FUTURISM UPDATE (November 22, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

BBC NEWS: Robots face new test of creative abilities. A US professor is proposing a new way to test whether artificial intelligence (AI) is on a par with that of humans. http://lnkd.in/eq8HWGx

FINANCIAL TIMES: Google break-up plan emerges from Brussels. The European parliament is poised to call for a break-up of Google, in one of the most brazen assaults so far on the technology group’s power. http://lnkd.in/eBaysU3

THE ECONOMIST: Is Germany’s economy getting too weak to pull Europe out of its crisis? http://lnkd.in/e6vF9kU

WALL STREET JOURNAL: When Can We Expect Truly Autonomous Vehicles? http://lnkd.in/d5CDhAG

FINANCIAL TIMES: Surgeons embrace 3D printed implants to save NHS time and cash. From complex reconstructive facial surgery to dentures and hip implants, surgeons across the UK are using 3D printing to improve treatments and save time and money for the National Health Service. http://lnkd.in/eRMeidS

FORBES: Is the US Stock Market Unhealthy? http://lnkd.in/e76xbGc

FORBES: Businesses Don’t Move To The Cloud: DATA Does http://lnkd.in/e2CFAz3

GIGAOM: The Future of Artificial Intelligence http://lnkd.in/eWHe_8n

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Amazon and Google Change Places on Going Green. Google recently explained its pullback on sustainability while Amazon has just announced a “long-term commitment” to achieve 100 percent renewable energy use. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amazon-and-google-change-places-on-going-green/

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: How brain cells persuade other cells to do ‘the wave’ http://lnkd.in/eKpvg9R

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: How neurons multitask http://lnkd.in/e3pPfXG

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Georgia Tech professor proposes another alternative to the Turing test. The Lovelace 2.0 Test of Artificial Creativity and Intelligence assesses a computer’s capacity for human-level intelligence by its ability to create, rather than to converse or deceive http://lnkd.in/e6e4eet

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: China and ‘one or two others’ can shut US electric grids and other critical infrastructure, says NSA director http://lnkd.in/e2ZExYZ

THE ECONOMIST: VLADIMIR PUTIN is not short of problems, many of his own creation. There is the carnage in eastern Ukraine, where he is continuing to stir things up. There are his fraught relations with the West, with even Germany turning against him now. There is an Islamist insurgency on his borders and at home there is grumbling among the growing numbers who doubt the wisdom of his Ukraine policy. But one problem could yet eclipse all these: Russia’s wounded economy could fall into a crisis. http://lnkd.in/e_EXuhK

THE WIRE: It’s Totally Normal That Joe Biden’s Son (Hunter Biden) Works for a Ukrainian Energy Company http://lnkd.in/ewFHCty

BBC NEWS: Ukraine crisis: Joe Biden warns Russia faces ‘isolation’ http://lnkd.in/eA-eZbd

Phys.Org: Engineering team increases power efficiency for future computer processors http://lnkd.in/ewPhhdG

Phys.Org: Multiphysics invisibility cloak manipulates both electric current and heat http://lnkd.in/eaqM4qe

The Week Magazine: How quantum computing could change everything. It could revolutionize encryption — and help us peer even deeper into the underlying fabric of reality http://theweek.com/article/index/269850/how-quantum-computing-could-change-everything

WIRED: New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time http://lnkd.in/d2Td34p

NEW SCIENTIST: What’s behind snowmageddon that hit the US this week? http://lnkd.in/esH7zr4

BLOOMBERG: Top U.S. diplomat under FBI investigation after conversation involving Pakistani official: http://bloom.bg/1tb2WWs

CHINA, NOT THE WEST, IS BUILDING ITS OWN(ATLANTIC-PACIFIC) NICARAGUA CHANNEL TO OUT-COMPETE THE PANAMA CANAL. BBC NEWS: Nicaragua canal: Construction to begin in December http://lnkd.in/eqMJCAC

TIME: Hong Kong Protest Sites Slammed By ‘Largest Cyberattack Ever’ http://lnkd.in/e5nQpqY

COMPUTERWORLD: Google to build quantum-computing processors. Google has partnered with scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara to build new processors for use in quantum computing systems. http://lnkd.in/e_xBjaJ

CIO MAGAZINE: Intel planning thumb-sized PCs for next year http://lnkd.in/en47Afu

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: 3D Printed Human Liver Tissue Now Commercially Available by Organovo http://lnkd.in/edtB-Mv

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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