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A new study uses a four minute long mobile video as an example. The method used by the Danish and US researchers in the study resulted in the video being downloaded five times faster than state of the art technology. The video also streamed without interruptions. In comparison, the original video got stuck 13 times along the way.

- This has the potential to change the entire market. In experiments with our network coding of Internet traffic, equipment manufacturers experienced speeds that are five to ten times faster than usual. And this technology can be used in satellite communication, mobile communication and regular Internet communication from computers, says Frank Fitzek, Professor in the Department of Electronic Systems and one of the pioneers in the development of network coding.

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German, U.S. Home Energy Storage Incentives Offer Divergent Visions for the Smart Grid http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2014/08/05/german-u-s-home-energy-storage-incentives-offer-divergent-visions-for-the-smart-grid/

Google Set to Kick-Start the Driverless Car Supply Chain http://www.ebnonline.com/author.asp?doc_id=274282&section_id=1162

Can Winograd Schemas Replace Turing Test for Defining Human-Level AI? http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/winograd-schemas-replace-turing-test-for-defining-humanlevel-artificial-intelligence/?utm_source=roboticsnews&utm_medium=email&utm_c

With $350M Research Center, MIT Bets Big On Nanotechnology http://www.wbur.org/2014/08/05/mit-nanotechnology-facility#comment-1528661467

A Room Where Executives Go to Get Help from IBM’s Watson http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529606/a-room-where-executives-go-to-get-help-from-ibms-watson/?utm_campaign=socialsync&utm_medium=social-post&utm_source=linkedin

Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329803.900-robotic-suit-gives-shipyard-workers-super-strength.html#.U-FygmMbErg

Meet Paro, a robot designed to help the elderly http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26258460/robotic-pets-seniors-part-wave-assistive-technology

String Field Theory Genius Explains The Coming Breakthroughs That Will Change Life As We Know It http://www.businessinsider.com/michio-kaku-talks-about-coming-breakthroughs-2014-3

October Rendezvous of Comet with Mars Has NASA Assets on Alert http://www.21stcentech.com/october-rendezvous-comet-mars-nasa-assets-alert/

Scientists may have cracked the giant Siberian crater mystery http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/05/scientists-may-have-cracked-the-giant-siberian-crater-mystery-and-the-news-isnt-good/?tid=sm_fb

The competition for high-speed fiber optic Internet is escalating in 13 cities http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/05/the-competition-for-high-speed-fiber-optic-internet-is-escalating-in-13-cities/

In the wake of Toledo, we need innovations to prevent a world water crisis http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/08/05/in-the-wake-of-toledo-we-need-innovations-to-prevent-a-world-water-crisis/

A New Drug Has been Found Which Reverses Alzheimer’s On Animals http://www.businessinsider.com.au/a-new-drug-has-been-found-which-reverses-alzheimers-on-animals-2014-8

‘Rewired’ mice show signs of longer lives with fewer age-related illnesses http://www.kurzweilai.net/rewired-mice-show-signs-of-longer-lives-with-fewer-age-related-illnesses

Atomically precise self-assembling nanoscale fibers mimic living cells http://www.kurzweilai.net/atomically-precise-self-assembling-nanoscale-fibers-mimic-living-cells

‘Active’ surfaces that control fluids or particles http://www.kurzweilai.net/active-surfaces-that-control-fluids-or-particles

FORBES: Why Physicians Are Turning To Startups http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidshaywitz/2014/08/05/why-physicians-are-turning-to-startups/

Getting Funded by DARPA soonest! http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140805232438-34427457-getting-funded-by-darpa-soonest

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

Julia Angwin — Nation of Change
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A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com.

First documented in a forthcoming paper by researchers at Princeton University and KU Leuven University in Belgium, this type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor’s Web browser to draw a hidden image. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, the images can be used to assign each user’s device a number that uniquely identifies it.

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The Xodus One Foundation will be conducting workshops on Gravity Modification, based on Ben Solomon’s 12-year study titled “An Introduction to Gravity Modification” and other later peer reviewed papers. And has been vetted by the Foundation’s Chief Science Office, Dr. Andrew Beckwith.

This thought provoking & bleeding edge physics/technology workshop will assists attendees to understand how the future of propulsion technology is changing. And therefore, adjust their corporate programs to expect these future technologies and research programs.

Note, my peer reviewed paper “New Evidence, Conditions, Instruments & Experiments for Gravitational Theories”, Journal of Modern Physics, Volume 4, Number 8A, August 2013 (Special Issue on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology) has as of August 05, 2014, had 3,482 downloads since publication August 27, 2013. This paper details the issues with contemporary physics that has hampered the discovery of gravity modification physics and proposes possible solutions.

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FAQ:
1. Types of Workshops:: There are 2 types, the Short 1-day and the Long 2-day.
2. Who Should Attend: Engineers, Physicists & Corporate Managers responsible for propulsion research programs.
3. Workshop Fees: See respective brochures, below. Workshop fees are tax deductible.
4. Workshop Payment: Uses secure Amazon Payments. If you don’t have an account please sign up a head of time, prior to making tax deductible workshop fee payments.
5. Seating: On a First Come First Served basis, based on payment dates. In the event of overbooking, later registrants will placed in the next business day workshops. If you are attending the Long workshop, please confirm seating dates before finalizing travel arrangements.
6. Future Schedule: Link to Future Schedule
7. Some Comments: Thorough, Well Thought Out, Brilliant …

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Short Workshop:
Type: This is a 1-day workshop.
Brochure: Link to brochure.
Location: Webcast
Workshop Date: August 20, 2014. Future dates to be determined.
Pay By Date: August 13, 2014. Future dates to be determined
Payment: Use donate button below to make $100 payment via Amazon Payments

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Long Workshop:
Type: This is a 2-day workshop, still under development:
Brochure: See tentative brochure.
Location: 1624 Market St., #202, Denver, CO 80202.
Workshop Date: To Be Determined
Pay By Date: To Be Determined
Payment: Payment button coming soon.

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Mike Wall — Space.com

Image: Unconventional propulsion

NASA researchers have reported fresh evidence that an “impossible” space propulsion technology might actually work.

A study from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston says a microwave thruster system that requires no propellant appears to generate a tiny amount of thrust. If the technology pans out, it could make spaceflight far cheaper and speedier, advocates say. They argue that the thruster harnesses subatomic particles that pop into and out of existence in accordance with quantum physics — a hypothesis that’s mentioned in the study.

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Getting the Corporate Ears of the People Who Rule the World! By Andres Agostini at www.linkedin.com/in/andresagostini

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If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Procter & Gamble, talk to them through the notions of and by Process Re-engineering.

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at GE, talk to them through the notions of and by Six Sigma.

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at RAND Corporation, talk to them through the notions of and by Herman Khan’s (Dr. Strangeloves’) Scenario Methodology.

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at Mitsubishi Motors and Honda, talk to them through the notions of and by Kaisen.

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at NASA and DARPA and the Industrial-Military Complex, talk to them through the notions of and by Systems Approach with the Perspective of Applied Non-Theological Omniscience.

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at Lockheed Martin, talk to them through the notions of and by Six Sigma and Skunk Works.

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at Toyota, talk to them through the notions of and by Toyota Production System (methodology).

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at Royal Dutch Shell, talk to them through the notions of and by Pierre Wack’s Scenario Methodology.

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at Mayo Clinic, talk to them through the notions of and by Dr. Joseph Juran’s (Total Quality Assurance) Prescription (ISBN: 978–0787900960).

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at Google, talk to them through the notions of and by Strong Quantum Supercomputing and Reversing of Human Death.

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at Xerox, talk to them through the notions of and by PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated).

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at ExxonMobil, talk to them through the notions of and by Efficiency and Productivity as well as Return On Investment (ROI) per Petroleum Barrel produced (outputted).

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at Boeing, talk to them through the notions of and by Aerospace Engineering, Avionics, Systems Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Safety Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

If you want to seize the undivided attention of top executives at Loyd’s of London, Swiss RE, Munich RE, talk to them through the notions of and by Minimax, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Predictive Analytic, and Systems Engineering.

(A Brief Excerpt of the White Swan book).

Kuzweil AI

USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers have developed a flexible, transparent, energy-efficient, lower-cost hybrid design that could replace silicon as the traditional transistor material used in electronic chips.

The new design, described in a paper recently published in Nature Communications, combines carbon nanotube thin-film transistors with thin-film transistors comprised of indium, gallium and zinc oxide (IGZO).

Electrical engineering professor Dr. Chongwu Zhou and USC Viterbi graduate students Haitian Chen, Yu Cao, and Jialu Zhang developed this energy-efficient circuit by integrating carbon nanotube (CNT) thin film transistors (TFT)

The inclusion of IGZO thin film transistors was necessary to provide power efficiency to increase battery life. If only carbon nanotubes had been used, the circuits would not be power-efficient.

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Maureen Wise — Nation of Change
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You’ve probably heard that bees—their honey, their awesome pollinating powers and their stingers—are on the decline. It’s a global problem that affects more than just the little yellow and black buzzers; it can and will interrupt the way we produce food if it continues. Bees pollinate most of the crops farmers grow worldwide, so without them, we don’t have food. Most scientists agree that pesticides, drought, habitat loss, pollution and other major environmental concerns are all contributing to colony collapse disorder. It’s a big deal and there are a lot of people working to keep bees buzzing.

A new project has set out to help understand the issue in individual colonies and bring the problem to the people called Open Source Beehives. This multi-continent partnership between Open Tech Collaborative and Fab Lab Barcelona proposes public participation through easily made backyard hives in conjunction with software that will track hive health.

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Brandon Baker — Nation of Change
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A large wheel has been strolling the Baltimore Inner Harbor the past month, doing its best to clean the trash that has littered a city landmark and tourist attraction.

It’s called the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, and though it moves slow, it has the capability to collect 50,000 pounds of trash. The timing for John Kellett’s solar-powered creation is crucial—hands and crab nets simply can’t keep up with the growing amount of wrappers, cigarette butts, bottles and other debris carried from storm drains into the harbor.

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ArchDaily

“Plastic is an extremely durable material, taking 500 years to biodegrade, yet it’s designed to be used for an average of 5 minutes, and so it’s thrown away. Few know where this mass of junk will end up … in the oceans, killing and silently destroying everything, even us.”

Cristian Ehrmantraut has developed a prototype for a floating platform that filters the ocean and absorbs plastic. Located 4 km from the coast of , close to the center of the mega-vortex of plastic located in the South Pacific, the tetrahedral platform performs a kind of dialysis, allowing the natural environment to be recovered as well as energy and food to be produced.

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