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By — Wired
Apple CEO Tim Cook walks off stage after this year's WWDC presentation.
Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn’t mention it to anyone, not even his closest friends and colleagues.

He started in the summer of 2010, working at night and on weekends, and by the end of the following year, he’d mapped out the basics of the new language. That’s when he revealed his secret to the top executives at his company, and they were impressed enough to put a few other seasoned engineers on the project. Then, after another eighteen months, it became a “major focus” for the company, with a huge team of developers working alongside Lattner, and that meant the new language would soon change the world of computing. Lattner, you see, works for Apple.

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Written By: — Singularity Hub
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UK nanotechnology company, Surrey NanoSystems, has created what they say is the darkest material known to man. Vantablack consists of a dense forest of carbon nanotubes—single atom carbon tubes 10,000 times thinner than a human hair—that drinks in 99.96% of all incoming radiation.

First announced last year, the material is a deep, featureless black even when folded and scrunched. “You expect to see the hills and all you can see…it’s like black, like a hole, like there’s nothing there. It just looks so strange,” Ben Jensen, the firm’s chief technical officer, told the Independent.

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BOSTON GLOBE: Harvard scientists want gene-manipulation debate Harvard scientists want gene-manipulation debate http://bit.ly/1wDKozE

BOSTON GLOBE: Downed Malaysia plane a ‘wake-up call,’ Obama says http://bit.ly/1u0H0Tu

BOSTON GLOBE: After hybrid success, Toyota gambles on fuel cell http://bit.ly/1qljnUd

BOSTON GLOBE: Japan to export missile parts to US http://bit.ly/1oSpt7J

Prof. Hawking, the AIs will BE US http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/05/07/prof-hawking-the-ais-will-be-us/

Students develop drone to locate survivors via their mobile phones http://www.gizmag.com/drone-mobile-phone-location-survivors/33005/

Underwater Drone to Hunt Down Enemy Subs http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/underwater-drone-to-…NewsSocial

NATURE: Quantum bounce could make black holes explode http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-bounce-could-make-black-holes-explode-1.15573

Transplanting gene into injured hearts creates biological pacemakers http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-07-transplanting-gene…akers.html

Is Earth’s Life Unique in the Universe? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-earth-s-life-un…-universe/

The Smart Cities of the Future are Already Here http://getoptimistic.com/government-articles/the-smart-citie…eady-here/

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

I will be conducting the 1-day Gravity Modification Workshop on Friday, August 8, 2014, here in Denver, Colorado. The Workshop brochure is here http://www.iseti.us/pdf/(00)GMWorkshop(2014-07-15).pdf.

One can expect to take away,

  1. A good understanding of :
    1. The physics and some of the engineering for gravity modification.
    2. Some of the fallacies in contemporary physics that has hampered the discovery of gravity modification physics to date.
  2. A DVD containing:
    1. The PowerPoint presentation of this Workshop
    2. The Excel worksheets that were developed to discover this new physics

To cover costs, the minimum class size is 5, and registered participants will be notified as soon as we reach this minimum.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely
Benjamin T Solomon

BLOOMBERG NEWS
A Google self-driving car goes on a test
Automakers intending to bring driverless cars to market need to work as much on software design as mechanical engineering, the researcher leading Nissan Motor Co.’s automated-vehicle program said.

Making cars that are “deliberative” in assessing road conditions, rather than just reactive, requires artificial intelligence, Maarten Sierhuis, director of Nissan’s Silicon Valley research center in Sunnyvale, California, said in an interview. The carmaker, which aims to sell vehicles that can drive themselves by 2020 or sooner, is developing software to read and filter sensor data much as a human brain does, he said.

“What the auto industry has to come to is a shift from thinking about the car as a physical, mechanical system,” Sierhuis said in an interview Tuesday during the Automated Vehicles Symposium in San Francisco. “Autonomy, autonomous systems, is about understanding how humans do that, and then replicating it with software.”

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Gene Therapy Is Used to Adjust Pigs’ Heartbeat http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/health/gene-therapy-used-t.…html?_r=0

Gene Therapy Is Used to Adjust Pigs’ Heartbeat http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/health/gene-therapy-used-t.…html?_r=0

Can Tetrahedrite Help Generate Cheap Thermoelectric Energy? http://www.21stcentech.com/tetrahedrite-generate-cheap-energy/

The Future Air Force Is Cooler Than Science Fiction http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-future-air-force-is-coole…7qzpQ.html

How Superstorm Sandy Gave Rise to Wireless Startup http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-17/how-superst…artup.html

REUTERS: Malaysian airliner downed in Ukraine war zone, 295 dead http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/17/us-ukraine-crisis-…2N20140717

Pakistan and China: A Precarious Friendship? http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/pakistan-and-china-a-precarious-friendship/

China’s Role in the Middle East http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/chinas-role-in-the-middle-east/

China’s Goals in South America http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/chinas-goals-in-south-america/

Hunting American Spooks: Germany Prepares Further Spying Clampdown http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/expulsion-of-cia…80912.html

Lunar pits could shelter astronauts, reveal details of how ‘man in the moon’ formed http://phys.org/news/2014-07-lunar-pits-astronauts-reveal-moon.html

Tiniest catch: Scientists’ fishing expedition reveals viral diversity in the sea http://phys.org/news/2014-07-tiniest-scientists-fishing-reveals-viral.html

Microsoft Research demos Project Adam machine-learning object-recognition software http://www.kurzweilai.net/microsoft-research-demos-project-a…n-software

The world’s largest domed city http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-worlds-largest-domed-city

Global Trade Forecast Report — HSBC Global Connections https://globalconnections.hsbc.com/global/en/tools-data/trade-forecasts/global

Meet Sverker Johansson, The Man Responsible For Writing 10% Of Wikipedia http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/15/sverker-johansson…87008.html

How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/07/how-big-data-brings-marketing-and-finance-together/

LIRR doc involved in $1 billion disability scam gets 8 years in prison http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/lirr-doc-1-billion-sca…-1.1628516

Feds declare big win over Cryptolocker ransomware http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249728/Feds_declare_…ransomware

Why enterprise IT pros should fear Apple and IBM http://blogs.computerworld.com/big-data/24150/why-enterprise…le-and-ibm

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

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Nest’s Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2013/11/07/nests-tony-f…nnovation/

Controlling the Home, Google Style http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/controlling-the-hom…s&_r=0

A Robot With a Little Humanity http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/a-robot-with-a-little-humanity/

Criminal Software, Government-Grade Protection http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/criminal-software-g…rotection/

Internet Of Things: What’s Holding Us Back http://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/it-strategy/int…id/1235043

Microsoft Slicing 18,000 Jobs: More Change Ahead http://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/digital-busines…d/1297364?

PayPal fuels higher eBay revenue even as cyber attack, rivals weigh http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/us-ebay-results-idUSKBN0FL2L420140716

Humans Already Use Way, Way More Than 10 Percent of Their Brains http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/you-al…in/374520/

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

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Urban Skyfarm concept would provide inner city farming space http://www.gizmag.com/aprilli-design-studio-urban-skyfarm/32954/

Honda’s new ASIMO robot is all grown up http://www.gizmag.com/new-honda-asimo-robot/32977/

DARPA announces Phase 1 of its XS-1 spaceplane program http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-xs-1-spaceplane-phase-design-contracts/32965/

Morphing material could allow robots to switch between hard and soft states http://www.kurzweilai.net/morphing-material-could-allow-robo…oft-states

Stanford Microchip Identifies Diabetes Type, Works in Minutes http://www.medgadget.com/2014/07/stanford-microchip-identifi…nutes.html

UK: Let’s Make a Spaceport! http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/space-flight/uk…-spaceport

We Are a Year Away from Pluto Close-up and New Earth 20 Years Away http://www.21stcentech.com/space-updates-year-pluto-close-up-earth-20-years/

Pentagon Starts Space Launch Competition http://pearsonstrategy.com/partners/

Holographic Displays Coming to Smartphones http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/hol…martphones

Capturing value in global gas: Prepare now for an uncertain future http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/energy_resources_materials/…global_gas

Digitizing the consumer decision journey http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/marketing_sales/digitizing_…on_journey

REUTERS: U.S. imposes toughest sanctions yet on Russia over Ukraine http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/us-ukraine-crisis-…AL20140716

REUTERS: PayPal fuels higher eBay revenue even as cyber attack, rivals weigh http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/us-ebay-results-idUSKBN0FL2L420140716

Where You Live on Earth Matters http://www.21stcentech.com/live-earth-matters/

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

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How machine learning is saving lives while saving hospitals money http://gigaom.com/2014/07/14/how-machine-learning-is-saving-…als-money/

Meet the algorithm that can learn “everything about anything” http://gigaom.com/2014/05/23/meet-the-algorithm-that-can-lea…-anything/

Three Teams To Develop Spaceplane Concepts for DARPA http://www.spacenews.com/article/military-space/41263three-t…-for-darpa

Wisconsin scientists find genetic recipe to turn stem cells to blood http://www.news.wisc.edu/22991

Novartis to license Google “smart lens” technology http://www.marketwatch.com/story/novartis-to-license-google-…;07-15

Google Unveils Smart Contact Lens Project to Monitor Glucose http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-17/google-unve…ucose.html

GE to Develop High-Volume 3-D Printer Plant for Jet Engine Parts http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/ge-to-devel…parts.html

FORBES: Leadership, Talent And Personality: Three Lessons From The World Cup Final http://onforb.es/1mOqgte

REUTERS: HP interim Chairman Ralph Whitworth resigns to focus on health http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/15/us-hewlettpackard-…DU20140715

REUTERS: U.S. FCC extends 1st deadline to comment on net neutrality http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/15/us-usa-internet-ne…8J20140715

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