Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 February 2019

* An Ingenious Injection Can Create Infrared Vision >>
* Earthquake-resistant paint could help brick buildings survive tremors >>
* Self-charging socks could track your exercise and power wearable tech >>

* Nreal’s mixed reality glasses can be powered by a 5G phone >>
* Bill Gates explains why we should all be optimists >>

* Energizer releases mega phone with 50 days of standby battery life >>
* Disney reportedly wants to buy AT&T’s stake in Hulu >>

* Etsy Crafts a Plan for Carbon-Neutral Online Shopping >>
* 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019 >>
* Breakthrough Technologies, AI Habitat, Simplified Datomic, and Metrics >>

* Wireless Skin Sensors for Newborns Will Let Parents Cuddle Fragile Babies >>
* MWC Barcelona 2019: The Biggest Changes That 5G Will Bring to the IoT Will Be Invisible >>
* MWC 2019: Huawei Politics, Robots and Speedy 5G >>

* Human-driven climate change meets “gold standard” of scientific certainty >>
* Hands-on with Microsoft’s new HoloLens 2 >>

* Microsoft rolls out AI-driven Azure Sentinel >>
* Electric Container Ships Are Stuck on the Horizon >>
* HIV Drug Impact Foreshadows Antiaging Impact and Who Wins the Most >>

* India and Pakistan On the Verge of Another War >>
* MWC Barcelona 2019: Low Latency 5G Networks Could Be a Game-Changer for AR and VR (But Not Until 2020) >>
* NASA and SpaceX are on Track to Saturday Unmanned Crew Dragon Test Flight >>

* Engineered yeast can brew up the active ingredients in cannabis plants >>
* Can AI Detect Deepfakes To Help Ensure Integrity of U.S. 2020 Elections? >>
* Progress Towards Using Quantum Computers for Solving Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning >>

* Sandia’s Robots Pull Apart Warheads to Recycle Thousands of Micro-Grenades >>
* Thailand Prepares to Install Floating Solar Plants at Eight Dams >>
* Will Tesla Reveal the Model Y Tomorrow? >>

* MWC Barcelona 2019: Europe Is Trying to Develop Standards for Hyperloops Before Everyone Builds Incompatible Tunnels >>
* Alternatives to DNA-Based Life >>
* Animal-AI Olympics Will Test AI on Intelligence Tasks Designed for Crows and Chimps >>

* Amazon Alexa exec says data privacy is vital to the success of voice assistants >>
* Amazon launches new tools that allow brands to proactively fight counterfeiting >>
* Amazon will let brands issue takedown strikes on fake listings >>

* Here are the most in-demand programming jobs and languages, according to Hired >>
* Researchers genetically modify yeast to ‘brew’ THC and CBD >>
* Controlling Internet Bound VPC Traffic Learn Why Your NAT Gateway May Not Be Up to the Task >>

* Why Is Customer Service So Bad? Because It’s Profitable. >>
* Why Visionary Leadership Fails >>
* Why your attention is like a piece of contested territory >>
* You created a machine learning application. Now make sure it’s secure. >>
* Your phone could soon recognise you on how you move or walk >>

* Thursday February 28, 2019 Mandatory Training >>
* The Surprising Power of Simply Asking Coworkers How They’re Doing >>
* The Ultimate Guide to Reinstalling Windows From Scratch >>

* The Feudal-age of Social Networks Is Over – Here’s What’s Next >>
* D-Wave Reveals 5000+ Qubit System With a More Connected Topology >>
* Modeling Vacuum Systems for Particle Accelerators >>

* Second-ever pair of semi-identical twins identified in Australia >>
* Belize’s Great Blue Hole as researchers release the first ever 3D map of the sinkhole >>
* Purple or brown? This 3D-printed cup changes colour in different light >>

* Trump’s border wall prototypes have been demolished >>
* Your genetic data can be exploited without you ever knowing about it >>
* Airlines reroute to avoid Pakistan >>

* Gymnastics, contortion and social media are changing yoga – and not in a good way >>
* Which is the bigger security risk? Huawei suggests it is the US CLOUD Act, not Chinese telecoms equipment >>
* Spacex Is Set To Launch A Crucial Test Flight For Nasa This Weekend >>

* Robots, teachers and health: How AI will affect NZ workplaces >>
* Software Testing Life Cycle >>
* Why Does a Dev Need to Know About DevOps? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 February 2019

* Google’s DeepMind can predict wind patterns a day in advance >>
* Carbon dioxide is turned BACK into coal in world-first breakthrough >>
* Boeing’s ‘Wingman’ drone buddies up with pilot-flown jets >>

* Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4 million high-risk individuals has leaked >>
* How we’ll reinvent the future, by Bill Gates >>

* Nubia’s Alpha watch phone is the most ridiculous gadget at MWC 2019 >>
* Gremlin Free providesability to run both Shutdown and CPU attacks on hosts, containers, simple user interface, no cost. >>
* Google Duo video calls are available on the web >>

* BBC and ITV set to launch Netflix rival >>
* ‘Frogs in hot water?’ We’re getting used to weird weather as globe warms >>
* ‘Unclonable’ Digital Fingerprints Boost Iot Device Security >>

* AI that lets you alter any face with a quick doodle >>
* Police drones with lasers could help find a murder victim in Australia >>
* NASA lab scientists reproduce the marine equivalent of the ‘big bang’ >>

* Elon Musk says his ‘Starship’ will first fly humans to the moon >>
* Clouds May Hold the Key to Future Warming >>
* Tinder Now Has a ‘Spring Break’ Mode for College Hookups >>

* Listen to plants and animals with the Stemoscope >>
* Bring your wildest dreams to life with Hextbot >>
* San Francisco used an algorithm to help it reverse pot convictions >>

* How AI Helps GOAT Keep Sneakerheads a Step Ahead – Ep. 78 >>
* OneWeb Wants To Rebuild the Internet in Space, Connecting Billions Not on the Web >>
* I used a Mercedes-Benz as a Mario Kart controller, and it was amazing >>

* BMW continues to bet on the (Azure) cloud >>
* Microsoft flings open Azure Functions to Java workloads >>
* Ready Flyer One: Airborne Wind Energy Simulations Guide the Leap to Satisfying Global Energy Demand >>

* We’re ready for foldable phones, but are they ready for us? >>
* Automated Testing Considerations >>
* 5 Predictions for Serverless in 2019 >>

* TED; The self-assembling computer chips of the Future >>
* China to open 400 big data, AI majors in universities for global competition >>
* Scientists envision solar power station in space >>

* Op-Ed: China is not America’s enemy – unless you make an enemy out of nothing >>
* Beijing Expo 2019 prepares for interior decoration >>
* Shanghai’s Hongqiao train station to be the world’s first offering 5G coverage >>

* Light pollution has reached fragile habitats and may threaten wildlife >>
* New Huawei P30 Pro leaks show off teardrop notch and quad-camera array >>
* How you could BANK your hair to fend off baldness >>

* Try your hand at working in an Amazon warehouse with this game >>
* VW may pour $1.7 billion into Ford’s self-driving car venture >>
* Ultra-fast USB 3.2 is coming to desktop PCs in 2019 >>

* Samsung’s new 512GB flash chip is twice as fast as its predecessor >>
* When the Bully Is the Boss >>
* LA Hospital Patients Use Alexa for Hands-Free Communication >>

* Holes in 4G and 5G Networks Could Let Hackers Track Your Location >>
* Just what the world needs: budget-friendly kamikaze drones >>
* Jaguar’s 2020 XE uses AI to help you get comfortable >>

* Here’s Everything Coming to Netflix in March 2019 >>
* AI in Web Development: Reality or Hype >>
* Trends in Artificial Intelligence that are Changing the Way We Talk >>

* Universal Binaries, Front-End Training, ML Myths, and Recommended Books >>
* Fighting Legalese with Digital, Personalized Contracts >>
* D-Wave announces its next-gen quantum computing platform >>

* Comparing the Galaxy S10+ and the Xperia 1 to the iPhone XS Max >>
* Comparing the Galaxy S10, Nokia 9 and LG G8: Cameras galore >>
* Boeing’s autonomous fighter jet could arrive next year >>

* 4 Ways Sales Teams Could Get More Value Out of AI >>
* 12 Ways to Help Women in Retail Advance into Management >>
* Robust Aging With National Exercise, Supplementation and Treatment Programs >>

* Billionaire Antiaging Investor Jim Mellon Predicts We Will Live to 115-150 Years >>
* Weekly Space Hangout: Feb 27, 2019 – Dr. Ellen Stofan, Director of the National Air and Space Museum >>
* NASA has Cleared Crew Dragon to Fly. Demo-1 Launches on March 2 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 February 2019

* Nubia’s new wearable puts a 4-inch flexible smartphone on your wrist >>
* MWC Barcelona 2019: 5G Is Putting Robots’ Heads in the Cloud >>
* Climate change kills off clouds over the ocean in new simulation >>

* Building Robots That Can Go Where We Go >>
* MIND KIT Is a Modular Robotics Development Platform Now on Kickstarter >>
* Reimagining mobility: A CEO’s guide >>

* AI-powered waste management underway in China >>
* Google expands AI-powered grammar checker in Docs to all G Suite users >>
* 18,000mAh battery has a phone in it >>

* Microsoft: 20 billion connected devices by 2020. Vodafone, Arm: How about 1 trillion by 2035? >>
* China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces >>
* This image-recognition neural net can be trained from 1.2 million pictures in 90 seconds >>

* Netflix and the Economics of Bundling >>
* Superb AI generates customized training data for machine learning projects >>
* New SpaceX Starhopper Nose Cone Should Be Complete in a Few Days >>

* Google and Samsung simplify choosing Android in the Enterprise >>
* Google’s new AI grammar checker is now live in Google Docs >>
* Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy >>

* Alibaba-backed start-up Efinix sees big opportunities in China for its programmable AI chips >>
* Innovative Backup Power Solution for Data Centers >>
* Superintelligence as a Service is Coming and It Can Be Safe AGI >>

* A.I. Saves Phone Battery For When You Need It >>
* New Security Technology Detects Malicious Cyberattacks on Drones, Cars, and Robots >>
* The Samsung Galaxy S10 has a cryptocurrency wallet built in >>

* 5G will take connectivity to the next level >>
* A World Without Clouds >>
* Israeli lander sent to moon is carrying 30 MILLION PAGES of humankind’s ‘precious knowledge and biological heritage’ >>

* Tesla AI Chip Claimed to be Twenty Times Faster than Nvidia >>
* A map of Kim Jong-un’s slow train trip to Vietnam >>
* Independence problem solved though collaboration >>

* AI start-up Watrix identifies people based on how they walk >>
* An LA hospital will put Alexa in over 100 patients’ rooms >>
* Facebook says it has ‘work to do’ improving moderator job conditions >>

* It’s 2019 and Scientists Have Created Mind-Controlled Rat Cyborgs >>
* Ultimaker Introduces Cloud-Based Platform for 3D Printing >>
* Laser ‘drill’ sets a new world record in laser-driven electron acceleration >>

* BYD Starts Building a New Giant Battery Factory >>
* First Carbon Nanotube Mixed-Signal ICs >>
* Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos? >>

* Extreme Electric Skateboard Can Go an Insane 45 MPH >>
* Thirty-Million-Page Backup of Humanity Headed To Moon Aboard Israeli Lander >>
* Vodafone CEO Says Banning Huawei Could Set Europe’s 5G Rollout Back Another Two Years >>

* Oxygen-tracking method could improve diabetes treatment >>
* Netflix is killing piracy in NZ: study >>
* Drupal 7 Will Reach End-of-Life in November of 2021 >>

* Apple Watch might finally add sleep tracking next year >>
* Court upholds AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner >>

* Four short links: Cloud Act, Content Moderation, Conference Diversity, and Exposing Secrets >>
* Folding phones aren’t ready and 5G isn’t here yet >>
* Google’s Flutter toolkit will get web-based dev tooling >>

* Light is expanding from smartphone cameras to self-driving cars >>
* Huawei P30 Pro turns up a month early in prototype form >>
* Chinese Scientists Building Solar Space Station, Projecting 3D Printing & Robotics Will Assist in Future >>

* DEVICE SPOTS CANCER IN A SINGLE BLOOD DROP >>
* How Artificially Brightened Clouds Could Stop Climate Change >>
* Would a ‘digital you’ make buying clothes online easier? >>

* It’s Time for Digital Products to Start Empowering Us >>
* When Tech Leaves No Space for Humans >>
* Scaling AI Startups >>

* In Business and IT, Action is the Best Way to Think >>
* Comparison of Traditional Versus Agile Planning >>
* Hackers Can Slip Invisible Malware into ‘Bare Metal’ Cloud Computers >>

* “Jing-jin-ji”: China’s regional city cluster takes shape >>
* Chinese tech behind the first-ever cotton seed germination on the moon >>
* How US trade negotiators are misreading China while ignoring America’s dangerously low savings rate >>

* The launch of an Israeli lunar lander may be the first of many private missions to the Moon >>
* NPM Enterprise JavaScript service released >>
* Backflip-To-Handstand Trick Will Make You Gasp >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 February 2019

* 1TB microSD cards are now a thing >>
* 5G can make digital humans look real and turn real people into holograms >>
* Is Artificial Intelligence outsmarting business? >>

* LG Announces G8 ThinQ Uses ‘Advanced Palm Vein Authentication’ To Unlock >>
* How Netflix is eating the Academy >>
* Netflix’s three ‘Roma’ Oscar wins show streaming can rival Hollywood >>

* Here are all the 5G phones announced at MWC >>
* Google brings its Assistant to your text messages >>
* DTV – Digital Transformation Channel >>

* Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs >>
* a16z Podcast: Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future >>
* We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death >>

* The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn >>
* Earth could warm by 14°C as growing emissions destroy crucial clouds >>
* Facebook’s mesh network tech will deliver 5G broadband in California >>

* Famous Laws Of Software Development >>
* Software Rot >>
* Lime says it has fixed a dangerous scooter braking glitch >>

* Why Is Innovation Not A Corporate Priority? >>
* Picture-editing AI lets you easily alter a celebrity’s face >>
* microSD Express unlocks hyper-fast data speeds for mobile devices >>

* Qualcomm’s latest PC platform brings speedy 5G data to laptops >>
* Qualcomm wants your phone to drive your next VR and AR headsets >>
* Qualcomm launches its first platform made for robots >>

* A closer look at Microsoft’s new Kinect sensor >>
* IoT roundup: Outer space, the building is getting smart, and trucking >>
* Internet gatekeeper warns of ‘ongoing and significant’ DNS attacks >>

* A Chinese company is GPS-tracking your chicken to ensure they’re healthy and organic >>
* True Work of the 21st Century Will be Care Work >>
* Opening Up The Edge: Why Agnostic Cloud Software Is The Key To Edge Computing >>

* Algorithms Can Now Identify Cancerous Cells Better Than Humans >>
* Automation looms as retailers increasingly look to curb staffing numbers >>
* 5 Emerging Technologies That Can Help Increase Sales Conversions >>
* China’s Xiaomi launches ‘budget’ $680 5G phone, bucking trend for high-end devices >>

* Tools to build a better mobile experience >>
* Shaping the future of mobile with Android >>
* Security flaws in 4G and 5G allow snooping on phone users >>

* Scientists Release Controversial Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In High-Security Lab >>
* HoloLens with twice the field of view >>
* Unreal Engine 4 support is coming to HoloLens 2 >>

* Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: Why it’s really all about the cloud >>
* Mozilla’s mixed reality Firefox browser is coming to HoloLens 2 >>
* Virgin Galactic: Scots-born pilot rockets into space >>
* Watch Huawei’s MWC event in 12 minutes >>
* Watch Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 event in 13 minutes >>

* Sprint’s 5G service launches in four cities this May >>
* Oppo’s prototype foldable phone looks a lot like the Huawei Mate X >>
* Give Your Employees Specific Goals and the Freedom to Figure Out How to Reach Them >>

* Generalising, Combining, Deciding, and Working. >>
* Doctors plan to test a gene therapy that could prevent Alzheimer’s disease >>
* Europe is prepared to rule over 5G cybersecurity >>

* BMW makes interacting with your car’s AI systems more natural >>
* Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices >>
* A closer look at the foldable Huawei Mate X >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 February 2019

* Microsoft’s Hololens 2: $3,500 Mixed Reality Headset For Factory, Not The Living Room >>
* Microsoft shrinks Kinect into a $399 cloud-powered PC peripheral >>
* Nokia 9 PureView hands-on: All of the cameras >>

* Samsung’s Newest Phones Read Your Fingerprints With Ultrasonic Sound Waves >>
* New flaws in 4G, 5G allow attackers to intercept calls and track phone locations >>
* Oppo’s 10x optical zoom system really works >>

* Huawei’s 5G foldable costs $2,600 >>
* Huawei Mate X: A first look at Samsung’s biggest foldable rival >>
* Huawei’s Mate X is the most promising foldable phone yet >>
* Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone is a thinner 5G rival to the Galaxy Fold >>

* Xiaomi Mi 9: 48-megapixel camera and fast wireless charging for $509 >>
* Xiaomi has a 5G phone and its killer feature is the price >>
* Huawei’s new MateBook X Pro and MateBook 14 are great alternatives to a MacBook Pro >>
* Huawei is bringing 5G to the Mate 20 X >>

* Should Robots Have License to Kill >>
* Your Next Car Could Have Airbags That Inflate on the Outside >>

* Amazon Air cargo plane operated by Atlas crashes in Texas, killing 3 on board >>
* NASA Approves SpaceX’s Crew Dragon For March 2 Unmanned Flight To the ISS >>
* We’re Just 140 Years Away From The Climate That Caused A Planet-Wide Extinction >>

* X-rays Might be a Better Way to Communicate in Space >>
* Trade Deal, Venezuela and Other News Updates >>
* 2.7 Million Patient Phone Call Recordings Left Exposed Online >>

* Underwater push-ups help hibernating turtles stay alive >>
* Steam now supports NextVR’s virtual reality broadcasts >>
* China’s Entrepreneurs Are Wary of Its Future >>

* Jeff Bezos: New Shepard Will Launch First People Into Space “This Year” >>
* How Google, Microsoft, And Big Tech Are Automating The Climate Crisis >>
* Oscars 2019: how to watch the Academy Awards online >>

* Using AI To Make Hearing Aids Better >>
* Jeremy Clarkson gives thumbs-up to China’s road network >>
* Of course there’s a podcast about pizza >>

* A Software Malfunction Is Throwing Riders Off of Lime Scooters >>
* How tech companies eclipsed fast food and cigarettes between 2000-2018 >>
* NASA releases sharpest-ever images of distant Kuiper Belt object >>

* Leading Service Desk Teams Through Change In a Continuous Delivery Environment >>
* Humanity + AI: Better Together >>

* Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 Puts a Full-Fledged Computer on Your Face >>
* Mozilla is bringing Firefox to Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 >>

* After Math: Mobile World Mayhem >>
* Microsoft’s press event at MWC 2019! >>
* Watch Huawei’s MWC conference here >>
* Watch Microsoft unveil HoloLens 2 here >>
* Watch Xiaomi announce new 5G and foldable phones here >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 February 2019

* Magic Leap’s ideas for a ‘spatial internet’ could be a glimpse of our 5G future >>
* Mobility’s second great inflection point >>
* Canadian transit agency teases amazing new transportation technology: the bus >>

* Ep. 86: Tipping Point of VR Mass Adoption—with Tipatat Chennavasin VR Fund >>
* Humanity + AI: Better Together by Frank Chen >>
* Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories >>

* Microsoft at MWC >>
* Microsoft reportedly plans to discuss next-gen Xbox consoles at E3 2019 >>

* Meet WFIRST, The Space Telescope with the Power of 100 Hubbles >>
* Elon Musk Thinks Tesla Self-Driving Will Be Safe for Drivers to Be Asleep by the End of 2020 >>
* Gravity Wave Observatory Could Spot One Black-hole Merger per Hour by 2024 >>

* If These US Navy Patents are Made Then We Are in a Star Trek Technology World >>
* A White Dwarf with Puzzling Rings >>
* Video Friday: Innfos Humanoid Robot, and More >>

* High tech fibre could be used as skin for ROBOTS! Engineers create wonder material with the strength of metal and the elasticity of rubber >>
* The Future Is Here, Almost: Virtual Travel Becomes More of a Reality >>
* Uber wants to be the ‘Amazon of transportation.’ BMW and Daimler might do it first. >>

* Boy, 12, said to have created nuclear reaction in playroom lab >>
* SpaceX Starhopper Construction Coverage from Boca Chica Neighbor >>
* Elon Musk Expects At Least 20 to 30 Launches from Each Falcon 9 Block 5 >>

* 6 major challenges foldable phones need to overcome to prove they’re not a fad >>
* Can we ever evaluate technical debt? >>
* Briq, next building block in tech’s reconstruction of the construction business >>

* A software glitch is throwing riders off of Lime scooters >>
* Lime finally apologises to scooter lockup victim, asks for details >>

* How I Trained an AI to Play Atari Space Invaders >>
* Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won’t Win the Server Space >>
* Microsoft workers push back against using HoloLens for U.S. military training >>

* Period tracking app says it will stop sharing health data with Facebook >>
* Virgin Galactic sends its first passenger to the edge of space >>
* How Facebook harvests your personal data from popular apps >>

* Your Dog’s Personality Can Change Over Time >>
* 5 unwritten rules to communicating in the digital age >>
* Netflix spends record $30 million on its Oscars campaign for Roma, double what the movie cost to make >>

* AI researchers debate the ethics of sharing potentially harmful programs >>
* Ending Age-Related Diseases Conference: February Update >>
* Researchers create organoid of a brain region to study cognitive disorders >>

* Jeff Bezos just gave a private talk in New York. From utopian space colonies to dissing Elon Musk’s Martian dream >>
* This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through February 23) >>
* How Far Has Technology Come Since The Last ‘smart Border’ Failed? >>

* Hayabusa2 Spacecraft has Collected its First Samples from Asteroid Ryugu >>
* After NASA JPL Reset the Curiosity Rover is Working Normally >>

* New trailers: Rocketman, The Twilight Zone, and more >>
* Linear Regression in Python with Cost function and Gradient descent >>
* Reinforcement Learning And Optimal Control >>

* When the iPhone doesn’t change, Android phones get weird >>
* Microsoft is teaming up with America’s second-largest grocery chain to fend off Amazon >>
* China’s ride-sharing industry may face reshuffle in 2019 >>

* The Microphones That May Be Hidden in Your Home >>
* Huawei looks to show its lead in 5G technology at world’s biggest mobile industry exhibition >>
* AI Talking to AI? We Need a New API >>

* AWS DevOps: Introduction to DevOps on AWS >>
* The Ultimate Application Monitoring Guide for Kubernetes >>
* AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers vs. API Gateway integration >>

* Can Blockchain with Artificial Intelligence Fight Deep Fake? >>
* The Role of Cross-Chain Technology in Powering a Decentralized Internet >>
* 51% Attack Proves Blockchain Is ‘Unhackable’ The Way The Titanic Was ‘Unsinkable’ >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 February 2019

* Japan’s Hayabusa2 lands on asteroid Ryugu to collect samples >>
* After SpaceX Launch, Israeli Spacecraft Begins Journey to the Moon >>
* Virgin Galactic spaceplane reaches space with first passenger on board >>

* Huawei’s foldable Mate X 5G phone leaks ahead of MWC 2019 >>
* Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G is a phone without a network >>
* AIs could debate whether a smart assistant should snitch on you >>

* A ‘Smart Wall’ Could Spark a New Kind of Border Crisis >>
* How Far Has Technology Come Since The Last ‘smart Border’ Failed? >>
* Instacart Delivers Groceries, but Detaches Us From Our Food >>

* Waymo Self-Driving Cars Can Now Obey Police Hand Signals >>
* A Self-Driving Car Company Bets on Mall Shuttles and Monster Trucks >>
* Artificially Intelligent Players Invent Nonverbal “Languages” to Win Card Games >>

* A philosopher argues that an AI can never be an artist >>

* Bionic Hands Let Amputees Feel and Grip >>
* China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American >>
* Could a Space Helicopter Find Life on Saturn’s Moon Titan? >>

* Self-Driving Trucks Will Always Need People >>
* Stem Cells That Will Not Be Rejected Will Bring Mass Produced Stem Cell Treatments >>
* Wave Computing’s Dataflow Acceleration of Deep Learning >>

* Achieving greater efficiency for fast data center operations >>
* California bill aims to strengthen data breach notification law >>
* China wants its rural villages to go cashless by 2020 >>

* NASA is giving us daily weather reports from Mars >>
* NASA’s Space Shuttle Rises From the Dead to Power New Vehicles >>

* 56 VC-backed companies that have raised $1 billion or more >>
* Five cloud technology trends entrepreneurs should pay attention to in 2019 >>
* Beijing turns to facial recognition to deter scalpers who sell hospital appointments >>

* Intel’s 5G modems won’t be in phones until 2020 >>
* Huawei’s billboard may have just leaked its foldable phone >>
* With Kubernetes, Cloud Providers Are the New Hardware Vendors >>

* Chengdu unveils driverless metro train >>
* Chinese Internet users experience faster broadband speed >>
* Resurrected Firefly Aerospace will take over a launch site at busy Florida spaceport >>

* Quantum experiment suggests there really are ‘alternative facts’ >>
* Four stars full of burnt nuclear ash are speeding through the galaxy >>
* Robotics, AR and VR are poised to reshape healthcare, starting in the operating room >>

* The Secret to Workplace Morale May Very Well Be DevOps >>
* How AI-Powered Chatbots Are Unlocking Business Value Today >>
* What is AWS ECS? Running Docker in Production >>

* Securing Containers >>
* AI Talking to AI? We Need a New API >>
* MWC 2019: the stories and devices to expect at the world’s biggest mobile show >>

* DevOps Chat: Serverless and Abstraction with Nimbella’s Anshu Agarwal >>
* How Autodesk Delivers Seamless Customer Experience with Catchpoint EDIT >>
* GitLab 11.8 released >>

* Identifying bird species on the edge using the Amazon SageMaker built-in Object Detection algorithm and AWS DeepLens >>
* China’s CRISPR twins might be the first enhanced humans when it comes to brain power >>
* Cisco warns on Hyperflex security vulnerabilities >>

* Ericsson claims it is ‘5G-ready’ with newly expanded network platform >>
* Elon Musk stopped using Waze so he could drive with Autopilot >>
* Exploring the nature of intelligence >>

* How to Make Sure a New Hire Feels Included from Day One >>
* First private mission to the moon is launched on SpaceX rocket >>
* How Israel’s Moon Lander Got to the Launchpad >>

* TED: 8 lessons on building a company people enjoy working for >>
* TED: This is what makes employees happy at work >>
* DNA Gets a New — and Bigger — Genetic Alphabet >>

* Latest space cleanup test uses harpoon to skewer orbiting junk for the first time >>
* Quantum dots can spit out clone-like photons >>
* Looking to Technology to Avoid Doctors’ Offices and Emergency Rooms >>

* The Next Data-Driven Healthtech Revolution >>
* The Auto Show of the Future Is Already Here >>
* Just 15 minutes of jogging every day reduces the risk of depression >>

* VASIMR plasma engine: Earth to Mars in 39 days? >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 February 2019

* Everything announced at Samsung’s Galaxy S10/Galaxy Fold event >>
* Samsung’s foldable phone is the Galaxy Fold, available April 26th starting at $1,980 >>
* 1TB Galaxy S10 Plus costs an eye-watering $1,600 >>
* S10 has up to six cameras: here’s what they all do >>
* S10e Is Small Without Skimping Too Much >>
* Samsung sold 2 billion Galaxy phones in less than a decade >>
* Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch Active tracks blood pressure >>
* Bixby Routines promise to turn the S10 into a precog >>
* Galaxy S10 gets its own version of Adobe Premiere Rush >>

* This robotics museum in Korea will construct itself (in theory) >>
* Gmail’s cleaner, brighter mobile app rolls out to everyone this week >>

* Google’s hybrid cloud platform is now in beta >>
* Graphcore Chips Could Speed Up AI by 100 Times >>
* You can now block Facebook’s background location tracking on Android >>

* How to Break Down Work into Tasks That Can Be Automated >>
* Reaching Cloud Utopia: How to Create a Single Pipeline for Hybrid Deployments >>

* Are We Ready For 5G Phones? >>
* Will smartphones fade away in the next five years? >>

* Apple will reportedly launch a credit card this year >>
* Amazon’s ‘collaborative’ robots offer peek into the future: Autonomous machines work side-by-side with humans at New York fulfillment center >>
* Trump wants 6G internet ‘as soon as possible’ >>
* Donald Trump says he wants the US to lead in ‘5G, and even 6G’ wireless technology. But is 6G even a thing? >>

* How 3D Sensing Enables Mobile Face Recognition >>
* LoRa’s Bid to Rule the Internet of Things >>
* How Self-Driving Cars Might Transform City Parking >>

* Alphabet’s Wind Energy Kites to Fly Offshore >>
* Getting smart about the future of AI >>
* Circuit Secures the IoT Against Quantum Attack >>

* Why Great Innovation Needs Great Marketing >>
* Watch out Facebook, Google Maps on iOS now lets users track their favorite businesses, too >>
* VMware’s ongoing reinvention >>

* Who wins in a 5G world? >>
* Seven essential elements of a lifelong-learning mind-set >>
* Planning in an agile organization >>

* Derisking machine learning and artificial intelligence >>
* Air-mobility solutions: What they’ll need to take off >>
* 5G manifesto for the CEO >>
* Research: When Small Teams Are Better Than Big Ones >>

* 3 Digital strategies for companies that have fallen behind >>
* Your brain needs a fitness plan. Here’s how to keep it in shape >>
* The Pediatric AI That Outperformed Junior Doctors >>

* Scientists Used Gene Therapy to Cure Deafness in Mice >>
* First human gene therapy surgery attempts to halt common form of vision loss >>
* Breakdancing one of four sports proposed for 2024 Olympic Games >>

* The first privately funded trip to the moon is about to launch >>
* Three surveys of AI adoption reveal key advice from more mature practices >>
* The Dalai Lama on Why Leaders Should Be Mindful, Selfless, and Compassionate >>

* Nike’s new app-connected shoes reportedly fail after faulty update >>
* IoT botnets target enterprise video conferencing systems >>
* Vivo announces V15 Pro with no notch and 32-megapixel pop-up selfie camera >>

* Salk Researchers Used Gene Therapy for Successful Antiaging >>
* Did You Know the Earth’s Atmosphere Extends Beyond the Orbit of the Moon? >>
* Newstag improves global video news discoverability using AI language services on AWS >>

* 10 Ways Space Could Destroy Civilization As We Know It >>
* 14 Reasons Why People 100 Years Ago Died So Much Younger [INFOGRAPHIC] >>

* New AI able to identify and predict the development of cancer symptom clusters >>
* Young bone marrow rejuvenates aging mouse brains, study finds >>
* Researchers define cells used in bone repair >>

* World’s biggest bee found alive >>
* Why are TVs so cheap now? Well, your smart TV is watching you and making extra money >>
* The evolution and expanding utility of Ray >>

* China’s Ambitious Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid >>
* Verizon plans to roll out its 5G mobile network in 30 cities this year >>
* WinRAR patched 19-year-old bug that left millions vulnerable >>

* Trump calls for 6G cellular technology, because why the heck not? >>
* Google Cloud’s speech APIs get cheaper and learn new languages >>
* It took Amazon 5 years to make its first $1 billion, and only 2 days to make its latest billion >>

* First private mission to the moon is about to launch on SpaceX rocket >>
* 2019 Fitness Goals and Trends from 7 Experts >>
* Neptune’s smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again >>

* Experimental ‘missile’ drug targets shoots chemotherapy into aggressive tumors like a warhead – extending survival rates >>
* WeWork, and Can the Government Really Print as Much Money as It Wants? >>
* Study of quark speeds finds a solution for a 35-year physics mystery >>

* Highlights & transcript from Zuckerberg’s 20K-word ethics talk >>
* Structuring legal documents with Deep Learning >>
* Here’s why we’re entering the Golden Age of Podcasts, in 10 graphs >>

* How to Reduce Costs And Increase Efficiency Of Cloud Service Development >>
* Will ITIL V4 Bring Order to a DevOps World? >>
* New Research Highlights the Long Road Still Ahead for AI >>

* 2019 Executive Insights on Big Data >>
* Are you ready for the new job roles? >>
* BeiDou Navigation System completed first outbound trip, eyeing promotion in global markets >>

* Chinese provinces reported internet penetration of mobile devices of more than 80 percent. >>
* Property giants including China Vanke, Country Garden splash out US$16 billion on 80 plots of land in Greater Bay Area >>
* Here’s Why A Fridge On Air Force One Costs $24 Million >>

* The wild physics of the passenger plane that just hit 800 mph >>

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* MWC Barcelona 2019 >>
* MWC Barcelona 2019: A New Era of Testing for the IoT >>
* MWC Barcelona 2019: Foldable Devices, “Real” 5G, and Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 >>
* MWC Barcelona 2019: Privacy Concerns and the Rise of AI >>

* Forget 5G and foldable. We just want it to last all day: What you want from new smartphone >>
* IoT Was Interesting, But Follow the Money to AI Chips >>

* Citroen’s tiny EV concept is an alternative to bikes and scooters >>
* Google says Nest’s secret microphone was ‘never intended to be a secret’ >>
* Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Cars will have ‘full self-driving’ features by the end of the year >>

* Linux Subsystem Files To Become Accessible via Windows File Explorer >>
* Los Angeles to Require Scooter Companies to Share Data >>

* Qubits and Nanosensors in a 2D Material >>
* Japan to Probe IoT Devices and Then Prod Users to Smarten Up >>
* Sphero’s New RVR Robot Is More Hackable Than Ever >>

* Smart and fluffy storytelling robot to be trialled in US classrooms >>
* A 30-minute walk may reduce blood pressure by as much as medication >>
* The end to out-of-tune karaoke! AI auto-corrects notes that are sung off key >>

* The Value of Tinkering >>
* A 10x Framework to Power Your Organization’s Future Growth >>
* AI Pioneer Sees Chip Renaissance >>

* A new CRISPR/Cas9 therapy can suppress aging >>
* Single-dose CRISPR–Cas9 therapy extends lifespan of mice with Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome >>
* Gene therapy first to ‘halt’ most common cause of blindness >>

* Two Days to the Start of the Israeli Moon Mission >>
* $1.1 billion Airtable is turning admins into app developers >>
* Airtable CEO Howie Liu on the continued importance of getting a ‘unicorn’ valuation >>

* Gateway Foundation Shows off Their Plans for an Enormous Rotating Space Station >>
* MIT scientists are using lobsters to develop a new form of flexible body armor >>

* 6 crazy details from Alphabet’s leaked plans for its first smart city >>
* New, life-saving AI can help doctors find deadly tumors much, much faster >>
* China Will Likely Corner the 5G Market—and the US Has No Plan >>

* How Innovative Companies Help Frontier Markets Grow >>
* How The Next U.S President Could Declare A National Emergency Over Climate Change >>
* Juha Saarinen: How batteries will transform the power grid >>

* NASA is close to finalizing its drone traffic control system for cities >>
* MIT developed a new system to help robots track objects >>
* Podcast reveals the tough reality of building a business >>

* Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X55 Modem Is the 4G/5G Solution We’ve Been Waiting For >>
* Sonarworks True-Fi review: The promise of studio-quality sound from average headphones >>
* Space Force will be a Marines-like branch under Air Force authority >>

* Master Machine Learning and AI For Just $14 >>
* Spark can hit its 5G targets without Huawei, Simon Moutter says >>
* Japan’s Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era >>

* We don’t know what a fifth of our genes do – and won’t find out soon >>
* Virgin Galactic DELAYS its second attempt to return to the edge of space >>
* Aubrey de Grey — Update on Anti-Aging Research >>

* Excessive Cell Size Contributes to Senescence >>
* 10+ pioneers confirmed SharpBrains Virtual Summit (May 7–9th) >>
* Machine learning: What’s in it for government? >>

* This Star Has Been Going Nova Every Year, for Millions of Years >>
* Trump Signs Order to Begin Creation of Space Force >>
* Weekly Space Hangout: Feb 20, 2019 – Dr. Emily Holt talks Archaeology and Ancient Astronomy >>

* Can Machine Learning Teach Us Anything? >>
* Breathtaking 80-Megapixel Image Of The Moon Was Made From 50,000 Photos >>
* Could hackers ‘brainjack’ your memories in future? >>

* Would You Recognize a Dystopia If You Saw One? >>
* Production Work in the Real World >>
* How to Work Effectively in a Remote Team: Agile Practices and Tools >>

* A World Without Developers >>
* Spring Boot: Run and Build in Docker >>
* TED What is the meaning of work? >>

* Chinese news station unveils world’s first female AI news anchor >>
* China, Egypt join hands to convert desert into cooperation zone >>
* China’s AI industry expected to encounter reshuffle in 2019 >>

* China develops conceptual model of double-decker high-speed train >>
* Xiaomi unveils new flagship phone, naming Chinese singer as brand ambassador to pump up domestic sales >>
* Mark Zuckerberg is ‘potentially interested’ in putting Facebook login on the blockchain >>

* Nike’s smart sneakers are breaking when used with an Android phone >>

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* Meet DeepSqueak, an algorithm built to decode ultrasonic rat squeaks >>
* Litho is a finger-worn controller for augmented reality, IoT and other ‘spatial’ interactions >>
* What to expect from the PlayStation 5 >>

* Dun Dun. Duun Duuun! Great White Shark Genome Is Here >>
* Decoded Great White Shark Genome Could Help Cure Cancer >>
* Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Enter the ‘Standard Siren’ >>

* Startup Says Robot Divers Can Help Remove Urchins, Restore Oceans >>
* Germany may use Huawei hardware for its 5G networks >>
* Boring office wellness alternatives that actually work >>

* Knowledge Graphs, AI, and Interoperability: What the Experts Say >>
* State of Chatbots in 2019 >>
* Holographic Neural Architectures >>

* DevOps Certification Training Master Class Bundle >>
* Automation: We Have Not Yet Achieved Balance >>
* 7 Best Devops Ebooks – 2018 Collection >>

* Giving Neural Nets an Innate Brain-Like Structure Could Bolster Deep Learning >>
* Grapes in a microwave generate a fiery plasma and now we know why >>
* Making Learning a Part of Everyday Work >>

* Data breaches exposed 5 billion records in 2018. (down by more than a third, from 7.9 billion records in 2017) >>
* Audi helps you avoid red lights by suggesting speeds >>
* Deep Learning May Need a New Programming Language That’s More Flexible Than Python, Facebook’s Chief AI Scientist Says >>

* Robots track moving objects with unprecedented precision >>
* Zoho brings Zia AI assistant to its office apps >>
* China Plans Space Based Solar Power >>

* Comparing the Network Performance of AWS, Azure and GCP >>
* Airbus’ giant BelugaXL nears service >>
* Why did Stonehenge’s massive rocks come from Wales, 290km away? >>

* Samsung’s Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Buds leak in TV commercial >>
* In Louisiana town, two Chinese chemicals firms are being hit on multiple fronts by the trade war >>
* How an exposed Chinese database gave a glimpse of real-time monitoring in Xinjiang >>

* China’s strategic opportunities are Beijing’s to lose >>
* China unveils development plan for Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area >>

* China sees sharp rise of appliance sales during 2019 Spring Festival >>
* The end of the road for Netflix and Marvel >>
* How the Tech Industry Can Help Fix Our AI Skills Shortage >>

* Apple could be looking for its next big revenue model >>
* Amazon’s new movie strategy includes 30 releases per year >>
* IBM is all-in on hybrid cloud >>

* Door still open to Huawei, Ardern says >>
* Huawei Founder Slams U.S. Charges as ‘Politically Motivated’ >>
* China Wants to Integrate Greater Bay Area into a Tech Hub Challenger to Silicon Valley >>

* Amazon is reportedly merging its China import unit with NetEase >>
* Elon Musk Has Quit OpenAI to Focus on SpaceX and Tesla Challenges >>
* 3D with Face Tracking, Cleaning Data, Data as Labor, Walking Robotics >>

* How Big a Problem Is It That a Few Shareholders Own Stock in So Many Competing Companies? >>
* Huawei’s P30 series will debut on March 26th >>
* NVIDIA may have unwittingly leaked Unity ray-tracing support >>

* Nissan’s old Leaf batteries can power this smart pop-up camper for one week >>
* Sphero hits Kickstarter with new RVR robotics platform >>
* Startup Law A to Z: Corporate Matters >>

* SpaceX Casting Raptor Engine Parts from Supersteel Alloys >>
* ‘Killer’ cells raise hope of universal flu vaccine >>
* Hello, .dev! >>

* Artificial intelligence to boost Earth system science >>
* Smart droplets clean and repair surfaces >>
* Facebook’s Chief A.I. Scientist Yann LeCun On the Future of Computer Chips, Lawnmowers, and Deep Learning >>

* Jaws was right! If you see a shark moving at slow speeds it is probably ready for dinner >>
* ‘Jaw-dropping’ breakthrough reveals a brand new way our brains work: Cells send messages to totally separate parts of our minds using electrical signals >>
* Signal of first known exomoon may actually be from Jupiter-like planet >>

* Massive cloud is on 700,000 mph collision course with Milky Way >>

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