China to Build Kilometer High Sustainable Tower http://www.21stcentech.com/china-build-kilometer-high-sustainable-tower/

Goldman says client data leaked, wants Google to delete email http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/02/us-google-goldman-…9I20140702

UK PM’s ex-media chief Coulson jailed for Murdoch tabloid hacking http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/04/us-britain-cybercr…RN20140704

REUTERS: Germany arrests suspected double agent spying for U.S.: lawmakers http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/04/us-germany-usa-spy…4M20140704

The coming digital anarchy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10881213/The-comi…archy.html

IBM Expects Nanotube Chip by 2020 http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-2020.aspx

New Bridge Design Improves Earthquake Resistance http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…tance.aspx

Multicellular Computing Using Conjugation for Wiring http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.…0101A23EB2

Climate Exposure of US National Parks in a New Era of Change http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0101302

Coastal winds intensifying with climate change, study says http://phys.org/news/2014-07-coastal-climate.html

Remote quantum applications, teleportation enabled by calling long distance between superconducting qubits http://phys.org/news/2014-07-remote-quantum-applications…d.html#jCp

Germany summoned the U.S. ambassador in Berlin on Friday following the arrest of a man reported to have spied for the United States, heightening friction between the two countries over alleged U.S. eavesdropping in Germany. http://phys.org/news/2014-07-germany-summons-envoy-spy-case.html#jCp

Ribosome research in atomic detail offers potential insights into cancer, anemia, Alzheimer’s http://phys.org/news/2014-07-ribosome-atomic-potential-insights-cancer.html

Ray Kurzweil: We want [computers] to read everything on the web and every page of every book, then be able to engage an intelligent dialogue with the user to be able to answer their questions.

The future will be far more surprising than most observers realize: few have truly internalized the implications of the fact that the rate of change itself is accelerating.

Japan scientists find ageing cure — for flowers http://phys.org/news/2014-07-japan-scientists-ageing-.html

Nobel laureate: We’ve just scraped the surface on the potential of stem-cell therapy http://phys.org/news/2014-07-nobel-laureate-weve-surface-potential.html

“Strong Artificial Intelligence Superseding the Human Brain?” http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140704214832&#4…uman-brain

Strong Artificial Intelligence Superseding the Human Brain? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/07/strong-artificial-intellig…uman-brain

New study reveals complex speech networks in the brain http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcolleg…;16-30

Researchers asked 1,400 experts to describe the biggest threats to the Web. Here’s what they said. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/03…they-said/

North Korea is on everyone’s radar screen. Why? Because while there is hardly an economy to speak of, there is the business of missile and weapons development that Kim has carved out to remarkable success.

As we all know, great jobs are getting harder to come by, and reaching the top is as competitive as ever. Merit may be necessary, but, as many of us canattest, it’s unlikely to be sufficient. There are, after all, many more well-qualified people than there are high-level jobs to fill, especially more qualified BOTS.

SILENTLY, GLOBALLY AND INCESSANTLY, I.Q.-CENTRIC CHINA IS BUYING HUGE ASSETS, RAW MATERIALS AND HARD-CORE TECHNOLOGIES, BOTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD AND DEVELOPED WORLD.

Computers don’t get tired; they don’t get bored; they don’t need coffee breaks or much sleep; and they have fabulous memories. They are content to crunch as much information as we shovel into them.

Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini

Strong Artificial Intelligence Superseding the Human Brain?

CITATION: Andres Agostini’s Own White Swan Book:

White Swan Book Excerpt Starts Now:

“… ’ … THE FUTURE WILL BE FAR MORE SURPRISING THAN MOST OBSERVERS REALIZE: FEW HAVE TRULY INTERNALIZED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE FACT THAT THE RATE OF CHANGE ITSELF IS ACCELERATING…’, as per By Ray Kurzweil, ’ … THE LAW OF ACCELERATING RETURNS ….’ [.…] It’s only one man talking, making projections about the future of technology and not coincidentally the future of the human race. Yet many of Ray Kurzweil’s predictions have hit the mark. In 2009, he analyzed 108 of them and found 89 entirely correct and another 13 ‘essentially’ correct. ‘Another 3 are partially correct, 2 look like they are about 10 years off, and 1, which was tongue in cheek anyway, was just wrong,’ he added. If he [Ray Kurzweil] can maintain this rate of success, many of his other predictions will happen within the lifetime of most people alive today. And almost no one is prepared for them [….] Author, inventor, successful entrepreneur, futurist, and currently head of Google’s engineering department, Kurzweil is enthusiastic about the technology explosion that’s coming. Here are a few predictions he’s made over the years: In THE AGE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES (1990) he said that by the early 2000s computers would be transcribing speech into computer text, telephone calls would be routinely screened by intelligent answering machines, AND CLASSROOMS WOULD BE DOMINATED BY COMPUTERS. He also said by 2020 there would be a world government, though I suspect he’s backed off from that view [….] In THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES (1999) he predicted that by 2009 most books would be read on screens rather than paper, people would be giving commands to computers by voice, and they would use small wearable computers to monitor body functions and get directions for navigation [….] Some of the milder predictions in THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR (2005) include $1,000 computers having the memory space of one human brain (10 T.B. or 1013 bits) by 2018, the application of nano computers (called nanobots) to medical diagnosis and treatment in the 2020s, and the development of a computer sophisticated enough to pass a stringent version of the Turing test — A COMPUTER SMART ENOUGH TO FOOL A HUMAN INTERROGATOR INTO THINKING IT WAS HUMAN — no later than 2029 [.…] Soon after that, we can expect a rupture of reality called the Singularity [.…] THE TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY [….] In Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), the Technological Singularity refers to an impending event generated by entities with greater than human intelligence. From Kurzweil’s perspective, ‘…the Singularity has many faces. It represents the nearly vertical phase of exponential growth that occurs when the rate is so extreme that technology appears to be expanding at infinite speed … WE WILL BECOME VASTLY SMARTER AS WE MERGE WITH OUR TECHNOLOGY …’ [.…] And by ‘merge’ he means (from The Singularity is Near): Biology has inherent limitations. For example, every living organism must be built from proteins that are folded from one-dimensional strings of amino acids. Protein-based mechanisms are lacking in strength and speed. We will be able to reengineer all of the organs and systems in our biological bodies and brains to be vastly more capable [.…] The Singularity, in other words, involves Intelligence Amplification (IA) in humans. WE WILL, ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS, BECOME INFUSED WITH NANOBOTS: ‘…ROBOTS DESIGNED AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL, MEASURED IN MICRONS…’ NANOBOTS WILL HAVE MULTIPLE ROLES WITHIN THE BODY, INCLUDING HEALTH MAINTENANCE AND THEIR ABILITY TO VASTLY EXTEND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE […] ONCE NONBIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE GETS A FOOTHOLD IN THE HUMAN BRAIN (THIS HAS ALREADY STARTED WITH COMPUTERIZED NEURAL IMPLANTS), THE MACHINE INTELLIGENCE IN OUR BRAINS WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY (AS IT HAS BEEN DOING ALL ALONG), AT LEAST DOUBLING IN POWER EACH YEAR. In contrast, biological intelligence is effectively of fixed capacity [.…] As molecular nanotechnology involves the manipulation of matter on atomic or molecular levels, it will be possible to infuse everything on planet earth with nonbiological intelligence. POTENTIALLY, THE WHOLE UNIVERSE COULD BE SATURATED WITH INTELLIGENCE [.…] WHAT WILL THE POST-SINGULARITY WORLD LOOK LIKE? [.…] Most of the intelligence of our civilization will ultimately be nonbiological. BY THE END OF THIS CENTURY, IT WILL BE TRILLIONS OF TRILLIONS OF TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. However, to address often-expressed concerns, this does not imply the end of biological intelligence, even if it is thrown from its perch of evolutionary superiority. Even the nonbiological forms will be derived from biological design. Our civilization will remain human— indeed, in many ways it will be more exemplary of what we regard as human than it is today [.…] THE TREND TELLS THE STORY [.…] Life arrives roughly 3.7 billion years ago in the form of biogenic graphite followed by the appearance of cells two billion years later. As we move from there biological evolution picks up speed, as does human technology. Viewing the linear plot, everything seems to happen in one day. Though the time span from the introduction of the personal computer to the World Wide Web took 14 years (from the MITS Altair 8800 in 1975 to Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal in March, 1989), it happened almost instantaneously in the overall picture. The second chart lays it out for us dramatically. Exponential forces are very seductive, he says. Until we get far enough along on the curve, they seem linear. Once we’re past the “knee” the trend starts to become clear. Or it should [.…] Mother Jones ran an article a year ago that illustrates how deceptive exponential trends can be. Imagine if Lake Michigan were drained in 1940, and your task was to fill it by doubling the amount of water you add every 18 months, beginning with one ounce. So, after 18 months you add two ounces, 18 months later you add four ounces, and so on. Coincidentally, as you were adding your first ounce to the dry lake, the first programmable computer in fact made its debut [.…] You continue. By 1960 you’ve added 150 gallons. By 1970, 16,000 gallons. You’re getting nowhere. Even if you stay with it to 2010, all you can see is a bit of water here and there. In the 47 18-month periods that have passed since 1940, you’ve added about 140.7 trillion ounces of Eighteen months served as the time interval because it corresponds to Moore’s Law (Intel’s David House modifiedMoore’s 2-year estimate in the 1970s, saying computer performance would double every 18 months. As of 2003, it was doubling every 20 months.) As Kurzweil notes, We’ve moved from computers with a trillionth of the power of a human brain to computers with a billionth of the power. Then a millionth. And now a thousandth. Along the way, computers progressed from ballistics to accounting to word processing to speech recognition, and none of that really seemed like progress toward artificial intelligence [.…] The truth is that all this represents more progress toward true AI than most of us realize. We’ve just been limited by the fact that computers still aren’t quite muscular enough to finish the job. That’s changing rapidly, though [.…] Even as AI progresses, the achievements are often discounted. In THE AGE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES (1990) Kurzweil predicted a computer would beat the world chess champion by 1998. While musing about this prediction in January, 2011 he said, ‘… I also predicted that when that happened we would either think better of computer intelligence, worse of human thinking, or worse of chess, and that if history was a guide, we would downgrade chess. [IBM’s] Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997, and indeed we were immediately treated to rationalizations that chess was not really exemplary of human thinking after all … ’ [.…] At Google, Kurzweil’s ambition is to do more than train a computer to read Wikipedia. ‘… We want [computers] to read everything on the web and every page of every book, then be able to engage an intelligent dialogue with the user to be able to answer their questions …” [.…] When Kurzweil says ‘… everything on the web, …’ he means everything — including ‘… every email you’ve ever written, every document, every idle thought you’ve ever tapped into a search-engine box…’ …” [237]

White Swan Book Excerpt Ends Now.

By Mr. Andres Agostini
www.linkedin.com/in/andresagostini

An electronic switch just three atoms thick http://www.kurzweilai.net/an-electronic-switch-just-three-atoms-thick

The Infinium Phenomenon – A Start Up That Manufactures Rare Earth Metals http://www.21stcentech.com/infinium-phenomenon-start-manufac…th-metals/

Freshwater Scarcity May Be Our First Climate Change Adaptability Challenge http://www.21stcentech.com/freshwater-scarcity-climate-chang…challenge/

Amazon’s Drone Team Is Hiring: Look At These Nifty Job Ads http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2014/05/19/amazons-…y-job-ads/

IBM: Commercial Nanotube Transistors Are Coming Soon http://www.technologyreview.com/news/528601/ibm-commercial-n…e=linkedin

India to identify all citizens in three years, issue new biometrics card http://www.biometricupdate.com/201407/india-to-identify-all-…trics-card

SWITZERLAND GOT CHINA AS A CLIENT, NOT A GEOPOLITICAL ENEMY. Landmark Swiss-China free-trade deal comes into force http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/landmark-swiss-…26498.html

MASHABLE: The Mystery of the Facebook Manipulation Study’s Military Connection http://linkis.com/dlvr.it/D4iSm

NSA Surveillance Led To Over 100 Arrests [Report] http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-surveillance-arrests-2014-7

Are Google And Amazon The Next Threat To Net Neutrality? http://www.forbes.com/sites/naomishavin/2014/07/02/are-googl…eutrality/

SLATE: Netizen Report: Researchers Uncover Mobile Phone Spyware in 60 Countries www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/07/02/netizen_report_r…tries.html

Doomed Stars May Test Einstein’s Relativity http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/07/02/gravitat…stein.html

Boeing and NASA Sign $2.8 Billion Deal for SLS Rocket Core http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/boeing-nasa-sign-2-…re-n146986

How Bad Would a Housing Market Crash Be for China? http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-02/how-…a#r=hpt-ls

The Most Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project In The World Has Been Operating In Near-Secrecy For 30 Years http://www.businessinsider.com/cycorp-ai-2014-7#ixzz36MqP2Ior

China Seeks Great Power Status After Sea Retreat http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-02/china-seeks…treat.html

How Can We Make Cities Quieter? http://www.fastcodesign.com/3032603/slicker-city/how-can-we-.…Design%29

Tighter security for flights to US http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28138526

Libya rebels return Ras Lanuf and Sidra oil terminals http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28139646

CNN: Get to know your unconscious: Dream-reading technology that actually works? http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/02/tech/innovation/quantified…index.html

One Doctor’s Quest to Save People by Injecting Them With Scorpion Venom http://www.wired.com/2014/06/scorpion-venom/

The Next Big Thing You Missed: Big Business Is Surveilling Itself With Swarms of Drones http://www.wired.com/2014/07/the-next-big-thing-you-missed-d…lly-flies/

Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at href=“www.amazon.com/author/agostini” target=“_blank”>www.amazon.com/author/agostini

NASA Is Building a Tiny Mothership to Explore Distant Lunar Oceans http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/nasa-i…ns/373020/

Bio-printing transplantable tissues and organs is now a step closer http://www.kurzweilai.net/bio-printing-transplantable-tissue…tep-closer

NEEWSWEEK: Enemy Ahoy: China and Russia Strive for Naval Supremacy http://www.newsweek.com/enemy-ahoy-china-and-russia-strive-n…acy-256825

THIS IS THE AGE OF THE INDIGNANT. Protestors Have Taken Over The Streets Of Hong Kong http://www.businessinsider.com/pro-democracy-protests-july-1…2014-7

MEDIOCRITY AND CORRUPTION. Is Something Wrong With the Way GM Builds Vehicles? http://www.bloomberg.com/video/is-something-wrong-with-the-w…edQEA.html

NCA charges 17-year-old London man for role in massive Spamhaus DDoS attack http://www.scmagazine.com/nca-charges-17-year-old-london-man…le/358561/

Bio-printing transplantable tissues, organs: Another step closer http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140630103136.htm

Electronic Skin Moves Us Closer to Cyborgs http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electronic-skin-mo…o-cyborgs/

NASA Finds 2013 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-finds-2013-sustaine…7MBpLEbErg

9 Bold Predictions for the Digital World of 2020 http://mashable.com/2012/04/04/predictions-digital-future/

BE READY TO BE THE SLAVE TO BOTS. In the Future, Robots Will Analyze Your Personality http://mashable.com/2014/06/30/robot-future-comic/

‘Molecular movies’ will enable extraordinary gains in bioimaging, health research http://phys.org/news/2014-06-molecular-movies-enable-ext…gains.html

REUTERS: U.S. ignoring homicide epidemic:New Orleans Mayor Landrieu www.reuters.com/video/2014/06/28/us-ignoring-homicide-epidem…e=Politics

Bitcoin is a PayPal competitor — not a currency — for retailers http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/01/technology/bitcoin-paypal/index.html

E.Q.-Focused Nations (suboptimal) Versus I.Q.-Centric Countries (optimal) https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701202038&#…es-optimal

Social Scientists Versus Rocket Scientists! (sic.) https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701213136&#…ntists-sic

How Jeff Bezos Created One Of The Most Admired And Feared Companies In The World
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-jeff-bezos-2014-6?op=1#ixzz36FtuYhY4

10 things Generation X won’t tell you https://www.linkedin.com/home?trk=nav_responsive_tab_home

Different Timescales, Different Speeds, Different Awarenesses, Conjointly! https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701232747&#…conjointly

WHAT AND HOW TO STUDY BEFORE CONQUERING THE MILKY WAY? https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140702003420&#…-milky-way

Was Built Entirely By Robots http://www.psfk.com/2014/07/landesgartenschau-exhibition-hal…fer#!64kdP

UNCORRUPTED GALIA THAT FORGAVE JACQUES CHIRAC. Nicolas Sarkozy was on Tuesday detained for questioning in a corruption probe, a judicial source told AFP. http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/657095-sarkozy-detained-for-…judi-.html

Thomas Paine in Stark Acute Chronic Pain for Life! https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140702025633&#…n-for-life

By Mr. Andres Agostini

href=“www.linkedin.com/in/andresagostini” target=“_blank”>www.linkedin.com/in/andresagostini

Muscle-powered bio-bots walk on command http://phys.org/news/2014-06-muscle-powered-bio-bots-video.html

Crowdsourcing for robots http://www.kurzweilai.net/crowdsourcing-for-robots

Giant space telescope could detect hints of life on exoplanets http://www.kurzweilai.net/giant-space-telescope-could-detect…exoplanets

California governor signs bill to bring bitcoin and other currency into fold http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/29/us-usa-california-…2T20140629

It’s Not Magic: Watch How Parts Assemble Themselves http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-06-02/its-no…f-assemble

Meet the future of public transport: electric cycles with onboard tablets http://qz.com/227264/meet-the-future-of-the-public-transport…d-tablets/

10 Breakthrough Innovations That Will Shape The World In 2025 http://www.fastcoexist.com/3032260/10-breakthrough-innovatio…ld-in-2025

Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2014 http://fs-unep-centre.org/publications/gtr-2014

8 Ways The Internet Of Things Will Change Everyday Life https://blogs.sap.com/innovation/innovation/8-ways-the-inter…-NTECLPLIS

Teaching Robots Tasks – Researchers Turn to Crowdsourcing http://www.21stcentech.com/teaching-robots-tasks-researchers-turn-crowdsourcing/

Google, Detroit diverge on road map for self-driving cars http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/30/us-google-detroit-…C320140630

Supreme Court Rejects Contraceptives Mandate for Some Corporations http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/us/hobby-lobby-case-suprem…ption.html

When a Health Plan Knows How You Shop http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/technology/when-a-health-p…technology

Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/upshot/americans-think-we-…-dont.html

How Opposite Energy Policies Turned The Fukushima Disaster Into A Loss For Japan And A Win For Germany http://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylovins/2014/06/28/how-oppos…r-germany/

Gartner’s top 10 security technologies for 2014 http://www.information-age.com/technology/security/123458169…ogies-2014

Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini

8 Ways The Internet Of Things Will Change Everyday Life https://blogs.sap.com/innovation/innovation/8-ways-the-inter…-NTECLPLIS

Billions To Soon Be Invested In 3D Printing Research and Development http://3dprint.com/7599/billions-rd-3d-printing/

Iraq Says Russian Experts Have Arrived to Help Prepare Jets for Fighting http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/world/middleeast/iraq.html…v=top-news

Encouraging News Headlines on the Renewable Energy Front http://www.21stcentech.com/encouraging-news-headlines-renewable-energy-front/

Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a massive psychology experiment http://www.avclub.com/article/facebook-tinkered-users-feeds-…y-e-206324

GERMANY AND CHINA DOING MORE TRADE AND COMMERCE AND SOFT POWER. President Xi calls on China, Germany to build Silk Road economic belt http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/851528.shtml

The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% — ex CIA spy http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/ju…nt-cia-spy

MORE FINANCIAL-SECTOR CORRUPTION: BNP Paribas to be ‘punished severely’, says boss http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28078636

Nasa’s out-of-this-world plan to rescue a Space Shuttle http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140624-nasas-bold-shuttle-rescue-plan

“Four Scientists in the Non-‘Black Swans’ to Expect!” by @SciCzar on @LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140629225512&#4…-to-expect

Corporate Boards Race to Shore Up Cybersecurity http://online.wsj.com/articles/boards-race-to-bolster-cybersecurity-1404086146

Drone Dogfight: Big Defense Firms vs. Techies http://online.wsj.com/articles/drone-dogfight-big-defense-fi…tions_tech

China’s ‘New Silk Road’ Vision Revealed http://thediplomat.com/2014/05/chinas-new-silk-road-vision-revealed/

History Lessons for China and Japan http://thediplomat.com/2014/06/history-lessons-for-china-and-japan/

Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini

The quantum cryptography arms race has begun http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/the-quantum-cryptography…gun-244907

A 36-core chip design with an Internet-style communication network http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-36-core-chip-design-with-an-inte…on-network

Wearable computing gloves can teach Braille, even if you’re not paying attention http://www.kurzweilai.net/wearable-computing-gloves-can-teac…-attention

Ultrasonic waves allow for precision micro- and nano-manufacturing of thin-film chips http://www.kurzweilai.net/ultrasonic-waves-allow-for-precisi…film-chips

Microsoft Makes Bet Quantum Computing Is Next Breakthrough http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/technology/microsoft-makes.…html?_r=0

Nuclear-Leak Investigators Shift Sights to Los Alamos Lab http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/nuclear-leak-investigators-sh…um=twitter

Beating Tornadoes – Great Wall Proposed Across American Midwest http://www.21stcentech.com/beting-tornadoes-great-wall-proposed/

The Internet Of Things Will Radically Change Your Big Data Strategy http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikekavis/2014/06/26/the-interne…-strategy/

Ukraine Signs Trade Agreement With European Union http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/28/world/europe/ukraine-signs…v=top-news

Can Netanyahu find Israel’s three kidnapped teenagers without destroying his own government and tearing the West Bank apart? http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/26/bibi_and_th…r#trending

If Japan Wanted to Build a Nuclear Bomb It’d Be Awesome at It http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/26/japan_isn_t…t_it_could

It’s time for NATO to get involved in Syria and Iraq, perhaps even putting limited Special Forces troops on the ground. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/26/wake_up_and…syria_iraq

Why we should be worried about the Japanese prime minister’s move to amend the constitution. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/24/dishonest_a…nstitution

WHILE FORD MOTORS AND GM ARE LOOSING THE SHIRT: New Hyundai Sonatas rolling out of super-busy Alabama plant http://fortune.com/2014/06/26/new-hyundai-sonatas-rolling-ou…ama-plant/

Government watchdog: U.S. slipping in nuclear energy innovation http://fortune.com/2014/06/27/government-watchdog-u-s-slippi…nnovation/

The Space-Based Quantum Cryptography Race. Europe and China are gaining the upper hand in the race to bounce perfectly secure messages off satellites in low Earth orbit. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/528671/the-space-based-…ce=twitter

Elon Musk Is Opening A New Front In His Lawsuit Against The Air Force
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-russian-joint-venture-in-n…z35spcYUal

A Mexican Military Helicopter Entered The US And Fired On Two Border Patrol Agents Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-helicopter-fires-bord…z35sq9W9Rq

Higgs Boson Looks “Standard,” but Upgraded LHC May Tell a Different Tale http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/higgs-boson-looks-…ent-tale1/

Beating human hearts grown in a lab: Tiny organs are being infected with disease to test pioneering drugs http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2669350/Beati…drugs.html

Higgs Boson Looks “Standard,” but Upgraded LHC May Tell a Different Tale http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/higgs-boson-looks-…ent-tale1/

These Cute Little Drones Could 3-D Print a House http://www.wired.com/2014/06/these-drones-could-3-d-print-your-next-house/

What our descendants will deplore about us http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140627-how-our-descendants-will-hate-us

8 Star Trek Technologies Moving From Science Fiction To Science Fact http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2014/06/24/8-star-trek-technologies/

Ray Kurzweil Says He’s Breathing Intelligence into Google Search http://www.technologyreview.com/news/528656/ray-kurzweil-say…/#comments

Carlos Slim Buys Out AT&T’s Stake in América Móvil http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/carlos-slim-buys-out-…ica-movil/

Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini

A self-powered cardiac pacemaker http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-self-powered-cardiac-pacemaker

Google innovations at Google I/O http://www.kurzweilai.net/google-innovations-at-google-io

Ray Kurzweil — Biologically inspired models of intelligence http://www.exponentialtimes.net/videos/ray-kurzweil-biologic…telligence

Are the robots about to rise? Google’s new director of engineering thinks so… www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/robots-google-ray…telligence

Michio Kaku (2014) “The Future of the Mind” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUVw6Pn6GTg

Five Ways IBM Watson is Revolutionizing Health http://bionicly.com/2014/06/five-ways-ibm-watson-is-revolutionizing-health/

NASA Preparing Satellite to Monitor How the Planet Breathes http://www.21stcentech.com/nasa-preparing-satellite-monitor-planet-breathes/

As Robotics Advances, Worries of Killer Robots Rise http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/upshot/danger-robots-working.html?_r=1

How 21st Century Technology is Changing Education http://www.21stcentech.com/technology-21st-century-changing-education/

Breakthrough in neuroscience as paralysed man becomes first to use power of thought to move hand http://www.tumotech.com/2014/06/25/breakthrough-in-neuroscie…move-hand/

Future Soldiers May Wear Bulletproof Spider Silk http://m.livescience.com/46519-spider-silk-bulletproof-clothing.html

The Controlled Chaos of Creativity http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/06/…reativity/

Japan Could Lose 561 Plant Species by the Next Century http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/201…on-crisis/

New technique allows decayed tooth to repair itself http://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2014/06/20.htm#.U6x9FbEbErh

Google’s Grand Plans: A Conversation With Google’s Larry Page and Sundar Pichai http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/googles-grand-plans…ar-pichai/

Daily Report: Google’s Far-Reaching Agenda http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/daily-report-is-goo…egion=Body

Meet The Real Hackers Of Silicon Valley (And NYC, LA, And London) http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/26/meet-the-real-hackers-of-si…nd-london/

Israel Is Building a Futuristic Transit System of Magnetic Pods http://www.wired.com/2014/06/israel-pod-transport/

The promise, peril and real payback of Big Data http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/governance-risk-compliance-consulti…data.jhtml

China finds $15 billion of loans tied to falsified gold deals http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/26/us-china-gold-fina…Q920140626

REUTERS: German government cancels Verizon contract in wake of U.S. spying row http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/26/us-germany-securit…WJ20140626

Yahoo looking to buy YouTube content provider for $250 million: Sky News http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/26/us-yahoo-fullscree…JU20140626

8 Internet Things That Are Not IoT http://www.cio.com/article/754810/8_Internet_Things_That_Are…flow_tweet

LG to Make a Consumer Version of Google’s 3-D Tablet http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/26/lg-to-make-a-consumer…tions_tech

GM CEO Says Recalls Likely to Continue http://online.wsj.com/articles/gm-ceo-says-recalls-likely-to…s_business

THE NATIONAL INTEREST: History’s Warning: A U.S.-China War Is Terrifyingly Possible http://nationalinterest.org/feature/historys-warning-us-chin…ible-10754

Google’s Ray Kurzweil: The Business Of Extending Human Life Is Going Into “High Gear” http://www.fastcoexist.com/3032405/futurist-forum/googles-ra…into-high–

NOT WAY, JOELIE! Should Google Be Allowed to Mine Your Health Care Data? http://gizmodo.com/should-google-be-allowed-to-mine-your-hea…socialflow

There Are ‘Tens Of Billions’ Of Habitable Planets In Our Galaxy, Astronomer Seth Shostak Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/24/habitable-planets-s…ign=buffer

Your Doctor Knows You’re Killing Yourself. The Data Brokers Told Her http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-26/hospitals-s…ealth.html

DARPA Wearable Tech Suit Could Help Soldiers Run a 4-Minute Mile http://www.fedtechmagazine.com/article/2014/05/darpa-wearabl…inute-mile

The CIA Prepares to Launch Cloud Services http://www.fedtechmagazine.com/article/2014/06/cia-prepares-…d-services

Massive Military-Funded Project Aims to Re-align Ailing Brains http://singularityhub.com/2014/06/20/massive-military-funded…ng-brains/

IN THE WORLDWIDE AGE OF THIS INDIGNANT, THIS WILL BE UNIVERSALLY USED: Metropolitan Police buys first water cannon http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-28037395

Track Air Pollution With This Smart Umbrella http://www.fastcodesign.com/3032344/track-air-pollution-with-this-smart-umbrella

BBC: Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki: Russian jets will turn tide http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28042302

BRICK-AND-MORTAR PUBLISHERS WILL GO UNDER. Amazon accused of ‘bullying’ smaller UK publishers http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27994314

We can send humans back to space … if we fund Elon Musk instead of Nasa http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/26/space-n…e-industry

What should a 20-year vision for science and mathematics education look like? www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2014/jun/26/what-s…-look-like

U.S. Will Disband Terrorism Task Force in Philippines http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/world/asia/us-will-disband…d=tw-share

U.S. Navy Air Warfare Center Seeking 3D Metal Printer http://3dprint.com/7420/navy-metal-3d-printer/

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