Futureseek Daily Link Review; 11 May 2017

* MIT teaches machines to learn from each other >>
* Amazon’s ‘Echo Show’ Gives Alexa the Touchscreen It Needed >>
* Microsoft PowerPoint adds real-time presentation translation >>

* NASA’s Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon >>
* Tesla opens up Solar Roof pre-orders, answers the most important question: how much will it cost you? >>
* Wiggling atom probes buddy molecule without disturbing it >>

* UK police will start using AI to decide whether suspects should be kept in custody >>
* AI detective analyses police data to learn how to crack cases >>
* Microsoft: Mixed Reality Will Revolutionize Work Away From The Desk >>

* A new VR and AR standard would set the bar for rewriting reality >>
* Project Holodeck From NVIDIA Is A Social VR Space With Realistic Physics >>

* Microsoft Maluuba is teaching machines to ask questions >>
* Insects Donate DNA to Unrelated Bugs >>

* The Little Robot That Taught the Big Robot a Thing or Two >>
* A new 3D printing technology uses electricity to create stronger objects for manufacturing >>
* Emotion reading technology claims to spot criminals before they act >>

* Use a Google search to find out where you should be this weekend >>
* Cortana is about to get a lot smarter with new ‘skills’ >>
* Microsoft launches a new service for training deep neural networks on Azure >>

* Windows 10’s 500 million devices snub Cortana, impacting Microsoft’s AI push >>
* Apple just bought a popular sleep tracker >>

* CHI 2017: Interesting Interfaces >>
* Virtual-reality therapy found effective for treating phobias and PTSD >>
* How to Build a Safer, More Energy-Dense Lithium-ion Battery >>

* How Will We Solve Big Energy Challenges? >>
* Everything New Is Terrible In The Latest Cars 3 Trailer >>
* The rise of AI marks an end to CPU dominated computing >>

* Nvidia’s new Volta-based DGX-1 supercomputer puts 400 servers in a box >>
* Toyota taps NVIDIA Drive PX to power its autonomous vehicles >>
* Newborn MRI scans reveal the growth of TRILLIONS of neural connections >>

* Photonic Hypercrystals Are Now a Reality and Light Will Never Be the Same >>
* Stunning View Of The Crab Nebula Just Got Five Times Better >>
* Saturn’s Hexagon Will Be The Star Of The Cassini Finale >>

* TRAPPIST-1 System –“All Seven Planets Synchronize in Nearly Perfect Time, With Three in the Habitable Zone” >>
* “In Search of Earth 2.0” –James Webb Space Telescope Will Focus 0n Exoplanet Atmospheres >>

* Microsoft’s Latest Workplace Tech Demos Creep Me Out >>
* Did Amazon Rip Off the Echo Show From a Startup It Invested in? >>

* The best travel apps to install on your phone >>
* Gen Z Is Starting To Graduate College This Year, With Lots Of Debt And Optimism >>
* IBM’s new PowerAI tools automate image recognition >>

* User’s Guide to Disrupt NY 2017 >>
* A call to 111 will now automatically locate you >>
* Airports may use face recognition to screen US citizens (update: more info) >>

* China to develop ‘modern’ version of Antonov An-225 in bid to launch satellites >>
* Stunning time-lapse that took three YEARS to make shows spring blooming across New York >>
* Microsoft brings developers home for Build 2017 >>

* Which Tech Giant Would You Drop? >>
* Nasa Is Losing The Race To Build A Better Rocket >>

* Will a 3D body scanner help you get fit? >>
* Current is an app-controlled debit card for kids >>
* Watch The Microsoft Build 2017 Keynote >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 10 May 2017

* How a Helicopter Drone Could Fly on Mars >>
* The Blackbelt lets you 3D print really long items >>
* Epic Discovery of Gravitational Waves –“Echoes of Hidden Dimensions in the Cosmos” >>

* Facebook’s new AI aims to destroy the language barrier >>
* This Synthetic Bone Implant Could Replace Painful Marrow Transplants >>
* Tunnel Collapses at Nuclear Facility Once Called ‘an Underground Chernobyl Waiting to Happen’ >>

* Physicists breeding Schroedinger cat states >>
* Your Brain Remembers Languages You Think You Forgot >>
* Editorial: Smartphones Won’t Be Replaced By VR And AR Headsets, Yet >>

* Caffeine and a good night’s rest could help treat chronic pain (at least in mice) >>
* The language you speak changes your perception of time >>
* Low doses of weed may help old mice learn new tricks >>

* The next billion-dollar startup will be in aerospace >>
* South Korea’s building a whole city to test self-driving cars >>
* Never second guess if your food is gluten-free >>

* Who needs T-Pain? Waze now lets you record your own GPS directions >>
* Future phones will ID devices by their electromagnetic fields >>
* NVIDIA’s AI may keep watch over smart cities of the future >>

* First Life on Earth: New Discovery Pushes Back Evidence by 3 Billion Years >>
* Merging Galaxies Observed With Hidden Supermassive Black Holes >>
* See Comet C/2015 Er61 Panstarrs At Its Best >>

* TRAPPIST-1 Planets Have No Large Moons, Study Argues >>
* Spacewalker’s ‘Action Cam’ Captures Spectacular Views >>
* Who’s Hiring? (Software Companies) Who’s Firing? (Hardware) >>

* This Machine Gun Robot Will Probably Lead the Uprising One Day >>
* All The Mysteries Hidden In The Blade Runner 2049 Trailer >>
* Amazon quietly drops its free-shipping minimum back to $25 >>

* What to expect at Microsoft’s Build 2017 conference >>
* Prospects for nuclear disarmament in uncertain times >>
* What Is America’s Secret Space Shuttle For? >>

* Repair Shops Are Stoked That the Samsung Galaxy S8 Is the Most Fragile Phone Ever Made >>
* Amazon Just Announced the Touchscreen Echo Nobody Asked For >>
* The Language of Dolphins Could Be Translated by 2021 >>

* US Life Expectancy Can Vary By 20 Years Depending On Where You Live >>
* Apple hints its Echo killer could have a touchscreen >>
* AI Is in a ‘Golden Age’ and Solving Problems That Were Once Sci-fi, Amazon CEO Says >>

* Uber setting up artificial intelligence lab in Toronto >>
* Could “Planetary Protection” Scuttle Otherworldly Exploration? >>
* How you can stop your job being taken by a robot: Researchers say those with high IQs who showed an interest in the arts and sciences in school are safer >>

* US soldiers set to get pocket sized surveillance drones that can send back HD video >>
* A terrifying vision of future cities: Video reveals how AI will team up with CCTV to analyse your every move >>

* Did human-like thinking begin 1.8M years ago? >>
* Would you get a loved one’s VOICE inked on you? Bizarre ‘sound wave tattoo’ >>
* Meet ‘Neo’, the most complete skeleton of Homo naledi ever found >>

* Dress Rehearsal for Armageddon: How Cities Plan for a Nuclear Attack >>
* Vancouver Startup Is Chasing the Dream of Clean, Limitless Energy Forever >>

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