Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 December 2018

* Meet the CIA’s Insectothopter >>
* OneWeb will fully deploy multi-gigabit global satellite network by 2021 and start with Alaska service in 2019 >>
* Ripple briefly passes Ethereum for second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization >>

* Amazon did a lot of funky stuff this year and it’s paying off >>
* Kodi Returns to Its Roots, Now Available on Xbox One >>
* DeepMind’s CEO told Prince Harry his AI lab now employs 700 staff >>

* The biggest rocket launches and space missions we’re looking forward to in 2018 >>
* CRP Group Prepares to Hit CES 2018 with 3D Printed Motorcycles, Drones and Satellites >>
* 2017 Built a Bridge to Innovation: Year in Construction 3D Printing >>

* 2018 preview: Last chance for new physics at the LHC for years >>
* Is the James Webb Space Telescope “Too Big to Fail?” >>
* A zero-calorie mojito? World’s first virtual cocktail hijacks your senses using lights, scents and electrodes to make water taste like your favourite drink >>

* The Plasma Magnet Drive: A Simple, Cheap Drive for the Solar System and Beyond >>
* First glimpse of Falcon Heavy: SpaceX raises Elon Musk’s ‘megarocket’ on Cape Canaveral launchpad >>
* First ever test of a hypersonic equipped missile that is intended for operational deployment >>

* Atomically Precise Molecular Nanotechnology could fit two DOE funding solicitations >>
* Current and near term quantum computers >>
* New Theory of Gravity and the Dark Side of the Cosmos >>

* All 50 states opt in to AT&T’s FirstNet public safety network >>
* Coaxing Light From Graphene >>
* Microsoft Files a Patent for an Adjustable Tension Thumbstick Mechanism for the Xbox Controller >>

* Slashdot Asks: How Should Apple Have Responded To the Battery Controversy? >>
* Apple finally issues an apology after its iPhone battery fiasco >>
* Why the $29 iPhone battery replacement is Apple’s best move of the year >>
* Apple Sued for Throttling iPhones Without User Consent >>

* Cryptojacking Has Gotten Out Of Control >>
* Our favorite blockchain pitches of 2017 >>
* CryptoKitties, Explained … Mostly >>

* THe Most-read Wired Security Stories Of 2017 >>
* What to expect at CES 2018 >>

* Netflix’s ‘Bright’ reached 11M viewers in its first three days, according to Nielsen >>
* Team Trump tried to diss Obama in its website code, but couldn’t even get that right >>

* AWS showed no signs of slowing down in 2017 >>
* What the Big Mergers of 2017 Tell Us About 2018 >>
* Physics Found Gravitational Waves. Now Come The Existential Questions >>

* Black Mirror launches with terrifying episode that sees robodogs eerily similar to Boston Dynamics REAL robots hunt and kill humans >>
* Where the ‘Ring of Fire’ could ignite in 2018: Researchers reveal the six volcanoes most at risk of eruption >>
* The helmet that knows when you’re distracted: Incredible mind-reading headwear could help drivers better focus on the road >>

* Your body fat may be protecting you against infections >>
* The radical ‘wifi power’ transmitter that can charge your electronics from 80 FEET away >>

* Google is making moves towards mobile-first search >>
* Insider Reflections on the ICO Bubble Part III: 2018 is when crypto begins to move from speculation to utility. >>

* 55 VR Games We Can’t Wait To Play In 2018 >>
* Why AR Just Wasn’t Quite There in 2017, And Where It Goes Next >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 December 2017

* China’s 7,680mph hypersonic aircraft delivered its warhead ‘within meters’ of its target 870 miles away, new details of historic test reveal >>
* Falcon Heavy raised on pad 39A for first time >>
* Less than 5% of India’s techies are ready for higher end AI and cloud computing work >>

* Britain’s spy agency can’t stop losing cyber talent to major tech companies >>
* Tokyo may use facial recognition for security at the 2020 Olympics >>
* The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine >>

* How the world’s first floating city could restore the environment >>
* MoviePass Adds a Million Subscribers, Even if Theaters Aren’t Sold on It >>

* We already know blockchain’s killer apps >>
* Bitcoin’s price sinks as South Korea bans anonymous crypto trading >>
* Bitcoin exchange chief kidnapped as he leaves work >>
* Cryptocurrencies Could Be One Big Ponzi Scheme >>

* Ten ways tech will change your life in 2018 >>
* Lamborghini’s EV initiatives seem to lack a spark >>
* LG debuts the ThinQ, a Google Assistant-powered smart speaker >>

* Google Works With Hotels To Hurt Travel Competition >>
* Mark Zuckerberg’s Real Campaign: Save Facebook >>
* Attending CES 2018? TechCrunch wants to see your company >>

* Carlsberg Turns To AI To Help Develop Beers >>
* Coworking Is Not About Workspace — It’s About Feeling Less Lonely >>
* Scientists made a virtual supernova you can walk around >>

* At an Air Show in China, Drones, Not Jets, Are the Stars >>
* Researchers say life on Mars may have had a better chance underground >>
* Kodi Piracy and Addon Predictions for 2018 >>

* CRISPR knocks out ALS gene mutation in mice >>
* 2018 preview: Gene therapy treats disease while in the womb >>

* How NASA’s Search for ET Relies on Advanced AI >>
* Elon Musk’s surprise SpaceX rocket launch causes multi-car pile-up >>
* Google has quietly become one of the world’s most important hardware companies >>

* Secret to Porpoise Sonar Revealed >>
* Three Brain Technologies to Watch in 2018 –“Neural Dust, Thought-Powered Typing & Mini-Brains” >>
* How a Solar Eclipse Captivated America in 2017 >>

* China has statue of a Transformer that is taller and heavier than the Statue of Liberty >>
* Trump’s ‘Back to the Moon’ Directive Leaves Some Scientists with Mixed Feelings >>
* “Before the Big Bang” –Compelling New Theories on the Origin of Time (2017 Most Viewed) >>

* Ion beam controlled to etch single silicon atom depth >>
* NIST creates spectrometer with 10,000 times more precision than standard devices >>
* Berkeley Labs has built an 8 qubit quantum computer and targets a 64 qubit system >>

* IEEE Spectrum’s Most Popular Stories of 2017 >>
* SpaceX BFR construction will start in 4 to 6 months >>
* Progress to scalable Molecular Machines >>

* Apple and Amazon may set up shop in Saudi Arabia soon >>
* The Killer Combo: When Stored Value Meets a Network Effect >>
* ‘Steve Jobs’ is an Italian company — and Apple can’t do anything about it >>

* 2018 Is The Year Virtual Reality Goes Wireless >>
* How VR Helped Make The World Better In 2017 >>
* Xbox’s lack of compelling games won’t be fixed next year >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 December 2018

* Crispr Isn’t Enough Any More. Get Ready For Gene Editing 2.0 >>
* Tourist Snaps Sneak Peek of SpaceX Falcon Heavy Payload Fairing in Florida >>
* NASA in 2017: The Space Year in Review in Videos >>

* Time Crystals to Tetraquarks: Quantum Physics in 2017 >>
* Dig Deep: DARPA Contest Aims to Take People Underground >>
* Cargo Industry Tests Seaplane Drones to Deliver Freight >>

* First genetically engineered super horse, designed to be faster and stronger in 2019 >>
* Love at first sight is really just lust or even false memory >>
* Can AI keep these zoo animals warm? >>

* Resolution of self driving car sensors improved 1,000-fold to detect objects through fog >>
* SENS antiaging progress in 2017 >>
* This Autonomous Quadrotor Swarm Doesn’t Need GPS >>

* LG and Here help self-driving cars share their knowledge >>
* Game of the Year: Jordan Minor’s Actual Games of the Year (2017) >>
* After getting crushed by Google’s AlphaGo, top Go player will try to beat Chinese AI >>

* Airbus is on the brink of killing off the A380 superjumbo if new Emirates order fails >>
* North Korea may launch another missile and weaponize anthrax on its next ICBM >>
* Technique to allow AI to learn words in the flow of dialogue developed >>

v2018 preview: Bitcoin and ICO bubbles are set to burst >>
* If Dogs Can Smell Cancer, Why Don’t They Screen People? >>
* Cracking the Brain’s Enigma Code >>

* Israel might launch its own cryptocurrency >>
* World’s coolest chip runs at near absolute zero >>
* Elon Musk vows to build Tesla pickup truck ‘right after’ Model Y >>

* The Most Intriguing Alien Planet Discoveries of 2017 >>
* An Alien Solar System: TRAPPIST-1 Discovery Tops Our 2017 Exoplanet List >>
* Dragonfly: Contemplating a Return to Titan >>

* Kia and Hyundai cars will include AI assistants starting in 2019 >>
* Google’s Voice-Generating AI Is Now Indistinguishable From Humans >>
* When Harry Met Barry: The BBC Obama Interview >>

* Freed From the iPhone, the Apple Watch Finds a Medical Purpose >>
* How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care >>
* Warning over new Android virus which can physically melt phones >>

* US reveals radical ‘Gray Wolf’ cruise missiles that can chat among themselves to create ‘swarm’ attacks >>
* Banana with an edible SKIN >>
* The rise of the flirtbots: Automated systems are getting kisses and even marriage proposals from customers >>

* Spacex will have many more launches in 2018 including manned mission in August >>
* Beyond Crispr -Cas9 Gene editing >>
* Auto-motivation! The Top Car Designs From 2017! >>

* This is how a molten salt nuclear reactor works >>
* Why did last week’s SpaceX launch look so strange? >>
* The World Health Organization may soon recognize video game addiction >>

* Tech billionaires amassed wealth faster than anyone else in 2017 >>
* Instagram will now add ‘Recommended’ posts to your feed >>
* Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns >>

* Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views’ >>
* Putin wants to police social media ahead of Russian election >>
* China’s extension of EV tax rebates is good news for car makers >>

* Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More >>
* True wireless charging is about to become a thing >>
* The Most-read Wired Business Stories Of 2017 >>

* Plummeting temperatures could send the world into a ‘mini ice age’ in 2030 >>
* Incredible time-lapse footage shows Elon Musk’s Space X rocket blasting off >>
* Growing organs a few ink drops at a time >>

* The Top Tech Books Of 2017: Part Ii >>
* NASA hopes to send a probe to Alpha Centauri in 2069 >>
* Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season >>

* Bitcoin: Would you want to get paid in cryptocurrency? >>
* Apple Watch adding EKG monitoring feature >>
* Scientists Are Designing Artisanal Proteins for Your Body >>

* Tesla cars will soon get a new feature that owners have been demanding for months >>
* Phone Security >>
* The wildest scientific discoveries of 2017 >>

* The Verge 2017 tech report card: Amazon >>
* The Verge 2017 tech report card: Google >>
* The Verge 2017 tech report card: Samsung >>
* The Verge 2017 tech report card: Facebook >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 December 2017

* Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage >>
* Scientists Are Designing Artisanal Proteins for Your Body >>

* Rigetti has a 19 qubit quantum computing system and it runs unsupervised machine learning >>
* Bitcoin climbs back above $16,000, rallying more than 50% from Friday’s low >>

* Billionaires may be the future of space policy — here’s what they want >>
* A Japanese startup wants to put advertising on the moon >>
* Genomics and AI push the boundary of precision medicine in blood cancer >>

* 2018 should be the year of quantum supremacy >>
* The new space race is postponed until 2018 >>
* CRISPR gene therapy preserves hearing >>

* The Year Women Reclaimed The Web >>
* 2017 Was The Year We Fell Out Of Love With Algorithms >>
* The universe may be full of ex-moons flung from their homeworlds >>

* State of Artificial Intelligence in 2017 >>
* Electric armband to banish agony of migraines >>
* Japan may refit a helicopter carrier to handle F-35B stealth fighters in response to threats from China and North Korea >>

* The Biggest Spaceflight Stories of 2017 >>
* Metal Asteroid Psyche Is Ready for an Early Visit from NASA >>
* Eisenhower on the Threat of “Big Science” >>

* ‘Gaming disorder’ may get classified as a mental health condition — here’s what that means >>
* Flying in aeroplanes exposes people to more radiation than standing next to a nuclear reactor — here’s why >>
* The wildest scientific discoveries of 2017 >>

* The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner >>
* Uber is offloading its money-losing car lease business >>
* What Amazon’s Alexa Economy Pays the People Building Its Skills >>

* Google’s new AI ranks photos on their technical and aesthetic quality >>
* Google’s lead in mapping will help in visual search >>
* 17 Top 3D Printing Themes of 2017 >>

* How a Machine That Can Make Anything Would Change Everything >>
* Using drones to build the ambulance fleet of the future >>

* If the Pentagon Is Hiding Aliens from Us, the Zoo Hypothesis May Explain Why >>
* When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To >>
* What to Do When You Don’t Feel Valued at Work >>

* At Last, The Age Of The Electric Car Really Arrives >>
* Make your MacBook Pro even better with the MemPro USB-C hub >>
* Google 2017 in review: Hits, misses, and WTF moments >>

* Movie Theaters Were Already in Trouble. With Disney’s Fox Deal, It’s Double >>
* In homage to ‘Star Wars’, man tests a robot hand that allows control of each prosthetic finger >>
* Is Noah’s Ark buried on a Turkish mountain ? >>

* Trump Thinks He Deserves More Credit Than Media Is Willing To Share — CNN Theorizes Trump ‘Is Probably Right’ >>
* Downbeat iPhone X sales projections hobble Apple shares >>
* Cutting Loose: Crafty Paper Silhouettes Animate Architectural Landmarks >>

* All the TV shows coming in early 2018 — and whether you should watch them >>
* Amazon’s Alexa won Christmas in America this year >>
* Uber as an ambulance substitute >>

* The 39 Games We Can’t Wait To Play In 2018 >>

* This Athletic Robot Is Making Us Feel Bad About Our Lifestyle Choices >>
* The world’s first vending machine for the homeless just launched – and it’s totally free >>
* Advanced Algorithms: A Free Course from Harvard University >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 December 2017

* The AI chip startup explosion is already here >>
* Project Maven Brings AI To the Fight Against ISIS >>
* Making the Future >>

* World’s largest amphibious aircraft takes off in China >>
* Why is it better if Interstellar aliens do not really care about human civilization ? >>

* Russia is planning to put a luxury hotel on the ISS >>
* Maybe 2018 Is A Good Year To Throw All Your Electronics Away And Go Live In The Woods For A While >>

* Thailand high speed rail construction starts >>
* Star Orbiting black hole will reach 2.5% of the speed of light next year >>
* 2018 Is The Year Virtual Reality Goes Wireless >>

* Nanowire device detects cancer with a urine test >>
* Physics: Scientists Rewrite Quantum Theory To Do The Impossible And Track ‘secret’ Particles >>

* China’s censors have taken down 13,000 websites in 3 years >>
* Russia’s Putin Calls For Web Activities of Some Firms To Be Monitored >>

* How the brain selectively remembers new places >>
* It’s Time For Innovators To Take Responsibility For Their Creations >>
* Get rid of the smells in your car better than an air freshener could with this device >>

* Ubisoft’s new AI wing melds gaming and scientific research >>
* Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? >>
* CMU Researchers Reveal How Their AI Beat The World’s Top Poker Players >>

* NASA Begins Planning For An Interstellar Mission In 2069 >>
* Qualcomm can start testing its self-driving tech in California >>
* Edward Snowden’s new app turns any Android phone into a surveillance system >>

* H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their Debate Whether Science Is Humanity’s Best Hope Continues Today >>
* Watching How Rare, Meteoric Diamonds Form >>

* China’s New Lenders Collect Invasive Data and Offer Billions. Beijing Is Worried >>
* Scientists describe how solar system could have formed in bubble around giant star >>
* Breakthrough Cures for Respiratory Diseases and COPD in the Pipeline >>

* Australia’s Tesla battery responded to power failure in 140 milliseconds and prevented 10-30 minute blackout >>
* Our Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas & a Great New Year >>
* Toyota reveals roadmap to 5.5 million electrified cars per year by 2030 >>

* A robot arm is Prague’s latest star DJ >>
* 2018 preview: Opioids will kill tens of thousands more people >>
* 2018 preview: Thousands of mystery lifeforms to be revealed >>

* Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid ‘Information Overload’ >>
* Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? >>
* Saudi Arabia’s TechUtopia Neom will have to reinvent the rules to succeed >>

* Elon Musk’s Christmas Letter (Tesla Sure Is Growing Up Fast) >>
* The best gadgets of 2017 >>
* Update on the War in Ukraine >>

* APOD; SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California >>
* APOD; Fireball in the Arctic >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 December 2017

* The company that helps elephants and rocket cars >>
* Tech in 2017: Crazy, troubled and out of control? >>
* Elon Musk shows off the Tesla Roadster he’s prepping for space >>

* Amazon fixed the most annoying thing about receiving online orders >>
* Will artificial intelligence become conscious? >>

* Arecibo is monitoring potentially hazardous near-earth asteroid >>
* Boeing reveals MQ-25 refueling drone for the US Navy >>
* Bruce McCandless, First to Fly Untethered in Space, Dies at 80 >>

* Apple’s self-driving cars could use routes others have traveled >>
* Here are the 2017 innovations that changed the world >>
* The AI that can choose the perfect picture >>

* DARPA’s AI Spectrum Management Challenge Completes its First Round >>
* Hacked Dog Pics Can Play Tricks on Computer Vision AI >>
* The field of AI research is about to get way bigger than code >>

* What Is The Radial Velocity Method? >>
* Yes Please! Nasa Is Considering A Helicopter Mission To Titan >>
* Astronomers Figure Out A New Way To Search For Planets At Alpha Centauri >>

* Wake up people, it’s time to aim high! >>
* IoT Evolution Expo >>
* China Is Building a Solar Power Highway >>

* US nuclear tests killed far more civilians than we knew >>
* Transcending Biology: Reverse Engineering The Brain >>
* The stuff that launched at CES 2017 but never came out >>

* UK Police’s Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes >>
* Google poaches a key Apple chip designer >>
* Samsung Could Make $22 Billion Off Next Year’s iPhones >>

* Driverless Cars Could Make Transportation Free for Everyone — With a Catch >>
* BITCOIN PLUNGES: Here’s what you need to know >>

* 13 books Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and other moguls think everyone should read >>
* Flexible Graphene Turns Hard as Diamonds When Struck by a Bullet >>
* Snowden’s New App Turns Your Phone Into A Home Security System >>

* Shanghai flying car tower to clean the air with a 50,000-plant vertical forest >>
* Boeing to reveal mysterious space plane of the future >>
* The world’s first 100% solar-powered train launches in Australia >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 December 2017

* 2017 laid the foundation for faster, smarter AI in 2018 >>
* As Artificial Intelligence Advances, Here Are Five Tough Projects For 2018 >>
* Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies have dipped over 25% >>
* Eric Schmidt stepping down as Alphabet’s executive chairman to become a ‘technical advisor’ >>

* Elon Musk shows off the Tesla Roadster that SpaceX will send beyond Mars >>
* This year the world woke up to the society-shifting power of artificial intelligence >>

* This AI tried to write Christmas carols, and the results are hilarious >>
* You Need a Very Powerful Microscope to Read World’s Smallest Christmas Card >>
* Happy Robot Holidays, AI Folding Laundry, and RoboThespian’s TED Talk >>

* Kids In ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Are Being Saved From 230 Hours of Commercials a Year, Says Report >>
* How to unmask AI >>
* Making container technology work for persistent microservices >>

* At Google, Eric Schmidt Wrote The Book On Adult Supervision >>
* The tech industry needs to move towards responsible innovation in 2018 >>
* Inside “Fin”, the elite human/AI assistant >>
* Could artificial intelligence brainwash us? >>

* AI-Enabled Self-Order Kiosks Recognize Frequent CaliBurger Customers >>
* Driverless Cars Could Make Transportation Free for Everyone—With a Catch >>
* New Genome Scores Predict Breast Cancer Odds for Any Woman >>

* How Is Spacex Doing On Its Deep Space Ambitions? >>
* Why Workplace Instant Messaging Is Hot Again >>
* New depth sensors could be sensitive enough for self-driving cars >>

* Google AI can rate photos based on aesthetic appeal >>
* South Korea fittingly equips high-speed train with high-speed LTE >>
* Can computers help us synthesize new materials? >>

* Swedish Police Set to Take Over Pirate Bay Domains >>
* The malware that can MELT your phone >>
* 2018 preview: Bioelectricity tweak can regenerate missing limbs >>

* Self-healing glass repairs itself if pressed together >>
* Machine learning will change jobs >>
* Algorithms for Big Data: A Free Course from Harvard >>

* Ubisoft combines AI research and game development at ‘La Forge’ >>
* SingularityNET’s Ben Goertzel has a grand vision for the future of AI >>
* Ai Is Fueling Smarter Prosthetics Than Ever Before >>

* The Best Bitcoin Comments on Reddit Today >>
* How to Actually Come Back from the Holidays Feeling Refreshed >>
* How to design a RESTful API architecture from a human-language spec >>

* People are freaking out over the Magic Leap One’s ugly design >>
* Why You Shouldn’t Fear ‘Slaughterbots’ >>
* Aubrey de Grey interviewed by Nextbigfuture on AgeX and progress to Radical Life Extension >>
* CRISPR extends lifespan of Lou Gehrigs disease mice by 25% >>

* The AI robot that could finally make the paperless office a reality >>
* 2017: THE YEAR IN DIGG The Worst Timeline >>

* The First CRISPR Clinical Trial Could Begin in 2018 >>
* The Other Tech Bubble >>
* New Quantum-World Material Stumbled Upon That Cannot Be Described by Classical Physics >>

* SpaceX, Japan Launching Satellites Back to Back Tonight: Watch Live >>
* Maybe Mars And Earth Didn’t Form Close To Each Other >>
* Interstellar Communication Using Microbes: Implications for SETI >>

* Russia deploying hypersonic missiles and precision weapons >>
* Everything you know about toxic shock syndrome is probably wrong >>
* How To Use Google To Search For Lesser-Known Jobs >>

* A casual’s guide to console gaming >>
* The Big Idea: TED’s 4 step guide to the holiday season >>
* Report: Apple will put an EKG reader on Apple Watch (I doubt it) >>

* How to Get Your Money Out of Bitcoin >>
* Tesla comes out on top in 2017 ‘Consumer Reports’ satisfaction survey >>
* The Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2017 >>

* Number of Births in Japan To Hit Record Low in 2017 >>
* Exploring The Factory Where Honda Builds The Private Jet Of The Future >>

* Has the mystery of how the moon was formed finally been solved? >>
* Scientists have developed a DNA test that diagnoses deadly breast cancer one year earlier than current methods >>
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* Amazing video reveals a mind-bending optical illusion that makes flat objects look 3D >>

* The top tech innovations of 2017 >>
* Flying boats? Flying Cars? What are the top tech innovation of 2017 >>
* The Navy’s New Nuclear Submarine Is Likely to Cost Way More than $128 Billion >>

* 7 Predictions for the Cloud in 2018 >>
* Video: 2017 in space >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 December 2017

* NASA plans a launch to Titan or a return to comet 67P in 2025 >>
* The first 5G spec has been approved >>
* This burger chain recognizes your face to place an order >>

* Facebook job ads are being used to filter out older applicants >>
* In 2017, society started taking AI bias seriously >>
* Can a dreaming AI fix low res digital photos in the edit? >>

* Incredible LASER shoes to help Parkinson’s patients walk freely again >>
* Taylor Swift can soundtrack your holiday video: Facebook signs deal w Universal Music >>

* Apple will allow apps built from templates >>
* How machine learning will accelerate data management systems >>
* LA orders 25 of Proterra’s electric buses >>

* Apple’s iPhone X racist? Chinese users claim facial recognition system can’t tell them apart >>
* Skin-Like Biosensor Offers Needle-Free Blood Sugar Monitoring >>

* SingularityNET creating marketplace of modular AI services >>
* Walmart is testing personal shopping and cashier-free stores >>
* First male contraceptive GEL that can dramatically reduce sperm count to be trialled >>

* An applied introduction to generative adversarial networks >>
* Smart speakers to outsell wearables, as demand for wearables slows >>
* Microsoft brings back PhotoSynth in its Pix app for iOS >>

* NASA’s Drone-Like Dragonfly Mission is Exciting News in Hunt for Alien Life >>
* Interstellar Communication Using Microbes: Implications for SETI >>
* Fruits and vegetables could save your life—but not from any one disease. >>

* In locked-down Xinjiang, China is tracking kitchen knives with QR codes >>
* Weekly Space Hangout – Dec 20, 2017: The Year In Review >>
* This Robot Works Out >>

* North Korea Is Trying to Fit Its Missiles With Anthrax >>
* US making plans for ‘bloody nose’ military attack on North Korea >>

* Pathway to radical longevity – Induced Tissue Regeneration explained >>
* Back to Immortality >>
* 2017: The Year In Robocars >>

* Embryos have full human regeneration could be key for radical life extension >>
* New Research: Unlocking the secrets of Huntington’s Disease >>
* Light-triggered Genes Reveal The Hidden Workings Of Memory >>

* Space Industry Takes Prominent Role in Trump’s National Security Strategy >>
* How to Temporarily Undo the Universe’s Endless Chaos with Chloroform >>
* A breakthrough low-light image sensor for photography, life sciences, security >>

* Civilization VI lands on iPad >>
* Why Net Neutrality Will Be A Campaign Issue In 2018 >>
* Two-Layer Graphene becomes a Diamond-Hard Material could make super armor >>

* Unusual Galaxies Reveal Changes in the Fabric of Spacetime –“At Centers of Supermassive Gravitational Wells” >>
* Tiny Fossils May Be Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth >>
* The European Union at 60: It Should Be Happy, but It Isn’t >>

* Compounds Made From Metal-Organic Frameworks Could Challenge Conventional Semiconductors >>
* China’s Didi Chuxing raises $4B more for AI and electric vehicles >>
* Apple is developing higher capacity batteries for 2019 iPhones >>

* Get Ready for More Volcanic Eruptions as the Planet Warms >>
* Are robots edging closer to ‘alive’? Scientists create droids that SWEAT just like humans while doing press-ups to keep themselves cool >>
* Gallium Nitride transferred to Flexible Substrate for better antennas, communication and wearable electronics >>

* Booby-trapped obstacle course trains older people not to fall >>
* 5G Race Is On, Now That The Technology Is Almost Ready >>
* Fasting can delay the signs of AGING, claims researcher >>

* How energy makes life possible >>
* Why I’m digging deep into Alzheimer’s >>
* Ad Astra Diplomacy >>

* Gene Editing Shows Promise for Alleviating Hearing Loss >>
* The Career Audit You Should Conduct As We Head Into The New Year >>
* 12 things you may have missed from Google this year >>

* Printed photos can fool Windows 10’s Hello face authentication >>
* People are really into MoviePass’ unlimited cinema subscription >>
* Robots Won’t Save the U.K. from a Brexit Labor Shortage >>

* Netflix now streams HDR video on Windows 10 >>
* LG’s latest PC monitors bring intense HDR and ultra-wide 5K >>
* Netflix’s big-budget film ‘Bright’ already has a sequel planned >>

* NASA asking scientists how to keep astronauts safe on space missions >>
* ‘Stargate: Origins’ will make its streaming debut February 15th >>

* Apple Maps finds a useful feature: indoor airport guides >>
* Job hunting: Mistakes Google’s head of HR sees on resumes >>
* UK’s first vending machine for homeless installed in shopping centre >>

* Court rules sperm is allowed to be taken from dead man >>
* Researchers map molecular interaction that prevents aggressive breast cancer >>
* Researchers find key to making transplant rejection a thing of the past >>

* The world of physics in 2017 >>
* Elon Musk Explains Why He Loves the Saturn V Rocket >>
* Bigscreen Is Hosting Top Gun 3D Screenings Dec. 29-30 >>

* For the last time: rejuvenation is not immortality >>
* Artificial intelligence goes bilingual—without a dictionary >>
* Oculus Seeks Patent For Convertible HMD Powered By Phone Or PC >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 December 2017

* Elon Musk Unveils Falcon Heavy Rocket Photos Ahead of Maiden Flight >>
* NASA to Reveal Finalists for Next Robotic Solar System Mission Today >>
* 3D-printed implant mends broken legs by turning into real bone >>

* Magic Leap shows off its Magic Leap One AR headset, shipping in 2018 >>
* My Magic Leap skepticism: no matter an important product for our future >>
* $US1.9 billion later, Magic Leap’s has the same problem as Microsoft’s HoloLens >>

* Fooling AI can now be done a thousand times faster >>
* 2018 preview: Return to the moon as eight missions are planned >>

* Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there >>
* The UK decides 10 Mbps broadband should be a legal right >>
* Has YOUR computer been ‘cryptojacked’? >>

* Year the world woke up to the society-shifting power of artificial intelligence >>
* Italy Launches a New Wireless Network for the Internet of Things >>
* ‘Stargate Origins’ Release Date Announced, New Trailer >>

* 2017: The Year In Robocars >>
* Worlds collide: VR and AR in 2018 >>
* 2018 will be the year of Bitcoin’s rivals >>

* New AI method keeps data private >>
* Next stages of AI >>

* LG will release new AI products under the ‘ThinQ’ brand >>
* Android apps must have 64-bit support by August 2019 >>
* Cloud-Based Repository Leak Exposes 123 Million American Households >>

* NASA reveals it has started planning a 2069 mission to Alpha Centauri >>
* World’s largest artificial sun sheds light on future fuels >>
* Royal Navy complete test of new ‘Sea Ceptor’ missile >>

* Windows 10’s ‘Timeline’ continuity is available for testing >>
* The future of source code security is consensus-based >>
* MoviePass tops 1 million subscribers >>

* Embryos have full human regeneration could be key for radical life extension >>
* Minimally Actuated Robot Arm Has Lots of Joints, Just One Clever Motor >>
* SingularityNET creating marketplace of modular AI services >>

* Researchers Fooled A Google Ai Into Thinking A Rifle Was A Helicopter >>
* Firefox lands on Amazon’s Fire TV >>
* New technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells >>

* New Low-Cost Spy Satellites Are Getting Scarily Powerful >>
* Amazon tracks everything you buy. Here’s how to make that work for you. >>

* bitcoin craze has paranoid people going a little overboard >>
* 17 Most-read Wired Stories Of 2017 >>
* Artificial intelligence computing stack >>

* 100 Most Amazing Space Photos of 2017 >>
* Astronomers May Have Uncovered a Hint About What Dark Matter Is >>
* Cosmic Crash: Galaxies Head for Collision in Stunning Hubble Image >>

* Virtual Assistant >>
* What is actually in the new US National Security Strategy >>
* Supercharge Your GoTo Telescope with Wireless Smartphone Control >>

* Rich can breathe a sigh of relief >>
* New York will tackle unfair biases in automated city services >>
* Digital ad spend grew 23 percent in the first six months of 2017, according to IAB >>

* Your camera is now the most important part of your phone >>
* YouTube: More AI can fix AI-generated ‘bubbles of hate’ >>
* The only app that matters this year is Signal >>

* Elon Musk accidentally tweets personal phone number to 16.7 million followers >>
* Where Were Netflix and Google in the Net-Neutrality Fight? >>
* Baby born 25 years after conception >>

* Intel CEO Tells Employees: ‘We Are Going To Take More Risks’ >>
* Apple will reportedly unify iOS and Mac apps in 2018 >>
* Ooma acquires AI-powered video camera platform Butterfleye for home security service >>

* Everything we think we know about the Samsung Galaxy S9 >>
* Your Phone May Send You ‘Blue Alerts’ To Warn You When Local Police Are In Danger >>

* One-off CRISPR treatment slows genetic hearing loss in mice >>
* Why complex life could prove remarkably common in the universe >>
* Secrets Of The Empire Is An Incredible, Clunky VR Adventure From The Void >>

* North Korea’s army of cyber hackers could be an even greater threat than their nuclear >>
* CRISPR treatment prevents hearing loss in mice >>
* A year in review: The most popular medical research of 2017 >>

* UBTECH’s robotic First Order Stormtrooper patrols AR battlefields >>
* Attempts to scan Oumuamua ‘comet’ may have awoken alien intelligence inside >>
* Corvina fish have such loud SEX that their annual orgies could deafen dolphins >>

* Scientists create an AI that can detect deception in the courtroom >>
* Here are the 8 ships the US Navy commissioned in 2017 >>
* The iPhone X’s Real Legacy: Making Your Face The Interface >>

* Coinbase halts Bitcoin Cash transactions amidst accusations of insider trading >>
* Litecoin founder just sold all his litecoin, citing “a conflict of interest” >>

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* Floating Solar Rig Produces Hydrogen Fuel >>
* The impossibility of intelligence explosion >>
* Trump’s National Security Strategy to Stress Technological Innovation >>

* New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms >>
* Open-endedness: The last grand challenge you’ve never heard of >>

* Volkswagen plans 2,800 EV charging stations in the US by 2019 >>
* There Will Be a [Senate] Vote’ To Reinstate Net Neutrality, Schumer Says >>

* The US Army’s futuristic new helicopter just flew for the first time >>
* Scientists have figured out why this Italian family feels no pain >>
* Facebook’s facial recognition now finds photos you’re untagged in >>

* dYdX is a decentralized protocol for cryptocurrency derivatives >>
* Venezuela Will Force Bitcoin Miners To Register With the Government >>
* Ethereum reaches new highs while Bitcoin takes a break >>

* Researchers create less invasive method for placing brain electrodes >>
* People without electricity could end up living the energy dream >>
* The body’s killer immune cells also feed fetuses in the womb >>

* Is Boeing’s secret plane? Firm teases mysterious design believed to be an electric ‘hairdryer’ craft it boasts will ‘change future air power’ >>
* Boeing reveals radical unmanned ‘Stingray’ drone that can refuel fighter jets in midair >>

* Is this Samsung’s folding ‘Galaxy X’ >>
* How exploding stars influence Earth’s weather: Cosmic rays rain down through the planet’s atmosphere to help seed clouds and cool the climate >>
* Scientists create an AI robot CAT >>

* Italian Rolls-Royce is transformed into a futuristic FLYING car concept capable of reaching speeds of 340mph using four jet engines >>
* Google and Rolls-Royce join forces to create self-piloting ships >>
* Virgin Hyperloop One sets a new speed record of nearly 240mph >>

* Divers are sent in to start work on fixing a leak on the Royal Navy’s £3.1bn aircraft carrier >>
* Will supersonic air travel’s return be another white elephant? >>

* These Quantum Droplets Are the Most Dilute Liquids in the Known Universe >>
* The Beautiful Mind of Neural Networks >>
* A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age >>

* Stimulating the Brain’s Emotional Center Enhances Memory >>
* Researchers uncover a brain process that may help explain the curse of uncontrollable thoughts >>

* Why Cognitive Manufacturing Matters in Electronics >>
* Twitter launches a new enterprise API to power customer service and chatbots >>

* How to program DNA like we do computers >>
* China’s stronger economy could force energy use above equivalent of 5 billion tons of coal by 2020 >>
* US crude oil production could be more than Saudi Arabia in January >>

* THOR gene could be critical to curing cancer >>
* Coinbase tripling staff to meet hypergrowth of cryptocurrency and adding Toshi app >>
* Why Bitcoin is not trustless >>

* Apache MXNet in the Wolfram Language >>
* These are Reddit’s most upvoted posts and top AMAs of 2017 https://www.fastcompany.com/40509708/these-are-reddits-most-upvoted-posts-and-top-amas-of-2017 >>
* Facebook and Microsoft disabled slew of North Korean cyber threats >>
* Facebook introduces new tools to fight online harassment >>

* Facebook brings its social VR ‘Spaces’ to the HTC Vive >>
* Ultra-fast 5G wireless service declared national security priority by White House >>
* Facebook will alert you when someone posts your photo, tagged or not >>

* NASA will take images of its quiet supersonic jet’s shockwaves >>
* AI Researcher Ben Goertzel launches SingularityNET marketplace and AGI Coin cryptocurrency >>
* China Creating a Mars Space Base in the Gobi Desert >>
* “Amazing” –Origin of Life on Earth Reset at 4 Billion Years >>

* “The Multiverse?” –Merging Neutron Stars Challenge Existing Theories of Gravity and Dark Energy >>
* What We Can Rule Out at Alpha Centauri >>
* 2017 retweeted By Bill Gates >>

* London police will use AI to look for child porn on seized devices >>
* These are the worst passwords of 2017 >>
* Apple will probably launch new AirPods in the second half of 2018 >>

* Microsoft Pledges $50M to Fight Climate Change With AI >>
* Augmented Reality’s Real Power Will Come From Substance, Not Flash >>
* Why The International Space Station Is The Single Best Thing We Did >>

* What Successful Digital Transformations Have in Common >>
* 2017 Was The Year The Robots Really, Truly Arrived >>
* Auto-tuning data science: New research streamlines machine learning >>

* NCAA teams up with Google Cloud >>
* The 10 (Well, 12) Most Anticipated Games Of 2018 >>
* China reiterates its stance on internet regulation to Google and Facebook >>

* Fyusion is bringing 3D vision technologies to a device near you >>
* Apple does slow down older iPhones – but not for the reason you think >>
* Interstellar object may hold ‘alien’ water >>

* Japan is buying a new US missile defense system amid growing threats from North Korea >>
* Disney World just added Trump to its Hall of Presidents — and people are horrified >>

* The First CRISPR Clinical Trial Could Begin in 2018 >>
* The World’s First Nuclear Fusion Plant Nears Completion >>
* Students Learn Engineering by 3D Printing Functional Jet Engine Model >>

* Upgrade to 5G will costs billions a year and may not be worth it >>
* YouTube’s latest deals with Sony and Universal will pave the way for new music streaming service in 2018 >>
* Bill Gates tweeted 7 inspiring moments of ‘amazing hope and progress’ from 2017 >>

* Here’s everything you need to know about blockchains, the ground-breaking tech that could be as disruptive as the internet >>
* We Have Abandoned Every Principle Of The Free And Open Internet >>
* The First $100 Billion Dollar Blockchain Company Could Be The Next SAP >>

* Noise Is The Next Great Public Health Crisis >>
* China’s Ban On “Foreign Waste” May Aid the Spread of AI in the US >>
* An AI-Equipped Microscope Can Diagnose Deadly Blood Infections >>

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