A US senator is asking the federal government to take this remarkable step: completely ban Bitcoin.
Joe Manchin, a Democratic senator representing West Virginia, sent a letter Wednesday to the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and other regulators characterizing the virtual currency as encouraging “illicit activity” as well as being “highly unstable and disruptive to our economy.”
By Agence France-Presse
A man who suffered horrific facial injuries in a motorbike accident has had pioneering surgery to rebuild his face using 3D printed parts.
Stephen Power from Cardiff in Wales is thought to be one of the first trauma patients in the world to have a procedure in which 3D printing was used at every stage.
The 29-year-old suffered multiple trauma injuries in an accident in 2012. Despite wearing a crash helmet, his top jaw, nose and both cheek bones were broken and he fractured his skull.
The brothers, known for their legal battle over the creation of Facebook (FB, Fortune 500), are going to space and paying for it with Bitcoins. Take that, Mark Zuckerberg.
The twins bought tickets, valued at $250,000 each, for a ride to space with Virgin Galactic. That’s about 375 Bitcoins, at Wednesday’s price.
They think of their purchase “as seed capital” supporting new technologies they have high hopes for.
Written By: Jason Dorrier — Singularity Hub
Google is on a mission to update the web’s wiring—and they’re not talking a decade or more to do it. Google CFO, Patrick Pichette, recently said his firm is working to boost internet speeds a thousand fold in the next three years.
“That’s where the world is going. It’s going to happen.”
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.
Michael Salla — Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner
Among 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.
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
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
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
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…-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
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.
By Leonard David, Space.com’s Space Insider Columnist
If 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)]
Matthew Herper — Forbes