Futureseek Daily Link Review; 1 December 2017

* Could the US Stop Nuclear Weapons? >>
* A.I. uses cars to predict neighborhood’s politics >>
* Is the Hyperloop headed for the windy city? >>

* Elon Musk’s Boring Co. to bid on Chicago airport transit link >>
* Google lets developers find 3D assets without leaving VR >>
* Jim Beam’s AI-powered Assistant Pours You Shot After Shot >>

* Through location-based ads, anyone can track your movements for just $1,000 >>
* Weekly Space Hangout – Nov. 29, 2017: Dean Regas’ “100 Things To See In The Night Sky” >>
* Perovskites Challenge Quantum Dots as Champion Emitters of Light >>

* AWS re:INVENT 2017 >>
* Amazon launches AWS Cloud9, a browser-based IDE for cloud developers >>
* WeWork has big plans for Alexa for Business >>
* Amazon wants Alexa to be your new office assistant >>
* Amazon’s AI camera helps developers harness image recognition >>
* AWS adds dedicated analytics service for IoT data >>
* Alexa is arriving in Australia and New Zealand early next year >>
* Amazon adds in-skill purchases to Alexa >>
* AWS launches translation services >>

* GM to launch self-driving vehicles in big U.S. cities by 2019 >>
* Equator Trap May Complicate Search for Alien Life >>
* China completing small floating and submersible nuclear reactors around 2020 >>

* Velodyne LiDAR helps self-driving cars operate at highway speeds >>
* SpaceX’s Planned Giant Rocket Could Chase Down Interstellar Asteroid >>
* Scientists Are Using a Particle Accelerator to Unwrap a Mummy’s Secrets >>
* How Elon Musk Brought the World’s Biggest Battery to Rural Australia >>

* US hypersonic missiles more advanced but Russia maybe closer to deployment >>
* GM Demos Robocars in San Francisco >>
* 109 Microwave Towers Bring the Internet to Remote Alaska Villages >>

* Google and UCSB achieve 3D integration of Superconducting qubits >>
* 3D Printing’s Versatility Enables Medical Innovation >>
* MTC Develops Simulation App to Revolutionize Design for Additively Manufactured Parts >>

* Artificial “Swarm Intelligence” Says Vladimir Putin Will be TIME’s Person of the Year >>
* New nanomaterial, quantum encryption system could be ultimate defenses against hackers >>
* These Cutting-Edge Farms Are Pioneering Ways To Reduce Their Water >>

* Economies of China, USA, India from 2017 to 2030 >>
* Comcast will charge for internet fast lanes when net neutrality is repealed >>
* Two New Simulators Tease Future of Quantum Computing >>

* Holiday Gift Guide 2017 >>
* Mozilla’s open source voice recognition tool nears human-like accuracy >>
* American Airlines panic: Every pilot was allowed to take Christmas vacation >>

* MIT’s AIM Photonics Academy looks to expand >>
* Bomb on Board Wi-Fi Network Causes Turkish Airlines Flight To Be Diverted >>
* Facebook will temporarily disable a tool that lets advertisers exclude people of color >>

* Get local help with your Google Assistant >>
* This tent-like machine turns your food scraps into cooking gas >>
* New Vaccine and Drug Trials Could Buoy Fight Against HIV >>

* Microsoft’s Edge browser is now available for Android and iOS >>
* Prepare for the New Paywall Era >>
* This robotic arm literally sucks at lifting up >>

* This kller whale-inspired watercraft is the aquatic equivalent of aerobatic airplanes >>
* Robots Made from Algae, Powered by Magnets Can Kill Cancer, Swim Through Blood >>
* Facebook Should Launch a Cryptocurrency >>

* Rugged New Computers Could Lead to First Trip to Venus since 1985 >>
* Two Melting Glaciers Could Decide The Fate Of Our Coastlines >>
* Verizon’s 5G internet is coming in 2018, but it’s not what you think it is >>

* Take to the skies at Disrupt Berlin >>
* Google’s new data-tracking app could save money on your mobile bill >>
* Nasdaq Plans To Offer Bitcoin Futures In Early 2018 >>

* NASA is gearing up a new rover for a mission to find evidence of life on Mars >>
* Monitoring activity in the geosynchronous belt >>
* BBC launches VR division with ISS spacewalk experience >>

* Pixelmator’s AI-driven Photoshop rival is ready for your Mac >>
* HTC’s latest VR investments include a brain control startup >>
* Tetris’ is coming to Facebook’s Messenger >>

* Hyperconvergence gathers speed in 2018 >>
* Why 2018 will be the year of the WAN >>
* Wi-Fi in 2018: What will the future look like? >>

* The Last Jedi arrives, plus 26 other movies coming this December >>
* The Case for Not Being Born >>
* Air New Zealand’s hilarious new Christmas greeting makes fun of the country’s accent >>

* Ozone Problematic for Biosignature Detection >>
* Oddly Behaving Blobs Beneath Earth’s Surface Finally Explained >>

* NASA Launches New Phase of 3D Habitat Challenge with $2 Million Prize >>
* China’s Dark-Matter Satellite Detects Strange, Unexpected Signal –“New Physical Phenomena Beyond Our Current Understanding” >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 November 2017

* DNA uses bases A,G,C,and T. Can be extended X,Y.. >>
* U.S. scientists take step toward creating artificial life >>

* Found! 72 Unseen Galaxies Found Hiding in Plain Sight >>
* Amazon’s AWS DeepLens is an AI camera for developers >>
* Associative memory AI aids in the battle against financial crime >>

* Microsoft’s Redmond HQ is getting a multi-billion dollar makeover >>
* AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games >>
* Controllable Cyborg Beetles for Swarming Search and Rescue >>

* Undoing Aging with Molecular and Cellular Damage Repair >>
* Earthworms are thriving in Martian(ish) soil >>
* Can’t wait for 5G? Don’t then, Gigabit LTE will be around for ages >>

* Bitcoin’s price is collapsing and people can’t trade because 2 big exchanges have crashed >>
* Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy >>
* Electric planes could be closer to reality than you think >>

* International Robot Exhibition 2017 >>
* Toyota’s humanoid robot helper mirrors its controller >>
* Researchers Have Created an AI System That Teaches Itself New Languages >>

* Oculus’ reworked VR interfaces will be ready to test in December >>
* Monkeys controlling robot arms with their minds show how brains can be reprogrammed >>
* Take a series of classes on machine learning taught by former Google engineers >>

* DUO: Connecting the home to the hospital >>
* Intel and Warner Bros. are teaming up to build in-cabin entertainment for autonomous cars >>
* Intel wants to splash advertising (and Batman) on the screens of self-driving cars >>

* The motion capture suit for DOGS >>
* A bacterium has been engineered to make ‘unnatural’ proteins >>
* VR headsets top 1 million for the first time in Q3 >>

* New 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts >>
* AI Goes Bilingual — Without a Dictionary >>
* Shonda Rhimes talks move from network TV to Netflix >>

* Toyota’s upgraded safety system detects pedestrians at night >>
* This Is How To Thrive In The Gig Economy >>
* The AI Guru Behind Amazon, Uber, and Unity Explains What AI Really Is >>

* Amazon Transcribe is a sophisticated transcribing service for AWS >>
* Amazon introduces an AWS graph database service called Amazon Neptune >>
* AWS adds Global Tables feature to share data across multiple geographies >>

* Facebook is testing a ‘breaking news’ tag for developing stories >>
* BBC iPlayer to host a ton of TV box sets this Christmas >>

* 800 million workers worldwide will lose their jobs to robots by 2030 >>
* Android creator Andy Rubin is taking leave from Essential after “inappropriate relationship” probe at Google is revealed >>
* Elon Musk’s Tunnel Through L.A. Just Happens To Go From His House To His Office >>

* 4 Strange New Ways to Compute >>
* First Spacex Falcon Heavy Launch slips to January 2018 >>
* Digital Big Brothers – China tripling surveillance cameras by 2020, UK and US also have mass surveillance >>

* Simultaneous Touchless Monitoring of Several Patients’ Vital Signs >>
* Medal predictions for Winter Olympics in February 2018 >>
* Battery Storage Will Offer Grid Support as Puerto Rico Recovers >>

* Interview on 5000 qubit quantum system and paths to general purpose quantum computers >>
* How We Could Explore That Interstellar Asteroid >>
* Physicists keep striking out in the search for dark matter >>

* Microsoft plans a major overhaul of its Redmond campus >>
* Why the YouTube of AR won’t be YouTube >>
* AJIT PAI’S SHELL GAME >>

* Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO more concerned with user experience than rival Tesla >>
* Jingle bells, IBM tells more staff it is D-day >>
* Samsung hired ‘The Piano’ composer to write a score for a movie about a washing machine >>

* Samsung picks up another AI firm to boost Bixby’s brains >>
* North Korea’s Latest Missile Test Puts The Entire Us In Range >>
* The Physics Behind The Strange Interstellar Asteroid ‘oumuamua >>

* Potential new baldness cure can regrow new hair and generate damaged skin >>
* Thinking About Saturn After Cassini >>
* Avengers Infinity War looks like it will deliver on the decade long buildup >>

* The Economics of Paid Parental Leave >>
* Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field >>
* Technology firms are an ‘existential threat to human race’ and have more influence on people than RELIGION >>

* Yeti mystery is finally solved: DNA evidence suggests ancient samples of the ‘abominable snowman’ belong to bears >>
* Rocket Lab to stream next month’s Electron launch over the internet >>
* Amazon founder Jeff Bezos interview from 1999 is pure gold >>

* SpaceX will fly cargo to the space station on a used Falcon 9 rocket, NASA confirms >>
* This Furby speaks Alexa and it’s horrifying >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 November 2017

* Google’s AI knows when a stranger is looking at your phone >>
* AWS launches new partner programs for networking and machine learning specialists >>
* Samsung is making it easier for color-blind people to watch TV >>

* 2 wingsuit flyers BASE jump into a plane in mid-air. >>
* Microsoft’s AI language app will give you a friend to practice Chinese with >>
* Could a lullaby written by an AI help you fall asleep? Robot-created tune claims to help cure insomnia >>

* Windows 10’s ‘Timeline’ continuity tool arrives soon for Insiders >>
* Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 experiment: Running apps in tabs >>
* Microsoft Windows ‘Sets,’ tabbed app interface that puts web browser everywhere >>

* Scientists create cyborg monkeys that can control robotic arms with thought >>
* The Mad Science of Creativity >>
* Bitcoin Just Passed $10,000. It’s Officially One of the World’s 30 Largest Currencies. >>

* Here’s When Android 8.0 Oreo Is Coming to Your Current Phone >>
* Waymo’s autonomous cars have driven 4 million miles >>
* Researchers create a light-based key distribution system for quantum encryption >>

* How a fiery matter-antimatter union may lead to limitless energy >>
* Analysis of global warming fix that is 100 times cheaper and technically simple >>
* Magnetically-Controlled Organic Microbots Could Change Medicine in the Next Decade >>

* Google just added a Finance tab to help you keep tabs on your finances >>
* SpaceX is now worth $21.5 billion >>
* Facebook prototypes Messenger Broadcast for businesses >>

* Far From Radio Interference, the Square Kilometre Array Takes Root in South Africa and the Australian Outback >>
* Velodyne Unveils Monster Lidar With 128 Laser Beams >>
* By 2020, upgrades to gravity wave detectors will detect one to two neutron star collisions per month >>

* Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality >>
* Super robot muscles for lifting 1000 times its own weight >>
* Not flowing water on Mars but flowing Sand >>

* What I Learned from the People who Built the Atom Bomb >>
* This Device Will Detect The Dangerous Chemicals In Your Tap Water >>
* Japanese bitcoin exchange bitFlyer is coming to the U.S >>

* Google offers real-time search data for news, images and video >>
* Schizophrenia may start in the womb >>
* Are scientists FINALLY on the verge of beating dementia? >>

* Newly Tested Parachute Could Land Cubesats Without Thrusters >>
* Every Time Lightning Strikes, Matter-antimatter Annihilation Happens Too >>
* The legal quagmire of creativity in artificial intelligence >>

* Mystery of Newly Detected Colossal Planets –“Some as Big as Stars” >>
* Watch the First 17 Minutes of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ in Space Early! >>
* Elon Musk: Say ‘Sweet Dreams,’ Humanity >>

* Bitcoin $10,000 milestone is very near >>
* Update on rail plans in China, ASEAN and across Russia to Europe >>
* Tech Breakthrough Could Transform The Oil Sector >>

* Japan approves two more nuclear reactors to restart >>
* You’d be surprised how often space junk falls out of the sky >>
* Volcanic eruptions are incredibly hard to predict. Here’s why. >>

* Is it possible to eat so much that your stomach explodes? >>
* Researchers use CRISPR to create the world’s tiniest tape recorder >>
* Daisy Ridley Charms Her Way Thru Q&A While Building LEGO Millennium Falcon >>

* Alexa developers can now personalize apps based on users voices >>
* The cult hit ‘Desert Bus’ make its triumphant return in virtual reality >>

* Apple launches a new YouTube channel offering device tutorials >>
* Airbnb’s split payments option is now available to all group travel >>
* Optimus Ride will provide self-driving vehicles to Boston community residents >>

* Mapping company Here buys ATS to boost its over-the-air tech >>
* MIT and Harvard create cheap artificial muscles with super strength >>

* China’s race for artificial-intelligence technology may give military edge over US >>
* North Korea fires new ballistic missile, South Korea says >>
* YouTube videos can now play directly inside your WhatsApp chats >>

* Increased activity at Area 51 may be sign of new B-21 stealth bomber being tested >>
* Scientists Race To Regrow Lost Knee Cartilage >>

* HDMI 2.1 can support 10K resolution, assuming devices ever catch up >>
* Future smartphones could fully charge in minutes with Samsung’s new battery technology >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 November 2017

* Watch NASA’s AI drone race a pro human pilot >>
* Breakthrough growing food on Mars, proves worms can reproduce in Martian soil >>
* Facebook to expand use of its AI to spot ‘suicidal intent’ in users >>

* Drones and smartphones help fight malaria in Tanzania >>
* A Mysterious Bacterium May Be a Critical Part of Cancer >>
* 5 Ways Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Engagement Is Groundbreaking >>

* Incredible wireless system allows doctors to monitor a patient’s heart using radio waves >>
* Amazon: Heat From Data Centers Will Be Used as a Furnace >>
* Hearing implant uses lasers to shoot sound into your ear >>

* AWS launches Amazon Sumerian to build AR, VR and 3D apps quickly >>
* NVIDIA’s AI will help GE speed up medical image processing >>
* Human pilot beats AI in drone race >>

* Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported >>
* This pillow may be the answer to acid reflux >>
* Someone made a remoteless alternative to the Boosted Board >>

* Japan is poised to flood the Pacific with one million tons of nuclear water contaminated by the Fukushima power plant >>
* India: 2 Billion-Year-Old Fossils of Earth’s Earliest Life Form Discovered >>
* Kiwi startup VigilAir launches ‘world-first’ drone security technology >>

* Top 10 Hot Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies >>
* Entertainment VR Investments Jump 79% In Second Half Of 2017 >>
* There’s a Periodic Table That Tells You How to Use All the Elements >>

* It’s been a tough year, so please try to ignore all of these robots we’ve been making that can do amazing things >>
* Shell will build 80 high-power EV charging stations across Europe >>
* Mobile application testing service HeadSpin launches from stealth >>

* Justices Ponder Need For Warrant For Cellphone Tower Data >>
* Apple projected to spend $4.2 billion annually on original content by 2022 >>
* Neural networks: Today, classifying flowers… tomorrow, Skynet maybe >>

* We’re killing the night, and that’s going to kill us. >>
* Bitcoin has another record as it passes $9400 and could reach $10,000 in days >>
* Step to fully decoding the biology of blood vessel growth which will help fix major medical problems >>

* Gene therapy to fix failing hearts works in pigs and will be tried in humans in 2018 >>
* Simulation Apps Bring STEM to Life >>
* How Blockchains Will Help Connect Billions to Electricity and Financial Services >>

* More detailed analysis of the global warming fix that is 100 times cheaper and technically simple >>
* Marines Plan New Test Flights for Battlefield Delivery Drones >>
* Mars Has a Tangled Magnetic Tail >>

* Avatar therapy ‘reduces power of schizophrenia voices’ >>
* Magnetically-Controlled Organic Microbots Could Change Medicine in the Next Decade >>
* Origami-like soft robot can lift 1000 times its weight >>

* Physicists See a Starkly Different Beginning to the Cosmos >>
* Evolution is as Much a Matter of Physics as Biology >>
* Elon Musk response to a viral video of a robot doing amazing acrobatic feats. >>

* AI brain implants that can change a person’s mood are tested on HUMANS by the US military >>
* Scientists develop artificial photosynthesis device for greener ethylene production >>

* The Coming Age of Killer Machines >>
* AWS launches Amazon Sumerian to build AR, VR and 3D apps quickly >>
* White House reportedly considering banning staff from using personal phones at work >>

* Sony’s Robot Dog “Aibo” Is Back With High-Tech Tricks >>
* The Internet Has Altered the Meaning of “Truth” and “Trust” >>
* Is there any health benefit to handstands? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 November 2017

* Talk with first-ever robot politician on Facebook Messenger >>
* The Next Mars Rover’s Wheels Won’t Get Torn Apart By The Red Planet >>
* ASEAN and India focus of global growth for next decade >>

* Jeff Bezos’ net worth surpasses 100 billion dollars >>
* Transportable solar powered EV charging station >>
* The ‘StingRay’ device that sweeps up data >>

* New species can develop in as little as TWO generations, according to a study >>
* Morning sickness in pregnancy blamed on protein in the placenta >>
* MIT Team Wins Mars City Design Contest for ‘Redwood Forest’ Idea >>

* Could a Rogue Nation Alter Clouds to Combat Warming? >>
* How humans became so smart: Huge dose of the ‘feel-good’ chemical dopamine may be responsible for our intelligence >>

* Elon Musk applies to expand his traffic beating LA tunnel across Los Angeles >>
* Apple buys augmented reality headset maker in $30m ‘iGlasses’ deal >>

* Russia military official claims mach 8 Zircon hypersonic missile is operational >>
* Using microrobots to diagnose and treat illness in remote areas of the body >>
* On-Orbit Satellite Servicing: The Next Big Thing in Space? >>

* Unearthing oxygen-starved bacteria might worsen climate change >>
* Personal CRISPR genetic experimentation >>
* Tissue engineering, replacement organs and regenerative medicine are getting friendlier regulations >>

* Tesla revolutionary electric semi-truck half the price experts expected with utter domination by 2025 >>
* Ford Debuts Plug-In Hybrid Cop Car >>
* Turn Your Clothes Into Health Trackers >>

* When Robots Invade The Kitchen >>
* 5 Wild Biotech Products That Will Touch Our Lives in the Near Future >>
* Samsung smart TVs gain Amazon Prime Music support >>

* The legal quagmire of creativity in artificial intelligence >>
* DARPA Aims to ‘Disrupt’ National Security Space Business >>
* If No One Owns the Moon, Can Anyone Make Money Up There? >>

* Your Heartbeat Can Tell You How Generous You Are >>
* Quantum encryption is now fast enough for voice calls >>
* $18m emergency mobile phone alarm system tested – six months early >>

* This New Invention Uses Smartphones to Help Treat Illness Affecting Millions >>
* Most Popular SSDs Are Down to Their Best Prices of the Year >>
* Russian ‘hulk’ drone that can lift 400lb payload and fly for up to eight hours >>

* Have astronomers solved the mystery of the ‘engine’ on Enceladus? >>
* The ‘mouthprint’ app that turns your phone into a SONAR detector to monitor lip movement as you speak to prove it really is you talking >>

* Researchers reveal ‘tape recorder’ made of MICROBES in breakthrough that could lead to a new generation of bacterial machines >>
* The ‘unhackable’ quantum messages that could stop cyber criminals from using super computers to steal data >>
* ‘Biohybrid’ machines size of red blood cell could soon deliver drugs to remote parts of the body >>

* Fears of a GLOBAL CRISIS after drug-resistant malaria hits Southeast Asia >>
* Smart label helping beat counterfeiters >>
* Bitcoin soars above $9,000 to new record high >>

* One Gene in Human Brain Differentiates Us From Other Primates –“We Have No Idea What It’s Doing There” >>
* Spacex heading to 40 launches per year without including Spacex internet satellite launches >>
* Head of Google talks AI, China, Robotics and Quantum computers >>

* Tom Baker returns to Dr Who to complete lost episode >>
* China is grabbing the solar battery EV future and transition could happen before 2030 >>
* At least 16 companies developing Deep Learning chips >>

* Graphcore AI chips are 100X times faster >>
* UK spy court ruled immune from judicial review – for now >>
* The World’s First Self-cleaning Sunglasses >>

* The Future Of Retail In The Age Of Amazon >>
* Approaching e-commerce investments in the age of Amazon >>
* Bmw Wants To Build Networks Of Elevated Cycling Paths >>

* EE’s next phone will be all glass and cost just over £100 >>
* What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind? Thoughts and feelings are generated ‘behind the scenes’ by non-conscious systems in our brains, scientists claim >>
* World’s deadliest sub’ can launch 20 nuclear warheads and destroy cities 6,000 miles away >>

* Avatar for schizophrenia patients perfectly mimics the threatening voices in their head so they can confront their torment face-to-face >>
* An AI might help identify missing children when they’re older >>
* Researchers Say New Species Are Evolving at an Unbelievable Rate >>

* UK and China joining the USA in the supercarrier club >>
* China starting construction of supercarrier with electromagnetic launch but using older heavier fighter jets >>
* To calm your emotions, get 15 minutes alone >>

* New trailers: The Incredibles 2, A Wrinkle in Time, and more >>
* My approach to using Git, without the headaches >>
* Life in Amazon warehouse revealed with timed toilet breaks and workers sleeping on their feet >>

* INTERNET OF THINGS 2017 REPORT: How its is improving lives to transform the world >>
* Here’s everything you need to know about blockchains, the ground-breaking tech that could be as disruptive as the internet >>
* Here’s how many people watched the original shows that Facebook is renewing for second seasons >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 November 2017

* Robotic device grips part of the heart to assist pumping from outside heart >>
* With Artificial Light, the World Gets 2 Percent Brighter Each Year >>
* NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Video on the first Interstellar Object >>

* Spacex dedicated tanker versions of BFS for orbital refueling business >>
* Take a fantastic 3D voyage through the brain with immersive VR system >>
* DARPA is engineering plants to act as biohazard sensors >>

* Love: Scientists say emotion evolved to allow ancestors to have more children >>
* The US net neutrality fight affects the whole world >>

* Tesla’s electric Semi truck starts at $150,000, reservations now live >>
* Scoring a touchdown with Google Home Mini >>
* AWS ramps up in AI with new consultancy services and Rekognition features >>

* 5 predictions for what life will be like in 2030 >>
* Cher nails the net neutrality debate in one excellent tweet >>
* Google’s Eric Schmidt Says People Want Dish-Washing Robots To Clean Up Kitchen >>

* Get ready for iPhone FOLD: Apple applies to patent radical ‘book’ device >>
* Fallout from a major nuclear disaster ‘would be no worse than living in London’ >>
* Inside 5 AR/VR Headsets >>

* Scientists engineer drug delivery device that treats glaucoma directly inside eye >>
* Scientists find key to regenerating blood vessels >>
* Tiny robots step closer to treating hard-to-reach parts of the body >>

* Toyota Gets Back Into Humanoid Robots With New T-HR3 >>
* Can Tech Moguls Cure What Ails Medicine? >>
* Beer in space: Budweiser makes plans for life on Mars >>

* Co-founder of unicorn InMobi is launching a bike-sharing startup in India >>
* Elon Musk has finished building the biggest battery in the world >>
* Samsung’s Galaxy S9 Will Appear At CES In January, Says Report >>

* Net Neutrality Explained and Defended in video >>
* F.C.C. Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality Worries Small Businesses >>
* Looming Net Neutrality Repeal Sparks BitTorrent Throttling Fears >>

* Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results >>
* Does Next-Gen TV spell doom for over-the-air DVR? >>
* YouTube boots 50 channels in attempt to clean up kids’ programming >>

* Variable compression engine will increase fuel efficiency by 27% >>
* Technological Species Could Have Arisen in Solar System Before Earth-Bound Life >>
* Hillary Clinton says America is ‘totally unprepared’ for the impact of AI >>

* Black Friday 2017 Deal: Elegoo Smart Robot Car Kit V3.0 >>
* Retailers’ Recipe for the Holidays: Big Sales; Fewer Seasonal Workers >>

* Operation IceCube; Will Antarctica’s Ice Reveal a New Physics of the Universe? >>
* These Streaks On Mars Could Be Flowing Sand, Not Water >>

* Firefox will soon flag sites that have been hacked >>
* Benjamin Liu: There is a dark side of artificial intelligence >>
* Night Being ‘Lost’ To Artificial Light >>

* Hydrogen-Powered Trains Are Coming to Germany in 2021 >>
* How Artificial Intelligence Is Making Nuclear Reactors Safer >>
* China’s New AI Police Station Won’t Have Humans >>

* A Cheap, Portable Skin Cancer Detector Has Won the Dyson Award >>
* This virtual cocktail glass wants to ‘turn’ water into wine >>
* This robot can help keep pig hearts beating by gently squeezing them >>

* How I Hacked 40 Websites in 7 minutes >>
* How to Detach Emotionally From Work >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 November 2017

* Walmart is testing a self-driving, floor-scrubbing robot >>
* FCC releases final draft of ‘Restoring Internet Freedom,’ which would not do that >>
* Wanted: AI That Can Spy >>

* Google stops secretly tracking cellular location info >>
* Safely and quickly distribute private enterprise apps with Google Play >>
* Apple could use machine learning to shore up LiDAR limitations in self-driving >>

* Apple acquired augmented reality headset startup Vrvana for $30M >>
* Tencent is first Asian company to top US$500 billion >>
* Next year’s iPhones could have ridiculously fast internet speeds >>

* To Build the World’s Smallest Atomic Clock, Trap a Nitrogen Atom in a Carbon Cage >>
* China sold 66,000 electric cars in October over quadruple the US level >>

* Scientists Program Remote-Controlled Nanobots to Kill Cancer >>
* Apple reveals self-driving car work in research paper >>
* Samsung plans new research center to keep pace in the AI wars >>

* Nasa will use shape shifting CHAINMAIL tyres on future rovers to survive the punishing terrains on alien planets >>
* Elongating your brain cells could ward off Alzheimer’s >>
* Fly-By of Interstellar Asteroid Portends Quadrillion Trillion More in Galaxy >>

* Tiny license plates could help us steer clear of our space junk >>
* These windows won’t shatter for anything >>
* Apple’s jaw-dropping ‘spaceship’ campus is open — take a look from above >>

* Eric Schmidt admits ‘very difficult’ for Google’s algorithm to separate fact from fiction in search results >>
* Ocean-covered planets may not be the places to search for life >>

* MIT’s DIY muon detector sniffs out cosmic particles >>
* MIT brainpower highlighted in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 lists for 2018 >>
* Physicists Find a Way Information Can Escape From Black Holes >>

* Young Again: How One Cell Turns Back Time >>
* Nothing you can do stops this code from watching you online >>

* Space Traffic Control (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Series) >>
* Uber data breach from 2016 affected 57 million riders and drivers >>
* Intel’s latest Core processors have serious security flaws >>

* Galactic Panspermia: Interstellar Dust Could Transport Life From Star To Star >>
* It Appears that Dark Energy May Not Actually Exist >>

* Oumuamua: Listening To An Interstellar Interloper >>
* Lunar Scientists Solve One of the Great Mysteries of the Moon’s Formation >>
* Loss of Net Neutrality will mean more overcharging but technological reckoning is coming >>

* Nanoscale Magnetic Circuits Expand Into Three Dimensions >>
* Singularity University Partners with Airbus on Mixed Reality Training >>

* Peeling Away Memory Chips >>
* 30+ years of US military bloat with some costs over ten times a reasonable level >>

* Reddit’s homepage has been covered in net neutrality protests over the past day >>
* The store of the future has self-driving floor scrubbers >>
* Google Play launches crazy Black Friday deals on games, music, TV, and books >>

* This cargo airline just bought two Boeing 747s online for $48 million >>
* Gearing up for the internet of things >>
* Did This Doctor Perform the First Human Head Transplant? >>

* Apple’s latest AI research explores the problem of mapping systems for self-driving cars >>
* The Fight Over Net Neutrality Is a Protection Racket >>

* This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries by Looking at One Brushstroke >>
* Behind the Scenes as NASA Tests the Most Powerful Rocket Ever >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 November 2017

* Buoy uses AI and machine learning to keep your water bills low >>
* DARPA Seeking AI That Learns All the Time >>
* AI spots art fakes by examining a single brushstroke >>

* Ai Can Help Hunt Down Missile Sites In China >>
* You can virtually inhabit Toyota’s new humanoid robot >>
* Amazon Launches a Cloud Service in a Secret region for the U.S. intelligence community >>

* Today, We May Learn How the FCC Plans to Destroy Net Neutrality >>
* If you want to see what America will be like if it ditches net neutrality, just look at Portugal >>
* FCC’s craven net neutrality vote announcement makes no mention of the 22 million comments filed >>

* Optical Cochlear Implant Turns Light Against Hearing Loss >>
* Nanosys Wants Printing Quantum Dot Displays to be as Cheap as Printing a T-Shirt >>
* Google Collects Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled >>

* Kevlar-Based Synthetic Cartilage Mimics Real Tissue >>
* Uber’s new patent aims to combat motion sickness in self-driving cars >>
* Salmon Sex Changes Entire Landscape >>

* Overclock Labs bets on Kubernetes to help companies automate their cloud infrastructure >>
* YouTube TV gets picture-in-picture support >>
* Skype disappears from app stores in China, including Apple’s >>

* By 2050, There Will Be More Plastic in the Ocean Than Fish >>
* Physicists design $100 handheld muon detector >>
* Ford’s newest hybrids give authorities all-electric auto power for the first time >>

* Doctors Performed a Surgery Inside the Womb for the First Time in Canada >>
* China’s multi-nuke hypersonic missile, that can strike ANYWHERE in the world, will be ready ‘within a few months’ >>
* An Argentinian submarine has vanished – here’s how to find it >>

* FCC set to overturn Obama-era net neutrality rules with Dec. 14 vote >>
* Cancer tests in supermarket carparks in bid to boost detection rates >>
* We Can Observe Memories Being Passed Down Through Generations >>

* WebAssembly Will Finally Let You Run High-Performance Applications in Your Browser >>
* IoT needs to be secured by the network >>
* Stunning NASA image reveals a massive HOLE in the sun’s atmosphere that sent solar wind ‘gushing’ toward Earth >>

* Watch Mars 2020 Rover’s Parachute Successfully Unfurl in Test Flight (Video) >>
* Interstellar asteroid is unusual 400+ meter long cigar shape and probably highly metallic >>

* Weird Dark Streaks on Mars May Not Be Flowing Water After All >>
* Space Dust Could Help Life Jump from Planet to Planet >>
* Aerosols Eddy and Spiral Over Earth in Mesmerizing NASA Simulation >>

* SpaceX Expects Government Support for Development of BFR Launch System >>
* Tiny Slowdown in Earth’s Rotation Could Unleash Major Earthquakes >>
* Ahoy Travelers: These Are Your Rights When Airlines Screw Up >>

* MIT launches China Future City Lab >>
* Experimenting with VR at the South China Morning Post >>
* What Is An EMP Bomb? >>

* Exoplanet Hunters Rethink Search for Alien Life >>
* Why you can go over your Internet provider’s data cap >>
* Microsoft introduces a free new tool to get another edge in the cloud war with Amazon >>

* The HoloPlayer One lets you interact with 3D holograms >>
* This $799 water monitor tracks how long you’ve been in the shower >>

* Harrison Ford Went Into Action Hero Mode to Rescue a Woman After a Highway Crash >>
* World’s Only Private Boeing 787 Dreamliner Is Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen >>
* John Collison is world’s youngest self-made billionaire >>

* Chinese tech giant Tencent has surpassed Facebook in market value >>
* A New “Star Trek-Like Tractor Beam” Moves Objects With Light >>
* Neural networks: The 1 minute guide >>

* 2018’s Software Engineering Talent Shortage— It’s quality, not just quantity >>
* The Myth of the Interchangeable Developer >>

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* Uber orders up to 24,000 Volvo SUVs for its self-driving fleet >>
* Fuel Cells Poised to Replace India’s Diesel Generators >>
* Your music tastes can be changed by using magnets on your brain >>

* The first asteroid we’ve seen from outside our Solar System is totally bizarre >>
* Drones Distribute Swarms of Sterile Mosquitoes to Stop Zika and Other Diseases >>
* Magnetic Field Controls Drug Delivery >>

* You can now hail Uber rides for friends who don’t have accounts >>
* Laser-Powered SETI Probes –“Putting on the ‘Brakes’ to Orbit Habitable-Zone Planets” >>
* Team New Zealand reveal new America’s Cup boat >>

* DNS resolver 9.9.9.9 will check requests against IBM threat database >>
* Deep Learning Is Eating Software >>

* London’s buses are getting a caffeine kick >>
* Engineers get the feeling for robotic fingers >>
* Airbus A380 superjumbo jet went from airline status symbol to reject in just 10 years >>

* Spaceflight’s Next Big Leap? SpaceX Cargo Mission Offers a Glimpse >>
* Earth’s Oxygen Levels Linked to Rapid Increase in Lifeforms 455 Million Years ago >>
* Mit Looks At How Humans Sorta Drive In Sorta Self-driving Cars >>

* HaptX Inc Reveals New Haptic Glove for Virtual Reality >>
* Weaponsized drones vs Anti-drone systems >>
* Combat lasers versus Dielectric mirrors, ablative materials countermeasures >>

* What’s different about the brains of the minority of us who feel other people’s physical pain? >>
* Here’s What’s Coming and Going From Netflix in December 2017 >>
* Tesla’s portable phone-charging battery will complement your Tesla-branded life >>

* Internet of Elephants uses AR to get up close to endangered species, turns their migrations into a game >>
* What you missed at last week’s Engadget Experience >>

* How the Next Generation is Building Our (Artificial Intelligent) Future >>
* ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ trailer shows off a planet-hopping adventure >>
* I Paid $300 For Dna-based Fitness Advice And All I Got Was Junk Science >>

* ESO Observes a Giant Structure Forming Around an Ancient Quasar >>
* 51 enterprise startups to bet your career on in 2018 >>
* Uber adds live location sharing and more for easier pickups >>

* IMAGR scores funding for AI-enabled shopping trolley >>
* Tesla Roadster will get even quicker through an option package >>
* The best GPS trackers for cats and dogs >>

* World’s first artificial meteor shower will take place in 2019 >>
* Everyone is freaking out about artificial intelligence stealing jobs and leading to war — and totally missing the point >>
* US Marines F-35 squadron is training to fight through nuclear war against North Korea >>

* Americans are planning to celebrate Christmas like it’s 2007 >>
* Marvell Technology will buy rival chipmaker Cavium for $6 million >>

* Facebook briefly hid its ‘delete’ option on posts, and users panicked >>
* Uber just made its biggest move yet to adopt self-driving cars >>
* Drug Discovery AI to Scour a Universe of Molecules for Wonder Drugs >>

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* How Dirt Can Clean the Air >>
* Google Advances Smart Clothing Vision with Focus on an Interactive Garment >>
* No, there has not been a successful human head transplant >>

* What’s new, Atlas? >>
* LIGO Gravitational Wave Discovery May Confirm an Outrageous ‘New’ Cosmology >>
* The Moon Express Mx-1e Lander Is Heading For The Moon Or Bust >>

* First-of-Its-Kind Satellite Launches to Track Earth’s Weather Like Never Before >>
* The forces that govern matter and light could be united at last >>
* Successful Surgical transplant of dead human heads as trial run for live humans >>

* Now another situation where Elon Musk World changing requires total commitment >>
* Robotic convoying key to making Tesla trucks an economic home run >>

* Space Expansion makes observable universe over triple the age of the universe >>
* Laser arrays for propelling spaceships can also be used like nuclear cannon weapons >>
* The battle for control of data could be just starting >>

* When James Webb Finally Reaches Space, Here’s What It’ll Be Hunting >>
* James Webb Space Telescope Will ‘Perfect Its Own Vision’ in Orbit (Video) >>
* Tesla Launches an Electric Semi Truck—and a New Sports Car >>

* Aging Reversal tests in dogs by 2019 and then in human tests by 2022 if that works >>
* Secret of cancer immunity in Elephants are multiple cancer protection genes >>
* mindBEAGLE Brain-Computer Interface Gives Non-Speaking, Immobilized People a Voice >>

* IBM scientists demo social simulator >>
* Toyota plans to start selling EVs in China in 2020 >>
* Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel >>

* Poorly Trained US Navy sailors have another accident >>
* Using Spacex BFR to rapidly and affordably build interplanetary photonic railway by the 2030s >>
* New underwater and aerial drones, sensors, small satellites mean exposed stealth planes and submarines >>

* MIT researchers collaborate with Lamborghini to develop an electric car of the future >>
* Rocket-powered Land Rovers can survive deadly roadside bombs >>
* Black holes that shred stars burp out cosmic rays and neutrinos >>

* US government should support Spacex and quickly develop moon bases >>
* China is two Europes and richest provinces catching up to middle income Europe >>
* How to open the blood-brain-barrier with precision for safer drug delivery >>

* China wants to catch up to US rockets in 2020 and then get nuclear spaceships in 2045 >>
* Small and passively safe Nuclear reactors for NASA and military missions >>
* Canadian grocery chain orders 25 Tesla electric Semi trucks >>

* Apple finally lets visitors onto its ‘spaceship’ campus >>
* Hopping spacecraft set to launch from New Zealand >>

* Top U.S. Nuclear Official Said He Would Refuse ‘illegal’ Nuclear Strike Order From TRUMP >>
* Us Navy, Nasa Join The Search For The Missing Argentine Navy Submarine With 44 Sailors On Board >>

* This $40 million robotic ‘plantscraper’ will feed over 5,000 people per year >>
* Gillmor Gang: Dream On >>
* Boeing 757 was hacked and now security experts are worried more planes could be at risk >>

* Computer program finds new uses for old drugs >>
* World’s first real-time visualization of water produced inside fuel cells >>
* DNA Aptamer-Based Activatable Probes for Photoacoustic Imaging in Living Mice >>

* Robotic Process Automation >>
* Intel Introduces Portfolio of Commercial 5G New Radio Modems with Intel® XMMTM 7660 Modem >>
* Deliv to power same-day grocery delivery for Walmart in San Jose >>

* Watch Tesla’s new Roadster show off its record-breaking speed >>
* Silicon Valley Thinks It Invented Roommates. They Call It ‘Co-living’ >>
* Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips >>

* How to become an asteroid prospector >>
* Prince William said online anonymity isn’t important — this is why he’s wrong >>
* First teaser for The Incredibles 2 >>

* Netflix outbids Disney for superhero movie starring Daisy Ridley >>
* What Does Tesla’s Automated Truck Mean For Truckers? >>
* Stanford Trains AI To Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than a Radiologist In Just Two Months >>

* Connected cars are hitting UK roads for the first time >>
* Tesla Is Reviving The Roadster And It Looks Spectacular >>
* Tesla reveals a new Roadster, due in 2020 >>

* This Gene-editing Tech Might Be Too Dangerous To Unleash >>
* GE’s huge 3D metal printer makes aircraft parts >>
* 2017 Foresight Vision Weekend >>

* 5G High-Speed Interconnect Design >>
* Inside Royal Caribbean’s Wild, Tech-Filled Cruise Of The Future >>
* The ‘flying bum’ goes higher, faster and farther than ever before in latest dusk test flight >>

* The hopping ‘R2D2’ bot set to blast off to the lunar surface in 2019 in bid to win $10m Google X-prize and make mining the moon a reality >>
* UN panel gives go ahead to ‘killer robot’ debate that could come up with a code of conduct for ‘lethal autonomous weapons systems’ >>
* The Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities >>

* Scientists detect gravitational waves for the SIXTH time after spotting faraway black hole merger – as some say it’s now become ‘routine’ >>
* The super computer that could catch the Zodiac killer >>
* Volkswagen to spend $40B on electric cars, technology through 2022 >>

* What is SpaceX’s secret Zuma mission about? >>
* Scientists don’t know where all this extra antimatter came from >>
* Time Travel Is Possible, But We’ll Need Lots Of Negative Energy, Says Astrophysicist >>

* This Is The Tesla Semi Truck >>
* Wow! Astronaut Captures Incredible View of ‘Fireball’ Meteor from Space (Video) >>
* Stanford Algorithm Can Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than Radiologists >>

* What Causes Cascading Power Grid Failures >>
* Comcast and Verizon are interested in buying some 21st Century Fox assets >>
* A fatal disease is spreading among U.S. deer, but there may be a new way to detect it >>

* Walmart will test Tesla Semi trucks for transporting merchandise >>
* An AI Resident at work: Suhani Vora and her work on genomics >>
* MoviePass drops pricing to under $7 per month, if you opt for the annual plan >>

* Scientists Develop Kill Switches In Case Bioengineered Microbes Go Rogue >>
* Could a Helium-Resistant Material Usher In an Age of Nuclear Fusion? >>
* How a DNA revolution has decoded the origins of our humanity >>

* Robots aren’t just taking our jobs, they’re creating them – here are 21 weird jobs humans will have in the future >>
* The mystery of the solar minimum deepens >>
* Eugenics 2.0: We’re at the Dawn of Choosing Embryos >>

* 17 Million Frozen Sperm Await the Perfect Moment >>
* Gene Therapy for Blindness May Soon Be Reality >>
* Google explains the Pixel 2’s impressive hybrid video stabilization >>

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