Science & Technology – Week of 06.19.16

China’s Tencent Buys ‘Clash of Clans’ Maker Supercell for $8.6 Billion
Reuters | 21 June 2016
One of the world’s biggest ever…

Rolls Royce Reveals Remote Controlled ‘Roboships’ will Take to the Sea by 2020: Single Operator can Oversee Ships from a Holographic Control Room
Daily Mail | 24 June 2016
Legal and regulatory…

Say Hello to Elio
Elio Motors | 22 June 2016
Ultra-high-mileage, sleek…

Elon Musk wants to Build a Robot that Does your Housework – Video
CNN | 21 June 2016
“If our intelligence is exceeded, it’s unlikely we”…

Robots are Coming for Your Job — but Maybe that’s Okay
Extreme Tech | 21 June 2016
Better at repetitive tasks than …

FAA Expected to Announce Rules for Commercial Drones this Week
PC World | 19 June 2016
Allow for routine commercial …

Life in the People’s Republic of WeChat
Bloomberg | 20 June 2016
760 million people…

China Will Own the Internet of Cars
Bloomberg | 20 June 2016
Getting a piece of…

Toyota Researcher Sees Cheap Robots Possible by Mass Production
Bloomberg | 20 June 2016
Delving into…

Tackling the Space Challenge
Linked In | 20 June 2016
LEO will deliver many…

Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records
Gov Exec | 14 June 2016
Lockheed tried to…

The Weather-Predicting Tech Behind $62 Billion Monsanto Bid
Bloomberg | 09 June 2016
Signs of the transformation…

Still Waiting for a Monster El Niño Storm? Forget It
LA Times | 09 June 2016
Very little…

Ripple Effect: Flint Water
Wired | 01 June 2016
Epidemic…

A New Railway to Tibet: Doubling Down
Economist | 19 May 2016
Technological Challenge and…

Cyber Crime Costs Projected To Reach $2 Trillion by 2019
Forbes | 17 January 2016
quadrupled…another…

Muslim Leaders Issue a Fatwa Against Anyone Living on MARS as there is ‘No Righteous Reason’ to Be There
Daily Mail | 21 February 2014
Real risk…