Science & Technology – Week of 05.08.16

F.lux® Software to Make Your Life Better
f.lux | 14 May 2016
Display adapt…

Wendy’s Replacing Workers With Kiosks In Response to ‘Fight For $15’
Info Wars | 13 May 2016
Spark a trend…

Calling All Coders: Your Chance to Forge Software for Space
Space Daily | 12 May 2016
ESA opens a call to…

How Austin Beat Uber
NY Times | 12 May 2016
Communitarian…technology disruption…

In Global Shift, Poorer Countries Are Increasingly the Early Tech Adopters
Tech Review | 11 May 2016
Rwandan government announced a new…

Artificially Intelligent Lawyer “Ross” Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm
Futurism | 11 May 2016
Employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle…

Earth’s Magnetic Heartbeat: Changes in the Strength of Earth’s Magnetic Field are Being Mapped in Detail
ESA | 10 May 2016
Second animation shows…

Sun’s Magnetic Field During the Grand Minimum is in Fact at its Maximum
Science Daily | 10 May 2016
Variation over a millennium by…

Charles Duhigg: The Science of Productivity
Commonwealth Club | 09 May 2016
Presents eight key points…

MIT is Preparing to Spend a Lot of Money to Make the World a Better Place MIT Campaign for a Better World
Digital Trends | 08 May 2016
MIT Campaign for a Better World…

What’s that Smell? This Modded Ford Fusion can Sniff Drugs a Quarter Mile Away
Digital Trends | 06 May 2016
Uses a string of…

Mind-controlled Car Unveiled in China
Telegraph | 08 December 2015
Technology, which consists of…

Second Bank Hit by Malware Attack Similar to $81 Million Bangladesh Hit
Hacker News | 12 May 2016
Manipulate logs and …

High-Speed Hyperloop Hits 116 mph In 1.1 Seconds During First Public Test
Huffington Post | 11 May 2016
Never be the…

Hyperloop One Conducts First ever Full-scale Test of Hyperloop Propulsion System
Extreme Tech | 12 May 2016
Motors on five or…

How Scientists Are Hacking Biology to Build at the Molecular Scale
Singularity Hub | 10 May 2016
Microscopic machines we’d reprogram at…

Swarm A.I. Correctly Predicts the Kentucky Derby, Accurately Picking all Four Horses of the Superfecta at 540 to 1 Odds
Yahoo Finance | 11 May 2016
Their own — not one…

Germany had so Much Renewable Energy on Sunday that It had to Pay People to Use Electricity
QZ | 10 May 2016
Less and less likely…

Accelerating Complex Computer Simulations: Thinking Beyond Ones and Zeros
Space Daily | 10 May 2016
Specifically excluded is…

NASA Historic Announcement: More than 1,200 New Planets that Could Hold Life Found
Express | 10 May 2016
Of these 24 were…

‘Second Skin’ May Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags, Scientists Say
NY Times | 09 May 2016
Do not yet know…

Facebook—More Dangerous than the NSA
PJ Media | 09 May 2016
Extreme bias and a leading progenitor of…

Former Facebook Workers Confess: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
Federalist | 09 May 2016
Even if it wasn’t…

Time Warner, Cox Suffer Widespread Outages in Northeast
News 4 Jax | 09 May 2016
Accidentally by…

13 Things the Government Is Trying to Keep Secret From You
Anti Media | 08 May 2016
Threatened with sanctions for…

The 2016 Transit of Mercury (video)
Space Daily | 08 May 2016
Widely visible Monday from…

Spike in Radiation Levels after Toxic Waste Leak at Washington Nuclear Site
RT | 07 May 2016
Not acknowledge the problem until…

Not So Little Helper: Robot Built to Aid Astronauts Nearly Ready for Mars
Sputnik News | 05 May 2016
Servant for astronauts before…

Machines Won’t Replace Us, They’ll Force Us to Evolve
Singularity Hub | 05 May 2016
Happening in design and…

Meet Your New Industrial Robot Coworkers
Singularity Hub | 04 May 2016
Overlap to…

How Blockchains Could Change the World
McKinsey | 01 May 2016
Do that peer to…