps you cool and dry during exercise >>
* ‘Ok Google, send money’: Google’s voice assistant will soon be able to pay your friends directly >>
* Our brains prefer invented visual information to the real thing >>

* Astronomers scramble as ‘alien megastructure’ star dims again >>
* MIT $100K winner’s optical chips perform AI computations at light speed >>
* Google Lens offers a clear view of the company’s future >>

* Future of revenge porn will see spurned exes create 3D sex avatars of ex-lovers, warn experts >>
* These game-changing solar panels are cheap and can be printed >>
* Boeing’s New Plane Engine Is as Wide as a Fuselage >>

* MIT’s camera drones are smart enough to get the perfect shot >>
* We Need a Hopeful Star Trek Series Now More Than Ever >>
* London airport to use ‘digital’ air traffic control tower >>

* Lab-grown stem cells could replace blood donations >>
* Ford’s first-ever online update will add Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to SYNC >>
* These 12 Android apps won the 2017 Google Play Awards >>

* This Giant Smog Vacuum Cleaner In China Actually Works >>
* When will a 3D-printer be able to print human organs? >>
* The First AI-Generated Paint Names Include ‘Homestar Brown’ and ‘Stanky Bean’ >>

* I’m Afraid to Ask The Internet to Name This New Moon >>
* The First Video of Disney World’s New Avatar Ride Looks Fantastic >>

* 3 Ways Ford Cars Could Monitor Your Health >>
* World’s Thinnest Hologram Promises 3D Images on Our Mobile Phones >>
* Agile Development Spawns a Lexicon >>

* Greening of Antarctica –“Plant Life is Growing Rapidly Due to Climate Change” >>
* It’s Been Three Years Since We’ve Had A Supernova This Close >>
* Google Rattles the Tech World With a New AI Chip for All >>

* Crashing A 1998 Toyota Into A 2015 Toyota Shows How Far Car Safety Has Advanced >>
* Solar System Observed Similar to Ours During Its Late Heavy Bombardment Epoch >>
* Origins of Life –Building Blocks of RNA Cornerstone of All Life on Earth “Formed as a Single Process” >>

* Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Reteam With James Cameron For The Next Terminator Movie >>

* The Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Releases Its First Results >>
* Soon You’ll Be Able To Build Your Own 4G Network Over Wi-Fi Frequencies >>
* New Battery Technology Draws Energy Directly From The Human Body >>

* UK switches on the world’s largest wind turbines >>
* Bacteria could lead to cleaner methane power >>
* A Radical Approach against Superbugs: Learn to Live with Them >>

* Nasa’s Path To Mars Includes A Year-long Moon Mission But No Moon Base >>
* To Find Alien Megastructures And Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Look To Pulsars >>
* This computer language is teaching kids to code >>

* Artificial intelligence can use still images of people and turn them into FAKE video – and even put words in their mouths >>
* Quantum Computing Uses Standard Hardware >>
* Passing of our Jacque Fresco, age 101, who worked to the end to “Safeguard Humanity”. >>

* Google’s Seurat Aims To Bring ‘Desktop-Level Graphics’ To Mobile VR >>
* Google Daydream’s Star Wars VR Experience Touts PC-level Graphics on Mobile >>

* Moderation guidelines reveal how Facebook approaches handling graphic content >>
* Elon Musk’s OpenAI Is Training Robots In VR >>
* At I/O 2017, Google doubled down on a future built on AI >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 May 2017

* NASA Reveals a Huge Man-Man Bubble Surrounding Earth >>
* We Might Have A New Way To Push Back Space Radiation >>
* Can we just build a giant blimp to clean polluted air? >>

* Facebook, Messenger and Instagram unite with cross-app notifications >>
* Researchers discover first human antibodies that work against all ebolaviruses >>

* Google I/O 2017 – All Sessions >>
* Watch Google’s I/O 2017 VR keynote right here >>
* Google Chrome is getting a full-on VR browser for Daydream >>

* Mount St Helens is RECHARGING >>
* Meet Edit: World’s first modular self-driving car can be customised to suit your style >>
* More Americans Are Marrying People of Other Races Than Ever Before >>

* AI-Powered Software Makes It Incredibly Easy to Colorize Black and White Photos >>
* The First Trailer For Star Trek: Discovery Is Here To Boldly Go To Beautiful New Worlds >>
* Google Lens resurfaces questions about AI and human identity >>

* Google Wants to Be Everywhere With Everyone >>
* For Google, AI is the best reason to suck up all your data >>
* Google brings 45 teraflops tensor flow processors to its compute cloud >>

* US Military Is Close to Selecting Builder for XS-1 Space Plane >>
* Google rolls out new ‘smart reply’ machine-learning email software to more than 1 billion Gmail mobile users >>
* Android Now Supports the Kotlin Programming Language >>

* Artificial Photosynthesis Moves on From Water Splitting to CO2 Reduction >>
* ETH Zurich’s Omnicopter Plays Fetch >>
* ISIS video shows off “new” weapons based on old tech >>

* Hubble Reveals a Moon Orbiting a Dwarf Planet in Frigid Outskirts of Our Solar System >>
* Detecting Photosynthesis on Exoplanets >>
* Here’s how Google is preparing Android for the AI-laden future >>

* CERN Accelerates LHC’s Search for Supersymmetry >>
* Light from Supernova Remnant Simeis 147 Reached Earth 40,000 Years Ago –During the Stone Age >>
* Facebook Messenger is getting a new look >>

* Fujitsu Liquid Immersion Not All Hot Air When It Comes to Cooling Data Centers >>
* Scientists tracked chickens and found they have their own daily routines, just like us >>
* These massive balloons traveling at the edge of space could revolutionize disaster relief >>

* Families Will Spend More Than a Third of Summer Staring At Screens >>
* Microsoft will soon open its first two data centers in Africa >>
* Fly the TARDIS in this VR Mobile Game >>

* Google’s Seurat for mobile VR means you can finally truly step into Star Wars >>
* YouTube VR adds shared rooms and live voice chat >>
* Humans Accidentally Made a Space Cocoon For Ourselves Out of Radio Waves >>

* Scientists Discover Possible First Proof of Parallel Universes >>
* 3D-printed ovaries successfully produce healthy mice pups >>
* How AI is used to infer human emotion >>

* Siri vs. Google Assistant on the iPhone: here’s who’s talking >>
* Making AI work for everyone >>

* Researchers find the struggle to cope is linked to unusual enlargement in decision-making region >>
* Monkeys Have a Specialized Brain Network for Sizing Up Others’ Actions >>
* What an Apple-Picking Robot Means for the Future of Farm Workers >>

* Human Genome Editing: Who Gets to Decide? >>
* Scientists reveal world’s thinnest ‘floating’ images that are 1,000 times narrower than a human hair >>

* But how does it stay up? Amazing new spokeless Ferris Wheel opens in China >>
* It Took the Bicycle 200 Years to Find Its Way in the World >>
* Hands-On With Google’s Inside-Out WorldSense Tracking >>

* The state of the car computer >>
* Hear Me Out: Let’s Elect an AI as President >>
* Rigiet is a smartphone stabilizer that could make you an Instagram star >>

* Google wants the Assistant to be everywhere — but first it needs to conquer the iPhone >>
* Google isn’t building the ultimate VR headset. It’s setting the foundation for one >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 May 2017

* Here’s all the new stuff Google announced at its I/O 2017 conference >>
* Google I/O 2017 Keynote live blog >>

* All the Cool New Stuff Google Home Can Do >>
* Google unveils VR headsets that don’t need smartphones >>
* Google Home just added a laundry list of new features >>

* Google launches Android O in beta with Google Play Protect and helpful interface tweaks >>
* Android powers 2 billion devices around the world >>

* Google’s TensorFlow Lite brings machine learning to Android devices >>
* Android’s built-in AI knows what you need to copy and paste >>
* Google is building AR and VR that knows where you are >>

* Google’s Project Tango finds a new home in the classroom >>
* Google’s Plan to Make Assistant Actually Useful >>

* Android Go is a lightweight version of Android for crazy cheap phones >>
* Android O focuses on reducing boot time and battery drain >>

* Google Home gains Bluetooth connectivity to play audio from any device >>
* Google’s voice-controlled AI Assistant comes to the iPhone >>
* Google launched a massive open AI division >>

* The Gmail app is about to get a lot smarter >>
* Google Lens Turns Your Camera Into a Search Box >>
* This new Google home feature will change the way you cook >>

* Human blood stem cells grown in the lab for the first time >>
* This voice-controlled robot vacuum is its lowest price ever right now >>

* AMD’s 16-core ‘Threadripper’ CPU is built for ultra-high-end PCs >>
* Chelsea Manning Free After Seven Years in Military Prison >>
* OpenAI’s new system lets you train robots entirely in VR >>

* Are Vitamin Supplements Killing Our Gut Bacteria? >>
* A Breakthrough in Flexible Electronics Could Turn Your T-Shirts Into Amazing Speakers >>
* The First Picture From Star Trek: Discovery Explores Strange New Worlds >>

* New Bioprinter Makes It Easier to Fabricate 3D Flesh and Bone >>
* New Report Highlights Dangers of Hacked Factory Robots >>

* What Henry Ford understood about wages >>
* Galaxy Group Hickson 90 >>
* Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop 2017 >>
* xkcd; Machine Learning >>

* Space Tech Expo USA 2017 >>
* Elastic Hologram Can Switch Images When Stretched >>
* Mysterious Flashes Coming From Earth That Puzzled Carl Sagan Finally Have An Explanation >>

* New Explanation For Dark Energy? Tiny Fluctuations Of Time And Space >>
* A Galaxy’s Fate –“Is Encoded in its Electromagnetic Spectrum” >>
* “Year One Million” –Homo Sapiens 2.0 The New National Geographic TV Series >>

* Tyrannosaurus rex had a bone-crushing bite with a force of 8,000 pounds >>
* What would happen if Earth started to spin faster? >>
* If that asteroid had been 30 seconds late, dinosaurs might rule the world and humans probably wouldn’t exist >>

* Virtual Futures | Surrender to Surveillance >>
* How Airbus Dreamed Up the Wild Design for Its Flying Car >>
* Adorable Carbon Fiber Rocket Is Finally Ready to Launch >>

* Elon Musk’s tunnel-boring company gets an FAQ >>
* YouTube TV Just Added 7 New Networks >>
* The Tech Sector Is Leaving the Rest of the US Economy In Its Dust >>

* Cell spheres could personalize lung treatment >>
* Brain stent to let five paralysed people control exoskeleton >>
* Car dealers are using gigantic vending machines that dispense real vehicles >>

* Light sensor in fly eye offers clues to circadian rhythm >>
* Scientists test brazen new plan to save Swiss glaciers from global warming >>

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* New 3D printed “ovaries” enabled mice to give birth to live young >>
* First Trailer For Seth MacFarlane’s Star Trek Spoof The Orville Looks Perfect >>
* Launch your loved one’s remains into orbit for only $2,500 >>

* ‘Smart’ junctions fitted with AI technology will react automatically to heavy congestion >>
* A Circuit That Sees Radiation Strikes Could Keep Errors at Bay >>
* Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe >>

* Watts is a huge battery that powers your home >>
* The ‘telepathy’ ultrasound speaker that lets you communicate silently with someone 30 meters away >>

* The Pentagon is hunting ISIS using big data and machine learning >>
* Scientists Found Sperm’s Power Switch—And a Way to Turn It Off >>

* Four-story glass doors, ‘breathing’ walls, patented pizza boxes and a two-story yoga room covered in distressed stone to look like Steve Jobs’ favorite hotel: The staggering decadence of Apple’s lavish $5bn Spaceship HQ >>
* Touching moment a virtual reality headset helps elderly people with dementia recall precious memories >>

* Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite >>
* Scientists have found a mysterious ‘puffy’ planet with the density of styrofoam >>
* 12 mind-expanding TED talks to watch if you’ve got 5 minutes or less >>

* Deep Science AI monitors security feeds for masks and guns to quicken response times >>
* Scientists Finally Measure The Strength Of The Bonds That Hold Together Water >>
* This remote island in the South Pacific is covered in 18 tons of our trash >>

* Here’s why you’ll buy your next shoe on Instagram >>
* Synthego’s genetic toolkit aims to make CRISPR more accessible >>
* LG gears up for high frame rate 4K sports broadcasts >>

* Google’s new IoT Core service helps businesses manage their IoT data and devices >>
* The Bizarre Quantum Test That Could Keep Your Data Secure >>
* Do robots creep you out? >>

* Blastoff! SpaceX Launches Inmarsat-5 F4 Satellite | Video >>
* NASA Launches Black Brant IX Suborbital Sounding Rocket to Test Tech | Video >>
* Incredible First Person Footage of a Real Spacewalk Will Leave You Speechless >>

* Physicists Can’t Agree on What Science Even Means Anymore >>
* Internet of Things World 2017 >>
* Ovum IoT Futures 2017 Conference and Awards >>

* Google’s AI Invents Sounds Humans Have Never Heard Before >>
* Gillmor Gang: Doc Soup >>
* Samsung Invention Reveals a Zoom Camera Lens that Protrudes beyond the Display >>

* Heavy Rains Reshaped Early Mars >>
* To Get to Mars, NASA Must Convince Lawmakers >>
* In Year 1 Million, What Will Humanity Look Like? >>

* ‘Archinaut’ Spacecraft Could Build Huge Structures in Space (Videos) >>
* NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory Decodes Mystery Flashes of Light from Earth (WATCH Video) >>
* YouTube TV fills out its live television lineup with AMC, BBC America, and more >>

* Dear Class of 2017… By Bill Gates >>
* Plants Can Tell Time Way Better Than You Can >>
* All It Took Was Cat Grant’s Return to Make Supergirl the Best Again >>
* What will the world be like in a BILLION years? >>

* 16 terabytes of RAM should be enough for anyone. Wait. What? >>
* TV networks are kicking Facebook and Google while they are down >>

* AI object! Using robots to sentence criminals is a ‘dangerous idea’, expert warns >>
* Vodafone creates airborne cell site for search and rescue >>
* Microsoft’s Cortana virtual assistant is now a hologram >>

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