Science & Technology – Week of 02.07.16

Pentagon Preps for Orbital War With New Spaceplane
The Daily Beast | 03 August 2015
Satellites lost in…

How Will Bitcoin Technology Go Mainstream? An Analysis Of 5 Strategies
Forbes | 26 January 2016
Five main strategies …

Everyone in Iceland Just Got a $380 Cryptocurrency Handout: Now What?
Motherboard | 25 March 2014
Crash may be a good…

Gravitational Waves have been Detected for the First Time
The Economist | 13 February 2016
Print edition: holes merging…

The IRS Says Identity Thieves Hacked Its Systems Again
Yahoo Finance | 10 February 2016
101,000 SSNs were used to…

Small-scale Nuclear Fusion May be a New Energy Source
Revolution-Green | 10 February 2016
Needed to start…

MPAA May Like Donuts, but They Shouldn’t Be the (Copyright) Police
EFF | 10 February 2016
Major studios that…

Meet the Robots Making Amazon even Faster: CNET News Video
CNET | 30 November 2014
Deliver when…

Gravitational Waves: Scientists Might be about to Announce Detection of ‘Ripples in the Fabric of Spacetime’
Belfast Telegraph | 09 February 2016
Albert Einstein’s…

US Intelligence Chief: We Might use the Internet of Things to Spy on You
The Guardian | 09 February 2016
Gain access to…

Supreme Court Deals Blow to Obama’s Efforts to Regulate Coal Emissions
NY Times | 09 February 2016
Early hint that…

Peabody Energy Corporation (BTU)
Yahoo Finance | 09 February 2016
Mining of coal…

SpaceX Conducts Hover Tests
Space Daily | 09 February 2016
Designed for multiple…

North Korea Launches Satellite to Space
Space | 08 February 2016
NORAD determined that …

SSL Delivers Eutelsat’s Advanced Latin America Satellite to Launch Base
PRN Wire | 08 February 2016
Video and data services and 24 Ka-band…

Truth: The CSIRO is Not Netflix: Science Cannot be Treated Like a Startup
Delimiter | 08 February 2016
Throwing money at…

Why the Authors Guild Is Still Wrong About Google’s Book Scanning
Fortune | 08 February 2016
Trumped the fact that Google…

China’s Nuclear Fusion Machine Just Smashed Germany’s Hydrogen Plasma Record
Science Alert | 08 February 2016
Bonafide “Battle of…

Indian Point Nuclear Facility Operator Reports ‘Alarming Levels’ of Radioactivity in Plant’s Groundwater; Some Wells Increase 65,000%
NY Daily| 07 February 2016
35 miles…

US Air Force Launches GPS Satellite to Complete Navigation Constellation
Space | 05 February 2016
(ULA), a joint venture between…

Microsoft Reveals Real Cost Of ‘Free’ Windows 10
Forbes | 05 February 2016
Hidden …Microsoft EULA…

Why Google’s Artificial Intelligence Boss Is Taking Over the Search Empire
Recode | 04 February 2016
More predictive …

The ‘Unknown Chapter of Human History’ in Europe 15,000 Years Ago: DNA Shows Hunter-gatherers were Replaced by Mystery Group of People After the Ice Age
Daily Mail | 04 February 2016
Unknown chapter of…

A Robot Hit a Hole-in-one and Everyone Celebrated like it Was a Human
USA Today | 03 February 2016




YouTube | 04 February 2016
TPC Scottsdale…

Bestselling Authors and Rights Organizations Support Authors Guild in Asking Supreme Court to Review Authors Guild v. Google Ruling
Authors Guild | 02 February 2016
Appeals subordinated the very right…

This Modular Exoskeleton Lets Disabled Children Walk on Their Own Two Feet
Digital Trends | 02 February 2016
Four hours of…

Can the ‘Largest Cleanup in History’ Save the Ocean?
Washington Post | 01 February 2016
houseboat…best Airbnb…

Elon Musk: SpaceX Wants to Send People to Mars by 2025
CNN Money | 30 January 2016
Importance of inspiring…

Google Plans to Beam 5G Internet from Solar Drones
engadget | 30 January 2016
Problem with millimeter…

Lockheed Martin’s New SPIDER Imaging Tech Could Lead to Smaller, more Powerful Telescopes
Digital Trends | 29 January 2016
Combine the light in…

Scientists Decode Brain Signals to Recognize Images in Real Time
Digital Trends | 29 January 2016
Had a stroke…communicate…

Machine-Learning Technique Uncovers Unknown Features of Multi-drug-resistant Pathogen
Kurzweil AI | 29 January 2016
Learning which…

Snow Job: Russia’s Much-ballyhooed Turn Towards China is Less than it Seems
The Economist | 02 January 2016
Shifted and funds…

The Ocean Cleanup Plan So Crazy It Just Might Work
Outside On Line | 21 July 2015
Remove 42 percent…