Science & Technology – Week of 12.13.15

The Breitling Exospace B55 Is The Latest Luxury Smartwatch
Tech Crunch| 17 December 2015
Smartwatch that can…

Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw
Bloomberg | 18 December 2015
Didn’t know how to trust that drivers would…

This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain as a Weapon.
Foreign Policy | 14 September 2015
Read people’s thoughts…

EU Mulls Age Limit for Social Media Use
Straits Times | 16 December 2015
Single set of rules for…

Chinese Buy Up Bottles of Fresh Air from Canada
Telegraph | 15 December 2015
Start-up company bottling…

40 Million may Lose Cellphone Access to the Web in January
Undernews | 15 December 2015
Encryption and the conflict…

There is No Planet B, Just our One Earth – Audio
Planet Waves | 15 December 2015
Accord is a trade agreement, nothing…

Final Paris 2015 Climate Change Agreement – PDF
UN FCCC | 12 December 2015
Financing for Development and the adoption of…

Surveillance and Silicon Valley Are ‘Destroying’ Europe’s Privacy Balance
WSJ Blog | 11 December 2015
600-year-old …creating some of the hardest-to…

Scientists have Created a New Form of Gold that’s (almost) as Light as Air
Science Alert | 26 November 2015
New gold aerogel is made almost entirely of…

Flashback 1974: CIA Warned Global Cooling Would Cause Terrorism
Daily Caller | 16 November 2015
Led to the rise…

NASA Is Accepting Astronaut Applications, and This Quiz Will Tell You if You Qualify
Yahoo | 14 December 2015
See what you…

Urgent Aid Needed to Fight ‘Super’ El Nino: Oxfam
Economic Times | 14 December 2015
worst-affected places include…

Twitter Warns Users They May have been Hacked by ‘State-sponsored Actors’
The Guardian | 14 December 2015
No evidence they…

California’s Billion-dollar Drought Plan Draws Ire
Voice of America | 13 December 2015
Same as the Carlsbad desalination…

Jeremy Howard – ‘A.I. Is Progressing So Fast We Need a Basic Guaranteed Income’
YouTube | 13 December 2015
Deeply shocked by what is now…

5 Things to Know About the Paris Climate Deal
WSJ Blog | 12 December 2015
Have to go down…

Artificial Intelligence Project OpenAI Garners $1Bn from Elon Musk, Peter Thiel & Other Tech leaders
RT | 13 December 2015
Collectively donated the billion…will be made to be on the side of…

Christmas to Feature Full Moon
Fox 5 NY | 11 December 2015
Not happen again until…

Rare Clouds Look like Waves – Photos
YouTube | 11 December 2015
Weather story of Kelvin-Helmoltz Wave Clouds taken…

German Physicists See Landmark in Nuclear Fusion Quest
Yahoo | 10 December 2015
International Thermonuclear…

New PC Malware Loads before Windows, is Virtually Impossible to Detect
Extreme Tech | 08 December 2015
Bulk scan of the raw…

Smartphones to Die Out ‘Within Five Years’, says New Study
Telegraph | 08 December 2015
Whole industries trans…

Google’s Latest Invention Can Draw Blood Through Needle-Free Device
Immortal | 06 December 2015
“Micro-particle” that…

Reverse-Engineering Roswell UFO Technology
UFO Evidence | 11-17 March 1999
Transistor could never have…

Quest to Drill into Earth’s Mantle Restarts
Nature | 01 December 2015
Beneath oceans it is close enough to…

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
Wait But Why | 01 December 2015
Change comparable to the rise of human…

It’s On: Asia’s New Space Race
The Daily Beast | 17 January 2015
Lunar… and orbited and visited…