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Global Ocean Commission Tells Us What We Don’t Want to Hear http://www.21stcentech.com/global-ocean-commissions-latest-report-hear/

Gallup Examines the State of the American Consumer http://thegallupblog.gallup.com/2014/06/gallup-examines-state-of-american.html

This Band Of Small Robots Could Build Entire Skyscrapers Without Human Help http://www.fastcoexist.com/3032003/this-band-of-small-robots…man-help#2

15 Ways The World Will Be Awesome In 2050 http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-world-in-2050-2014-6

These Beautiful Charts Show The Emerging Technologies That Will Change The World
http://www.businessinsider.com/emerging-technologies-that-wi…z35ayyRrA5

Cruise RP-1 Turns Even Your Car into an Autonomously Driven Vehicle http://www.21stcentech.com/cruise-rp-1-turns-car-autonomously-driven-vehicle/

What the detection of gravitational waves means for our understanding of the universe. http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2014-issues-futurist/july-august…ves-cosmos

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Gartner Highlights Top Technologies for Information Security in 2014 http://blogs.gartner.com/security-summit/announcements/gartn…am=smsec20

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Cubesat Initiative http://www.spacemart.com/reports/NASAs_Science_Mission_Direc…e_999.html

Photographer Documents The Eerie World Of Japanese Robotics http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/japanese-humanoid-r…04970.html

THE CATO INSTITUTE: Instead of Meddling Endlessly in the Mideast, Washington Should Stop Trying to Fix Iraq and Everywhere Else http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bandow/instead-of-meddlin…24356.html

Australian researchers simulate a time-traveling photon www.gizmag.com/time-traveling-photons/32673

Proposal: Dynamic Brain Switching As a Method to Maintain Consciousness During Mind Uploading http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/06/23/proposal-dynamic-brain-s…uploading/

You Won’t Believe It: DARPA Future Research Into Advanced Computers http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/darpa-future-research-advanced-computers/

The Revolutionary Quantum Computer That May Not Be Quantum at All http://www.wired.com/2014/05/quantum-computing/

Boost Your Ears To Superhuman Levels With These Cyborg Ears http://www.fastcoexist.com/3032226/healthware/boost-your-ear…-who-can-h

Can A Fitness Tracker Disguised As A Swiss Watch Solve The Problem Of Wearables? http://www.fastcodesign.com/3032223/can-a-fitness-tracker-di…-wearables

Tally of Cyber Extortion Attacks on Tech Companies Grows http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/tally-of-cyber-exto…egion=Body

Canadian Judge Says Google Must Remove Links Worldwide http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/canadian-judge-says…egion=Body

Hedge-Fund Hack Is Part of Bigger Siege, Cyber-Experts Warn http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-23/hedge-fund-…perts.html

Pesticides linked to honeybee decline are affecting other species, scientists say http://rt.com/news/168108-pesticides-harm-bees-birds-fish/

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

Ryan Morrison — BBC News
Jersey: Bitcoin Island

A campaign has been launched to make Jersey a world leader in digital currencies.

Bitcoin payments are already accepted in a handful of places but an industry expert says, if the States allow banks to accept and trade with it, Jersey could become a magnet for new business.

Robbie Andrews, of bit.coin.je, an industry body set up to promote and campaign for the currency, wants to create a “Bitcoin Isle”.

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, ) — Tech Crunch

The robotics revolution has been in the making for decades, but market expectations have historically outpaced technology readiness. While industrial and military sectors have adopted a number of high-priced robotics solutions, the consumer sector has lagged due to lack of technological maturity and high costs.

In recent years, we have seen accelerated levels of innovation in both software and hardware that are now driving new possibilities for consumer readiness and adoption of personal robotics.

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Giancarlo Valdes — Venture Beat
To infinity and beyond: VR games embrace space travel and innovation at E3 2014

We can finally talk about virtual reality games with a straight face.

At this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show in Los Angeles, a small pool of VR games held their own against a big slate of indie titles and triple-A blockbusters. This is the first year that Oculus VR, the poster boy for VR’s resurgence with its popular Oculus Rift headset, had a presence on the expo floor, an elegant booth that wasn’t too far from Oculus’s biggest competitor, Sony’s Project Morpheus. Neither company has set a release date for their devices (Samsung, the third challenger for the VR crown, is trying to beat them both to market).

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— Wired

The world's top supercomputer: the Tihane-2.

Every six months, a team of supercomputing academics compiles a list of the most powerful computers on the planet. It’s called the Top500 list, and it has become a competition of sorts. National labs vie against universities, military facilities, NASA, and even temporary cloud-based supercomputers—all to see who’s building the worlds’ largest number-crunching machines.

This year, the machine on the top of the list is Tihane-2, a Chinese system that can perform 33.86 quadrillion calculations per second. But here’s the thing. Tihane-2 was on top back in November of 2013, and a year ago too. In fact, when you look at the top 10 machines on the June list, there’s only one new entry–an unidentified Cray supercomputer, operated by the U.S. government. It’s ranked tenth.

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— Singularity Hub

brain, brain initiative, mental health, DBS, brain stimulation

Deep brain stimulation as a treatment for epilepsy and movement disorders, most notably Parkinson’s disease, has rapidly gone from experimental to standard practice. With devices to provide delicate electro-stimulation to the brain now available and with maps of which neurons do what steadily gaining detail, attention is now shifting to using the approach to treat mental illness.

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— Singularity Hub
gamers
Violence is contagious, this we know. Time and again, researchers have found that exposure to aggression links directly to increases in violent behavior. This is why, for example, 30% of abused children grow up to be abusers themselves. It’s also why, as Gary Slutkin, a professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Illinois, Chicago and the executive director of CURE Violence, recently told New Scientist: “[P]eople who have observed violence are 30 times more likely to commit it. Under certain conditions it can be up to 100 to 1,000 times more likely.”

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Diet restriction suspends development in nematode worms, doubles lifespan http://www.kurzweilai.net/diet-restriction-suspends-developm…s-lifespan

Modeling how neurons work together to perform movements: not as random as we thought http://www.kurzweilai.net/modeling-how-neurons-work-together…we-thought

A low-cost ‘super-resolution’ microscopic optical device http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-low-cost-super-resolution-microscopic-optical-device

Smile! A Drone Is About to Take Your Picture http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/smile-a-drone-is-ab…s&_r=0

Bilderberg Group Worried about Nuclear War with Russia– http://usawatchdog.com/bilderberg-group-worried-about-nuclea…l-estulin/

Hebrew University Student Invents World’s First Bacteria-Free Food Packaging http://nocamels.com/2014/06/breakthrough-hebrew-university-s…packaging/

Now Elon Musk Is Building the World’s Biggest Solar Panel Factory http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/06/17/now-elon-musk-bui…pid=tp-san

Smart Cities — A $1.5 Trillion Market Opportunity http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarwantsingh/2014/06/19/smart-ci…portunity/

Mind-control: ‘I drove a car with my thoughts’ http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140620-i-drove-a-car-with-my-thoughts

Drifting off the coast of Portugal, the frontrunner in the global race for floating windfarms http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/23/drifting-…-windfarms

Researchers Develop Graphene Production Technique Even You Can Do http://www.21stcentech.com/researchers-develop-graphene-production-technique/

Pacemakers Without Batteries? The Technology is Coming Soon http://www.21stcentech.com/pacemakers-batteries-technology-coming/

The Crazy Things Your Future Credit Cards Will Do (Infographic) http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233651

Can ‘Mixed Reality Living Spaces’ fix our overcrowded future? http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/26/5751336/virtual-reality-walls-bernando-schorr

The Productivity Snag That Keeps Data Scientists Up At Night http://www.fastcolabs.com/3032264/the-productivity-snag-that…p-at-night

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