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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 1 February 2019

January 31, 2019 Leave a comment

* Self-taught robot figures out what it looks like and what it can do >>
* MIT Robot Learned to Play Jenga Through Vision and Touch (Just Like a Human) >>
* Scientists want to create farm animals that only give birth to FEMALES >>

* A Smart Stethoscope Puts AI in Medics’ Ears >>
* Experimental Brain-Computer Interface Translates Brain Signals into Recognizable Speech >>
* Alphabet’s Loon Sets Its Sights On The Satellite Industry >>

* LG rumored to unveil 5G-enabled V50 alongside G8 next month >>
* This Is Your Brain Off Facebook >>

* Uber adds public transportation options to its app >>
* Telesat inks satellite internet deals with Loon and Blue Origin >>
* Google’s Cloud Firestore NoSQL database hits general availability >>

* Cost of Self-Driving Cars Will Be the Biggest Barrier to Their Adoption >>
* Foxconn is killing a second $9B factory >>
* Robert Swan named Intel CEO >>

* Virus lurking inside banana genome has been destroyed with CRISPR >>
* Using Machine Learning and Analytics to Attract and Retain Employees >>
* a16z Podcast: Stories and Lessons in Enterprise Sales >>

* Merged Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram messages will be more private: Facebook >>
* Scientists Have Detected an Enormous Cavity Growing Beneath Antarctica >>
* 2,400 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in February >>

* Deploy trained Keras or TensorFlow models using Amazon SageMaker >>
* Designing Magnets for the World’s Largest Particle Collider >>
* Iron-Platinum Catalyst Keeps Fuel Cells Clean, Even in Cold Weather >>

* Ask Slashdot: Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs? >>
* San Francisco Could Be First to Ban Facial Recognition Tech >>
* What to expect from tomorrow’s big net neutrality court hearing >>

* Facebook doesn’t want to talk about how many people use its app anymore >>
* Facebook is making more money than ever because nothing matters >>
* People still flock to Facebook, despite blunders and apologies >>

* Cheap Internet of Things gadgets betray you even after you toss them in the trash >>
* Electric scooter startup Grin merges with Brazil-based Yellow >>
* Chrome 72 Arrives With Code Injection Blocking, New Developer Features >>

* Elon Musk wants Teslas to automatically call a tow truck when something breaks >>
* Elon says Tesla might unveil its pickup truck ‘this summer’ >>
* Elon Musk is Targeting Volume Production in China by the End of 2019 >>
* SpaceX is Enclosing StarHopper Construction >>
* Crew Dragon Rolls Out to the Launch Pad. Demo-1 Flight Should Happen Shortly >>
* Tech Report: Elon Musk is Right—Lidar is a Crutch >>

* IBM Research AI at AAAI 2019 >>
* NASA mission maps ‘light echoes’ of gigantic new black hole ten times bigger that the sun >>
* Earth’s Magnetic Field Nearly Disappeared 565 Million Years Ago >>

* No Code, Enterprise Sales, Deep-Learning the Brain, and Computer Architecture >>
* The Rise of “No Code” >>
* This robot can probably beat you at Jenga—thanks to its understanding of the world >>

* U.S. received 26.3 billion robocalls in 2018, report >>
* Mind-altering parasite spread by CATS and carried by billions of people worldwide ‘may lead to schizophrenia in humans’ >>
* Apple plans 3-D cameras for new iPhones >>

* Tokyo 2020 organisers cut crowds at sailing events over tsunami risk >>
* Researchers use AI to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s >>
* Microsoft, Google Use Artificial Intelligence to Fight Hackers >>

* The zero-waste movement is coming for your garbage >>
* Researchers identify drug against the formation of metastasis >>
* A new study takes a fresh look at the mechanics of forming habits. >>

* Gum disease and Alzheimer’s: Your questions answered >>
* From ‘Made in China’ to ‘Sell to China’ >>
* Google+ will bid users farewell on April 2nd >>

* Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking >>
* 15 new job roles to be released in China >>
* China’s Internet industry needs to shift focus to progress >>

* Donald Trump says trade war will ‘hopefully’ be resolved before March >>
* Federal Reserve’s worrying slide from villain to pushover >>
* Global rules-based trading system is under threat as Washington seeks to conscript other countries to its economic war >>

* The 7 Deadly Diseases of DevOps >>
* The Future of Data: A Decentralized Graph Database >>
* A Year of Continuous Deployment: Lessons Learned >>
* IoT for Business Enterprises: Everything You Need to Know >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 January 2019

January 30, 2019 Leave a comment

* Samsung develops the first 1TB storage chip for phones >>
* Ingestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month >>
* iRobot’s robotic lawnmower was 10 years in the making >>

* Scientists are working on a ‘shark-proof’ swimsuit >>
* Can AI help crack the code of fusion power? >>
* Chinese computer engineer builds world’s first AI cat shelter for stray cats >>

* The Need for Carbon Fiber Could Ground the Flying-Car Future >>
* So far 2019 has set 33 records for heat, but none for cold >>
* 5G Devices Are about to Change Your Life >>

* Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing >>
* Scientists Use ‘Half A Mosquito-Worth’ of DNA to Produce Whole Genome >>

* India’s largest bank SBI leaked account data on millions of customers >>
* Stream Apple Music for free on American Airlines flights >>

* IBM builds a more diverse million-face data set to help reduce bias in AI >>
* Engineers program marine robots to take calculated risks >>
* Optimizing solar farms with smart drones >>

* Listen: ‘Active Matter’ Could Give Robots And Clothes More Life >>
* Renewable power? Scientists discover ideal wing shape for quick flight opening possibilities of harvesting energy >>
* NASA’s Parker Solar Probe just completed its first trip around the sun >>

* Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked To Schizophrenia in Largest Study Yet >>
* What Will Software Look Like Once Anyone Can Create It? >>
* Amazon’s voice-controlled, popcorn-ordering microwave is just $42 today >>

* This robot will play with your pet when you can’t >>
* Boeing Could Build New 797 Jets and Lower Ticket Prices by 40% by mid-2020s >>
* Future of Flying? First Class Cabins May Be Mixed with Economy Seats >>

* SpaceX Applies for Permission for Two Falcon Heavy Launches >>
* Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Makes Progress, But Questions Loom >>
* How AI is solving one of music’s most expensive problems >>

* 10 years in the making iRobot New Terra Robotic Lawnmower >>
* Dibert: Wednesday January 30, 2019 Best Product >>
* Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Invasive Rats >>

* Neural Electrodes Snake Around Blood Vessels, Up Nerves >>
* Do Data Scientists Need Certification? >>
* Future AI: The Explorer and the Philosopher >>

* Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser Schrödinger’s Cats >>
* Blue Origin’s 1st New Shepard Rocket to Carry People Is in ‘the Barn’ >>
* The Lagoon Nebula Glistens in Starry Deep-Space Image >>

* Genome sequencing could become a routine part of health care in the UK >>
* Here’s How Much Ice Antarctica Is Losing—It’s a Lot >>
* Disney and HBO say companies will face massive investment demands >>

* AI Tradeoff: Accuracy or Robustness? >>
* Software Needs an Assembly Line >>
* 10 CES Takeaways Rising Up in the Age of Data >>

* An Open Source Platform for IoT with support for LoRaWAN >>
* Operationalization of Machine Learning Models: Part 2 >>
* So you want to provision a test environment >>

* Tesla just changed its Model S and Model X pricing >>
* China continues 5G push despite economic slowdown and Huawei setbacks >>
* Google is using 3D printers to re-create ancient artifacts >>

* A five foot ROBOT tour guide Betty will lead visitors around Blenheim Palace and post selfies on social media >>
* IBM Research Releases ‘Diversity in Faces’ Dataset to Advance Study of Fairness in Facial Recognition Systems >>
* 5G changes how we work, play, and collaborate >>

* Scientists Identify Key Neural Mechanisms Behind an LSD Trip >>
* Canon And Nikon Are Off To A Strong Start With Their First Full-frame Mirrorless Cameras >>
* Roomba’s creator made an autonomous lawnmower robot >>

* Amazon will fund computer science classes at over 130 New York City high schools >>
* China’s DJI turns its eye to enterprise uses like agriculture >>
* China is home to most extensive expressways and high-speed rail in the world >>

* a16z Podcast: Finding Go-to-Market Fit in the Enterprise >>
* Getting Cozy With WebViews, Part 2 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 January 2019

January 29, 2019 Leave a comment

* $1,200 smart indoor dog toilet can bag up your pet’s mess (and spray air freshener) >>
* Noise-cancelling smart pillow that uses AI to block out your partner’s snoring >>
* Waze Beacons will help you navigate inside New York City tunnels >>

* Mind-reading implant can decode what your ears are hearing >>
* We’ve only just found out exactly how sperm wiggle their tails to swim >>
* What If Your Fitbit Could Run on a Wi-Fi Signal? >>
* Scientists turn Wi-Fi signals into ELECTRICITY in breakthrough >>

* Bill Gates-backed radar system applies for permission to detect and disable drones at the Superbowl >>
* Samsung to launch a smart-shirt that connects to your phone and can diagnose pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma and COPD >>
* Robot valets may soon be parking your car at this airport >>

* Salvador Dali’s AI clone will welcome visitors to his museum >>
* Nasty FaceTime bug could allow others to eavesdrop on your microphone or camera >>
* Scientists spot a new form of strange matter that could reveal what happened in the universe following the Big Bang >>

* Learning to teach to speed up learning >>
* Nvidia’s Quadro Virtual Workstations are now available on Azure >>
* Cisco extends ACI to public cloud >>

* Transplanting stem cells from donors’ eyes could ‘cure blindness’ after a world first study >>
* Why It Hurts to Lose Sleep >>
* Lost Sleep Ups Alzheimer’s Protein Levels >>

* Toshiba unveils new ‘indestructible’ robot with an extending arm to probe melted Fukushima nuclear fuel >>
* From Parkour to Surgery, Here Are the Top 10 Recent Advancements in Robotics >>
* AI recreates paintings using 3D printing >>

* Apex.AI Does the Invisible Work That Will Make Self-Driving Cars Possible >>
* Errors Found in Forensic Software Meant to Assess Age of Death of Skeletal Remains >>
* Can AI help crack the code of fusion power? >>

* Ford is letting some designers build cars in virtual reality >>
* How companies are building sustainable AI and ML initiatives >>
* Mayhem, the Machine That Finds Software Vulnerabilities, Then Patches Them >>

* Report: Apple’s video streaming service to launch this spring >>
* Not Enough Companies Are Ready for Brexit, No Matter What Happens Next >>
* To Improve Your Team, First Work on Yourself >>

* WeWork could challenge Starbucks in China with new on-demand service >>
* These Genetically Modified Chickens Can Lay Eggs With Cancer-Killing Drugs >>
* Scientists Prepare for Mission to Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa >>

* It’s Time to Stop Treating R&D as a Discretionary Expenditure >>
* Chatbot from Planned Parenthood Can Answer Your Teen’s Sex Questions >>
* The Jobs After Automation Will Be to Satisfy Rising Standards and Competitive Demands >>

* Dilbert Tuesday January 29, 2019 >>
* Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Claims to Have a Breakthrough Cancer Cure >>
* Scientists may have found a way to kill cancer cells without chemotherapy >>

* Ultima Thule from New Horizons >>
* 365 Days of Sunshine: Time-Lapse Video Shows the Sun on Every Day of 2018 >>
* Bluetooth Direction Finding Is Like Super-Precise GPS for Connected Things >>

* World’s Largest Digital Sky Survey Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever >>
* Life on Earth may have been made possible by an ancient, violent collision >>
* Scientists make gene-edited chickens in bid to halt next pandemic >>

* Flying Cars and Skyports Versus Tunnels and Self-driving Electric Cars >>
* Is a slider better than a notch? >>
* The Real-world Ai Issue >>

* Powering the Next Wave of Intelligent IoT Devices With Machine Learning: Part 1 >>
* 6 Predictions for the Surveillance Industry 2019 >>
* Dialogflow Tutorials to Learn Chatbot Development >>

* The cost of Luxembourg’s free public transport plan >>
* I Cut Google Out Of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything >>
* The Man Who Invented Information Theory >>

* Gmail is back online after crashing for users around the world >>
* Instagram outage forces millions to look directly at the world for nearly half an hour >>
* Singapore HIV Registry Data Leaked Online in Health Breach >>

* How the US took more than a decade to build its case against Huawei >>
* Huawei charged with fraud and money laundering >>
* US announces criminal charges against Huawei, seeks to extradite its CFO >>

* NVIDIA is the latest tech giant blaming China’s economy for poor sales >>
* Will rising food costs after Brexit really cause thousands of deaths? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 January 2019

January 28, 2019 Leave a comment

* MIT hopes to automatically ‘de-bias’ face detection AI >>
* The emptiness of space has a structure we could use to send messages >>
* Google Assistant may scan your face to personalize commands >>

* Blood test can diagnose fetal genetic disorders early in pregnancy >>
* AI-tuned robotic knee helps amputees walk within minutes >>
* Chinese HIV experiment prompts call for gene-editing controls >>

* Android Q might include an equivalent to Apple’s Face ID >>
* China tests new generation of faster, bigger maglev >>
* Medical AI, Opinion Mapping, Voting-Free Democracy, and a Typed Graph Database >>

* Scientists bring new insight into how animals see >>
* Martin Rees: Prospects for Humanity >>
* This App Lets Kenya’s Farmers Monitor Crops From Eyes in the Sky >>

* How AI is revolutionising drug industry by cutting pharmaceutical development time, says leading company >>
* The State Of Ai In 2019 >>
* A new trailer for The Wandering Earth shows off a desperate plan to save the planet >>

* China releases footage of ‘Guam killer’ DF-26 ballistic missile in ‘clear message to the US’ >>
* Young Americans seen as ‘future of China-US relations’ as scholars reflect on soft power >>
* The 8-dimensional space that must be searched for alien life >>

* Gene Drives Shown to Work in Female Mice >>
* Women could use their own uteruses as incubators for IVF embryos >>
* MIT Has Invented Slightly Eerie Lasers That Transmit Whispers Only You Can Hear >>

* Antibiotic resistant superbug gene discovered in remote Arctic area thought to be among ‘last pristine ecosystems’ on Earth >>
* Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon >>
* China still leading in global shipbuilding industry >>

* Scientists may have found a way to kill cancer cells without chemotherapy >>
* Japanese Government Plans To Hack Into Citizens’ IoT Devices >>
* Research: People Use Less Energy When They Think Their Neighbors Care About the Environment >>

* This video of a bricklayer using Hololens is the future of construction >>
* New Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket and a Successful First Commercial Sub-orbital Payload >>
* Life’s Chaotic: Let’s Learn About Entropy >>

* Artificial Intelligence and the Starship >>
* 4 big trends for the sharing economy in 2019 >>

* 2019 Executive Insights on DevOps >>
* 11 Reasons To Use Selenium for Automation Testing >>
* The Basics of Voice Search Optimization >>

* Computer Vision Systems Applied to Real Business Problems >>
* 3 Ways Securing Your APIs Just Got Easier >>
* How To Sound Like A Cloud Expert >>

* What it Means to Be a Data-Driven Enterprise and How to Become One >>
* How to Implement DevOps Testing >>
* Reasons for the Failure of Agile in Organization >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 January 2019

January 27, 2019 Leave a comment

* Microsoft and MIT can detect AI ‘blind spots’ in self-driving cars >>
* StarCraft is a deep, complicated war strategy game. Google’s AlphaStar AI crushed it. >>
* Austin teen arrested for robbing bank using e-scooter as his getaway vehicle >>

* VW just shut down part of its electric car charging network over a safety concern >>
* Bill Gates Promises Congress $1 Billion To Build Nuclear Reactors For Fighting Climate Change >>
* Using an atomic force microscope as a nanoscopic shovel >>

* Chinese Companies OneSpace and iSpace are preparing for First Orbital Launches >>
* ICYMI: China Has Launched 2 Rockets So Far This Year, Placing 5 Satellites in Orbit >>
* Swarm Raises $25 Million for Smallsat Constellation >>

* Who owns your face? >>
* Scientists are working on a pill for loneliness >>
* Samsung is ditching plastic packaging >>

* AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee >>
* AI technology accelerates and augments legal work >>

* Too few cybersecurity professionals is a gigantic problem for 2019 >>
* Securing The Cloud >>
* Blue Origin starts building the factory for New Glenn’s engines >>

* Jeff Bezos, Has Given Just 0.09% Of Fortune To Charity >>
* Scientists Created The First Successful Human-Animal Hybrids >>
* Advancing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech: Why Solar Energy Needs Your Electric Car >>

* Everything coming to Netflix in February >>
* A new trailer for The Wandering Earth shows off a desperate plan to save the planet >>
* ‘Build the wall’ with fiber optics >>

* a16z Podcast: Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer >>
* Thinking Algorithmic In Assembly >>
* DevOps Radio: A DevOps Transformation is Never “Done” >>

* The State of AI in 2019: Top 5 Trends to Watch Out For >>
* Thoughts on Recent Research Paper and Associated Article on Amazon Rekognition >>
* From the Northern to the Southern Cross >>

* A Child’s Puzzle Helped Uncover How Magnets Really Work >>
* A simple data analysis disproves the argument for building a border wall >>
* Electrifying stroke recovery solution defies traditional thinking >>

* Can AI Really Be a Game Changer in Cervical Cancer Screenings? >>
* AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong >>
* How spaceflight changes the brain: Study on 15 astronauts reveals micro-gravity alters white matter and causes brain to float higher in the skull >>

* A Guide to BaaS—for people who do not understand SaaS >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 January 2019

January 26, 2019 Leave a comment

* World in shock as Zuck decides to intertwine Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp >>
* Can AI-Controlled Cameras Replace An Air Traffic Control Tower? >>
* Google’s next I/O conference begins May 7th >>

* AI can accelerate the shift to a more sustainable future >>
* E-scooters send more people to hospital than bicycles – study >>
* Now Your Groceries See You, Too >>

* Richard Branson claims he’ll take his first spaceflight in the middle of this year >>
* Battling AI algorithm tested on a quantum computer for first time >>
* Teabag-like device lets women incubate IVF embryos in their uteruses >>

* A ‘Multicultural Toilet’ and Other Innovations to Fix Flying >>
* An Underwater Skin Sensor Lets Swimmers Track Their Sweat >>
* Advanced Extraterrestrials as an Approximation to God >>

* Blue Origin Breaks Ground for BE-4 Rocket Engine Factory in Alabama >>
* Saturn’s Biggest Moon Titan May Bake Its Own Atmosphere >>
* Virgin Galactic Lays Off Staff as Test Program Continues >>

* A Sharper Picture of Ultima Thule From NASA’s New Horizons >>
* Quasars with a Double-Image Gravitational Lens Could Help Finally Figure out how Fast the Universe is Expanding >>
* SpaceX Puts in Fuel Tanks into StarHopper and Shows Metallic Heat Shield Tests >>

* a16z Podcast: Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer >>
* AI Finds Traces of a Lost Species in Human DNA >>
* Gatwick airport trial for valet-parking ROBOTS >>

* A coalition of giant brands is about to change how we shop forever, with a new zero-waste platform >>
* Meet the dummies being sent around the moon to gauge radiation threat >>
* Rebuilding a Piece of the First Digital Voice Scrambler >>

* Amazing image of New Horizons’ ‘space snowman’ received from deep space >>
* WARNING: AI ‘capable predicting and manipulating YOUR future’ >>
* SIGSALY Analog-to-Digital Converter Construction and Debugging >>

* Trump backs down to end painful shutdown temporarily >>
* How Donald Trump Lost More Than Just the Shutdown >>
* How Nancy Pelosi broke Donald Trump >>
* The Shutdown Was the Price of Trump’s Tuition >>
* If you want to understand the age of Trump, read the Frankfurt School >>

* Education Everywhere: A night of talks about the future of learning TED-Ed >>
* Microsoft delivers a second preview of Visual Studio 2019 >>
* Russian YouTube-Ripping Site Wins In US Court >>

* This ‘Artificial Nose’ Device Can Quickly Detect Gas and Other Odors >>
* 20-Second ‘Exercise Snacks’ Proven to Boost Fitness >>
* Security News This Week: Privacy Wins in Six Flags Fingerprints Ruling >>

* Ending the Government Shutdown Won’t Fix Flight Delays >>
* Google Voice VoIP Calls Will Be Live For Everyone by Next Week >>
* MoviePass to offer unlimited plan again >>

* Boeing’s passenger drone took off for the first time >>
* Facebook is combining Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp infrastructure into one, report says >>
* Sensory installations, gen Z marketers and more >>

* Amazon’s facial-analysis tool showed gender and race bias, says study >>
* How have tariffs impacted robotics? >>
* FCA to test Jeep car-sharing and other pilots >>

* When Does Your Intelligence Peak? >>
* Inside Earth, Microbes Approach Immortality >>
* Even with price hikes from Netflix and Hulu, streaming still cheaper than cable >>

* The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite >>
* Vodafone, One of World’s Largest Cell Carriers, Halts Buying of Huawei Gear >>
* Our Neural Code: A Pathway to AI Minds? >>

Organized & Useful Resources about Deep Learning with TensorFlow >>
Meet Mappy, Happy, and Dappy: Personas for Blockchain >>
Deploying Compliant Kubernetes Real World Edge Cases >>

Can You Distinguish Between Real Images And Computer Generated Ones? >>
New trailers: Shazam!, Broad City, The Umbrella Academy, and more >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 January 2019

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* DeepMind AI thrashes human professionals at video game StarCraft II >>
* New therapy turns cancer cells into fat to stop it from spreading >>
* Scooter injuries are a thing, and they’re sending people to the ER >>

* Drones Drop Poison Bombs to Fight One Island’s Rat Invasion >>
* Machine Learning Cuts False Alarms In I.C.U. >>
* AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee >>

* Is Your Company’s Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model? >>
* ‘VR Horizons’ Increases Accessibility of Immersive Education >>
* People appear to sleep much better when rocked throughout the night >>

* Huawei P30 Pro could come with periscope-style zoom lens >>
* Scientists Drill Deepest Hole Ever in Antarctica >>
* Should we rename some cancers to make them sound less scary? >>

* World’s nuclear weapons club to meet in China as trade talks and Meng Wanzhou extradition deadline looms >>
* SpaceX achieves testing milestone under the shadow of a government shutdow >>

* State of AI in 2019: Top 5 Trends to Watch Out For >>
* IoT, Not People, Now the Weakest Link in Security >>
* Special electronic warfare aircraft prepare for flight >>

* The online conference that might change video games for good >>
* Major Mobile Carrier Halts Huawei Purchases Amid Security Concerns >>
* Chefs and truck drivers beware: AI is coming for jobs >>

* SpaceX test firing sets path for Crew Dragon flight in February >>
* Large-Scale Agile: Where Do You Want Your Complexity? >>
* Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019 >>

* Is the world ready for the ‘digital transformation’? >>
* How Microrobots Will Fix Our Roads and Save Us Billions >>
* Twins in Space: The Impact of Space Travel on Gene Expression >>

* McLaren reveal futuristic electric race car for 2050 featuring AI co-pilot and SELF-HEALING tyres >>
* Self-driving cars, robots: Identifying AI ‘blind spots’ >>
* Staying slim isn’t just about what you eat – it’s about your DNA too >>

* These 3 Electroceuticals Could Help You Heal Faster >>
* Smoking greatly increases your biological age, says A.I. >>
* Scientists are killing superbugs with viruses >>

* India’s 1st Rocket Launch of 2019 Sends Military Satellite, Student Cubesat Into Orbit >>
* Amazon Launches Scout Delivery Robots in Washington >>
* CoreDNS joins Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy >>

* Nearly half of game developers want to unionize >>
* World’s Longest 3D-Printed Bridge Unveiled in China >>
* Online storytelling community Wattpad launches its own publishing arm, Wattpad Books >>

* Digital skills gap on the minds of tech leaders at Davos 2019 >>
* New 3D Printing Technique Is 100 Times Faster Than Standard 3D Printers >>
* Lightning Motorcycles is taking reservations for its $12,998 electric motorcycle >>

* Bangkok Fights Air Pollution With Water-Spraying Drones >>
* Scooters 2.0, Munchery ghosts and solving contraceptive deserts >>
* Vodafone pauses Huawei network supply purchases in Europe >>

* First Commercial SpaceShipTwo Flight Is Expected to Launch This Year >>
* Serverless Computing London Call for Papers is open NOW >>
* The future of jeans: Inside the Levi’s innovation lab bringing denim into 2019 >>

* During the 20th Century, Vacuum Tubes Improved in a Moore’s Law-Like Way >>
* Meet the Bots That Review and Write Snippets of Facebook’s Code >>
* Reaction Engines Targets 2020 to Test Hypersonic Engine for Space Planes >>

* VR for Your Ears: Dynamic 3D Audio Is Coming Soon >>
* Sony Upgrading Aibo With New Home Security Features, API Access >>
* Rocketstar to Launch 3D Printed Aerospike Engine Rocket in February >>

* Airbus CTO Predicts a Quantum Computing Era in Aerospace >>
* Can Lidars Zap Camera Chips? >>
* Deep Mind Artificial Intelligence Wins 10 Out 11 Games Versus Pro Human Players >>

* Boeing Flew an Electric VTOL Passenger Drone Which Would Become Personal Flying Machines >>
* A Noise-Canceling System for People Who Snore >>
* Quantum Circuits Opens Lab for Modular Quantum Computers >>

* Changing How We Build Satellites Could Do More Than Reduce Space Junk >>
* In New Moon Race, NASA Values Teamwork Over Competition with China and Others >>
* Blue Origin has Shown off a New Video of its New Glenn Rocket Design >>

* What Would be the Benefits of an Interstellar Probe? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 January 2019

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* Boeing’s Flying Taxi Prototype Takes to the Air (Briefly) >>
* Aibo learns to be a better watchdog >>
* Amazon has made its own autonomous six-wheeled delivery robot >>

* Dream of Apple Car may be dead as company dismisses 200 employees >>
* World Leaders at Davos Call for Global Rules on Tech >>

* SpaceX’s new test rocket topples over thanks to strong Texas winds >>
* Blue Origin successfully launches and lands first New Shepard rocket of 2019 >>
* Blue Origin Wants to Launch a Person Into Space by the End of This Year >>
* NASA Did Not Accept an Unlimited Budget for Sending Humans to Mars But Elon Musk Would >>
* Active Cooling and Stainless Steel Construction of the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship >>
* Starship bloopers: Musk proto-craft tumbles – as Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket lifts off Jeff 1 – 0 Elon >>

* Hulu cuts the price of its basic service to $6 per month >>
* Intel announces an inside-out tracking camera for robotics and AR/VR hardware >>
* Building Ethically Aligned AI >>

* Algorithm that can see around corners could help autonomous cars >>
* World’s first portable lavatory cleaning robot is being sold online for $500 >>
* This 3D Printing Technique Is 100 Times Faster Than Standard 3D Printers >>

* To feed 11 billion people, we must share crop seeds as a common good >>
* World Economic Forum warns of AI’s potential to worsen global inequality >>
* AI can predict your future tweets by looking at your friends’ accounts >>

* AWS launches WorkLink to make accessing mobile intranet sites and web apps easier >>
* Autonomous subs spend a year cruising under Antarctic ice >>
* Q&A: The talent shortage in quantum computing >>

* We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it >>
* Alzheimer’s disease: Scientists restore memory in mice through epigenetic treatment >>
* Blood Test Detects Rate of Brain Cell Death from Alzheimer’s Up to 16 Years Before Signs of Dementia >>
* Cancer has a biological clock and this drug may keep it from ticking >>

* The laser gun that can beam audio directly into someone’s ear across a noisy room >>
* 3D printing is changing personalised medicine, finds IDTechEx >>
* Advance Academic Research With the NI Platform >>

* A glimpse of Beijing Daxing International Airport >>
* Weird Orbits of Distant Objects Can Be Explained Without Invoking a ‘Planet Nine’ >>
* A quarter of US jobs will be severely disrupted by AI >>

* DeepMind StarCraft II Demonstration >>
* How Neural Networks And Machine Learning Are Making Games More Interesting >>
* Google Search Operators: The Complete List (42 Advanced Operators) >>

* Robots Will Take Jobs From Men, the Young, and Minorities >>
* No proof that artificial intelligence and automation will take away jobs, says new report >>
* Samsung Galaxy S10 leak hints at cryptocurrency wallet >>

* The fight for e-scooters in NYC rolls along >>
* Honda will show off a new EV prototype in March >>
* Idera acquires Travis CI >>

* Epic Games buys 3Lateral, maker of super-realistic ‘digital humans’ >>
* The 3 Challenges Every New CEO Faces >>
* What is Istio? The Kubernetes service mesh explained >>

* A meteorite hit the moon during Monday’s total lunar eclipse >>
* Artificial intelligence can dramatically cut time needed to process abnormal chest X-rays >>
* Rocket Lab to Launch DARPA Satellite in February >>

* Terrifying killer AI will end us… by pushing us down hospital wait lists? >>
* Extract and visualize clinical entities using Amazon Comprehend Medical >>
* China has a competitive AI game plan but success will need cooperation >>

* Google launches new certification courses for cloud developers and engineers >>
* AWS launches Neo-AI, an open-source tool for tuning ML models >>

* Doing DevOps for Big Data What you need to know about AIOps >>
* Sort Circuit: How GPUs Helped One Man Conquer His Lego Pile – Ep. 77 >>
* How Machine Learning Impacts Information Security >>
* What’s New for Security Startups? >>

* 5G: if you build it, we will fill it >>
* America’s “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns >>
* Our Software Dependency Problem >>

* Working With a Proximity Beacon Network (Part 1) >>
* IoT Predictions for 2019 >>
* Your Microservice Architecture Will Collapse >>
* Practical Uses for Machine Learning in Software Delivery >>
* Cloud Robotics: Part 2 of the Robot Development Platforms Series >>
* Operationalization of Machine Learning Models: Part 2 >>

* Chinese VP calls for shaping global architecture for better future of mankind >>
* Drones Drop Poison Bombs to Fight One Island’s Rat Invasion >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 January 2019

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* Xiaomi’s flexible phone concept folds on both sides >>
* Chinese army AI can track people across different CCTV cameras >>

* How cellphone companies will help you thwart robocalls >>
* Toyota and Panasonic may team up to make EV batteries >>
* The Military Is Looking At Ways To Intercept Nukes From Space — But Experts Say It’s Not Feasible >>

* Amazon warehouse workers are getting utility belts that ward off robots >>
* Rocket Lab snags DARPA launch contract for first 2019 mission >>

* Garmin’s latest golf GPS can throw you into virtual tournaments >>
* SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas >>
* 9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations >>

* X-ray scans powered by AI could slash waiting times for expert diagnosis from 11 days to less than THREE >>
* Alibaba unveils futuristic Chinese hotel complete with facial recognition checkin, robot room service and ‘barbots’ that mix cocktails >>
* Scientists Take Temp Of Atoms In Supernova Shock Wave >>

* SpaceX is Lifts a Bulk Head into the Starhopper and Landing Pad Area Seems Ready for Paving >>
* Modeling Sensors and Instrument Transformers >>
* The trinity of errors in financial models: An introductory analysis using TensorFlow Probability >>

* CTO of General Fusion Forecasts Ten Years to Commercial Fusion >>
* Elon Musk and CERN Confirm Discussions for Cheaper Future Collider >>
* Astronomy Cast Ep. 514: Planetary Protection Protocols >>

* Hulu in February 2019 >>
* Greenland ice melting faster than scientists had thought, nears ‘tipping point’ >>
* Postmates’ quest to design a delivery robot that people don’t hate >>

* China Transforms, and a Factory Owner Struggles to Follow >>
* Steam-Powered Spacecraft Could Explore the Asteroid Belt Forever, Refueling Itself in Space >>

* The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over >>
* Oracle’s priorities for 2019? Repeat this handy mantra: Applications! Automation! Integration! >>

* Data science and AI set for growth in 2019 >>
* Vectorly reinvents itself to maximize its impact on mobile learning >>
* Elon Musk says Tesla vehicles will soon get a ‘Sentry Mode’ >>

* Swedish researchers have recreated how birds see the world using a special camera. >>
* Breakthrough in earthquake prediction as scientists find big quakes follow a ‘silent slip’ >>
* Scientists recreate ‘freak wave’ that can reach 100ft high for first time – and find they perfectly mirror Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ print from 1800 >>

* Gene-edited ‘superchickens’ resistant to flu in bid to halt human pandemic >>
* Apple to put THREE cameras on the upcoming iPhone 11 >>
* 10 powerful quotes to inspire your meditation practice >>

* Scientists engineer new CRISPR platform for DNA targeting >>
* Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—plus Machine Learning Tools >>
* Google Says Data is More Like Sunlight Than Oil >>

* Converging AI and Real-Time Analytics to Transform Travel >>
* Another autonomous robot is here to deliver snacks for college students >>
* Scientists turn carbon emissions into usable energy >>

* Scientists analyzed the gamma rays emitted during the NPDGamma Experiment and found parity-violating asymmetry >>
* Saturn’s Rings are Only 10 to 100 Million Years Old >>
* Reality Regained: An Inquiry into the Data Age >>

* Nuclear Fusion Commercialization Race >>
* NASA Switches Astronaut on Boeing’s 1st Crewed Starliner Spacecraft Test Flight >>
* Tesla Cars With Autopilot 2+ Hardware Will Watch Over the Car in Sentry Mode >>

* NVIDIA Launches New Robotics Lab in Seattle >>
* Developing a Distributed Autonomous Test Framework >>
* SpaceX Stainless Steel Rocket Will Be Lighter and Stronger and Have 65X Lower Cost Material, >>

* Tata Communications’ Countrywide Internet of Things Will Manage the Chaos in India’s Booming Cities >>
* How to Lead at Every Stage of Your Engineering Career >>
* Russia Will Test a New Sodium Fast Reactor and Reprocessing to Handle All Nuclear Waste >>

* Exclusive: 600-million-year old blobs are earliest animals ever found >>
* How virtual reality can help you manage pain >>
* The future of artificial intelligence in retail >>

* Gene Therapy Promotes Nerve Regeneration >>
* The Top Biotech and Medicine Advances to Expect in 2019 >>
* Xiaomi’s folding phone is the best we’ve seen so far >>

* Top Web Development Trends To Watch In 2019 >>
* Top 10 Trending Artificial Intelligence Frameworks and Libraries >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 January 2019

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* Welcome to the abnormalization of transportation >>
* Autonomous Bar Will Drive Up And Mix You Drinks >>
* AirMap raises $26 million to manage air traffic as drone use surges >>

* Stratolaunch axes launch vehicle and rocket engine projects >>
* US Surveillance Technology Propping Up Authoritarian Regimes? >>
* Researchers Created Artificial Cells That Can Communicate With Each Other >>

* Deep Space 1: Providing a Wealth of New Space Technology >>
* Multicloud and Connectivity together: The benefits of Vodafone and IBM’s new venture >>

* Here’s How China’s Cotton Sprouts Died on the Far Side of the Moon >>
* Rendering of SpaceX Heavy Configuration for Superheavy Starship >>
* Nuclear Power Has Saved 3 Million Lives >>

* 5 things: about the future of money + finance >>
* Boring Company Could Lower Cost of Europe’s Next Generation Particle Colliders >>
* CERN Proposes 100 Trillion Electron Volt Supercollider for 2040 >>

* A Smart Device Needs to be Useful, Not Just Clever >>
* A 3D Bioprinter Makes a Spinal Cord Implant in 1.6 Seconds >>
* Boring Company Offers to Dig 30 Mile Tunnel Through Mountains in Australia >>

* New Connectivity Solutions Enable Better Wearables >>
* Video Friday: AMBIDEX Cable-Driven Robot Arm, and More >>
* Delivery Drones Use Bird-Inspired Legs to Jump Into the Air >>

* Introduction to the NI mmWave Transceiver System Hardware >>
* Douglas Rushkoff – It’s not the technology’s fault >>
* Gene therapies can be a miracle cure–except when our immune systems won’t let them >>

* Bill Gates offers Trump free lessons about foreign aid >>
* Physicists Want to Build an Even More Powerful Atom Smasher at CERN >>
* Steve Carell Is Launching a ‘Space Force’ Comedy Series on Netflix >>

* Watch Ultima Thule Spin Like a Propeller in This Awesome New Horizons Flyby Video >>
* New trailers: John Wick 3, Game of Thrones, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and more >>
* Stratolaunch is scaling back operations following the death of co-founder Paul Allen >>

* This new app brings Google’s Digital Wellbeing features to all Android phones >>
* AR headset company Meta shutting down after assets sold to unknown company >>
* Wacom and Magic Leap are creating an optimistic vision of the future of productivity >>

* Cloud Hosting Market Powered by Holochain >>
* Scientists Use AI to Decode the Ultrasonic Language of Rodents >>

* Will Tesla and Elon Musk Win in 2019? >>
* Why the airport of the future still doesn’t exist >>
* Uber is Exploring Autonomous Bikes and Scooters >>

* Chinese Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies Fired by University >>
* Machine Learning in Action for the Humanitarian Sector >>
* Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’ >>

* MIDI Association Announces MIDI 2.0 Prototyping >>
* Uber is hiring robotics teams to work on bikes and scooters >>
* Why There Are No Nuclear Airplanes >>

* Fully autonomous cars won’t be here soon, but these advanced self-driving features will >>
* Veteran Googler heads to Lyft to lead team of 1,000-plus engineers >>
* Air Force gives 3D-printed rocket company Cape Canaveral launch pad >>

* Mapping the brain at high resolution >>
* Driving Grocery Stores’ for Customers >>
* AI is better at bluffing than professional gamblers >>

* Microsoft might surprise us with HoloLens 2 next month >>
* Researchers train robot dog to pick itself back up after a fall >>
* Which Cloud PBX Provider is Right For You? Get to Grips with ITSPs >>

* Volvo Is 3d Printing Mangrove-textured Tiles To Save Our Oceans >>
* AI-powered management of chronic pain >>
* How Ai Will Turn Us All Into Filmmakers >>

* Angry Nerd: Smart Replies Make Us All Dumber >>
* Why Jeff Bezos’ Divorce Should Worry Amazon Investors >>
* Mystery company buys Meta’s augmented reality tech >>

* Workplace futures, space entertainment and more. >>
* Study shows how specific gene variants may raise bipolar disorder risk >>
* Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole may be spewing matter right at us >>

* We’ve discovered a new type of blood vessel in our bones >>
* The last Neanderthals may have died out much earlier than we thought >>
* Drones will take to the skies to detect and repair small potholes by scanning roads for cracks and filling them with 3D printed asphalt >>

* Astronauts could use fish and human waste to grow food on long trips >>
* Silencing brain cells in mice can make them no longer care about pain >>
* Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth >>

* AI chemist figures out how to legally clone expensive patented drugs >>
* Brain-reading headsets trialled on 10,000 schoolchildren in China >>
* Scientists just figured out how long a day is on Saturn >>

* The Future of Payments 2018 >>
* The Future Yet To Be Imagined >>
* AI Created in DNA-Based Artificial Neural Networks >>

* Ray Kurzweil: ‘AI is Still on Course to Outpace Human Intelligence’ >>
* Facebook’s Plans for Space Lasers Revealed >>
* RoadBotics’ AI Could Change the Way Cities Maintain Roads >>

* report | Digital Divide: women in tech >>
* Amazon made a vest to keep robots from pummeling humans >>
* AI, the law, and our future >>

* Berkeley’s Two-Armed Robot Hints at a New Future For Warehouses >>
* Google starts pulling unvetted Android apps that access call logs and SMS messages >>
* Democratizing artificial intelligence in health care >>

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