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A Hologram Might Be Running for the Presidency in 2016
http://betabeat.com/2014/07/a-hologram-might-be-running-for-…z39Afg9QPz

THE ATLANTIC: Just How Likely Is Another World War? http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/jus…ar/375320/

We’re heading into a jobless future, no matter what the government does https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140731045824&#…=prof-post

Nasa validates ‘impossible’ space drive http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-vali…pace-drive

Solar Stories Tell Different Tales http://www.21stcentech.com/solar-stories-tales/

Hubble Space Telescope still pushing the frontiers of astronomy http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hubble-space-telescope-still-pus…astronomy/

Engineered biomaterial may regenerate damaged skeletal muscle http://www.kurzweilai.net/engineered-biomaterial-may-regener…tal-muscle

Nanostructured metal-oxide catalyst efficiently converts CO2 to methanol http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanostructured-metal-oxide-catalys…o-methanol

Google Glass app aims to improve surgeon training in Stanford University Medical School www.kurzweilai.net/google-glass-app-aims-to-improve-surgeon-…cal-school

Artificial intelligence identifies the musical progression of the Beatles http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140724134025.htm

Getting the Client’s Board On-board! https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140801204807&#…d-on-board

Twitter Picked Up 16M Active Users In Q2 http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/29/twitter-q2-user-growth/

NYPD Mission: Develop 35,000 Ethical Protectors http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/column/832035-nypd-mission-d…rotectors/

Worldwide water shortage by 2040 http://phys.org/news/2014-07-worldwide-shortage.html

REUTERS: Gaza truce over, Israel soldier captured, 70 dead in Rafah shelling http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0G008720140801

REUTERS: Facebook restores service after outage in many countries http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/us-facebook-disrup…NL20140801

REUTERS: Tape emerges of Clinton discussing bin Laden day before 9/11 attack http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/us-usa-clinton-bin…J720140801

Cellular Surgeons: The New Era of Nanomedicine http://www.exponentialtimes.net/videos/cellular-surgeons-new-era-nanomedicine

Finding quantum lines of desire http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/27133.aspx

Alibaba Is Investing Huge Sums in an Array of U.S. Tech Companies http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/technology/alibaba-is-inve…y&_r=0

Judge Rules That Microsoft Must Turn Over Data Stored in Ireland http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/judge-rules-that-mi…technology

Upstart French Telecom Iliad Bids $15 Billion for a Majority Stake in T-Mobile US http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/french-upstart-makes-…technology

Stanford creates ‘Holy Grail’ lithium battery, could triple smartphone and EV battery life http://www.extremetech.com/computing/186952-stanford-creates…ttery-life

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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Economist: Social Security Is Insolvent, In Worse Shape Than Detroit’s Pension Funds https://www.trunews.com/economist-social-security-insolvent-…ion-funds/

Nanopropeller could be used for microscopic medicine http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanopropeller-could-be-used-for-microscopic-medicine

A ‘nanosubmarine’ that could deliver drug molecules to cells http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-nanosubmarine-that-could-deliver…s-to-cells

A rice genome to feed the world http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-rice-genome-to-feed-the-world

Brainwaves of a few people predict mass audience reaction to TV programs and ads http://www.kurzweilai.net/brainwaves-of-a-few-people-can-pre…ms-and-ads

Turning Pollution into Plastic http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/07/turning-pollution-into-plastic.html

“WHAT IS THE CORRECT DIAGNOSIS? (SIC.)” http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140731223140&#4…gnosis-sic

Amazon Launches 3D Printing Services http://www.supplychain247.com/article/amazon_launches_3d_printing_services

A.P.: CIA spied on Senate, internal review finds http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=P6fsJyhU

REUTERS: S&P500 index posts worst fall since April; indexes down for July http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-markets-stocks-…9T20140731

REUTERS: Argentine markets fall post-default, NY hearing on Friday http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-argentina-debt-…DX20140731

REUTERS: India’s demands block $1 trillion WTO deal on customs rules http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-india-trade-wto…9R20140731

The Wake-Up Call: Europe Toughens Stance against Putin http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/europe-prepares-t…83224.html

China’s Enforcers http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141688/deborah-m-lehr…-enforcers

Climate change new engine of China, US ties http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-07/09/content_17683820.htm

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

CERN bets the planet on the early Einstein having been wrong. Let me explain.

After having founded special relativity in mid-1905, the early Einstein held fast to the speed of light c being a global constant of nature for another 2 ½ years. Only in December of 1907 did Einstein switch to the view that c was only an everywhere locally, but not globally, valid constant of nature.

In 2008, results proving that the early Einstein of 1905 was right started to appear in the scientific literature. For example, quantum electrodynamics combined with the equivalence principle (Schwinger) shows this. Up until now, no counterproof is in the literature.

In light of this renaissance of the early Einstein, a previously noncontroversial policy of the famous CERN consortium turns out to be problematical: their refusal to update the outdated Safety Report of mid-2008. Demanding this update has become a priority issue for everyone who learns about its lack.

The return after a century to the global constancy of c of the early Einstein implies that man-made black holes – which CERN tries to produce in its soon to be re-started particle collider – are different: They are undetectable to CERN’s detectors. This fact renders the experiment strictly speaking unscientific. Most important, however: if but one specimen of the invisible hoped-for objects is slow enough not to fly away into outer space, it is going to grow exponentially inside earth to turn the planet into a 2-cm black hole after a silent period of a few years in accordance with the laws of exponential growth.

As long as CERN is unable to publicly contradict this scenario in an update of its famous 6 years old Safety Report, they cannot re-start the Large Hadron Collider on logical grounds.

It all boils down to the question: “Who of the two Einsteins – the early one or the 2 ½ years older one – was right?”

(For J.O.R.)

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How big data is going to help feed nine billion people by 2050 http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-big-data-is-going-to…e-by-2050/

Direct Brain to Brain Communication Between Animals and Humans http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/07/28/direct-brain-to-brain-co…nd-humans/

How Facebook is evolving into a mobile ad giant http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/17562949-how-faceb…e-ad-giant

This Website Advertises A Bunch Of Jobs That Pay In Bitcoin http://www.businessinsider.com/profile-of-coinality-2013-12

Lenovo’s smart glasses prototype has battery at neck http://phys.org/news/2014-07-lenovo-smart-glasses-prototype-battery.html

Tiny UAVs and hummingbirds are put to test http://phys.org/news/2014-07-tiny-uavs-hummingbirds.html

10 Biggest CIO-CMO Relationship Hurdles http://www.cio.com/article/2458472/cio-role/160586-10-Bi…rdles.html

Beyond GPS: five next-generation technologies http://www.kurzweilai.net/beyond-gps-five-next-generation-technologies

Astrocytes — not neurons — found to control the brain’s gamma waves and some forms of memory www.kurzweilai.net/astrocytes-not-neurons-found-to-control-t…-of-memory

Simple vision-correcting overlay and algorithm could replace reading glasses for viewing devices http://www.kurzweilai.net/simple-vision-correcting-overlay-a…ng-devices

BBC: Bank of America’s Countrywide to pay $1.3bn to US http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28570935

Driverless cars will be on UK roads from January 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28562591

Robot ‘learns to keep going with broken leg’ http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28564349

REUTERS: Argentina fails to reach debt agreement, default looms http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-argentina-debt-…AM20140730

REUTERS: Moscow fights back after sanctions; battle rages near Ukraine crash site http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-ukraine-crisis-…JF20140730

REUTERS: Liberia shuts schools, considers quarantine to curb Ebola http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-health-ebola-li…2H20140730

Putin’s Losing Streak http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141663/stephen-holmes…ing-streak

The Dishonest Broker http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141667/bilal-y-saab/the-dishonest-broker

An Unnecessary Plague http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141369/jessica-hatche…ary-plague

Welcome to the Third Intifada http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141662/khaled-elgindy…d-intifada

Libya on the Brink http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141666/jason-pack/libya-on-the-brink

The hackers who recovered NASA’s lost lunar photos http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/30/world/hackers-nasa-lunar-p…?hpt=te_r1

CNN: Number of 9/11-related cancer cases is growing http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/30/health/911-cancer-increase…?hpt=hp_t3

9 Things to Know About Reviving the Recently Dead http://www.wired.com/2014/07/revive-the-dead/

How much is Los Angeles Tech Booming? Funding up 163% and Deals Up 180% https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/los-angeles-funding-exits

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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CIOs, Companies Sharpen Skills for ‘Internet of Things’ Future http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/07/28/cios-companies-sharpen-s…gs-future/

Freeman Dyson Predicts the Future http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/space-flight/fr…the-future

IPCC climate change report’s findings must be accepted, MPs say http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/29/ipcc-clim…ed-mps-say

THE GUARDIAN: Chinese hackers steal Israel’s Iron Dome missile data http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/29/chinese-ha…ssile-data

Google calls for guinea pigs for ambitious ‘Baseline’ health study http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/28/google-baseline-health-study

6 Design Concepts From IDEO That Rethink Aging http://www.wired.com/2014/07/6-design-concepts-from-ideo-for…ng-easier/

An Ingenious Plane Design That Makes Room for Your Carry-Ons http://www.wired.com/2014/07/an-ingenious-plane-design-that-…carry-ons/

Japan’s Nuclear Roadmap To Economic Destruction http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/07/29/japans-nuc…struction/

A Global Calculator To Help Countries Understand How To Strategize for Climate Change http://www.21stcentech.com/global-calculator-understand-relate-climate-change/

Google’s next map: a healthy human body http://www.marketwatch.com/story/googles-next-map-a-healthy-…;07-25

US is the new Switzerland http://www.cnbc.com/id/101875767

Shanghai Electric, Siemens Invest $226 Million in Wind Ventures http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-08/shanghai-el…tures.html

Printing the Metals of the Future http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-247

What is the Difference between Posthumanism and Transhumanism? http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/lagrandeur20140729

Man-made ‘breathing’ leaf is an oxygen factory for space travel http://www.cnet.com/news/this-man-made-breathing-leaf-is-an-…ce-travel/

Google Attempts to Map Human Body http://www.exponentialtimes.net/videos/google-attempts-map-human-body

Is Safety Gratuitous and Long-lasting? By the White Swan’s book: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140730010643&#4…wan-s-book

Bridging The Gap Between The Knowns With The Unknowns And Remained Victorious In The Process! http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140730022851&#4…he-process

Stem cell advance may increase efficiency of tissue regeneration http://phys.org/news/2014-07-stem-cell-advance-efficiency-tissue.html

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

by — c/net

One of the persistent challenges of manned space exploration is that pesky lack of oxygen throughout much of the universe. Here on Earth, trees and other plant life do us a real solid by taking in our bad breath and changing it back to clean, sweet O2.

So what if we could take those biological oxygen factories into space with us, but without all the land, sun, water, soil, and gravity that forests tend to require? This is the point where NASA and Elon Musk should probably start paying attention.

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TWENTY “WHITE SWAN BOOK” COMMANDMENTS OF RESILIENCY … http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140728221803&#4…resilience

The Scottish government has announced funding for a initiative to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-28279336

WORLD ORDER IS RIGHT NOW CHANGING BEYOND EXPONENTIALLY, DEEPLY CHANGING MANY, MANY THINGS, INCLUDING THE PAUSING OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY. LET US GET CONCERNED AND OPERATIONAL ABOUT THIS FOOLISH PRESENT!

Mapping the Spread of Drought Across the U.S. http://nyti.ms/1rZ27S9

Designing nanoparticles that can deliver drugs more easily http://www.kurzweilai.net/designing-nanoparticles-that-can-d…ore-easily

Social by the numbers: An interview with Sandy Pentland http://dupress.com/articles/sandy-pentland-mit-interview/

Building ‘invisible’ materials with light http://phys.org/news/2014-07-invisible-materials.html

The prettiest science experiments of the year according to Princeton http://sploid.gizmodo.com/these-are-some-of-the-coolest-look…+caseychan

Driverless cars, sexy robots, and flying trucks – this is the future http://rbth.com/science_and_tech/2014/07/16/driverless_cars_…38243.html)

Gold Bugs Meet Bitcoin Believers to Supplant the Dollar http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-28/gold-bugs-m…ollar.html

Qblinks — Smartphone Remote Notification and Control https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/myqblinks/qblinks-smart…nd-control

Startups Are Finally Hacking Healthcare http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/26/startups-are-finally-hackin…cial_share

Can you learn in your sleep? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140721-how-to-learn-while-you-sleep

REUTERS: West agrees wider Russia sanctions as Kiev says forces near crash site http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/28/us-ukraine-crisis-…1Z20140728

REUTERS: Israel strikes house of Hamas Gaza leader, digs in for long fight http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/29/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0FV04A20140729

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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Beijing Has Top-Secret View of China’s Employment http://online.wsj.com/articles/heard-on-the-street-beijing-h…1406187890

How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon’s Cloud http://www.wired.com/2014/07/how-hackers-hid-a-money-mining-…ons-cloud/

Scientists Just Reversed Paralysis http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2014/07/22/led-light-paralysi…n-disease/

How a solar storm two years ago nearly caused a catastrophe on Earth http://wapo.st/1peCewu

Air Algerie plane with 116 aboard crashes in Mali http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/07/24/algerian…/13084329/

The Next Big Thing in Hardware: Smart Garbage http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/the-next-big-thing-…s&_r=0

Scientists use virus to grow natural pacemaker from heart muscle http://americablog.com/2014/07/scientists-use-virus-create-n…uscle.html

Researchers fully ‘delete’ HIV from human cells for the first time http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/22/researchers-delete-hiv-fr…_truncated

Complex cellular-molecular crosstalk of vertebrate regeneration http://bit.ly/1zabxgR

Graphene and related materials promise cheap, flexible printed cameras http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=36679.php

Eyeglass Wearers Can Ditch Their Eyewear http://www.21stcentech.com/gizmos-gadgets-eyeglass-wearers-ditch-eyewear/

Got an Old Satellite Dish? – Convert it to Your Own Radio Telescope http://www.21stcentech.com/satellite-dish-convert-radio-telescope/

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

IMF cuts US and global growth forecasts for 2014 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/global-markets/i…980635.cms

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

Anders Sandberg, a member of the advisory board for the Lifeboat Foundation, recently took part in a panel debate on the future of human cloning produced by the Institute of Art and Ideas.

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Debate blurb:

Human cloning is anathema to most of us conjuring up Metropolis visions of identical humans serving tyrannical masters. But might this be a mistaken horror story? Could human cloning instead lead to medical breakthroughs and the end to infertility?

Debate panel:

Dolly the Sheep embryologist Sir Ian Wilmut, outspoken Oxford bioethicist and transhumanist Anders Sandberg and radical sociologist Hilary Rose.

Watch Planet of the Clones on IAI.TV

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Five reasons HarperCollins’ ecommerce is just part of a clever anti-Amazon strategy http://www.publishingtechnology.com/2014/07/five-reasons-har…-strategy/

Italy gives Google 18 months to comply with European privacy regulations http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/italy-goog…egulations

Yahoo buys mobile analytics firm Flurry http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/yahoo-buys…irm-flurry

Stripe steps up PayPal rivalry with Australian launch http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/stripe-ste…ian-launch

When Technologies Combine, Amazing Innovation Happens http://www.fastcoexist.com/3032977/when-technologies-combine…on-happens

Mysterious dance of dwarfs may force a cosmic rethink http://phys.org/news/2014-07-mysterious-dwarfs-cosmic-rethink.html

Plants are talking and these sensors let us hear what they’re saying http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/plants-are-talking-and-the…aying.html

Law of physics governs airplane evolution http://phys.org/news/2014-07-law-physics-airplane-evolution.html

China set to be net investor http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-06/25/content_17613259.htm

Noninvasive retinal imaging device detects Alzheimer’s 20 years in advance http://www.kurzweilai.net/noninvasive-retinal-imaging-device…in-advance

More-efficient solar-powered steam http://www.kurzweilai.net/more-efficient-solar-powered-steam

3D-printed-anatomy developers aim to revolutionize medical education http://www.kurzweilai.net/3d-printed-anatomy-developers-aim-…-education

Apple posts $7.7 billion in profit, but all eyes look to new products in the fall http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/22/5926913/apple-q3-2014-earnings

China and Switzerland sign currency swap agreement http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=2014…p;cid=1203

REUTERS: U.S. court rulings create new uncertainty over Obamacare http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/22/us-usa-court-obama…JI20140722

REUTERS: Facebook’s Zuckerberg to testify at N.Y. forgery trial: prosecutors http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/22/us-facebook-ceglia…C120140722

REUTERS: EU antitrust regulators likely to step up Google probes: WSJ http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/22/us-google-antitrus…ZJ20140722

REUTERS: Hacking experts build device to protect cars from cyber attacks http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/22/us-cybersecurity-a…FR20140722

REUTERS: Google must face U.S. privacy lawsuit over commingled user data http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/22/us-google-privacy-…XA20140722

REUTERS: PayPal signs “ten of thousands” customers in Nigerian launch http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/22/us-nigeria-paypal-…2L20140722

Europe Treads Cautious Path in Confronting Russia http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/22/europe_sanc…_17_russia

U.S. Intelligence No Closer to Pinning MH17 Downing on Russia http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/07/22/us_intell…_on_russia

Economics 101: How The Cloud Is Changing More Than Just Technology http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300072156/economics-101-how-th…nology.htm

3D Printing Goes Big-Time for Small Production Runs http://machinedesign.com/3d-printing/3d-printing-goes-big-ti…ction-runs

The Internet of Things May See Huge Growth, So Companies Want in Now www.entrepreneur.com/article/234731

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Allysia Finley: How Government Is Making Solar Billionaires http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303376904579135842033421008

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: 4 Industries Most in Need of Data Scientists http://online.wsj.com/ad/article/narratives_sas_65124.html?prx_t=HYwBAfZUBApeEEA

Schizophrenia’s genetic ‘skyline’ rising: Suspect common variants soar from 30 to 108 http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-07-schizophrenia-gene…iants.html

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