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Mar 12, 2017

Three innovations that will eventually replace sex

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, sex

A few stories my futurist work is newly showing up in: http://all.true-news.info/three-innovations-that-will-eventually-replace-sex/ &

https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/a-quick-look-at-immortality/12195 &

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Mar 12, 2017

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands want to create ‘artificial power island’

Posted by in category: energy

Three western European countries have revealed plans to build a giant artificial island in the middle of the North Sea where wind farms would create power for 80 million people.

The sandbank Dogger Bank, 100 kilometres off the east coast of England, is the mooted location for the groundbreaking ‘power island’ which would have its own runway and harbour.

The North Sea area has a relatively low altitude and receives a high amount of wind, making it the ideal location for the green power hub, according to transmission system operators Energinet.dk in Denmark and TenneT in Germany and the Netherlands.

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Mar 12, 2017

Recycling Space Junk for a LunarBase

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, satellites, sustainability

It costs $80k to send a Nano- Satellite into space! To send the materials to build a lunar base is going to be expensive!

This week it was announced that NASA found a forgotten satellite in Lunar Orbit, which got me thinking about an idea to recycle existing Space Junk in the construction of an International Lunar Base with cost savings. We could use a modified version of my Google Deepmind NEO tracker to source the Space Junk and the ideas listed below to capture and redirect the Space Junk.

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Mar 12, 2017

Ukrainian designers unveils concept of military transformer flying vehicle

Posted by in categories: energy, military

Ukrainian designers unveiled the concept of military transformer flying vehicle for Special Forces.

All Military forces around the world are seeking for more efficient solutions to provide high level of mobility and stealth of their special forces.

The electric power assumed to be the most suitable thing to meet these requirements. Electric drive unit would warrant low center of gravity that means better stability, provide silent driving and invisibility in infrared specter.

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Mar 12, 2017

Australian desert farm grows 17,000 metric tons of vegetables with just seawater and sun

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

Plenty of desert for this sort of thing.


Sundrop Farms grows tomatoes in the Australia desert using solely sunlight and seawater, which is desalinized with solar power.

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Mar 11, 2017

Marine Receives Double Arm Transplant

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

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Mar 11, 2017

Hacking the Human Brain—New Tech Could Make It a Reality

Posted by in categories: food, government, health, military, mobile phones, neuroscience

In Brief

  • Your thoughts are your own, right? Perhaps not. New technology is bringing that day closer when the unscrupulous may actually be able to hack human thoughts.
  • It raises a number of new ethical concerns for this brave new world we’re entering with each rotation of the Earth.

Everyone is familiar with the concept of hacking. It is why we all strive to protect our computers and smartphones from nefarious outside sources trying to break in to steal information, implant malware, etc. Hackers pose a threat to everyone from teenage smartphone users to the computer databases of government organizations. Hacking is a threat that we are all familiar with, and something that many know how to protect against. But, as the line between science and science fiction blurs, even hacking is getting a futuristic upgrade. Recently, at the Enigma Security Conference, University of Washington researcher and lecturer Tamara Bonaci revealed technology that could be used to essentially “hack” into people’s brains.

She created this technology around a game called Flappy Whale. While people played the game, the technology was able to covertly extract neural responses to subliminal imagery in the game like logos, restaurants, cars, etc. Now, hacking into people’s underlying feelings and thoughts about seeing a fast food restaurant doesn’t seem like it could cause much harm, but this technology has the potential to gather much more intimate information about a person like their religion, fears, prejudices, health, etc. This technology could evolve from an interesting way to understand human response to a military device. The possibilities range from an incredibly useful research tool to a potentially frightening interrogation device.

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Mar 11, 2017

Eternal Youth Is the Next Big Bet for Singapore Venture Capitalist

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Tan’s Baidu pick yielded massive returns and now he is backing biotech startup Samumed.

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Mar 11, 2017

Supermassive Black Holes might Be Hiding Entire Universes Inside

Posted by in category: cosmology

Bubbles of space-time cropped up during the early stages of our cosmos, ultimately forming black holes that were connected to us by wormholes according to a new theory. Research displays that these bubbles ultimately lost energy, and collapsed into a black hole that was so big, it produced its own universe inside – linked to us by the secret door.

These wormholes would have been very short-lived – no more than fractions of a second. During that time, our universe would have been linked to a vast multiverse – loads of other universes. Andrei Linde told New Scientist: “This subject is actually, really deep. We are just starting to touch the surface and find new things about the multiverse.”

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Mar 11, 2017

An AI Completed 360,000 Hours of Finance Work in Just Seconds

Posted by in categories: finance, robotics/AI

Amazing…


A bank used AI to dramatically cut its workload.

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