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Aug 11
2016

Forget concrete and cement. DARPA thinks skin and bone make better building blocks

Have you ever seen the movie called “The Haunting” with Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta-Jones? If you have; you will appreciate this article. A living building.

The US’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is attempting to build living, self-healing, programmable buildings.

DARPA’s Engineered Living Materials (ELM) program imagines that materials like bone, skin, bark and coral could form future building blocks as they provide advantages over non-living materials built with today, in that they can be grown where needed, self-repair when damaged and respond to changes in their surroundings.

“The vision of the ELM program is to grow materials on demand where they are needed,” said ELM program manager, Justin Gallivan.

Aug 11
2016

New Technique Reveals Black Phosphorus’ Properties and How to Control Them

Researchers can turn ‘on’ or ‘off’ the mechanical anisotropy of black phosphorus.

Aug 11
2016

Nexus: Choosing Sides In The Trans-Human Revolution

Beyond the fights and the chases in Ramez Naam’s Nexus trilogy, it is an opportunity to consider how technology might move some humans beyond humanity, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

Aug 11
2016

The Most Dangerous Object Known To Humanity

How the origin of Earth’s greatest meteor shower might be the demise of life on Earth as we know it.

Aug 11
2016

Future By Design | The Venus Project — Directed by William Gazecki

Lifeboat’s Jacque Fresco in a 2006 documentary about his work and The Venus Project

Aug 11
2016

Ready for a Human Hybrid? Human-Animal Chimeras May Now Be Possible

There are calls to lift NIH’s restrictions on the controversial chimera studies. But are we ready for this most controversial study yet?

Aug 10
2016

Social Entrepreneurs Need To Be Futurists, Too

What if we tried to prevent future problems, instead of just solving the ones in front of us?

Aug 10
2016

Making the cloud safe for intel

The intelligence community’s tech think tank wants a new model for keeping data safe in the cloud.

Aug 8
2016

A new tech giant? Why you need to know about China’s LeEco

China is going to try to own tech and be the SV for the world within the next 7 years. This is definitely in process and many companies in China have been rejecting US tech products for the past several months due to US pressures about the S. China Sea and ramp up efforts to build their own tech companies to take down Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. They do have the IP to possibly do it.

So, move over FB, Youtube, and Amazon, there is a new streaming media competitor on the horizon coming to online users near you. Lookout the remaining parts of Alphabet (namely Google), Amazon, and Microsoft.

China’s LeEco doesn’t come up much when China’s top tech firms are mentioned. Maybe it should.

Aug 8
2016

DARPA wants to build very low frequency wireless systems

Well, we can easily figure out who this and how this will be used on.

Wireless transmitters that operate at very or ultra low frequencies (0.3‐30 kHz) typically require some big antenna complexes to handle their communications.

Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said they are interested looking to eliminate that issue and develop smaller physical structures that could handle new long-distance communication applications.

+ DARPA wants huge Holy Grail of mobile ad hoc networks

DARPA in search of a 100 Gb/sec wireless technology that can penetrate clutter+.