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Big Brother is feeling you—literally.

A few months back, I wrote about Ellie, the world’s first AI-psychologist. Developed by DARPA and researchers at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, Ellie is a diagnostic tool capable of reading 60 non-verbal cues a second—everything from eye-gaze to face tilt to voice tone—in the hopes of identifying the early warning signs of depressions and (part of the long term goal) stemming the rising tide of soldier suicide.

And early reports indicate that Ellie is both good at her job and that soldiers like talking to an AI-psychologist more than they like talking to a human psychologist (AI’s don’t judge).

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 06, 2014)

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THE ATLANTIC: The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat PTSD http://lnkd.in/dYbe4q7

WASHINGTON POST: Verizon, AT&T tracking their users with ‘supercookies’ http://lnkd.in/dCcqG7T

LOS ANGELES TIMES: Virgin Galactic pilot defied the odds to survive crash http://lnkd.in/daPd5Yi

CIO: How to Develop Applications for the Internet of Things http://lnkd.in/dtcF6Rr

NEW YORK TIMES: Top British Spy Warns of Terrorists’ Use of Social Media http://lnkd.in/dPnPEcz

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: fMRI Data Reveals the Number of Parallel Processes Running in the Brain. The human brain carries out many tasks at the same time, but how many? Now fMRI data has revealed just how parallel gray matter is. http://lnkd.in/dz9h5pK

BLOOMBERG: Qatar, Citic Plan to Start $10 Billion Investment Fund. Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund, which controls more than $100 billion of assets, plans to set up a $10 billion investment venture with China’s Citic Group as it seeks to diversify from retail and property assets in Europe. http://lnkd.in/dmS9wNf

THE ECONOMIST: Rise of the robots http://lnkd.in/dh_7asG

FORBES: Automation Is On The Rise: Will Robots Soon Be Commonplace? http://lnkd.in/dYGpdAD

BBC: Are we about to see the rise of robot bosses? http://lnkd.in/dNPWqCy

DAILY MAIL: Artificial intelligence ‘could be the worst thing to happen to humanity’: Stephen Hawking warns that rise of robots may be disastrous for mankind. http://lnkd.in/dNUHnt5

CBSNEWS: Robots on the rise in the workplace. Steve Kroft reports on technological advances, especially robotics, that are revolutionizing the workplace, but not necessarily creating jobs http://lnkd.in/daquEkW

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia Plans Nuclear Summit Boycott http://lnkd.in/dvpEnWw

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Vindicating Volatility. Why Fluctuating Oil Prices Are Here To Stay http://lnkd.in/dz6khjS

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Process Before Policy. How Washington Can Avert Financial Ruin After the Election http://lnkd.in/dT3QtuM

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The End of the Military-Industrial Complex. How the Pentagon Is Adapting to Globalization http://lnkd.in/dxVuzbE

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: National Insecurity. Just How Safe Is the United States? http://lnkd.in/dHkj4RG

FORBES: There are nearly 7.2 billion people on the planet. These are the 72 who rule the world. http://lnkd.in/dQVadb9

HERALD ONLINE: Russian President Vladimir Putin Tops Forbes’ 2014 Ranking of the World’s Most Powerful People for the Second Year in a Row. http://www.heraldonline.com/2014/11/05/6495644/russian-president-vladimir-putin.html#storylink=cpy

REUTERS: Amazon tries out taxi deliveries in California cities, WSJ reports http://lnkd.in/dnmq2ej

BLOOMBERG: Mercedes Puts Tesla Technology Beneath Hood to Chase BMW http://lnkd.in/d7Y6Jvi

BLOOMBERG: Mercedes Puts Tesla Technology Beneath Hood to Chase BMW http://lnkd.in/d7Y6Jvi

TIME: A single-malt from Japan has been named the best whisky in the world for the first time. http://lnkd.in/dBjA4cv

BLOOMBERG: A Slovakian Startup Is Building a Flying Car http://lnkd.in/dNv9gqu

FORBES: Amazon Faces ‘Bloodbath’ As Tech Giants Square Off In India http://lnkd.in/dt4gcPT

BUSINESS INSIDER: Here’s The Evidence That The Tech Bubble Is About To Burst http://lnkd.in/dxSWmiX

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: Monetizing Big Data: A Q&A with Wells Fargo’s Data Chief http://www.information-management.com/news/Monetizing-Big-Data-Wells-Fargo-Chief-10026209-1.html

SYMMETRY MAGAZINE: Physicists and other scientists use the GEANT4 toolkit to identify problems before they occur. http://lnkd.in/dXFpgqA

QUANTUM MAGAZINE: In a Multiverse, What Are the Odds? Testing the multiverse hypothesis requires measuring whether our universe is statistically typical among the infinite variety of universes. But infinity does a number on statistics. http://lnkd.in/dkVcrjx

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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Many of the world’s cities are hundreds, even thousands of years old. They evolved from the bottom up as populations changed and demanded change. A new road here, new building there. The result is striking and wild—a kind of physical history.

But what if you could start New York or London from scratch?

To see skylines of the future—look east. Perhaps nowhere is urban growth happening more rapidly than in China. Home to a burgeoning list of megacities (population over 10 million), the country is wide open to ambitious and imaginative urban design.

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The Exponential Nature of Ebola

Otto E. Rossler

Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tubingen, Germany

Inscribed on the UN Building:
Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul;
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain;
If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain.
(Saadi, 1210–1292)

Abstract

A survey of the epidemiology of Ebola and the logically necessary responses is offered.

(October 23, 2014)

Ebola is of interest to mathematicians, of all things. Medical epidemiology is basically a mathematical discipline. The exponential growth curve of the number of victims – published on en.wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Africa#mediaviewer/File:Evolution_of_the_2014_Ebola_outbreak_in_semiLog_plot..png ) – exhibits a visible doubling every three weeks over six months time by now, with an incredible inexorability of the mathematical trend displayed. It represents an unprecedented medical record. It shows that the amazingly constant 3 weeks long incubation period, with subsequent likely death (50 percent) and with on average two newly infected persons, is something like a law of nature. It is a “phenomenon” in the sense of the
exact sciences.

The perfection in which this behavior is observable in an ordinary if poor population is unprecedented. The contagiousness of the disease is extraordinary. And because of the 3 weeks long latency in the mom-infectious incubation period, the upcoming fate is hidden from the infected persons. They are healthy and nothing prevents them from leading a normal life. On the last two days before becoming bed-ridden on the 21st day, say, they carry the disease further.
When they are not at home – in town, say, or at their work place – they propagate the disease, and they do so at home thereafter as long as being cared for. Such a disease – once it has surpassed
an initial threshold of a minimum number of cases – is pre-programmed to spread and conquer.

Preventive immunization is hoped to be available, on an at first small and then grander scale, after a time gap of several months. It would be great if the race could be won earlier. This would stop the spreading if most everyone gets the protective shot. A curative – or at least preventive-acting – serum is also in preparation. And plasma can be collected from survivors who must be paid for this. (See the splendid review talk hiven most recently by the discoverer and name-giver of Ebola,Peter Piot: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/view/415 ). But these measures can help stop the spreading only after long further months have passed. After a 4-months delay, for
example (or roughly 18 weeks), the disease will – if no other measures are taken – have passed through six doubling periods of three weeks and hence have killed 64 times the current number of
about 5.000, which means about 300.000. And if the grand-scale vaccination or therapy takes twice as long in coming (8 months), it is 64 times more casualties again or 20 million deaths. If the
delay is 12 months (one year), it is again 64 times that number or one billion.

Therefore, relying on therapy or vaccination is like relying on a straw right now. What is it that can be done in the meantime? Flying-in nurses and doctors? No: Locomotion control is the only other causal measure that can be taken. It will not reduce the ongoing course of the infection in the sealed-off areas but it will, after reducing the population there to about one half in the worst case, stop the disease. This is a very sad prospect.

However, this prospect is too optimistic still. For it presupposes that the closed-off areas are provided with water and food as “catastrophe zones.” At the time being, this is perhaps still
feasible. But it will soon exhaust planet-wide capacities. This is a war going on. A war that is waged for once not by reluctant human beings but by a soulless parasite.

Obviously, it is not volunteering doctors and nurses that are needed as a causal measure, but water and food supply chains in motorized units, sure to reach even the remotest areas of the declared “closed zones.”

The “epidemiological approach” just sketched looks rather soulless: Is really the provision of basic needs more important than treatment? It indeed is much more causal – sadly. It is tragic to
see that neglecting this support strategy is much more deadly than the withdrawal of all therapeutic volunteers could be since they are “a drop on a hot stone” by comparison.

But is this not terrible? It is tragic. It is even more tragic since the disease itself is so uniquely cruel. It demands that healthy persons keep away from victims unless provided with an expensive protective gear (or unless being survivors). Therefore, the latter gear needs to be provided in very large numbers soon to be distributed in the closed-off zones immediately to prevent the death rate inside from becoming maximal.

A caretaker with a feeling heart coined the word “dying twice” for Ebola. The first time because you get abandoned – no one can come close to you, touch you, serve you. You are made a leper. Your mother must not hug you or come close any more (remember, even the dying Jesus had his mother at his side). Then you die once more in agony.

We come to a conclusion. Should the rational medical information given above be made public? The answer is: of course. But is this not another catastrophic news about Ebola? It surely is. This is the
first time in history that a war against nature needs to be waged. The greatest heroes are the vaccination developers. The next guild is the drug developers. The third league is the first league in terms of importance: The administrators who close down whole areas to be no longer left by anyone living there. On the same level are the providers of water and food for the closed-down areas. Their
mission is preventing death on a mega-scale. Until the eventually millions of sera and immunization kits needed are available, the twice weekly water and food squadrons are the life-saving troup.
They have the most important job as the green angels.

Volunteers are needed for this large-scale operation. And nations are needed to send-in the needed subsistence supplies soon, subito, immediately. For every three weeks’ delay causes a doubling in the
size of the effort needed, or perhaps even a quadrupling since the area to be served quadruples. For the infected areas cannot be closed before the support system is in place! These volunteers are
the life-saving angels – not the doctors, not the nurses. The latter are needed, too, but their humanitarian activities are in vain without the causal hygiene measure of closed areas supported
from the outside.

A new type of volunteer – the water-and-food squad – needs to be founded immediately. Any objections from my readers? Does anyone see a glimmer of hope beyond the above proposed desperate measures?

Acknowledgments

I thank Klaus Dietz for a discussion. For J.O.R.

This new analogical model explains (graphically represents) the behavior of horizontal light paths in the equivalence principle, and by implication in gravitation. It entails global constancy of the speed of light c in gravitation.

(I thank Frank Kuske and Ali Sanayei for a discussion yesterday in the lecture hall.)

FUTURISM UPDATE (November 05, 2014)

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BBC: Virgin Galactic crash: Pilots’ actions analysed. SpaceShipTwo broke apart just seconds after igniting its rocket engine for a test outing above California on Friday. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29895140

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: “Dark Web” Version of Facebook Shows a New Way to Secure the Web. A new way to access Facebook securely and anonymously via the “dark Web” could provide a model for other sites. http://lnkd.in/dKgNqPS

LOS ANGELES TIMES: Virgin Galactic crash: Copilot who died unlocked lever early, NTSB says http://lnkd.in/dRAeMHf

NEW YORK TIMES: Accidents at Virgin Galactic and Orbital Sciences Show Hurdles for Private Space Efforts http://lnkd.in/dARD8DB

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Safety Board Cites Improper Pilot Command in Virgin Galactic Crash. Accident Sets Back Ambitious Timetables for Space Tourism and Other Commercial Ventures. http://lnkd.in/d-qyJGF

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Virgin Galactic crash investigators eye pilot interface. National Transportation Safety Board investigators examining the fatal crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo have determined that the craft’s rudders rotated up prematurely, causing it to break apart midair. http://lnkd.in/dXWSfgJ

REUTERS: Toyota recalls 5,850 cars, mostly in U.S., for possible steering issue http://lnkd.in/duj-GDG

REUTERS: Ford calls back more than 202,000 vehicles in five North American recalls http://lnkd.in/d3fDkNC

REUTERS: Wider U.S. trade deficit, weak exports point to slower growth http://lnkd.in/d9wzp3B

REUTERS: Wall St. slips as energy extends recent slide http://lnkd.in/ddDYVBE

CIO: The Google Shakeup Continues: Andy Rubin is Out http://lnkd.in/dzCBTqs

SINGULARITY HUB: Elon Musk Is Right: Colonizing the Solar System Is Humankind’s Insurance Policy Against Extinction http://lnkd.in/d9TXuDY

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: In the Future Your Therapy and Education Will Be Tailored to Your Brain http://lnkd.in/dbwn9pw

THE VERGE: The Big Future: What is the future of food? http://lnkd.in/d9si6RC

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Egypt’s Army of God. The Largest Arab Military Isn’t As Secular As It Seems http://lnkd.in/dfqiGZt

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Moscow’s Spy Game. Why Russia Is Winning the Intelligence War in Ukraine http://lnkd.in/dkGr9bG

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Future of Cities. The Internet of Everything will Change How We Live. As much as the Internet has already changed the world, it is the Web’s next phase that will bring the biggest opportunities, revolutionizing the way we live, work, play, and learn. http://lnkd.in/dY5Yi3P

DER SPIEGEL: Germany’s New Right: The Unholy Alliance of Neo-Nazis and Football Hooligans http://lnkd.in/dmPhGYc

DER SPIEGEL: Sun Sets on Golden Dawn: Greek Party Accused in Killings and Racist Attacks. Greece’s public prosecutor claims the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party bears all the characteristics of a ‘criminal organization’. http://lnkd.in/diHcvm7

IEEE Spectrum: Robotic Micro-Scallops Can Swim Through Your Eyeballs http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/medical-robots/robotic-microscallops-can-swim-through-your-eyeballs

POPULAR SCIENCE: Watch A Drone Take Off From Another Drone http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/watch-drone-take-another-drone?src=SOC&dom=fb

CIO: One Code to Rule Them All: Dronecode http://www.cio.com/article/2841815/developer/one-code-to-rule-them-all-dronecode.html

BUSINESS INSIDER: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About The Company Testing Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipT http://lnkd.in/djW-Sgu

YAHOO NEWS: Rocket plane’s tail activated prematurely in fatal crash http://lnkd.in/danPpA9

GIGAOM: Looking for an architecture for the internet of things? Try DNS. http://lnkd.in/dfucaUV

FORBES: Five Software Approaches To Harness The Internet Of Things http://lnkd.in/dtEnbbc

FORBES: Two High-Tech Stories To Watch In 2015: Digital and Industrial Internet of Things http://lnkd.in/dBNM9Yz

TECH CRUNCH: Google Reveals ‘The Physical Web,’ A Project To Make Internet Of Things Interaction App-Less. The Physical Web to provide “interaction on demand” so that people can walk up and use any smart devices without the need for intervening mobile apps. http://lnkd.in/d8TkghV

BUSINESS INSIDER: A white-hat hacker discovered a dangerous vulnerability in three Apple operating systems http://read.bi/10rZM94

BUSINESS INSIDER: The one big mystery at the heart of the Virgin Galactic probe http://read.bi/10s7XCn

FINANCIAL TIMES: Oil slides after Saudi cuts US prices http://on.ft.com/1wv2yXI

CIO: Google and LG strike broad patent licensing deal http://trib.al/zbgm8i9

STRATFOR: Traveling Through Multiple Europes http://lnkd.in/dmwkfXF

MASHABLE: Alibaba revenues surge 54% in first earnings report as a public company. China’s ecommerce giant is getting even bigger. http://lnkd.in/da5cYTi

THE ECONOMIST: If banks can be hacked, why not aircraft? http://econ.st/1scrspO

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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Gaia Vince — BBC Future

(Nasa)

In Ancient Greek mythology, the Earth Goddess Gaia had nine titan sons, who attempted to control not just the Earth, but the entire Universe. I’d like to introduce another. It’s a new creature who emerged only in recent decades. But it’s a creature who is already as influential over life on the planet as the phytoplankton or forests that regulate global temperature, the weather and the air we breathe.

That new creature is us, or more precisely, what humanity is becoming. The entirety of our species, Homo sapiens, is evolving into a superorganism; I’ll call this new life force Homo omnis, or ‘Homni’.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 04, 2014)

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BBC: Virgin Galactic crash: Descent system ‘deployed early’ http://lnkd.in/dHrit-u

WIRED: An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World’s First Digital Weapon http://lnkd.in/d2n4SP9

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Safety Board Cites Improper Pilot Command in Virgin Galactic Crash. Accident Sets Back Ambitious Timetables for Space Tourism & Other Commercial Ventures. http://lnkd.in/d-qyJGF

REUTERS: Rocket plane’s tail activated prematurely in fatal crash. http://lnkd.in/d83T-Nv

THE GUARDIAN: Virgin Galactic space plane’s re-entry system activated early, say investigators. Safety board chairman says premature deployment of feathering system ‘a statement of fact and not a statement of cause’ http://lnkd.in/d_VqDpR

ENGADGET: Investigators pin Virgin Galactic’s crash on faulty tail deployment http://lnkd.in/dyN9nsB

DER SPIEGEL: Monetary Fallacy? Deep Divisions Emerge over ECB Quantitative Easing Plans http://lnkd.in/d_JncYM

DER SPIEGEL: Merkel Fears Britain Crossing a Red Line on Immigration http://lnkd.in/dNBC2Ra

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia and China Thwart Dream for Marine Sanctuary in Antarctica http://lnkd.in/de8Zh6m

CNN Miles O’Brien said that Virgin Galactic had “consistently underestimated the risk involved.” http://lnkd.in/d7jCjdq

NEW SCIENTIST: Build a stable wormhole with the help of dark aliens http://lnkd.in/d-3CqYF

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: With $100 Million, Entrepreneur Sees Path to Disrupt Medical Imaging. Will ultrasound-on-a-chip make medical imaging so cheap that anyone can do it? http://lnkd.in/drZGw-u

THE ECONOMIST: Europe’s banks are in decent shape-but that is not enough to repair its economy http://econ.st/1wN1zls

TECH CRUNCH: China developed an anti-drone laser tech that can apparently shoot down a low flying drone http://tcrn.ch/1xS6BeW

BROOKINGS: From Russia, Without Love http://lnkd.in/dtR7G99

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If space is the final frontier, we pilgrims have a lot to learn. To date, we’ve rarely ventured far beyond the thin envelope of Earth’s atmosphere. Why? Because we can’t yet survive long in space without dangling a supply line into the gravity well.

Last weekend, however, we took a step that may prove crucial to foregoing our Earthly dependence. Made In Space—a Singularity University company dreamed up at SU’s 2010 graduate studies program—launched the first 3D printer into space.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 03, 2014)

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REUTERS: Wanted: 500,000 pilots for China aviation gold rush http://lnkd.in/dj7kMfz

PHYS ORG: Self-driving vehicles generate enthusiasm, concerns worldwide http://lnkd.in/dmjJMgR

BBC: Germany ‘would accept UK exit from EU’ to protect migration rules http://lnkd.in/dPX_9Hm

COMPUTERWORLD: If Ebola’s a problem here, just imagine it in India http://lnkd.in/d7GNxhT

THE BULLETIN: Internet-trading platforms: Making it easier to get around sanctions? http://lnkd.in/dDD8nXT

THE BULLETIN: Which is the greater threat to the United States and the world: ISIS or Ebola? http://lnkd.in/dURGWCC

THE ECONOMIST: Such a dramatic fall in the price of crude oil has global consequences. Who wins, who loses? http://econ.st/1xPQYET

BBC: Micro-rockets ‘can destroy chemical weapons’ http://lnkd.in/dV7YjEu

Cheating Richard Branson, Success, Unpreparedness, Failure, and Death! https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141031195620-34427457-richard-branson-success-unpreparedness-failure-and-death

THE GUARDIAN: In North Korea, fear takes hold over new foreign threat: Ebola. World’s toughest measures against the disease have been imposed in a country far from west Africa, and with few tourists http://lnkd.in/dectm7b

THE GUARDIAN: While the internet is accountable to nobody, privacy will be in crisis. It is time to bring humanity back to the networks that hear everything, track our lives, and mine information bought and sold http://lnkd.in/di2a2GN

THE GUARDIAN: Google fined for ‘disrespectful’ Street View photos of woman’s cleavage. A Canadian woman said she was derided and abused after a Google Street View car captured an image of her outside her house http://lnkd.in/dZpU5tb

NEW YORK TIMES: Megan Smith: ‘You Can Affect Billions of People’. The chief technology officer of the United States is bringing a Silicon Valley ethos to Washington. http://lnkd.in/d_Q3Vm2

NEW YORK TIMES: Amazon’s Grand Design in Devices. Amazon introduces new gadgets the way a guerrilla army prepares for attack: unsteadily at first, and then with unexpected ferocity. http://lnkd.in/df8zCbc

NATURE: Solution-processed, high-performance light-emitting diodes based on quantum dots. http://lnkd.in/dX-X8Wk

THE ECONOMIST: How firms are adapting to a virus that threatens economies as well as lives http://econ.st/1sPz5lf

THE GUARDIAN: How Virgin Galactic space program has been plagued by fuel problems that killed three engineers in 2007 ahead of fatal explosion at 45,000ft http://lnkd.in/dGtGd-j

FINANCIAL TIMES: Branson’s space mission brought to earth http://on.ft.com/1A1m41I

SLATE: America’s war against ISIS is turning into a quagmire: http://slate.me/1xODp8z

ENGINEERING: Could Gliders Boost Rockets Into Orbit and Beyond? NASA has successfully flight-tested a prototype twin-fuselage towed glider that could lead to rockets being launched from pilotless aircraft at high altitudes – a technology application that could significantly reduce the cost and…more http://lnkd.in/dwbZWNf

FRANCE 24: Bill Gates to give $500 million for malaria, other diseases http://f24.my/1A1qIgd

THE ECONOMIST: France’s largest companies are losing their bosses at a remarkable rate http://econ.st/1tmJDfg

THE GUARDIAN: IPCC report: six graphs that show how we’re changing the world’s climate. We look at the data that underpins the forthcoming IPCC climate science report detailing humanity’s influence on the climate, global impacts and solutions http://lnkd.in/dkTGHhV

TECHREPUBLIC: CIOs feel pressure to innovate amidst disruptive technology threat http://www.techrepublic.com/article/cios-feel-pressure-to-innovate-amidst-disruptive-technology-threat/
THE DIPLOMAT: The Japan-China Defense Hotline’s Growing Importance The Japan-U.S. defense guidelines update is necessitating dialogue in the East China Sea. http://lnkd.in/dAM8CzY
BLOOMBERG: Ship for Space Tourists Crashes, 1 Pilot Reported Dead; Second Failure in Week http://lnkd.in/dR-C8cV

BLOOMBERG: Pacific Air Force Chief Says Wary of Risky Flying by China Jets http://lnkd.in/dFYES2Q

YAHOO NEWS: Virgin ‘ignored’ space safety warnings: expert http://lnkd.in/d_6iuKD

BUSINESS INSIDER: One Dead, One Injured In Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Crash.Business Insider contacted Northrup Grumman, but the company wasn’t able to comment. We also reached out to Scaled Composites, but the company has not yet returned our calls. http://lnkd.in/dhHWa7G

NATURAL NEWS: U.S. government secretly searches for technology to combat aerosolized Ebola http://lnkd.in/drgfaVU

FORTUNE: After two crashes, private space industry faces inevitable questions. Will back-to-back space flight accidents this week give customers of private space companies second thoughts? http://lnkd.in/dzH4M5b

FORBES: NTSB Begins Its Investigation Of Virgin Galactic Crash http://lnkd.in/dHDrqax

POPULAR SCIENCE: What New Chinese Weapons Will We See At This Year’s Zhuhai Air Show? http://lnkd.in/dXTJ_xd

TECHCRUNCH: Bitcoin Brothers Aim To Disrupt Bitcoin Mining With New, More Powerful, Supercomputers http://lnkd.in/dH-rstw

THE INDEPENDENT: Virgin Galactic crash: Spaceflight company was warned of safety issues, expert claims. Virgin Galactic was given warnings several years ago about the danger of its rockets but chose to ignore cautions from experts, it has been claimed. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/virgin-galactic-crash-spaceflight-company-was-warned-of-safety-issues-expert-claims-9834068.html

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