Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 August 2017

* Nerve Cells restored in Monkeys with Parkinsons like disease >>
* We’ve just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space >>
* MIT CSAIL teaches a robot to follow contextual voice commands >>

* Apple’s iPhone 8 will use gesture controls instead of a home button, new leaks suggest >>
* Is AI our best hope for finding alien life? Scientists show that neural networks can spot tiny wobbles in space-time 10 MILLION times faster than current methods >>
* Brave new world of biofuels: How E10 makes your car go >>

* Light-driven ‘nanomachines’ could be used as tiny missiles inside the body to blast away cancer cells >>
* Fatal AI mistakes could be prevented by having human teachers >>
* Children whose parents have split are less stressed when they spend their time living equally between two >>

* MIT’s latest robot politely weaves through crowds >>
* Smart’s autonomous concept car literally says “Hello” >>
* BMW shows off its all-electric Mini concept >>

* IBM’s Watson is creating US Open tennis highlight videos >>
* Amazon and Microsoft agree their voice assistants will talk (to each other) >>
* Do We Need A Speedometer For Artificial Intelligence? >>

* US Missiles Destroy Airborne Target in Successful Defense Test >>
* North Korea’s Missile Shot Over Japan Calls Trump’s Bluff >>
* Robot airbags could help industrial bots play nice with humans >>

* The VR dating show makes me want to never date again >>
* Scott Roberts on intelligence-driven incident response >>
* Apple ARKit is about to transform the App Store in the most awesome way >>

* Magic Leap patent drawings reveal what might be its mysterious AR glasses >>
* FDA Approval of a “Living Drug” Heralds a New Era in Cancer Care >>
* Insurance Companies Are Preparing Fleets of Drones to Assess the Damage of Harvey >>

* Ultrathin Quantum Dot Display Wearable Electronics shows animated tattoo display >>
* Checking yourself for melanomas? You might not be looking for the right thing. >>
* Cities are great when they work: Notes from Session 6, Urban 3.0 >>

* The best way to customize a supercar is in VR >>
* How We Won Gold in the Cyborg Olympics’ Brain Race >>
* Elusive Majorana Particle Takes Major Step Towards Quantum Computing >>

* Don’t Worry About Super-Intelligent Robots. Worry About Dumb, Unpredictable Ones >>
* How your selfies could help detect pancreatic cancer >>

* Wi-Fi + HD Video + Drones = Still Wobbly >>
* Brain-Like Neural Networks Study Space-Time Distortions at Breakneck Speed >>
* MIT’s Max Tegmark: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (VIDEO) >>

* New Theory Says Soon After Big Bang, Black Holes Lit Up the Universe >>
* Was the Origin of Life a Fluke? Or Was It Physics? >>
* Elon Musk’s Neuralink Gets $27 Million to Merge Humans and Machines >>

* Second Hyperloop Pod Design Competition A Success >>
* This vacuum-activated modular robot is equally nasty and neat >>
* A physicist on why AI safety is ‘the most important conversation of our time’ >>

* MIT’s RFID Drone Inventory System Could Save Retailers Billions >>
* MIT’s new Ford-funded robot can deftly navigate pedestrian traffic >>
* Watch Acer’s IFA 2017 showcase in under six minutes >>

* Why Voice Assistants Will Give You A Headache >>
* NASA’s Plan To Stop A Supervolcano from Destroying The Earth’s Climate >>

* Weird ancient burst of light in the sky turns out to be a nova >>
* Is-donating-your-dna-to-the-nhs-worth-the-privacy-risks >>
* Human blood and skin cells used to treat Parkinson’s in monkeys >>

* Would YOU pay $30 for a 4K movie? Apple in row with Hollywood studios over pricing for new download service >>
* An end to Alzheimer’s? Scientists show how we could block the disease in its earliest stages >>
* Amazon Music Unlimited finally joins Spotify and Apple Music in offering student rates >>

* $100 Million E.T. Hunt Spots 15 Mysterious Light Flashes >>
* Roku is killing Apple (and everyone else) in the streaming device space >>
* Here’s how Daimler is evolving its tiny Smart car for self-driving >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 August 2017

* India shut off the internet in an attempt to maintain order >>
* Japan Wakes to a Text Message: Missile Approaching >>
* Tinder Gold, which lets you see who has liked you (for $4.99 per month), launches today >>

* ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale >>
* Google unveils ARCore, its answer to Apple’s ARKit >>
* Google Joins The Augmented Reality Party With Arcore >>

* Meltwater acquires Algo, an AI-based news and data tracker >>
* Torc Robotics partners with chipmaker NXP on self-driving radar tech >>

* Renault-Nissan and Dongfeng partner to build electric cars for China >>
* Spire’s ship tracking satellite data makes it easier to monitor vessels from space >>

* Salesforce is using AI to democratize SQL so anyone can query databases in natural language >>
* Google Maps now makes it easier to find parking >>
* YouTube finally has vertical videos that don’t suck >>

* Will AI Enable the Third Stage of Life on Earth? >>
* Newfound Material on the Moon Could Offer Clues to Our Planet’s Early Years >>
* Military drones that spy on the public could replace police helicopters in cities across the US by 2025 >>

* Internet providers could easily snoop on your smart home >>
* Intel’s Myriad X chip will give drones and robots better vision >>
* Tiny DNA capsules smuggle molecules into cells >>

* Peter Thiel backs offshore human testing of experimental herpes vaccine >>
* Tinder Gold launches worldwide to reveal who likes you >>
* DeepL schools other online translators with clever machine learning >>

* 3D-printed space habitats earn $400K in prizes at NASA competition >>
* This VR Video Game Is Actually Part Of The World’s Biggest Dementia Research Test >>
* One jump forward: Notes from Session 3 of TEDGlobal: Leapfrog >>

* Nanodiamonds May Help Make Lithium-Ion Batteries Better and Safer >>
* Watch Asteroid 3122 Florence Zip Past Earth This Weekend >>
* “Z” Machine –World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Duplicates a Black Hole’s Disk Upending Existing Theories >>

* NASA’s Next Mars Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet –“Pristine Evidence of Its Infancy” >>
* NASA Proposes Rapid Mars Sample Return Architecture >>
* Robot caregivers are saving the elderly from lives of loneliness >>

* Voyager Golden Records 40 Years Later: Real Audience was Always Here on Earth >>
* Record-Breaking Galaxy Find Sheds Light on Magnetic Universe >>
* 3 Times It’s Worth Burning A Bridge In Your Career >>

* Europe’s VR landscape continues to grow rapidly despite market slowdown >>
* New ways to make trip planning easier and cheaper >>
* YouTube’s big desktop redesign is now available to everyone >>

* Uber kills plans to track passengers after their trips >>
* The Next iPhone Might Let You Unlock It With Your Face, and That’s Stupid >>
* How Students Built The World’s Fastest Hyperloop >>

* Why the rise of Iranian-Americans in tech is no surprise >>
* Elon Musk just casually posted a photo of a Tesla car in a Boring Company tunnel >>
* Australia plans random drug tests for people receiving welfare >>

* Soldier hovers on ‘first flying platform’ >>
* North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan for first time >>
* Seabirds SMELL their way home >>

* Is the future of nuclear power molten SALT? >>
* NASA releases stunning picture of dunes on the surface of Mars >>
* 9 jobs that are seeing the fastest pay increases >>

* Check out these smartglasses designed by $US4.5 billion startup Magic Leap >>
* A physicist on why AI safety is the most important conversation of our time >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 August 2017

* SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod speed competition winner tops 200 MPH >>
* Royal Navy submarines of the future conceptualised >>
* Safer thorium reactor trials could salvage nuclear power >>

* How to design a custom robot in minutes without being a roboticist >>
* How Well Do Health Trackers Really Work for Managing Chronic Conditions? >>
* The age of AI surveillance is here >>

* Virtual Reality needs another generation or three of improvement to go mainstream >>
* What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us >>
* To screen for pancreatic cancer, take a selfie with new app >>

* AI World Conference and Expo >>
* Could AI Transform Continuous Delivery Development? >>
* Apple’s ‘Star Wars’ self driving car: SUV packed with dozens of roof sensors spotted >>

* From facial scans instead of passports to robot baggage handlers, experts reveal the hi-tech airports of the future >>
* Robots might be coming for our jobs — but millennials aren’t worried >>

* Watch as NASA’s Cassini Speeds Past Saturn’s Rings in This Awesome View >>
* After Webb: Scientists Make the Case for Even Bigger Telescopes >>
* Nasa Says James Webb Telescope Will Study Solar System’s “ocean Worlds” >>

* Redesigned Jaunt VR app hits Windows Mixed Reality next month >>
* Google accidentally broke the internet throughout Japan >>
* Dell makes a VR Visor to go with its Alienware laptops >>

* This is How Much Amazon Has Cut Whole Foods Prices >>
* The hits and misses of Gamescom 2017 >>
* Join roundtable discussions about Crypto, AR/VR, China and Robotics at Disrupt SF >>

* Dragonfly Proposed To Nasa As Daring New Frontiers Mission To Titan >>
* NASA Explores an Extreme Rover for Extreme Venus –“No Spacecraft has Survived Its Surface Heat and Sulfuric Acid for more than Two Hours” >>
* How I Calculated Where the Solar Eclipse and My Plane Would Intersect >>
* Satellites Spy 2017 Solar Eclipse from Space (Videos) >>

* Stanford lab makes nanodiamond rain but on Uranus and Neptune diamonds would be millions of carats >>
* Venus Automaton Design Recalls Mechanical Computers >>
* Nearby Planet Proxima b’s Atmosphere Was Likely Stripped Long Ago >>

* Test Your Knowledge of Basic Demographic Facts >>
* Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence >>
* Samsung recruits Panasonic to bring HDR10+ to more TVs and devices >>

* Germany’s WARR team wins SpaceX’s Hyperloop II race with 201 mph pod run >>
* Cortisol and serotonin linked to male liver cancer >>
* Hurricane Harvey Closes NASA Center in Houston >>

* Scientists capture first X-rays from thermonuclear supernova >>
* Robot caregivers for the elderly could be just 10 years away >>
* Exhilarating Video Of Hyperloop Pod Accelerating To 200 MPH In Seconds >>

* Is This Insane Video Of A Jet Barely Missing A Skydiver Real? >>
* Here’s a Tesla inside Elon Musk’s LA tunnel >>
* States still don’t know if Russians hacked their voting systems >>

* The Game of Thrones season 7 finale was its most watched episode ever >>
* The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 7, The Dragon and the Wolf >>
* Why ‘Game of Thrones’ fans may have to wait until 2019 for the final season >>

* Fitbit just released its first-ever wireless headphones — here’s what they’re like >>
* Japan’s military will practice deploying anti-missile batteries at three US bases in Japan >>
* Use this little-known iPhone feature if you’re dealing with a poor cell signal >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 August 2017

* Why NASA’s twin Voyagers probes are the most important spacecraft ever launched — and could be the last evidence of humanity’s existence >>
* Mini-antennas could power brain-computer interfaces, medical devices >>
* Brain-Inspired AI: How Neuroscience Helps to Advance Machine Learning >>

* Polygram detects facial reactions to shared photos >>
* MoviePass Is Off to a Strong Start and Theaters May Not Be Able to Stop It >>
* Even Artificial Neural Networks Can Have Exploitable ‘backdoors’ >>

* Dragonfly Proposed To Nasa As Daring New Frontiers Mission To Titan >>
* LIGO May Be On the Verge of Announcing Major Gravitational Wave Discovery from Exotic New Source >>
* Deep View Of Antares >>

* Microbes Could Turn Astronaut Pee into Plastic and Nutrients (Video) >>
* The Matter with Dark Matter >>
* Threat Tracking Usaf Satellite Launching Nighttime Aug 25 On Cape Debut Of Retired Icbm Minotaur Rocket: Watch Live >>

* New Study Of Antares Creates The Best Map Ever Of A Distant Star >>
* DARPA leading electronics revolution to go beyond printed circuit boards with modular chiplets >>
* Video Friday: Robogami, Flying Snake Robots, and Autonomous Car Eclipse >>

* Samsung chief jailed over scandal that brought down South Korean president >>
* Samsung heir sentenced to 5 years prison by South Korea court >>
* Samsung Patent Reveals a Major Smart Speaker System for the Home that Includes a Projector >>
* Samsung Wins a Design Patent for a Star Trek-Like Communicator >>

* This yarn makes its own electricity >>
* Better educated parents have children who are more relaxed, outgoing and explorative >>
* Qantas Airways wants to launch the world’s longest flight—if technology can handle it >>

* Magnetothermal Genetics: A Fourth Tool in the Brain-Hacking Toolbox >>
* The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible >>
* Diamond Ring in a Cloudy Sky >>

* Technological Disruptors and not Tech Singularity will force companies to accelerate or die >>
* Amazon’s big price cuts at Whole Foods just the beginning >>
* Hawthorne City approves two mile long Boring Company Test Tunnel >>

* Sherpa secures $2.3M to build AI-driven insurance platform tailored to individuals >>
* Software Is Eating the Auto Industry >>
* Facebook Wins a Patent for a Major In-Air Gesturing System for Future Desktop Computer Systems >>

* Robot suit helps children with cerebral palsy to walk better >>
* Apple’s Swift coding course heads to 30 community colleges >>
* The HBO hackers just sent us the end of ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7 >>

* Netflix’s Most Underrated Power? Anticipation >>
* Elon Musk’s Boring Co. gets Hawthorne city nod to dig a two-mile test tunnel >>
* For the First Time Tiny Robots Treat Infection in a Living Organism >>

* Netflix is making gains on live TV as viewers’ first choice for watching shows >>
* The Relationship Between Hurricanes and Climate Change >>
* 10 smart gadgets to bring on your next camping trip >>

* Is Apple CEO Tim Cook running for president? He says ‘no’ >>
* NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope –Infrared Eye of Hubble’s Successor Will Probe ‘Ocean Worlds’ for Chemical Signatures of Biology >>

* Strongest resistive magnet created with 41.4 tesla >>
* James Webb Telescope will be infatuated with Europa and Enceladus >>
* New Kind of Gravitational Wave Source Detected? >>

* Two ex-Googlers are using AI to guarantee interviews for tech job seekers >>
* An insider’s take on the future of coding bootcamps >>
* Gillmor Gang: What It’s Worth >>

* How to design a custom robot in minutes without being a roboticist >>
* Tesla music-streaming service may be closer than we think >>
* New Video of Hurricane Harvey from the International Space Station –“Up to 20 Trillion Gallons of Water” >>

* How Solar-Reliant Power Grids Passed the Eclipse Test >>
* APOD: The Heart Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur >>
* A Game You Can Control With Your Mind >>

* Sami Inkinen on his bold plan to cure type 2 diabetes forever >>
* AI Training Algorithms Susceptible To Backdoors, Manipulation >>

* DNA sensor plays critical role in cancer immunotherapy via response to unexpected DNA form >>
* How Artificial Intelligence Will Make Digital Humans Hollywood’s New Stars >>
* Next-generation drug testing on chips >>

* What the world’s tiniest ‘monster truck’ reveals >>
* 3D Printed Drones Fly into the Future >>
* NASA Made This Technology for Space—Now, It Will Improve What We Eat >>

* Artificial Intelligence | Future of Everything With Jason Silva (Part 6) >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 August 2017

* Elon Musk shows off SpaceX’s custom spacesuit >>
* Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google >>
* Pepper Now Available at Funerals as a More Affordable Alternative to Human Priests >>

* High altitude balloon-drone combo >>
* The self-flying plane that could soon skim the countryside to revolutionise farming >>

* The stage was by far the coolest part of Samsung’s Note 8 >>
* Samsung details safety measures for the Note 8 battery >>
* The cost of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 might make you cry >>
* Catch up on Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 news in 10 minutes >>
* Samsung’s new Gear VR is built for the big Galaxy Note 8 >>
* Why does Samsung think you’d be willing to spend nearly $1,000 on a Galaxy Note 8? >>

* Warming Waters Could Mean Smaller Fish >>
* Robot bears are coming for your grandparents >>
* Removing the hunch in data science with AI-based automated feature engineering >>

* IBM to investigate role of microbiome in autoimmune disorders >>
* Does Autism Risk Reside in Cells’ Energy Engines? >>
* Icy hard drives cram 5300 movies onto a postage stamp >>

* This young engineer is 3D printing the most advanced robotic arms at an affordable price >>
* Airbus Uses Lasers To Teach Its Flying Car To Land >>
* Apple’s next self-driving phase is an employee shuttle >>

* “Antares: Astronomers Capture 1st Map Ever of Any Star Other Than the Sun >>
* Scientists are solving the mystery of Earth’s thermostat >>
* Humans drilling for oil and gas are to blame for rocketing levels of toxic gas methane in our atmosphere >>
* The vanishing underwater forests: Researchers say climate change is killing off huge amounts of kelp across the globe >>

* Apple could announce the next iPhone on September 12 >>
* Apple is developing an autonomous shuttle bus >>
* Facebook will live stream over a dozen college football games this year >>

* Western Digital hauls out weighty tome with 20TB external storage >>
* This machine lets you charge your device wherever you are in the room >>
* ‘Anti-sense’ RNA aids repair of damaged nerves >>

* Bringing gaming to life with AI and deep learning >>
* MIT’s Robogami lets you build custom 3D-printable robots from standard, folding parts >>
* Robot suit helps children with cerebral palsy to walk better >>

* Cyborg Bacteria Change the Game in Carbon Dioxide Reduction >>
* Biocomputer and Memory Built Inside Living Bacteria >>
* Quantum magnetometer arrays for magnetic detection of submarines >>

* AI and satellite imaging make aircraft carriers vulnerable >>
* Smart robots prove stupidly easy to hack for spying and murder >>
* Here’s What’s Coming And Going From Netflix In September 2017 >>

* Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars >>
* International $200-300 round trips will become common >>
* Electric planes have viable niche applications now >>

* Longevity fund companies target breakthrough antiaging >>
* U.S. Science Envoy Resigns to Protest Trump Policies >>
* The Sims 4 Will Now Let You Add Your Furry Friends to Your Virtual Family >>

* Microsatellite radar imaging startup raises $13M to launch new constellation >>
* Want to drive Elon Musk’s tunnel boring machine? Sell some Teslas >>
* Roku is the top streaming device in the U.S and still growing, report finds >>

* 3D Printing of Eyewear and R&D Tax Credits >>
* With SpaceX in the mix, check out all these modern spacesuit designs >>
* Eclipse Review >>

* The 2017 Virtual Reality Conference and Expo Schedule >>
* How Solar Panels Work >>
* Huge salaries revealed for Game of Thrones stars >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 August 2017

* High-powered microscope can scan cells without destroying them >>
* Disney Will Price Streaming Service At $5 Per Month, Analyst Says >>
* The ‘neighbourhood watch’ sensor that tracks exactly who is driving in your street >>

* Intelligence and the DNA Revolution >>
* For sale: China’s brand new, souped-up tanks >>

* Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant launches in 200 countries after months of delays >>
* Why do the richest people on earth all want to go to space? >>
* High-tech mat that detects foot ulcers BEFORE they develop >>

* Nintendo’s $80 mini Super Nintendo went up for sale overnight and sold out immediately >>
* Nintendo is about to release a miniature version of the original SNES — here’s everything we know about it >>

* The Great Tech Panic of 2017 >>
* The Great Tech Panic: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Worry About >>
* US Navy suffers third ship collision this year, prompt admirals to halt all warship ops >>

* Scientists Create Smart Labels To Tell You When To Throw Away Expired Food and Makeup >>
* Fusion heating gets a boost >>
* Facebook may have a grown-up problem: Young people leaving for Instagram and Snapchat >>

* The Runaway Species: How human creativity remakes the world >>
* Sneak peek: First look at the TEDWomen 2017 lineup >>
* Closer to Flash Memory Successo >>

* Five amazing natural phenomena that are harder to see than a total eclipse >>
* How to successfully integrate complex hardware and software processes necessary to develop smart, connected products >>
* Who needs 5G? Qualcomm, Ericsson and Verizon hit 1Gbps with LTE gear >>

* This Salad-Making Machine Will Make You The Perfect Salad In 60 Seconds >>
* This 3D-printed sign language robot can translate speech on the fly >>
* Industrial hack can turn powerful machines into killer robots >>

* Lilium, a German company building an electric ‘air taxi’, makes key hires from Gett, Airbus and Tesla >>
* Ford lays out its plan for self-driving cars >>
* People Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries To Power Their Homes >>

* Google launches Chrome Enterprise subscription service for Chrome OS >>
* Cambridge Cancer Genomics offers a better way to gauge effective cancer treatments >>
* The top 7 startups from Y Combinator S’17 Demo Day 1 >>

* Walking Through Space In Nasa’s Virtual Reality Lab >>
* You’ll Soon Be Able To Explore Chernobyl With PSVR >>
* Gamescom 2017: Check Out Ace Combat 7’s Latest Trailer >>

* Researchers want astronauts to put their biological waste to work >>
* Verizon To Start Throttling All Smartphone Videos To 480p or 720p >>
* DJI won’t let you fly your Spark drone without a safety update >>

* Ford set to create a new joint venture to produce EVs in China >>
* Miracle molecule called ‘Singheart’ helps heart cells self-repair so the effects of cardiovascular disease – the leading cause of death worldwide – could be ‘banished forever’ >>
* The Volkswagen Kombi is officially coming back >>

* Tiny Membrane-Based Antennas >>
* Why AI visionary Andrew Ng teaches humans to teach computers >>
* Nighttime Snowstorms May Swirl Across Mars >>

* A breakthrough new method for 3D-printing living tissues >>
* Multiphysics Simulation for the Design of Lithium Ion Batteries >>
* Air New Zealand unveils social robot helper for Sydney Airport check-in >>

* Weta Digital creates visual effects for Game Of Thrones’ most stunning episode >>
* Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner are the cutest on ‘Carpool Karaoke’ >>

* ISS Perfectly Photobombs Total Solar Eclipse >>
* Incredible Solar Eclipse Images From Our Readers >>
* ‘EPIC’ Solar Eclipse View Captured from 1 Million Miles Away (Video) >>
* There goes the sun, total solar eclipse 2017 >>
* Your best photos of the 2017 total solar eclipse >>
* Things I Used to Observe an Eclipse, Rated >>
* Photos: Great American Solar Eclipse Seen from a Plane >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 August 2017

* Watch the International Space Station Cross Over the Eclipsed Sun >>
* Wow! See Totality from the 2017 Great American Solar Eclipse (Videos) >>
* Scientists recreate Neptune’s diamond rain using powerful lasers >>

* Moon’s interior is DRY: Analysis of a lunar rock from the Apollo 16 mission suggests there is no ocean lurking beneath our satellite’s surface >>
* Climate model reveals that it SNOWS on Mars at night – a finding that could be crucial for human explorations on the red planet >>
* Nasa plans to make O2 on Mars >>

* Android O is now called Android Oreo >>
* What’s new in Android Oreo >>
* Android 8 Oreo What’s new, what’s changed, and what’s awesome >>
* Android Oreo: You’ll Want It, Even If You Can’t Get It >>

* Quadcopter with sniper rifle or grenade launcher >>
* Elon Musk urges the UN to ban artificially intelligent killer robots >>
* Industry Urges United Nations to Ban Lethal Autonomous Weapons in New Open Letter >>
* Inside the fighter jet of the future where AI is the pilot >>

* Machines Taught By Photos Learn A Sexist View Of Women >>
* Our hairy insides >>
* Scientists find a much faster way to classify our cells >>

* Walmart may use a blimp to deploy its delivery drones >>
* World over 60 population in 2100 will exceed entire world population from 1960 >>
* I Want Students to See Many Different Futures >>

* Inductive Wireless Charging for Automotive Applications >>
* Virtual Reality Platform Created For Lab Animals >>
* VR companies keep slashing the prices of their high-end headsets >>

* ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ space skirmishes put Yoda in the cockpit >>
* ‘The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs’ promises biggest-ever pets expansion >>
* Enhanced ‘Rise of the Tomb Raider’ shows off the power of the Xbox One X >>
* HTC cuts the Vive VR headset’s price to $599 >>

* Game Of Thrones Recap, Season 7 Episode 6: Heroes Do Stupid Things >>
* What That Major Game of Thrones Twist Means for Daenerys and Her Dragons >>
* Markforged announces two 3D printers that produce items as strong as steel >>

* LIFE WITH AI; Five virtual assistants, one week, lots of hiccups. >>
* Your next computer will be nearly twice as fast as existing PCs >>
* Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago could have thrust Earth into darkness for TWO YEARS >>

* Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from >>
* The Future of Eclipse Science >>
* So, when will your device actually get Android Oreo? >>

* Wearables could soon be made of silk: Scientists are feeding silkworms GRAPHENE to make them produce strong and flexible materials that can also conduct electricity >>
* Secret Service says it will run out of money to protect Trump and his family September 30 >>
* Scientists create DIAMOND RAIN to demonstrate tprocess that occurs inside icy giant planets like Neptune >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 August 2017

* Wal-Mart has an idea for a floating warehouse that could make deliveries via drones >>
* Volkswagen will bring its modern day, all-electric hippie Microbus to the road by 2022 >>
* When Is the Next Total Solar Eclipse in the U.S.? >>

* Cord-cutting Still Doesn’t Beat The Cable Bundle >>
* This is how MoviePass plans to make money with a $10-a-month unlimited plan that seems too good to be true >>
* Australian courts order ISPs to block 59 pirate websites >>
* The Windows App Store is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps >>

* Watch Microsoft’s Xbox One X Gamescom conference live right here >>
* Samsung’s Gear VR app provides help to the visually impaired >>
* Genetic enhancement will be many times more powerful than steroids >>

* Development and launch of centimeter accurate enhanced GPS with realtime correction >>
* China completing first small nuclear reactors in 2020-2021 and plan mass production >>
* China dominates generation 3+ nuclear reactors >>

* NASA’s Epic Voyager Mission at 40: Q&A with Lead Scientist Ed Stone >>
* Gillmor Gang: Ah-Clem >>
* NASA Proposes a Solution for Earth’s 20 Supervolcanoes >>

* Artificial neural networks decode brain activity during performed and imagined movements >>
* Researchers produce smart fabric to neutralize nerve gas >>
* 2-faced 2D material is a first >>
* Single molecules can work as reproducible transistors – at room temperature >>

* Researchers achieve major improvement for lensless computational microscopy >>
* 3D Printed Tumors Made with Cancer Cells May Hold Key to More Effective Treatments >>
* Nanotechnology | Future of Everything With Jason Silva (Part 5) >>

* Gloom and doom scenarios >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 August 2017

* The Robots Will Be Soft And Cuddly And Heal Their Own Wounds >>
* Apple mulls pricey early movie rentals right after theater debut >>
* A new machine learning app for reporting on hate in America >>

* Google warns watermarked photos are still vulnerable, as its new AI proves it can easily erase logos without ruining an image >>
* NASA is using Intel’s deep learning to find better landing sites on the moon >>

* This video of dancing robots will keep you up at night >>
* Google Researchers Made An Algorithm To Delete Watermarks From Photos >>
* Scientists have developed a battery that gets its power from human spit >>

* Scientists successfully use artificial womb to save premature lambs for the second time in history >>
* Sperm cells are created in the lab offering hopes of a cure for one of the most commons causes of male infertility >>

* DARPA seeks scalable and dynamic testing for learning robots >>
* The Huger Tech Racer electric skateboard proves fast doesn’t mean first place >>
* This 3D-printed robotic arm is built for sign language >>

* 5G Bytes: Small Cells Explained >>
* New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years >>
* Facebook is testing ‘Featured Topic’ tool for News Feed that will show users customized links based on their interests >>

* Laser SETI Funded >>
* Mexico City’s urban cable car, Mexicable, is new transport system for one of the world’s busiest places. >>

* NASA’s Parker Probe Will Explore The Sun’s Hellish Atmosphere in 2018 >>
* Lockheed next generation active electronically scanned array radar >>
* More telescope for drones and satellites with weight reduction of ten to 100 times >>

* DARPA Squad-x program for integration of robots, drones and sensors with infantry >>
* Microsoft invents 3D Camera System for Surface Devices that will Capture Hand Gestures, Drawings & Text >>
* Russian cosmonauts release the world’s first 3D printed satellite during spacewalk on the ISS >>

* Amazon patents bizarre accordion-style chute that would let delivery drones drop packages from the SKY without ever having to land >>
* Amazon can borrow money more cheaply than Russia, Mexico and China >>
* Risk Takers Are Back in the Space Race—and That’s a Good Thing >>

* Oxford 3D bioprinting scaling to industrial scale tissue printing and organ printing >>
* Crispr gene editing for healthier food and major medical advances >>
* Machining of spider silk fibers using femtosecond lasers >>

* Reliable Perching Makes Fixed-Wing UAVs Much More Useful >>
* Self-Driving Wheelchairs Debut in Hospitals and Airports >>
* Apple and Hollywood studios could be heading for a big game of chicken against theater chains >>

* Infosys CEO quits, citing ‘untenable atmosphere’ created by critics >>
* Apple Is Entering The Content Streaming War Against Netflix–And Other Stories You Might Have Missed >>
* To Win The AI Assistant Wars, Apple Is Melding Siri With Its Other Services >>

* Delphi and LiDAR-maker Innoviz partner on self-driving tech >>
* Explore The Moon Using Augmented Reality >>

* Nasa Plans To Send Cubesat To Venus To Unlock Atmospheric Mystery >>
* About 2 trillion dollars for China and Transasia High Speed rail by 2030 >>

* Gigantic Bubbles at Center of Milky Way Reaching Out 50,000 Light Years Discovered to be Source of Mysterious Cosmic Rays >>
* NASA Monitoring 3-Mile-Wide Asteroid –“Largest Potentially Hazardous NEO Ever Tracked This Close to Earth” >>
* NASA launches satellite to relay data from Hubble, ISS and other spacecraft >>

* You can’t escape Windows error messages in this augmented reality nightmare >>
* Infiniti’s Prototype 9 is a modern electric car with 1940s retro racer roots >>
* Google uses machine learning to help journalists track hate >>

* Clocky is an alarm clock on wheels that will roll away from your sleepy head >>
* Apple and Hollywood said to continue talks around early digital movie rentals >>
* A Tidally Locked ‘Earth’? >>

* Online Coursera class on solar eclipse and other eclipse info >>
* “Totality!” –WATCH NASA Videos to Prep for Monday’s Live-Streamed Total Eclipse >>
* Here’s a Timeline of When the 2017 Solar Eclipse Begins and Ends >>
* Solar eclipse to be live-streamed from BALLOONS soaring 80,000 feet above Earth’s surface >>
* Turn Your Smartphone into an Eclipse Tool Kit with Essential Apps >>
* xkcd: why isn’t there an Ecilipse every month >>
* We’ve been predicting eclipses for over 2000 years. Here’s how. >>
* NASA’s 360-Degree Facebook Live Stream Brings the Eclipse From the Sky to Your Screen >>

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* Tiny robots crawl through mouse’s stomach to heal ulcers >>
* This company claims to be selling a dog-walking drone >>
* Microsoft Research uses AI to help drones soar like eagles >>

* Fiat Chrysler joins Intel, BMW, and Mobileye’s project to create fully self-driving cars by 2021 >>
* Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests >>

* Meet a new food delivery robot, and find out how it works >>
* Messaging app Line adds livestreaming for group chats a month can buy you daily MoviePass. >>
* Scientists use magnetic fields to remotely stimulate brain—and control body movements >>

* Is it too good to be true? >>
* Hollywood in crisis? Summer box office projected to be the lowest since 2007 >>

* Microsoft’s autonomous gliders seek out thermal updrafts to stay aloft >>
* Amazon’s Alexa can now steer exoskeletons >>
* Can Artificial Intelligence Fly a Plane? >>

* New report predicts how we will live in 2050 >>
* We can program robots not to get all up in our personal space >>
* Defending 3D Printers From Hackers >>

* Researchers find ‘switch’ that turns on immune cells’ tumor-killing ability >>
* Banking a baby’s cord blood may save their life. Is it worth it? >>
* I paid £2000 to bank my son’s cord blood, but couldn’t use it >>

* Researchers create more efficient supercapacitor to power wearables >>
* This kayak transforms into a backpack >>
* The Docx Games: Three Days At The Microsoft Office World Championship >>

* Apple’s 60-inch OLED TV in secret testing laboratory >>
* There’s a lot of money up for grabs if you can land (softly) on the moon >>
* Cancer is way more likely to kill you if you rely on ‘natural’ therapies >>

* Ray Kurzweil reviews History of Neural Nets >>
* Current aquaculture tech could provide 100 times current seafood consumption >>
* Amazon’s private label business is booming thanks to device sales, expanded fashion lines >>

* China will use blockchain tech for tax collection and invoicing >>
* China will make commercial floating nuclear reactors and reactors for nuclear military ships >>
* Stem cells activated to make hair grow in mice >>

* HBO Leaks Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6 >>
* Put Your USB Battery Packs to Use This Winter With a Heated Base Layer >>
* Apple could guide you around your city using augmented reality >>

* T-Mobile boosts coverage with the first 600MHz LTE network >>
* Microsoft launches Azure Event Grid, a fully managed event routing service >>
* Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War? >>

* Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund >>
* Social virtual reality startup AltspaceVR may not be dead after all >>
* Intel’s second 10-nanometer chip architecture is Ice Lake >>

* Insects use their own poo to defend young from predators >>
* SpaceX Dragon cargo ship toting an ‘extra-large science load’ arrives to the space station >>
* Smarter robot vacuum cleaners for automated office cleaning >>

* Nasa will use X-ray techniques to discover the first microbes on Earth and on the red planet during 2020 mission >>
* Drone promises to walk your dog along a GPS route >>
* Tips for surviving the future >>

* Eliminating the Human >>
* Deadline for Google Lunar X Prize Moon Race Extended Through March 2018 >>
* Mars Sample Return: Scientists Debate How to Bring Red Planet Rocks to Earth >>

* How Solar Eclipses and Tides Proved the Earth Is Slowing Down >>
* How Eclipses Reveal Information About Alien Worlds, Light-Years Away >>
* Opportunity: Longest-Running Mars Rover >>

* Students Race Driverless Cars in Germany in Formula Student Competition >>
* Saving The Earth’s Ozone Layer Went Even Better Than Expected >>
* Tony Stark Would Approve Of This Wingsuit/Jet Pack Rig >>

* Just press ‘Go’: Here’s what Waymo wants to replace your car’s steering wheel with >>
* YouTube has an illegal TV streaming problem >>

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