Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 February 2018

* It’s almost science fiction to be driving around antimatter in a truck >>
* New WALK-MAN Robot Is Slimmer, Quicker, Better at Quenching Your Flames >>
* SpaceX fairings were recovered intact after landing in water >>

* Google Assistant will soon recognize the language you’re speaking >>
* ‘Automating Jobs Is How Society Makes Progress’ >>
* Google Must Be Stopped Before It Becomes an AI Monopoly >>

* Scientists grow ‘mini tumours’ which enable cancer patients to have tailor made treatment >>
* Amazon is selling exclusive over-the-counter drugs — DeepMind & Optra Health launches Alexa-powered genomic solution >>
* An amateur astronomer has caught the first photos of a star exploding >>

* Tech Envisions the Ultimate Start-Up: An Entire City >>
* Google Assistant is getting deeper links to your smartphone >>
* This company is using AI to make personalized skin care >>

* Do our brains use the same kind of deep-learning algorithms used in AI? >>
* ‘Memtransistor’ Forms Foundational Circuit Element to Neuromorphic Computing >>
* SpaceX Delays Next Falcon 9 Rocket Launch to Conduct Nose Cone Checks >>

* Android P won’t get a ‘dark mode’ after all >>
* Methane-Sniffing Orbiter Finishes ‘Aerobraking’ Dives Through Mars’ Atmosphere >>
* See Jupiter’s South Pole Change Over Time in Incredible Time-Lapse View >>

* Scientists have determined that monkeys, too, are susceptible to advertising campaigns. >>
* Swedish scientists are using AI to build androids that are ‘fully conscious copies’ of dead relatives >>
* Weird particle soup may have formed stars in the early universe >>

* First Topological superconductor will enable new very long coherence time Quantum computers >>
* World War Three: Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight >>
* China leads world with 8 CRISPR trials to treat cancer and CRISPR medicine is a national priority >>
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* D-Wave and UK Department of business trying to use quantum algorithms to improve logistics and planning >>
* Quasars: Brightest Objects in the Universe >>

* The Travel Ecosystem: An Industry on the Go >>
* Spinlaunch is using large centrifuges to accelerate to payloads into space – target $500,000 per launch >>

* Tiny wireless light kept aloft with ultrasonic waves >>
* NASA says its leaning $1B mobile launcher is ‘structurally sound’ >>

* Rigetti Quantum computing software platform is upgraded >>
* Getting Ahead with Lightning Strike Simulation >>
* Detecting Early Life on Exoplanets >>

* Mesmerizing Metasurface Manipulates Light >>
* Photovoltaics in Satellites >>
* Elon Musk blasts off from OpenAI to focus on cars, how to make smart code fair, and more >>

* When clever code kills, who pays and who does the time? >>
* Adopting a more active lifestyle today could have benefits for your personality decades from now >>
* Intel’s announced PCs packing 5G, and that’s just plain wrong >>

* Elon Musk disses Uber’s flying car goals >>
* 802.11ax Wi-Fi standard isn’t ready, Qualcomm bakes chips anyway >>
* Meet the SpaceX ships that will never go to space >>

* Apple Pay Cash nears its first international expansion >>
* Bitcoin Exchange Accidentally Allowed Customers To Buy Coins For $0 >>

* ‘Black Panther’ is amazing. Why are its CG models so terrible? >>
* Facebook removes VR shooting demo from conservative conference >>
* How a Fight Over Star Wars Download Codes Could Reshape Copyright Law >>

* Why an AI takeover may not be a bad thing >>
* This pizza delivering vibrator gives a new meaning to ‘food porn’ >>
* Airlines Won’t Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes >>

* Not even IBM is sure where its quantum computer experiments will lead >>
* Google adopts a new approach to bring its AR service to China >>
* Announcing ARCore 1.0 and new updates to Google Lens >>

* Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is finally here. How far will it go? >>
* Next biggest danger to the environment? Household cleaners. >>
* Google Assistant will support over 30 languages by year-end, become multilingual >>

* Holoportation is still on Microsoft’s mixed-reality radar >>
* Scientists are creating a ‘happy suit’ for astronauts that monitors their mood and adjusts their environment to stop them getting stressed in space >>
* Brain signal shows when you understand what you hear >>

* Amazon, Google and Apple under pressure to remove NRA streaming channel >>
* ‘Star Wars’ droids aren’t as far, far away as we thought >>
* Samsung’s anticipated Galaxy S9 and 5G: What to expect at Mobile World Congress >>

* SpaceX’s biggest rival has a ‘genius’ plan to cut its rocket launch costs more than 70% >>
* Henry Blodget: Will arming teachers guns help stop school shootings? >>
* America’s voting machines are so old that they could be easily hacked >>

* Blockchain is getting a hold of big oil >>
* Lab-grown ‘mini tumours’ could personalise cancer treatment >>
* India Lacks Formal, Salaried Jobs >>

* Robot keeps elderly loved ones connected >>
* New Challenges May Lie Ahead for Use of CRISPR in Humans >>
* How to Outwit AI >>

* Not even IBM is sure where its quantum computer experiments will lead >>
* Netflix courts HGTV fans with its first home makeover series >>
* You could stay in a space hotel pod by 2021 >>

* Amazon is now worth more than 2.5 Walmarts >>
* China on The Blockchain, Part 2: A Trillion Dollars of Trust >>
* DeepMind’s AlphaZero Engineering Use Cases >>

* Bad News: The Amazon Might Be Past the Point of Saving >>
* Researchers Want to Hunt Unknown Viruses Before They Cause the Next Pandemic >>
* Scientists Use EEG Machine to Create Digital Images From Brain Activity >>

* Companies Race to Dominate the World of Maps for Driverless Cars >>
* Alibaba Cloud steps up its game as it offers quantum computing service >>
* China’s Huawei set to lead global roll-out of 5G mobile networks >>

* Empathic AI: The Next Generation of Vehicles Will Understand Your Emotions >>
* Adversarial Examples that Fool both Human and Computer Vision >>
* Special Skinsuits Could Help Astronauts Avoid Back Pain When Their Spines Expand In Space >>

* Why Physicists Are Planning to Drive Antimatter Around in a Moving Van >>

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