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Matthew Herper — Forbes

A linguistic analysis done at Forbes’ request indicates that Newsweek fingered the wrong man when it tried to unmask the creator of the digital currency, Bitcoin.
Bitcoin allows users to conduct transactions with no or low fees and a relative degree of privacy. There is close to $8 billion of the currency on the Internet. But the identity of its creator (or creators), who went by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, has remained shrouded in mystery.

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Michael SallaHonolulu Exopolitics Examiner

http://usahitman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/NSA-Aliens-300x282.pngAmong the leaked Snowden National Security Agency (NSA) documents, the first to explicitly involve the UFO issue has just been released and is currently generating much media scrutiny. The 50 page document is a powerpoint presentation titled “The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations,” and was authored by the British equivalent of the NSA, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The document was the subject to an in-depth story released this week by Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first worked with Edward Snowden to release to the world official NSA surveillance of the general public, and foreign government officials. The leaked document details how the NSA is working with its “Five Eyes” partners in Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to train its operatives in online covert operations. Greenwald’s article exposes how the NSA and its Five Eyes intelligence partners encourage a range of psychological warfare tools to discredit any targets discussing sensitive national security information. In the “Art of Deception” document three of the 50 slides show images of UFOs – one of which dates from 1950. The leaked document reveals a clear connection between online covert operations by the GCHQ and its intelligence partners on the UFO issue. It is smoking gun evidence that the international intelligence community is training its covert operatives to deceive the public on a range of sensitive national security issues including UFOs.

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LIST OF UPDATES (MARCH 10 THROUGH MARCH 16/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

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New US Military Space Plane Aims for 2017 Liftoff
http://www.space.com/24639-united-states-military-space-plane-xs1.html

9 hot Indian innovators that Silicon Valley could buy next
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific…ld-buy-nex

NASA’s CT-2 Preps for Larger Deep Space Launches
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…nches.aspx

In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones

In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones

Surveillance by Algorithm

Surveillance by Algorithm

Bitcoin Is a Protocol. Bitcoin Is a Brand.

‘Carbon bubble’ poses serious threat to UK economy, MPs warn
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/06/carbon-bu…CMP=twt_fd

Time running out for Great Barrier Reef: scientists
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-great-barrier-reef-scientists.html

5 Things to Lessen Your Anxiety About Big Data
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/big-data/5-things-to-lessen-your-…024382.php

Breakthrough: How to Avert Analytics’ Most Treacherous Pitfall
http://smartdatacollective.com/node/189476?utm_source=feedbu…autotweets

A Genetic Entrepreneur Sets His Sights on Aging and Death

A Clever Robotic Arm on Kickstarter, Straight From Chinese Factory Whizzes
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/kickstarter-robot-arm-ufactory/

The Uncertain Future of the Global Cloud
https://exploreb2b.com/articles/the-uncertain-future-of-the-global-cloud

Wyoming Governor Takes Major Stand Against Modern Science
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/wyoming-next-genera…mg00000016

Assange at SXSW: ‘Who really wears the pants in the administration?‘
http://www.techhive.com/article/2105863/assange-at-sxsw-who-…ation.html

Japan’s Strategic Approach to Democracy Support
http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/03/07/japan-s-strategic-ap…pport/h2q1

NASA’s WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No ‘Planet X’
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-075

Independent Scotland would lose UK’s AAA rating, warns Citigroup
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfina…group.html

Ukraine crisis: why Russia sees Crimea as its naval stronghold
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/07/ukraine-russia-…-explainer

China Has Launched the Largest Water-Pipeline Project in History
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/chi…ry/284300/

Nanomotors controlled within living cells
http://www.gizmag.com/nanomotors-controlled-inside-cells/30795/

How wearables will change the enterprise landscape
http://www.coppermobile.com/blog/all-post/wear-job-wrist-wea…nt=4211381

Lockheed Martin, University of Maryland to develop next generation quantum computer
http://phys.org/wire-news/155552054/lockheed-martin-universi…ratio.html

Infrastructure Threatened by Climate Change Poses a National Crisis
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infrastructure-thr…um=twitter

SORRY BANKS, MILLENNIALS HATE YOU
http://www.fastcompany.com/3027197/fast-feed/sorry-banks-millennials-hate-you

Russia turns to drones and robots as army shrinks
http://blogs.blouinnews.com/blouinbeatpolitics/2013/12/15/ru…y-shrinks/

The U.S. Does Not Have As Much Leverage Over Russia’s Energy As You Think
http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2014/the-u-s-does-no…you-think/

DARPA SHIELD targets counterfeit parts
http://www.c4isrnet.com/article/M5/20140306/C4ISRNET07/30306…um=twitter

Why It’s Hard to Impose Sanctions on Russia
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230455400…4?mod=e2tw

2030 Space Odyssey: NASA will search for alien life in Jupiter’s moon
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/2030-space-odyssey-nasa-will-searc…0/@barrett

7 hidden dangers of wearable computers
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/142881/7-hidden-dangers-o…591#slide1

The dark side of 3D printing: 10 things to watch

The dark side of 3D printing: 10 things to watch

PIZZA HUT’S INTERACTIVE TOUCH TABLE COULD BE COMING TO A RESTAURANT NEAR YOU
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3027282/pizza-huts-interactive-t…t-near-you

Mobile devices of the future will get energy from everywhere except the wall socket
http://qz.com/180484/mobile-devices-of-the-future-will-get-e…ign=buffer

Marc Andreessen Thinks the News Business Is About to Grow 1,000 Percent
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/big-boom-news-change-read/

Robotic Technology to Preserve Wildlife: A Scenario
http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2014-issues-futurist/march-april…dlife-scen

Learning without Schools: A Contrarian Future
http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2014-issues-futurist/march-april…rian-futur

New Record Set for Data-Transfer Speeds
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/02/new-record-s…fer-speeds

Glimmer of Light Appears in Search for Dark Matter
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/02/glimmer-ligh…5&type=cta

This is what 3D printed wood looks like
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/25/this-is-what-3d-printed-wood-looks-like/

Rise of the human exoskeletons
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26418358#%3Futm_source%3D…m%3Dtwitte

How Data from Wearable Tech is Transforming Personal Training and Sport Performance
http://iq.intel.com/iq/41823249/how-data-from-wearable-tech-…Id=7599081

Click Your Tongue Or Wink To Control This Tiny Computer Earclip
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027183/click-your-tongue-or-win…er-earclip

Three Metrics that will Move the World
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140304184631&#4…-the-world

Microgrids will soon make large electrical grids obsolete
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/03/04/microgrids-will-soon-mak…-obsolete/

Futuristic Moon Elevator Idea Takes Aim at Lunar Lifts
http://www.space.com/24905-moon-elevator-lunar-exploration-liftport.html

Technological Growth and Unemployment: A Global Scenario Analysis
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://…campa2.htm

Will SpaceX Super Rocket Kill NASA’s ‘Rocket to Nowhere’? (Op-Ed)
http://www.space.com/24628-will-spacex-kill-nasa-sls.html

Cameras That Can See Through Walls!

The Future of Venture Capital, Tech Valuations and the Fate of Tech Incumbents — Conversation with Bill Janeway
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mgiresearch/2014/03/04/the-futur…l-janeway/

When Regulation Threatens, Bankers Predict Doom For Main Street
http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/when-regulation-thre…1394047793

Human Longevity Inc. launched to promote healthy aging using advances in genomics and stem-cell therapies
http://www.kurzweilai.net/human-longevity-inc-hli-launched-t…-therapies

Supplement added to a standard diet improves health and prolongs life in mice
http://www.kurzweilai.net/supplement-added-to-a-standard-die…fe-in-mice

Robotic-assisted prostate surgery offers better cancer control, study finds
http://www.kurzweilai.net/robotic-assisted-prostate-surgery-…tudy-finds

Study pinpoints protective mutations for type 2 diabetes
http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-pinpoints-protective-mutatio…2-diabetes

How to generate new neurons in brains, spinal cords of living adult mammals
http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-generate-new-neurons-in-bra…lt-mammals

Two-dimensional ‘electron gas’ creates radical microelectronics devices
http://www.kurzweilai.net/two-dimensional-electron-gas-creat…cs-devices

How memory and thought alter the meaning of odors
http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-memory-and-thought-alter-the-meaning-of-odors

Evidence of former life on Mars?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/evidence-of-former-life-on-mars

Will 3D Printing Upend Fashion Like Napster Crippled the Music Industry?
http://mashable.com/2014/03/03/3d-printing-fashion/

Ukraine: A Mistake Moscow Will Regret
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2014/03/04/ukraine-a…ll-regret/

Will Google Maps Ever Come to Apple CarPlay
http://mashable.com/2014/03/04/google-maps-carplay/?utm_camp…feedburner

The Case for Blunders
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/06/darwin-…tion=false

Silicon Valley real estate mogul turns to curing cancer through big data
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/companies/innovation/2014/03/…_inn_mar14

3 Technologies that Will Rock Your World
http://networkingexchangeblog.att.com/enterprise-business/3-…_sc_=2jsl3

Ballmer: Microsoft Missed the Mobile Market Over Last Decade
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/04/ballmer-microsoft-mis…st-decade/

Worth $1 Billion, Iceland’s Cryptocurrency Is the Third-Largest in the World
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/worth-1-billion-icelands-cr…-the-world

When Start-Ups Don’t Lock the Doors

InPowered Opens Platform to Push Popular Content to Native Ads
http://mashable.com/2014/03/04/inpowered-opens-platform/?utm…-main-link

‘Government as a Platform’: How Cloud Computing Is Progressing Inside The Beltway
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2014/02/23/governm…e-beltway/

Most Stars in the Universe Host an Alien Planet
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/03/04/most-st…xYcUeddWDo

China Working on New Intermediate-Range Missile
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/report-china-working-new-inte…um=twitter

Warheads and Wealth: Five Keys to Russia’s Power
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-five-ways-russia-s-milita…mxabw.html

Banking, Information, and Technology: Toward Knowledge Banking
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/525106/banking-informat…ce=twitter

Ukrainian authorities suffer new cyber attacks
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/us-ukraine-cricis-…FU20140308

Cyber weapon known as Snake attacking Ukraine’s computer network
http://www.news.com.au/world/cyber-weapon-known-as-snake-att…6849285455

Border Patrol tells agents to retreat from rock throwers, not shoot
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/249087891.html?authenticate=y

Federal agencies embrace new technology and strategies to find the enemy within
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/federal-agenc…story.html

Naval Espionage
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/march/naval-espionage-s…der-threat

Resolving For Cybersecurity Threats To The Cloud
http://www.hstoday.us/briefings/correspondents-watch/single-…c8ce6.html

Cybersecurity Priorities Unveiled in FY 2015 Budget
http://www.govinfosecurity.com/cybersecurity-priorities-unve…get-a-6600

NIST report on iris aging flawed: researchers
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140307-nist-repo…esearchers

Why Study? College Hackers Are Changing F’s To A’s
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/05/student-hacking_n_4…technology

Suspected Russian spyware Turla targets Europe, United States
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/07/us-russia-cyberesp…YI20140307

Safeguarding networks when disasters strike
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140306-safeguard…ers-strike

HOW BUSY PEOPLE MAKE TIME TO READ—AND YOU CAN TOO
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026923/how-busy-people-make-time…ou-can-too

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Professional Futurist and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

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Thinking about the end of the world is something that most people try to avoid; for others, it’s a profession. The Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, UK specializes in looking at the ‘big-picture’ future of the human race, and notably, the risks that could wipe us out entirely.

As you’d probably imagine, the risks considered by the Institute include things like nuclear war and meteor strikes, but one perhaps unexpected area that it’s looking into is the potential threat posed by artificial intelligence. Could computers become so smart that they become our rivals, take all our jobs and eventually wipe us all out? This Terminator-style scenario used to seem like science fiction, but it’s starting to be taken seriously by those who watch the way technology is developing.

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By Leonard David, Space.com’s Space Insider Columnist

Craig VenterIf scientists do find life on Mars, it may be possible to beam Martian DNA back to Earth, according to a new idea growing in popularity. If Martian bugs are found, the idea of “faxing” life from Mars is an enticing prospect, spurred on by scientist, Craig Venter, famous for his early sequencing of the human genome.

Venter proposes that researchers analyze Martian DNA on the Red Planet and then radio back that sequence to synthesize the DNA on Earth. He put forth the notion in a book published last year called “Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of the Digital Age.” [The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)]

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Written By: — Singularity Hub
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One of the greatest promises of the high-tech future, whether made explicitly or implicitly through shiny clean concept sketches, is that we will have efficient energy that doesn’t churn pollutants into the air and onto the streets.
But here in the present, politicians and even many clean energy advocates maintain that a world run on hydrogen and wind, water and solar power is not yet possible due to technical challenges like energy storage and cost.

Yet Stanford University researchers led by civil engineer Mark Jacobson have developed detailed plans for each state in the union that to move to 100 percent wind, water and solar power by 2050 using only technology that’s already available. The plan, presented recently at the AAAS conference in Chicago, also forms the basis for The Solutions Project nonprofit.

“The conclusion is that it’s technically and economically feasible,” Jacobson told Singularity Hub.

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By Paul Kvinta — Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/image_full/public/Biddle1.jpg?itok=4XfIASvJ

In December 2001, American environmental activist Jim Puckett traveled to the town of Guiyu in southeast China to look for old computers. He’d learned that electronic waste from the West was finding its way to Guiyu, and the place apparently wasn’t what it used to be. For centuries, residents of Guiyu’s four villages had scratched out a living farming rice along the Lianjiang River. When Puckett arrived, one of the first things he saw was a man riding a bicycle stacked 15-feet high with computer keyboards. Puckett followed him to a village and, like Alice tailing the white rabbit through Wonderland, he discovered an upside-down world almost cartoonish in its horrors. Towering piles of monitors, printers, and fax machines lined streets and occupied front yards. In a neighboring village, women cooked circuit boards curbside in woks, and children played atop ash heaps. There were piles of burning wires, clouds of noxious fumes, and fields of gooey sludge. Puckett met people blackened head-to-toe with printer toner.

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Carey Dunne — FAST COMPANY


This tiny computer clips onto your ear and lets you scroll through a menu by winking or pause a song by scrunching your nose. The Samantha Stevens-ification of human interaction has begun.

It looks like we’re one step closer to becoming cyborgs with little chips implanted in our skulls. Researchers in Japan are currently developing the “Earclip wearable PC,” a tiny computer that clips onto your ear. It weighs all of 17-grams (0.59 ounces), but manages to house a GPS, compass, gyro-sensor, battery, barometer, speaker and microphone, and its functions are controlled by your facial expressions: the blink of an eye, a raise of an eyebrow, a click of the tongue. As inconspicuous as a hearing aid, it’s less dorky-looking than Google Glass.

“We have made this with the basic idea that people will wear it in the same way they wear earrings,” creator Kazuhiro Taniguchi, an engineer at Hiroshima City University, told AFP in a recent interview.

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By — Fast Company

For big tech companies, drones are a shining, whirly emblem of the future. Amazon and Google say they would like to use them to deliver things to your doorstep, and now Facebook wants to use them to create Internet infrastructure.

Facebook reportedly has plans to buy Titan Aerospace, a company that makes “near-orbital, solar-powered drones which can fly for five years without needing to land,” for $60 million, according to TechCrunch. The basic idea is that these unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, would buzz over “the parts of the world without Internet access, beginning in Africa.”

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