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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 October 2017
* New artificial intelligence can detect colorectal cancer in less than second, 86% accuracy >>
* Robotic eel seeks out water pollution >>
* YouTube TV debuts a dedicated app for smart TVs, gaming and streaming devices >>
* 3-D-printed device builds better nanofibers >>
* Neural network gives your phone ‘DSLR-quality’ photos >>
* AI Scans Twitter for Signs of Opioid Abuse >>
* Controversial Body Transplant Procedure waiting for the right donor >>
* Head transplant mavericks must be scrutinised, not ignored >>
* Controversial Brain Imaging Uses Ai To Take Aim At Suicide Prevention >>
* Could a Machine Identify Suicidal Thoughts? >>
* Sony just offered a major look into the future of the PlayStation 4 in these 12 new trailers >>
* Stanford’s ‘accelerator on a chip’ could revolutionize medical care >>
* Ford’s robot butt makes sure its cars can handle your butt IRL >>
* “Self-regulating” nanoparticles can burn cancer without harming healthy cells >>
* Can you get from ‘dog’ to ‘car’ with one pixel? Japanese AI boffins can >>
* iPhone X automatically blocks message notifications by default >>
* The race for the autonomous car is on, FiveAI attack plan at Disrupt Berlin >>
* AT&T and Tech Mahindra launch open source AI project >>
* The new Japan Taxi from Toyota wants to be an international icon >>
* More than half this country apparently uses Facebook’s Messenger >>
* Thanks to iPhone 8 orders, Apple is finally growing again in China >>
* Emirates ditches first class on London-Dubai flights to squeeze in more economy seats >>
* Scientists beams of energy from black holes are created by matter squeezed so tight they erupt plasma streams >>
* Elon Musk essentially predicts ‘Mad Max’ IRL if Australia doesn’t embrace renewable energy >>
* Electricity should be cheap in Australia but is most expensive so Anything can be mismanaged >>
* SpaceX rocket comes in for a fiery but successful landing after launching satellite >>
* F-35s grounded by spares shortage >>
* Google’s phone woes: The Pixel and the damage done >>
* Digital Resource Lifespan >>
* Would you make an insurance claim by chat-bot? >>
* Scientists Prove Nanomagnets Can Levitate, Expect More Exotic Quantum Phenomena >>
* NASA reveals record-setting tests of radical ion engine that could take man to Mars >>
* IBM Simulates a 56-Qubit Machine >>
* Tech firms must do more to takle extremism, warns World Economic Forum >>
* To See a Habitable World >>
* Toyota will test autonomous cars at California’s GoMentum station >>
* There may be a sense in which expert athletes see things in slow motion >>
* Thousands of Videogame-Playing Soldiers Could Shape the Future of War >>
* Smaller is better with Samsung’s Gear Sport smartwatch >>
* iPhone 8 launch propels Apple to growth in China after 18 months of sales dips >>
* The First First Impression Of The Iphone X >>
* ‘Extremely rare’ 1983 Apple Lisa-1 computer that was the first to use a mouse could fetch £30,000 >>
* The way T cells attack may inspire new antibiotics >>
* They talk, they make jokes, have ‘customisable’ breasts – the sex robot is no longer a weird fantasy but a troubling reality >>
* Pixel smartphone ‘burn in’ could burn Google >>
* Has Netflix changed TV forever? >>
* All The PSVR Trailers And Videos From Sony’s Pre-Paris Games Week Conference >>
* Focus: House of Cards canned after allegations against Kevin Spacey >>
* Tech and the art of patience >>
* The richest families in America are pouring money into healthcare startups >>
* The best yoga socks you can buy >>
* Snag a wireless charging pad for just $11 and kiss cords goodbye >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 October 2017
* What Virtual Reality Can Teach a Driverless Car >>
* Researchers watch video images people are seeing, decoded from their fMRI brain scans in near-real-time >>
* SpaceX, OneWeb Detail Constellation Plans to Congress >>
* Prepping Self-driving Cars For The World’s Most Chaotic Cities >>
* Best-ever Algorithm Found For Huge Streams Of Data >>
* Elon Musk offers peek at traffic-dodging tunnel in Los Angeles >>
* Internet of Things Needs to Be Intelligent, Not Just Connected >>
* For a dollar, an AI will examine your medical scan >>
* Magic Leaps Seems To Finally Be Gearing Up For A Big Reveal >>
* If we had general intelligence at the level of a rat then the Singularity would be very near >>
* World’s quickest laser pulse can track electrons in slow motion >>
* The Little Black Box That Took Over Piracy >>
* Xbox One will save your console’s settings in the cloud >>
* India, China, and Japan Are All Planning Moon Missions >>
* Watch astronaut Scott Kelly struggle to walk on Earth after a year in space >>
* Saudi Arabia invests $1 billion into Virgin Galactic with $480 million option for space services >>
* Dr. Alexa? What Amazon might do in health care >>
* Why the Clocks Changing Are Great for Your Brain >>
* Scientists discovered a ‘kill switch’ that destroys cancer cells in mice >>
* Gillmor Gang: Hype Cycle >>
* Stargate: Origins Teaser Goes Behind The Scenes For First Look >>
* Airbus flying electric taxi is on track for flight tests in 2018 >>
* Quantum stabilized nanomagnet levitation >>
* Making safer and more conductive lithium batteries >>
* Crazy Cute Concept Cars From The Tokyo Auto Show >>
* Virtual Reality Gets Naughty >>
* This $15 online course will teach you how to make an app for that >>
* ODG, Mastercard, and Qualcomm Show Off AR Shopping >>
* The New Religions Obsessed with A.I >>
* All 15 new Netflix original TV shows and movies coming out in November >>
* It snows titanium dioxide, one active ingredients in sunscreen, on scorching-hot alien world >>
* New seed funds pursue AI, hard tech and the Midwest >>
* How I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds >>
* Kinect: Seven years of strange experiments >>
* 3D printer that turns nano-cellulose into nutritious meals could be part of your kitchen in 5 years >>
* Dr Aubrey de Grey >>
* Toyota solid stqte batteries >>
* Job losses are not at the robotic automation companies but at the companies they are killing >>
* Fast, tiny, stealthy manned and unmanned tanks >>
* Exocomets detected 800 light years away >>
* Teleportation and traversible wormholes are all real >>
* China claims successful Magnetic submarine and ship propulsion tests >>
* In 25 Years, Your Employer Will Directly Control Your Moods >>
* Fully automated mining and factories on Earth a precursor of automation for space >>
* The rights of synthetic lifeforms is the next great civil rights controversy >>
* Portuguese ISP Shows What The Net Looks Like Without Net Neutrality >>
* Just Got A New Job? Make Sure You Go Over These Things With HR >>
* How big tech just keeps getting bigger >>
* Wrist band helps the blind avoid hazards >>
* Intel AI helped create a music video >>
* If you think Washington’s going to regulate Big Tech, I’ve got a bridge I’ll sell you >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 October 2017
* Artificial Intelligence Beats CAPTCHA >>
* AI finds possible gravitational lens points >>
* First genetically engineered humans might not have their DNA tweaked at all >>
* Watch Yamaha’s Humanoid Robot Ride a Motorcycle Around a Racetrack >>
* Buildings of the future might be constructed by swarms of robots >>
* New “Ultrasound on a Chip” Tool Could Revolutionize Medical Imaging >>
* Doctor says he diagnosed his own cancer with iPhone ultrasound machine >>
* Fully automated mining and factories on Earth a precursor of automation for space >>
* ARM CEO: Tech Industry Must Build an Immune System to Prevent a Cybercrime Pandemic >>
* Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us? >>
* Neural network invents hilarious Halloween costumes >>
* Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is now the richest man in the world with $90 billion >>
* Sex robot inventor says bots will soon have a ‘moral code’ >>
* First large transport drone takes off in China >>
* Sarcos Robotics has force multiplying robots and exoskeletons to boost productivity >>
* Quantum computing is now an engineering scaling problem and treating cancer will become like preventing cavities >>
* Nvidia AI and multi-petaOps chips for class 5 automated cars within 4 years >>
* India overtakes the US to become the world’s second largest smartphone market >>
* India will Orbiter and Rover to the moon in 2018 >>
* Australia, Argentina, Chile and the USA will be the top suppliers of Lithium >>
* Chinese whispers: China shows off magnetic propulsion engine for ultra-silent subs, ships >>
* Robot ants are here to terrify and impress you >>
* Honda’s cutesy robot cooler keeps drinks within reach >>
* Artificial intelligence to evaluate brain maturity of preterm infants >>
* Yamaha’s new concept motorcycle would let you slalom into the future >>
* Autoblog’s 2017 Tokyo Motor Show roundup >>
* Nissan unveils concept electric VAN to slash emissions from food delivery vehicles >>
* Why Heart Surgery May be Better in the Afternoon >>
* We Might Be Able to Survive on Mars—But Can We Live There Peacefully? >>
* Getting to and living on Mars will be hell on your body >>
* Amazon offers $250,000 prize fund for Alexa skills aimed at kids >>
* Strange shifting patterns on Mars that are ‘unlike anything seen on Earth’ are created by carbon dioxide and NOT water >>
* Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour >>
* Facebook will require political advertisers to disclose their identities >>
* Peter Thiel isn’t so sure self-driving tech is a good investment >>
* Tech companies face scrutiny from Congress over data sharing >>
* New AFM Technique Reveals Piezoelectricity in Ferroelectric Materials >>
* Apple Is Not America’s Favorite Tech Company >>
* An Artificial Intelligence Just Found 56 New Gravitational Lenses >>
* October Launch Trifecta From Florida Cleared As Spacex Conducts Static Fire Engine Test For Oct. 30 Koreasat Liftoff >>
* Comets Detected in Alien Solar System for First Time –“In Its Early Era of Extreme Bombardment?” >>
* Galaxies Take Wobbly Path Around Clusters, Surprising Scientists >>
* An Interstellar Visitor? >>
* How Was the Moon Formed? >>
* Who Owns the Moon? | Space Law & Outer Space Treaties >>
* Vodafone’s NBN plans may include voice-over-WiFi, virtual landlines >>
* Walmart is testing out shelf-scanning robots in 50 stores >>
* The making of TED-Ed’s first 360° animation >>
* There’s an Apple-like acquisition trend in the self-driving car space >>
* Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills >>
* More Kiwis ordering in as apps like Uber Eats’ popularity soars >>
* Could this compound offer pain relief without addiction? >>
* Computer beats ‘Captcha’ security test designed to separate man and machine >>
* Marijuana linked to BETTER sexual performance and higher libido >>
* Three in four reptiles perish because they cannot escape pain and hunger in a captive environment >>
* Russia test fires huge ‘Satan Two’ ballistic missile that can carry 12 nuclear warheads and wipe out Britain or Texas in ONE devastating strike amid huge military drills >>
* Instagram adds SUPERZOOM feature that will automatically turn videos into dramatic close-ups >>
* Fossilized feathers reveal tiny dinosaur that roamed China 130 million years ago had ‘bandit mask’ and looked like a ‘RACCOON mixed with a turkey’ >>
* Nissan tests fully driverless cars on the streets of Tokyo ahead of their launch in 2020 >>
* Solar-powered machine could let astronauts make their own water and oxygen from MOON ROCKS >>
* Space changes how your brain thinks and it starts right away >>
* 3D Map of Mouse Neurons Reveals Complex Connections >>
* Would you fit solar panels to your phone? £110 expandable solar-powered ‘paper’ could charge your handset in just 2 hours >>
* The X3 Ion Engine Test Break Thrust Records >>
* Video Friday: Rocket RoboBee, Willow Garage, and Caltech’s Cassie >>
* Lawmakers propose bill to make make smart devices more secure >>
* Amazon’s $18 billion cloud business continues to crush Microsoft and Google — here’s the latest scorecard for the cloud war >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 October 2017
* Bloodhound preps for land speed record with 200MPH test run >> >>
* Where Are All the Intelligent Aliens? Maybe They’re Trapped in Buried Oceans >>
* Waymo goes to Michigan to test its self-driving cars in the snow >>
* We may have just seen the first comet from another solar system >>
* The Vanadium Redox-Flow Battery >>
* Building A Space Telescope That Could Directly Observe Planets Around Alpha Centauri >>
* Uber’s multi-destination feature makes riding with friends easier >>
* Daimler’s new electric heavy-duty truck has 220 miles of range >>
* Toyota sees traditional gas engines phased out of its line by the 2040s >>
* Apple’s Machine Learning Engine Could Surface Your Iphone’s Secrets >>
* Your sense of smell changes throughout the day >>
* Ditch the remote: New TV shows and movies now casting via Google Home >>
* Scientists send photons 2,170 miles towards a satellite to confirm it behaves as both a particle and a wave >>
* CRISPR gene editing technology freely available for agricultural research >>
* Exponential industrialization of space is more important than combat lasers and hypersonic fighters >>
* Android 8.1 preview unlocks your Pixel 2 camera’s AI potential >>
* Brain-zap therapy may throw people with depression into a rage >>
* Sterilised silk from moths could repair damaged spinal cords >>
* ‘Ugly’ 16ft-long dinosaur found with 2.5-inch teeth tore through food like scissors 80 million years ago >>
* Camouflage Plumage Patterns Offer Clue to Dinosaur’s Habitat >>
* Robots will have IQ of 10,000 be 100 TIMES more intelligent than human in 30 years, SoftBank >>
* Smog Casts a Shadow on China’s Solar Farms >>
* Solar car to recharge its batteries from sun’s rays >>
* Results from first million cells for the project for comprehensive map all human cells >>
* Dwave Quantum machine goes in search of the Higgs boson >>
* Killing off cells that refuse to die on their own will be powerful for antiaging >>
* Honda Sports EV concept a blast from the past – but does it have a future? >>
* Google’s parent company Alphabet beats on earnings >>
* Super Mario Odyssey Review: An Absolute Delight >>
* Two-factor authentication codes could get replaced by physical objects, study finds >>
* Yann LeCun chats about super-intelligent AI and the future of virtual assistants >>
* Meet The High Schooler Shaking Up Artificial Intelligence >>
* Samsung sketches show another foldable phone concept >>
* Why foldable phones have no chance at succeeding >>
* Boeing builds towards its first space taxi test >>
* Walmart tests shelf-scanning robots in 50-plus stores >>
* Why are we so bad at producing the right flu vaccines? >>
* Facial recognition may start ruining your chance to skip school >>
* Saudi Arabia Becomes First Nation To Grant Citizenship To Humanoid Robot >>
* 5 Essential Hints to Improve Millimeter-wave Network Analysis >>
* Instagram’s 3-second ‘Superzoom’ videos are the new Boomerang >>
* Scientists weigh life >>
* Telemedicine Is Forcing Doctors To Learn ‘webside’ Manner >>
* Paleoclimate Research Current Climate Change Unparalleled Over the Last 100 Million Years >>
* Toyota’s Concept-i Walk offers rolling personal mobility >>
* AT&T’s Netgear mobile hotspot promises twice the speed of LTE >>
* Let your car tell you what it needs >>
* NASA Tests Powerful Engine That Will Take Astronauts into Deep Space >>
* Enormous Dark-Matter Density at Galaxy Cluster Cores-“Hints Existence of Unknown Physics” >>
* NASA’s Astronaut Twins Study Shows How Spaceflight Changes Gene Expression >>
* Super Mario Odyssey is a masterpiece of twists and turns >>
* Amazon’s new security camera lets you keep a close eye on package deliveries >>
* How to Apply for a Job You’re Overqualified For >>
* Verizon will allow 4K video streaming for $10 extra a month >>
* Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to grant citizenship to a robot >>
* How the Air Force planned to put men on the moon >>
* New DNA base editors advance towards curing cystic fibrosis and mutation diseases >>
* RNA editing with CRISPR-Cas13 >>
* India as No. 1 >>
* Amazon Key is Silicon Valley at its most out-of-touch >>
* Oak Ridge teams get $10.5 million to try to make quantum algorithms work on near term architectures >>
* Einstein’s Hidden ‘Formula’ for Happiness Sells for $1.5 Million >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 October 2017
* Amazon Key Opens the Door to In-home Deliveries >>
* Amazon’s new security camera lets you keep a close eye on package deliveries >>
* Machine learning used to surpass MELD in assessing liver disease >>
* MIT students fortify concrete by adding recycled plastic >>
* New Gene-Editing ‘Pencil’ Erases Disease-Causing Errors >>
* Honda’s Sports EV Concept puts an AI assistant in the passenger seat >>
* How artificial intelligence could help spies do their jobs >>
* Ten-year study finds loneliness and self-centeredness appear to be mutually reinforcing >>
* CRISPR, the Future of Life Science Research But Still Much to Learn >>
* Saudi Arabia will build $500 billion high tech megacity called NEOM >>
* These Are The Ethical Dilemmas We Face As AI Takes Over Our Lives >>
* Bill Gates: Polio will be eradicated this year >>
* This robot vacuum with WiFi is an excellent value >>
* Tim Cook talks iPhone X shortage >>
* Tesla, Apple and Google Scrambling for Graphite Supplies >>
* 2 meters wall of new UBC concrete withstood nearly triple the strongest quake ever recorded >>
* Giant exomoon could be Neptune to Saturn size >>
* Robot bees can now dive in and out of water using tiny combustible rockets >>
* Stream directly from your iPhone to your cochlear implant >>
* Discover how learning data science could help boost your career >>
* Space-Based Test Proves Light’s Quantum Weirdness >>
* Space travel causes genes to behave like FIREWORKS, early results from NASA’s Twin Study reveal >>
* A Start-Up Wants to Calm You Down with a Cardiac Drug You Pop Like a Mint >>
* A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995 >>
* Space engine for Mars missions shatters thrust record >>
* Scientists create an AI that can pick out a voice in a crowd with 90% accuracy >>
* Guns getting improved sensors and targeting for anti-drone defense >>
* China details plans through 2050 – health, AI, sharing economy and more >>
* Making oxygen and fuel more efficiently on Mars with Plasmas >>
* IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ computing architecture will speed up computers by 200 times >>
* IBM in memory computing with 1 million phase change memory devices is 200 times faster than regular computing >>
* Moon by 1-Ring: The Worlds First Levitating Camera >>
* Holy Grail of intrachip microcooling 1000 watts per square centimeter achieved >>
* Salt water resistant rice can boost harvest by nearly 20 per cent >>
* DJI shows off its take on a simple ‘license plate’ reader for drones >>
* Why Human-Controlled, Force-Multiplying Robots Are the Future of Work on Earth >>
* New Graphene Sensor is Less Noisy, More Sensitive >>
* Marius Hills and a Hole in the Moon >>
* Did Tipping Point of Human Species Impact Begin With Nuclear Bomb Tests? >>
* NASA: Mars Curiosity To Resume Drilling for Signs of Microbial Life at Gale Crater Site >>
* Hisense’s 100-inch 4K Laser TV can be yours for $9,999 >>
* Probing General Relativity with Neutron Stars >>
* A Comet Favorite Whips by the Sun This Week as Scientists Watch >>
* Try these 10 awesome virtual-reality apps for Google Daydream View >>
* The Future Of Ad Agencies Might Not Be Advertising At All >>
* Microsoft ceases production of the Kinect >>
* Turn one cell type into another while skipping huge step >>
* Blue Planet II: The secrets behind the BBC One series >>
* Tracking The Cost Of Gene Therapy >>
* Mind-Reading A.I. Might Understand Our Brains Before We Do, Says Scientist >>
* Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens >>
* The headband that makes you smarter: US military reveals a bizarre device that increases learning by 40% – and it could be commonly used by 2022 >>
* Robert Scoble denies sexual misconduct claims, suggesting accusers motivated by ‘peer pressure’ >>
* Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door >>
* These powerful gene-editing tools might one day treat thousands of diseases >>
* Think you can tell a human from a robot? Here are some of the smartest chatbots that have conversations >>
* The downfall of Kinect: Why Microsoft gave up on its most promising product ever >>
* This free app lets you play incredible-looking PC games on any Mac computer >>
* Rocket Lab crew invests in agritech startup, transfers ownership to the US >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 October 2017
* CRISPR’d pigs could produce low-fat bacon >>
* Millions of years ago, hollow trees literally tore themselves apart to grow >>
* Elon Musk is worried about people who talk of “AI gods” >>
* Stephen Hawking’s Thesis Is So Popular It Crashed Cambridge’s Website >>
* India Warily Eyes AI >>
* Gmail adds support for third-party add-ons >>
* Family fun with your Google Assistant on Google Home and phones >>
* Google Assistant gets fun with 50 new family games, activities, and stories >>
* Tactile soft sensor can turn anything into a controller >>
* Tesla’s Solar Roof tiles are out… and OMG >>
* This 8K VR headset blows the Oculus and Vive out of the water >>
* Scientists use HTC Vive controllers to operate this rescue robot like a puppet >>
* Sad News, Dolphins Get Alzheimer’s Disease, Too >>
* New Study Links Conspiracy Theorists With A Mental Disorder >>
* An AI has learned how to pick a single voice out of a crowd >>
* Artificial intelligence tells nightmare-inducing tales of terror >>
* Google’s AI binge watches more than 57,000 YouTube clips to learn how humans behave >>
* World’s first microchip made in 1958 to sell for £455,000 >>
* How we could make oxygen on Mars, plus fuel to get home >>
* India Gears Up for Second Moon Mission >>
* Google Worked With Intel on a custom AI Chip For Its Pixel Phones >>
* The Lure of a Fully Decentralized Internet >>
* Associative memory AI finds connections between people and things and detects fraud >>
* Google Lens is rolling out to first-generation Pixel phones >>
* Google launches PayPal-like online payment system >>
* IBM casts Watson as the brains behind IoT >>
* A smart city in China tracks every citizen and yours could too >>
* People with the personality disorder are better at making pragmatic choices for the greater good >>
* Robotic underwater miners can go where humans can’t >>
* Small RNA could be breakthrough cancer treatment with a cancer kill switch >>
* Preparations for nuclear armed B52 to go back to Cold War Readiness >>
* MIT neuroscientists build case for new theory of memory formation ‘ >>
* Small cities face greater impact from automation >>
* US Air Force give Spacex another $40.7 million for Raptor Engine development >>
* Astronomy Picture of the Day; Where Your Elements Came From >>
* Transparent Solar Technology >>
* A Full-Bodied Red, With Notes of…Ultrasound? >>
* Expanding Universes –View Stephen Hawking’s Ph.D Thesis Now Available Online >>
* Average Americans Are Giving Away Less Money And It’s A Big Problem >>
* No, We Won’t All Be Freelancers In The Future Of Work >>
* Americans Are Retiring Later, Dying Sooner and Sicker In-Between >>
* NASA Seeks Cost-Cutting Changes in Design of WFIRST Mission >>
* Mars Rover Curiosity Tests Rock Drill After 10-Month Wait >>
* ISS Astronauts Operating Remote Robots Show Future of Planetary Exploration >>
* How AI Helps The Intelligence Community Find Needles In The Haystack >>
* A Deep Data Dive for Gravitational Lenses >>
* The 2017 Virtual Reality Conference and Expo Schedule >>
* An AI God Will Emerge –“Replacing Our Concept of the Divine” >>
* Google training AI to understand human actions with movie clips >>
* ‘Daydreaming’ brain network helps us perform routine tasks >>
* New Theory of Molecular Evolution –“We Can Now Predict Evolutionary Divergence” >>
* EcoAlert: China Shuts Down Up to 40% of Its Factories in Unprecedented Fight Against Pollution >>
* Star Wars VR Tickets From The VOID Are Selling Fast >>
* A Journey Into the Chicxulub Impact Crater –Death of an Epoch 66 Million Years Ago >>
* A New Theory Explains Why the Universe Is Three Dimensional >>
* Energy and ideas at Collaborating for MIT’s Future >>
* Spacex Keeps Lining Up Covert Military Launches >>
* Primer helps governments and corporations monitor and understand the world’s information >>
* The Rise Of VR/AR/MR In Enterprise And The Workplace >>
* I research and develop AI — and it’s never going to change the world if it’s regulated >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 October 2017
* Researchers demonstrate ‘mind-reading’ brain-decoding tech >>
* Superaccurate GPS Coming to Smartphones in 2018 >>
* Making wearable MRI >>
* Off-Grid Electricity Projects Are Starved for Funds >>
* Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens >>
* After the end of the startup era >>
* Spacex Falcon Heavy should launch in the next 37 days >>
* Low Level AI specialists make $300K-500K and top names make Pro Athlete money >>
* Hololens tech used in bowel cancer surgery >>
* Paths to superfast 3D Chips >>
* Early Earth Microfossils Reveal Critical Shift from Microbes to Complex Life >>
* Netflix is raising $1.6B in debt as its content costs balloon >>
* Researchers reveal how stem cells make decisions >>
* Googles Calico Labs is rechecking and rebuilding life extension ideas from the ground up >>
* Survey: one in four IT workers are worried that their skills could become obsolete >>
* When Artificial Intelligence Meets Actual Life >>
* Facebook tests split News Feed that keeps friends front and center >>
* Cray is bringing its supercomputers to Microsoft Azure >>
* US Navy Hypervelocity projectiles tests tripled range of 5 inch guns and with superaccuracy >>
* Star Trek: Discovery Sticks to Its Strengths and Expands its Universe >>
* Earthquake-Predicting Algorithm Is the Hero We Need >>
* Is Anyone Not Switching Sides In Star Wars: The Last Jedi? >>
* The Factory Where Robots Build Robots >>
* ‘Pay with Google’ launches worldwide to speed up online checkouts on Android devices >>
* Can robots feel guilty? Answer reveals 3 parts of mental life >>
* Chronic back pain stem cell treatment could cut need for opioids >>
* Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction >>
* Brain scans suggest this therapy eases alcohol cravings >>
* A world where cameras are always on may make us less human >>
* FBI Director claims the agency couldn’t access nearly 7,000 devices this year because of encryption >>
* Revealed: The secret Netflix codes you can use to unlock DOZENS of hidden movies and shows >>
* Why you should live closer to work: 20 minutes extra commuting per day is equivalent to a 19% pay cut when it comes to job satisfaction >>
* Trials begin of driverless pods that could be used alongside night buses in Cambridge >>
* Transgender fish is captured changing sex in unprecedented detail for BBC’s Blue Planet II >>
* Astrophysicist Leads a Tour of the “Zoomable Universe” >>
* E-cigarettes may cause inflammatory lung diseases: Study >>
* Xbox One is becoming compatible with 13 select original Xbox games on October 24 >>
* Bill Gates and Steve Jobs shared a surprising philosophy about tech — and it should have been a big red flag >>
* Watch this amazing time-lapse showing how ships get through the Panama Canal >>
* Cisco scoops up BroadSoft for $1.9 billion to boost communications tools portfolio >>
* NASA joins a host of nations and companies that want to go to the lunar surface >>
* CBS has renewed Star Trek: Discovery for a second season >>
* Giant robot fight organizers say next step is giant robot fighting league >>
* Why do people keep giving Magic Leap money? >>
* Nintendo’s about to debut a huge new Mario game — here’s everything we know >>
* Microsoft has had Apple’s new face-scanning feature for years, and it works great >>
* Google built a new Trojan Horse to get inside every aspect of your life >>
* China’s trillion-dollar plan for world domination >>
* Adobe’s New Video Editing Tool Looks Incredible (And A Bit Unsettling) >>
* Stress Is Making You Micromanage, Which Is Making Everything Worse >>
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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 October 2017
* Elon Musk’s Boring Company gets permission to dig a 10-mile tunnel in Maryland >>
* Google officially flips on Project Loon in Puerto Rico >>
* Apple and AT&T activate LTE Band 8 to give iPhone users in Puerto Rico cellular service by Loon Balloon >>
* Tesla reportedly lands deal to build an EV factory in Shanghai >>
* AdHawk’s Tiny Sensors Could Enable Much Smaller VR Headsets And AR Glasses >>
* Levitating food could soon be floating straight into your mouth >>
* Church that Worships AI God May Be the Way of the Future >>
* Meet the robot that knows KUNG FU >>
* IBM simulates 56 qubit quantum computer which is beyond 49 qubit limit >>
* Space High Ground is better than Hypersonic missiles or new stealth bombers >>
* Samsung Working on Dual Device Charging Pad that will work with both Magnetic Inductive and Resonant Methods >>
* People With Vertigo Find Relief Through Nerve-Stimulating Implant >>
* Adobe is training AI to be a better photo and video editor than you >>
* When you get a stitch in your side, what’s really going on? >>
* NASA scientists just streamlined the search for Earth-like planets >>
* 2 Million IoT Devices Enslaved By Fast-Growing BotNet >>
* New York City ordered to share code for DNA evidence software >>
* What Mongolian Nomads Teach Us About The Digital Future >>
* What can a 24-megapixel selfie camera do for you? >>
* The Way The World Ends: Not With A Bang But A Paperclip >>
* Become fluent in Arduino for less than $30 >>
* Extremely Rare Case: Man’s Artificial Hip Infected with ‘Rabbit Fever’ >>
* The Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist >>
* “Planet Earth Report” –Lithium is the New Oil to Nuclear-Electromagnetic-Pulse Threat and UFO Mystery >>
* “It’s Something Completely New, Something Previously Unknown to Science” –9.7 Million-Year-Old Teeth Found in Germany Could Reshape Human History >>
* Blue Origin Conducts First Test of BE-4 Engine >>
* Good News Everyone! There Are Fewer Deadly Undiscovered Asteroids Than We Thought >>
* Fast Measuring of Fuel Cell ‘Printing’ will enable economical mass production >>
* “Blue Planet II”: the series (and trailer) >>
* Scientists reverse aging in human cell lines and give theory of aging a new lease of life >>
* Researchers Discover Why Our Metabolism Slows Down As We Age >>
* World’s First Human Head Transplant Will Take Place in December >>
* Does Artificial Intelligence Need More Innate Machinery? >>
* Deep Learning & Robotics >>
* Mars has twisted magnetic ‘tail’: Scientists >>
* Couples therapist says ‘the one’ doesn’t exist — and convincing ourselves otherwise leads to trouble >>
* Economists askingn: what happens to economy if artificial intelligence starts generating original thought? >>
* “Unique in the Solar System”–NASA Detects Mars’ Invisible Tail from “Fossil” Magnetic Fields >>
* Robert Scoble resigns from Transformation Group after sexual harassment allegations >>
* Air-Breathing Aqueous Sulfur Flow Battery for breakthrough ultralow cost energy storage >>
* A sneak peak at radical future user interfaces for phones, computers, and VR >>
* Google’s first custom smartphone chip, transferring neural networks across languages – and more >>
* Take a look at Apple’s first ‘Town Square,’ its most beautiful retail store yet >>
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* Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce A.I. Talen >>
* Tesla Plans Factory In China, Discounts Insurance For Self-Driving US Cars >>
* Scientists Are Rewriting The History Of Photosynthesis >>
* Air traffic controllers may get a break from non-stop drone reports >>
* Windows 10 now includes anti-cheat protection for games >>
* Wireless charging will make drones always ready to fly >>
* Netflix and BINGE! Streaming site reveals its most speedily-watched shows >>
* VR Surgical Training Platform Osso Wins US Dept. Of Education’s EdSim Prize >>
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* First Moon colonists could be molemen living giant 50km cave >>
* A home test kit may let you diagnose endometriosis years earlier >>
* Moving machinery using mind power alone >>
* Is Amazon planning to TRACK its workers? Patent filed by the firm reveals designs for ultrasonic wristbands that monitor performance >>
* Entirely automated giant 3D printing and robotics rocket factory >>
* Giving Away Billions as Fast as They Can >>
* Bill Gates will invest more than $1 billion in public schools — but he’ll have to learn from Mark Zuckerberg’s mistake >>
* $6 TRILLION INVESTMENT CHIEF: The next recession is years away >>
* The Air Force is testing new weapons tech on its F-22 stealth fighter >>
* Yoga + Aerobics Doubles Heart Benefits >>
* It’s getting harder to be optimistic >>
* New graphene nano-ribbons lend sensors unprecedented sensitivity >>
* Breakthrough in ultra-fast data processing at nanoscale >>
* New machine learning system can automatically identify shapes of red blood cells >>
* Your computer has no idea what you’re feeling—that needs to change >>
* Gene editing in the brain gets a major upgrade >>
* Liquid metal discovery ushers in new wave of chemistry and electronics >>
* Ocean Life Likely to Survive 6th Mass Extinction –“But With Fewer Species” >>
* Robotic Asteroid Mining: Bootstrapping the Solar System Economy >>
* Meltwater From Glaciers May Have Flowed on Ancient Mars >>
* Space Station Astronauts Are Taking a Spacewalk Today: Watch It Live >>
* Bigelow And Ula Are Sending A Habitat To Lunar Orbit By 2022 >>
* Carbon Nanotubes Make Big Push in Plasmonic Circuits >>
* Does Age Discrimination in Tech Start at 40? >>
* We Need Computers with Empathy >>
* Spacex BFR and developing the high ground is the geopolitical game changer >>
* Using US advantages over North Korea which is one hundred times less than the Soviets >>
* Your memories are less accurate than you think >>
* Bugs are buzzing off, and that’s very bad >>
* MasterCard has finally realized that signatures are obsolete and stupid >>
* 3.5 million fewer Americans have health insurance since Trump became president >>
* Adobe’s Scribbler AI automatically colorizes any portrait >>
* Video games for your dog are finally here >>
* Galactic Gardening Can Relieve Stress in Space >>
* The best plug-in smart outlet >>
* Vodafone’s introducing a zero-rating scheme too >>
* BBC to Reinvent Programming With AI Assistance >>
* Elon’s Musk Air Freshener Makes Your Car Smell Like a Billion Dollars >>
* On the Google Book Scanning Project and the Library We Will Never See >>
* NASA study will help identify potentially habitable planets >>
* What washing dishes, driving a truck and working in a cemetery taught me about the power of ‘blue-collar’ software >>
* Intel and Amazon partner on voice recognition tech >>
* Gene circuit switches on inside cancer cells, triggers immune attack >>
* Disney’s ‘Star Wars: Jedi Challenges’ AR headset is going to be one of the hottest tech toys this year >>
* Elon Musk gets go-ahead for first segment of underground Hyperloop route from New York to DC >>
* Google’s quantum computing plans threatened by IBM curveball >>
* DNA Techniques Could Transform Facial Recognition Technology >>
* Would YOU fly on a plane with ‘superbendy’ wings? NASA tests bizarre design it says could boost fuel efficiency >>
* Mars has a TAIL: NASA mission discovers ‘twisted magnetotail’ unlike any other in the solar system >>
* Return of the Mac: Updated mini version of the Apple fan favourite is on the way, according to email from CEO Tim Cook >>
* Spacewalk scare as astronauts replacing blurry camera on Space ordered back inside after ‘lifeline’ tether found to be frayed and backup jetpack malfunctions >>
* The ‘super hero’ swimming robot that could help clean up Fukushima by mapping the nuclear disaster zone and finding radioactive waste >>
* Richard Branson’s artificial reef created features 80 foot steel sculpture of sea monster >>
* ‘Assassin’ molecules drive cancer cells to self-destruct >>
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* F.D.A. Approves Second Gene-Altering Treatment for Cancer >>
* Smart Power Electronic Converters May Help Stabilize the Grid >>
* Turning the Optical Fiber Network into a Giant Earthquake Sensor >>
* Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer To The Singularity >>
* The Most Cringe-Inducing Surgical Robots from IEEE’s Intelligent Robots Conference >>
* Alphabet invests $1 billion in Lyft >>
* Toyota applies long range fuel cell tech to its latest minivan concept >>
* Ai Experts Want To End ‘black Box’ Algorithms In Government >>
* Dinosaur dung ‘fertilized the planet’ and helped larger animals move around the globe, study >>
* Computing and the Fermi Paradox: A New Idea Emerges—The Aliens Are All Asleep >>
* GDF15 gene related protein reduces weight in animals and is promising human obesity treatment >>
* Nanomedicine researchers target disease at the molecular level >>
* Octopus-Inspired Camouflage for Soft Robotics >>
* Elon Musk’s Boring company readies its second, poetic tunnel digger >>
* How to build the future: Talks from TED#Brightline >>
* New drug could be a functional ‘CURE’ for HIV by shutting down the ‘turbo engine’ that drives the virus’s spread >>
* How ‘virtual fences’ are helping to stop baboon raids in South Africa >>
* Leading brain-training game improves memory and attention better than competing method >>
* Our Education Efforts Are Evolving >>
* Stable Lava Tube Could Provide A Potential Human Habitat On The Moon >>
* More Evidence Presented In Defense Of Planet 9 >>
* Mosquitoes evolved to fly away with blood—without you ever noticing; The secret is in their flight. >>
* “Still a Puzzle” –Organics-Rich Region on Ceres Found to Be Native to the Dwarf Planet (VIDEO) >>
* S.S. Gene Cernan: Space Station Resupply Ship Named for Last Man on the Moon >>
* Neutron star collisions may have created most of the gold in the universe >>
* China aims to outspend the world in artificial intelligence, and Xi Jinping just green lit the plan >>
* Google’s Machine Learning Software Has Learned to Replicate Itself >>
* Toyota’s new self-driving cars will chat with drivers >>
* NASA’s Robotic Psyche Mission To Communicate Using Lasers –“Think of It As a Telescope at the Core of an Extinct Planet” >>
* Amazon’s largest wind farm yet is up and running in Texas >>
* Gene therapy for advanced lymphoma gets FDA approval >>
* The brain training game that can help people understand speech in noisy places, and it is THREE TIMES more effective than wearing a hearing aid >>
* We evolved to be JEALOUS: Scientists pinpoint envy in the brain of monkeys >>
* The mass extinction that might never have happened >>
* Is an extra world hidden on the edge of our solar system? Evidence that Planet Nine DOES exist piles up >>
* How ‘virtual fences’ are helping to stop baboon raids in South Africa >>
* A cancer treatment that’s part of ‘a big new field of medicine’ just got approved >>
* Scientists think relationships that start online may have a huge advantage over relationships that start in real life >>
* Scientists Just Found The Perfect Spot To Build An Underground Colony On The Moon >>
* AI-powered Pholio hard drive is an offline alternative to Google Photos >>
* The polity that is New Zealand >>
* MongoDB shares pop 25% in its public market debut >>
* Lifeliqe Wants To Turn Schools Into VR Development Centers >>
* The Social Matrix: How The Cloud Can Activate A Billion Virtual Reality Users >>
* What AI Can Really Do Right Now >>
* Discovery of 50km cave raises hopes for human colonisation of moon >>
* Coda is a next-generation spreadsheet designed to make Excel a thing of the past >>
* Solar-powered Noe Hill Smarthome is an eco-friendly dream in San Francisco >>
* Butterfly wings inspire a better way to absorb light in solar panels >>
* BBC will use machine learning to cater to what audiences want to watch >>
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