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The lightweight, compact DC Fast Charger will power 80% of the BMW i3's battery in 30 minutes.

The biggest problem automakers selling electric cars face is limited range. No one wants to get caught without any juice. To get around this concern, Tesla, whose Model S offers the best range (up to 265 miles), is building a vast network of “Supercharger” stations that make it possible to take epic road trips. Now BMW is following suit, launching a network of charging stations to make owning its first all-electric car, the range-handicapped i3, more convenient.

The automaker announced last week that it has developed an impressively small, lightweight, and inexpensive charger that it is working to install around the country. BMW will sell the charger to “authorized partners”—starting with dealers—for $6,548. NRG eVgo, a private EV-charging company, will install at least 100 around California and offer free charging to i3 owners through the end of 2015.

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Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2014 http://fs-unep-centre.org/publications/gtr-2014

MEDICAL EXPRESS: Scientists discover link between skin diseases and Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-08-scientists-link-skin-diseases-sudden.html

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-discover-childrens-cells-living-in-mothers-brain/

Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain http://www.kurzweilai.net/neuromorphic-atomic-switch-networks-function-like-synapses-in-the-brain

Targeted brain stimulation aids stroke recovery in mice http://www.kurzweilai.net/targeted-brain-stimulation-aids-stroke-recovery-in-mice

Artificial cells mimic natural protein synthesis http://www.kurzweilai.net/artificial-cells-mimic-natural-protein-synthesis

IEET: Achieving Personal Immortality Roadmap http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/konovalenko20140819

IEET: End of Eating Food http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pelletier20130525

REUTERS: Islamic State says beheads U.S. journalist, holds another http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/19/us-syria-crisis-beheading-idUSKBN0GJ26S20140819

REUTERS: Advancing Ukraine troops take fight to heart of pro-Moscow rebellion http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/19/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSKBN0GI0YK20140819

SCIENCE DAILY: Pigs’ hearts transplanted into baboon hosts remain viable more than a year http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818113430.htm

REUTERS: Exclusive: Hamas fighters show defiance in Gaza tunnel tour http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/19/us-mideast-gaza-tunnels-exclusive-idUSKBN0GJ1HS20140819

SCIENCE DAILY: Children’s drawings indicate later intelligence, study shows http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818204114.htm

WASHINGTON POST: Genetically engineered pig hearts survived more than a year in baboon hosts http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/08/19/genetically-engineered-pig-hearts-survived-more-than-a-year-in-baboon-hosts/

THE GUARDIAN: Second fatal St Louis area shooting stokes tensions in Ferguson http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/19/police-officer-shooting-st-louis-dead-knife

THE GUARDIAN: World leaders ‘failing to help’ over Ebola outbreak in Africa http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/19/western-leaders-ebola-outbreak-africa-medecins-sans-frontieres

THE GUARDIAN: The costly trail of British government IT and ‘big bang’ project disasters www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/19/costly-trail-british-government-it-disasters-universal-credit

THE GUARDIAN: Google working on child-friendly sites – report http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/19/google-child-friendly-youtube-gmail

THE GUARDIAN: Julian Gough launches ‘Litcoin’ Kickstarter to ‘remodel the economics of reading’ www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/julian-gough-litcoin-kickstarter-economics-reading-postcards

BBC: Standard Chartered to pay $300m penalty to NY regulator http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28860566

BBC: Google removes 12 BBC News links in ‘right to be forgotten’ http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28851366

RENEWABLES: Aldesa targets new projects abroad following recent order in Poland http://renewables.seenews.com/news/aldesa-targets-new-projects-abroad-following-recent-order-in-poland-290881

The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014 http://thomsonreuters.com/articles/2014/worlds-most-influential-scientific-minds-2014

BBC: Google’s driverless cars designed to exceed speed limit http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28851996

POWER GENERATION WIND: Vestas to deliver 40MW wind turbines to Polish wind farm http://wind.energy-business-review.com/news/vestas-to-deliver-40mw-wind-turbines-to-polish-wind-farm-021012

BUSINESS INSIDER: Nest Is Partnering With A Smart Fan Company To Take The Internet Of Things To The Next Level http://www.businessinsider.com/nest-partners-with-bigg-ass-fans-2014-8#ixzz3AszGDXza

SPACE: Wanted: Unmanned Space Plane to Fly On the Cheap http://www.space.com/26855-xs1-darpa-space-plane-program.html?cmpid=558128

BUSINESS INSIDER: Authorities Seize Two Acres Of Marijuana In South Texas http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-marijuana-bust-2014-8

BUSINESS INSIDER: Flash Floods In Phoenix Force Dramatic Rescue Operations http://www.businessinsider.com/phoenix-flash-flood-2014-8#ixzz3At0mjfIH

BUSINESS INSIDER: SAP Wants A Bigger Bite Out Of African Enterprise Market And Commits $500 Million By 2020 http://www.businessinsider.com/sap-wants-bigger-bite-out-of-african-enterprise-market-2014-8#ixzz3At114OVX

BUSINESS INSIDER: US Nuclear Watchdog Group Was Hacked Three Times In The Last Few Years www.businessinsider.com/r-us-governments-nuclear-watchdog-victim-of-cyber-attacks-report-2014–8#ixzz3At1HwJl2

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Two startup accelerators merge to grow Canada’s entrepreneur ecosystem http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-tools/small-business-briefing/two-startup-accelerators-merge-to-grow-canadas-entrepreneur-ecosystem/article20110441/

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Google’s next big market: Accounts for kids under 13 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/googles-next-big-market-accounts-for-kids-under-13/article20107216/

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Privacy not a priority for most tech startups http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/digital-culture/privacy-not-a-priority-for-most-tech-startups/article20093259/

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Scientist J. Woodland Hastings was a leader in bacterial research http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/scientist-j-woodland-hastings-was-a-leader-in-bacterial-research/article20103413/

VICTORY IS CONQUERED THROUGH LESS E.Q.-FOCUSED MAGNUM AND MUCH MORE I.Q.-CENTRIC HIGGINS.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Cyber attacks have hit 36 per cent of Canadian businesses, study says http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/cyber-attacks-have-hit-36-per-cent-of-canadian-businesses-study-says/article20096066/

WALL STREET JOURNAL: A Giant Tablet Gives Kids More Screen Time Together http://online.wsj.com/articles/fuhus-bigtab-worth-kids-time-1408469170?mod=LS1

WALL STREET JOURNAL: 4 Industries Most in Need of Data Scientists http://online.wsj.com/ad/article/narratives_sas_65124.html?prx_t=HYwBAfZUBApeEEA

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Health Care CIOs Boosting Security in the Wake of Breaches http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/08/19/health-care-cios-boosting-security-in-the-wake-of-breaches/?mod=WSJ_TechWSJD_cioJournal

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: IT and Product Development Will Merge in the Digital Business http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/08/19/it-and-product-development-will-merge-in-the-digital-business/?mod=WSJ_TechWSJD_cioJournal

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: For Billion-Dollar Companies, Venture Deals Outstrip Going Public http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/08/19/for-billion-dollar-companies-venture-deals-outstrip-going-public/?mod=WSJ_TechWSJD_venture

NEW YORK TIMES: Overstock to Allow International Customers to Pay in Bitcoin http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/overstock-to-allow-international-customers-to-pay-in-bitcoin/?_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=technology&_r=0

NEW YORK TIMES: Computer Eyesight Gets a Lot More Accurate http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/computer-eyesight-gets-a-lot-more-accurate/?ref=technology

DER SPIEGEL: Caliphate of Fear: The Curse of the Islamic State http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-islamic-state-fighters-pose-a-threat-to-the-world-a-986632.html

DER SPIEGEL: Targeting Turkey: How Germany Spies on Its Friends http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-considers-turkey-to-be-official-target-for-spying-a-986656.html

DER SPIEGEL: Brave New Recycling Economy: Movement Turns Trash to Treasure http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-chemist-pushes-for-smarter-use-of-materials-through-c2c-a-985934.html

Chinese hackers accessed 4.5 million hospital patients records http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/chinese-hackers-accessed-45-million-hospital-patients-records/story-fnjwnj25-1227029145556

World-first Bluetooth device to track traffic congestion on SA roads www.news.com.au/technology/worldfirst-bluetooth-device-to-track-traffic-congestion-on-sa-roads/story-e6frfrnr-1227023501334

YAHOO NEWS: Harvard Researcher on Aging: There’s no ‘limit on the human lifespan’ http://news.yahoo.com/katie-couric-aging-mice-harvard-researcher-david-sinclair-035336385.html

CNN MONEY: Women thrive in China’s booming tech scene http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/18/technology/china-women-tech/index.html

CNN MONEY: New record for Apple stock http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/19/investing/apple-stock-record-high/index.html

CNN MONEY: China targets executive pay at state-owned firms http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/19/news/china-executive-pay/index.html?iid=HP_River

6 Chinese Tech Companies You Need to Know http://www.ozy.com/acumen/6-chinese-tech-companies-you-need-to-know/32960.article?utm_source=CM1&utm_medium=pp&utm_campaign=pp

MIT NEWS: Engineering new bone growth https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/bone-repair-treat-injuries-0818

MIT NEWS: Broadening the ‘SCOPE’ of microbial oceanography https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/scope-40-million-dollar-award-0818

MIT NEWS: Recycling old batteries into solar cells https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/recycling-batteries-into-solar-cells-0818

MIT NEWS: RNA combination therapy for lung cancer offers promise for personalized medicine https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/rna-therapy-lung-cancer-personalized-medicine-0814

MIT NEWS: Visual control of big data https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/visual-control-big-data-0815

MIT NEWS: Finding a piece of the proton-spin puzzle https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/new-piece-proton-spin-crisis-0813

MIT NEWS: New analysis reveals tumor weaknesses https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/id-cell-markers-for-better-cancer-treatment-0813

MIT NEWS: Rise of the dinosaurs https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/early-dinosaur-evolution-0812

MIT NEWS: An easier way to manipulate malaria genes https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/better-malaria-drug-targets-0810

MIT NEWS: Origami robot folds itself up, crawls away https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/mobile-folding-robots-0807

MIT NEWS: Undersea living: Alumna joins Cousteau mission https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/grace-young-undersea-cousteau-mission-0806

MIT NEWS: A new way to model cancer https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/new-technique-to-model-cancer-0806

MIT NEWS: New material structures bend like microscopic hair https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/magnetic-hair-directs-water-flow-0806

Fastest Camera In The World Takes 4.4 Trillion Frames Per Second http://myscienceacademy.org/2014/08/19/fastest-camera-in-the-world-takes-4-4-trillion-frames-per-second/

Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.linkedin.com/in/andresagostini

— Singularity Hub

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Consumer 3D printing has been creeping into mainstream awareness. Last year, office supply chain Staples announced they’d sell 3D Systems Cube 3D printers in stores, and UPS began offering 3D printing services at select locations.

Not to be outdone, massive online retailer Amazon dedicated an online storefront to 3D printers and supplies. And most recently, the firm added another storefront selling 3D printed products—bobbleheads, jewelry, smartphone cases.

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Written By: — Singularity Hub
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To Aubrey de Grey, the body is a machine. Just as a restored classic car can celebrate its hundredth birthday in peak condition, in the future, we’ll maintain our bodies’ cellular components to stave off the diseases of old age and live longer, healthier lives.

Dr. de Grey is cofounder and Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation and faculty at Singularity University’s November Exponential Medicine conference—an event exploring the healthcare impact of technologies like low-cost genomic sequencing, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, gene therapy, and more.

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Christina Sarich — Nation of Change
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Scenes from the movie Slumdog Millionaire accurately depict India’s latest consumer-influenced economy. Tree groves are littered with a rainbow color of plastic bags like some kind of ominous carnival wreckage. Plastic bottles, candy wrappers, and other ‘garbage’ liters the streets in a land where city officials have long forsaken their duties of providing a pristine infrastructure to its inhabitants, but a professor of chemistry in Madurai, India thinks that the trash lining his country’s roads and fields could be utilized as a ‘wonderful resource,” transforming common plastic liter, from thicker acrylics to bottles and grocery bags, into a substitute for bitumen in asphalt.

The ‘Plastic Man,’ as Rajagopalan Vasudevan is known in India, travels throughout the country instructing engineers how to apply his technology to recycle the trash copiously littering streets from Punjab to Tamil Nadu. To date, more than 3000 miles of plastic roads have been laid in at least 11 states.

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The Daily Galaxy via University of Sydney

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A new home-grown instrument based on bundles of optical fibres is giving Australian astronomers the first ‘Google street view’ of the cosmos — incredibly detailed views of huge numbers of galaxies. Developed by researchers at the University of Sydney and the Australian Astronomical Observatory, the optical-fibre bundles can sample the light from up to 60 parts of a galaxy, for a dozen galaxies at a time. The technological leap is the ‘hexabundle’, sixty or more optical fibres close-packed and fused together, developed by the University of Sydney’s astrophotonics group.

Using the new instrument astronomers from the Australian National University and the University of Sydney have already spotted ‘galactic winds’—streams of charged particles travelling at up to 3,000 km a second—from the center of two galaxies.“We’ve seen galactic winds in other galaxies, but we have no idea how common they really are, because we’ve never had the means to look for them systematically. Now we do,” said the University of Sydney’s Associate Professor Scott Croom, a Chief Investigator on the project.

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By Lily Kuo — Quartz

Over the past six years, Beijing has seen at least 1,812 days of “unhealthy” air quality, and that trend isn’t going to get better any time soon. Pan Tao, head of the Beijing Municipal Research Institute of Environmental Protection, estimates that air pollution in the capital won’t be reach safe levels until at least 2030.

China’s president Xi Jinping has called air pollution the “most prominent challenge” Beijing faces. Foreign firms are paying their workers “hardship” salaries to be posted in the city. In February a report from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences said that pollution in the capital is “near a level that is no longer livable for human beings.”

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As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/technology/the-boon-of-online-data-puts-social-science-in-a-quandary.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0

Can Tech Innovation Help End Cancer? http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2014/07/can-tech-innovation-help-end-cancer.html

This Doctor Thinks We May Achieve Immortality, But Isn’t Sure We’d Want To www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/david-casarett-shocked-immortality_n_5652992.html?&ir=Technology&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000046

Brain regeneration: Crayfish turn blood into neurons http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26042-brain-regeneration-crayfish-turn-blood-into-neurons.html#.U-u2nGMb8my

Talking ’bout regeneration: How do some animals regrow missing parts? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140806124854.htm

LEAKED: Google’s Next Major Smartphone May Come With A Screen That’s Bigger And Sharper Than The iPhone http://www.businessinsider.com/nexus-6-specs-rumors-2014-8?utm_source=linkedinticker&utm_medium=referral

NATURE: Iranian is first woman to nab highest prize in maths http://www.nature.com/news/iranian-is-first-woman-to-nab-highest-prize-in-maths-1.15686

NATURE: Quantum dots with single-atom precision http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v9/n7/full/nnano.2014.129.html

TIME: Treating Cancer With Bacteria Shows Real Promise http://time.com/3107896/bacteria-cancer-tumor/

“Real Gasoline Without Oil” for 90% Returns? http://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/oxford-resource-explorer/real-gasoline-without-oil-for-90-returns/

Ending tariffs on green goods will show free trade can fight climate change http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/eliminate-tariffs-green-goods-free-trade-climate-change

CMOs and CIOs Increasingly See Eye to Eye http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/08/cmos-and-cios-increasingly-see-eye-to-eye/

New Horizons Spacecraft Captures Images of Charon in Orbit Around Pluto http://www.21stcentech.com/horizons-spacecraft-captures-images-charon-orbit-pluto/

Exclusive: Italy’s grid company to get 1.5 billion euro loan ahead of China Grid deal — sources http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/23/us-cdpreti-state-grid-corp-loan-idUSKBN0FS1YG20140723

REUTERS: Cisco to cut another 6,000 jobs as forecast falls flat http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/13/us-cisco-systems-results-idUSKBN0GD1YH20140813

REUTERS: Planned U.S. cyber warfare program could hurt innocent countries: Snowden http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/13/us-cybersecurity-snowden-idUSKBN0GD1BS20140813

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Why Indian Agricultural Policy Might Unravel the WTO http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141872/surupa-gupta-and-sumit-ganguly/modi-bets-the-farm

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Iraq Needs U.S. Ground Troops More Than Ever http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141873/robin-simcox/go-big-or-go-home

There Are A Lot More Adults Working In Schools Lately, And Most Of Them Are Not Teachers www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/fordham-institute-hidden-half_n_5672571.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

Implanted neuronal stem cells generate neurons and synapses, becoming a functioning part of mouse brain http://www.kurzweilai.net/implanted-neuronal-stem-cells-generate-neurons-and-synapses-becoming-a-functioning-part-of-mouse-brain

3D sketching system ‘revolutionizes’ design interaction and collaboration http://www.kurzweilai.net/3d-sketching-system-revolutionizes-design-interaction-and-collaboration

FORBES: Now In Orbit: A Satellite That Can See Through Smoke http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/08/13/now-in-orbit-a-satellite-that-can-see-through-smoke/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Do-It-Yourself Biology? Messing Around with DNA Increasingly a Garage-Band Venture http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-08-12/do-it-yourself-biology-messing-around-dna-increasingly-garage

Computer scientist reviews frontier technologies to determine fundamental limits of computer scaling
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-scientist-frontier-technologies-fundamental-limits.html#jCp

One Engineer’s Perspective on Global Warming http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/8241/One-Engineers-Perspective-on-Global-Warming.aspx

‘4D Printing’: Programming Material to Transform Itself http://www.atelier.net/en/trends/articles/4d-printing-programming-material-transform-itself_430797

Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini AND www.linkedin.com/in/andresagostini

By Jaime Fuller — Washington Post

Despite plenty of debate in Congress, a majority of the American people (52 percent) remain in favor of using drones against extremists on foreign soil.

On that count, though, the United States is in the distinct minority on the Planet Earth.

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