By Agence France-Presse A man who suffered horrific facial injuries in a motorbike accident has had pioneering surgery to rebuild his face using 3D printed parts.
Stephen Power from Cardiff in Wales is thought to be one of the first trauma patients in the world to have a procedure in which 3D printing was used at every stage.
The 29-year-old suffered multiple trauma injuries in an accident in 2012. Despite wearing a crash helmet, his top jaw, nose and both cheek bones were broken and he fractured his skull.
ROBOTICS is now the fastest growing industry in the world, according to a recent report from Littler Mendelson, and could well become one of the largest within a matter of decades. Yet for all the hype, and fears of autonomous machines replacing human jobs, this is a comparatively recent development. The fields of robotics and artificial intelligence have long held promise, but have seldom delivered the results to match.Yet after years of stagnation, the market for industrial robots in factories – reprogrammable machines that can do fixed, predictable tasks – has started to grow again. More excitingly, we can now expect greater developments in service robots – machines with the ability to make decisions for themselves.
The brothers, known for their legal battle over the creation of Facebook(FB, Fortune 500), are going to space and paying for it with Bitcoins. Take that, Mark Zuckerberg.
The twins bought tickets, valued at $250,000 each, for a ride to space with Virgin Galactic. That’s about 375 Bitcoins, at Wednesday’s price.
They think of their purchase “as seed capital” supporting new technologies they have high hopes for.
Google is on a mission to update the web’s wiring—and they’re not talking a decade or more to do it. Google CFO, Patrick Pichette, recently said his firm is working to boost internet speeds a thousand fold in the next three years.
“That’s where the world is going. It’s going to happen.”
A linguistic analysis done at Forbes’ request indicates that Newsweek fingered the wrong man when it tried to unmask the creator of the digital currency, Bitcoin. Bitcoin allows users to conduct transactions with no or low fees and a relative degree of privacy. There is close to $8 billion of the currency on the Internet. But the identity of its creator (or creators), who went by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, has remained shrouded in mystery.
Among the leaked Snowden National Security Agency (NSA) documents, the first to explicitly involve the UFO issue has just been released and is currently generating much media scrutiny. The 50 page document is a powerpoint presentation titled “The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations,” and was authored by the British equivalent of the NSA, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The document was the subject to an in-depth story released this week by Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first worked with Edward Snowden to release to the world official NSA surveillance of the general public, and foreign government officials. The leaked document details how the NSA is working with its “Five Eyes” partners in Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to train its operatives in online covert operations. Greenwald’s article exposes how the NSA and its Five Eyes intelligence partners encourage a range of psychological warfare tools to discredit any targets discussing sensitive national security information. In the “Art of Deception” document three of the 50 slides show images of UFOs – one of which dates from 1950. The leaked document reveals a clear connection between online covert operations by the GCHQ and its intelligence partners on the UFO issue. It is smoking gun evidence that the international intelligence community is training its covert operatives to deceive the public on a range of sensitive national security issues including UFOs.
LIST OF UPDATES (MARCH 10 THROUGH MARCH 16/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
New US Military Space Plane Aims for 2017 Liftoff http://www.space.com/24639-united-states-military-space-plane-xs1.html
9 hot Indian innovators that Silicon Valley could buy next http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/india/140305/9-hot-indian-innovators-silicon-valley-could-buy-nex
NASA’s CT-2 Preps for Larger Deep Space Launches http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7178/NASAs-CT-2-Preps-for-Larger-Deep-Space-Launches.aspx
In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones http://www.21stcentech.com/future-robots-outnumber-big/
Bitcoin Is a Protocol. Bitcoin Is a Brand. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/bitcoin-is-a-protocol-bitcoin-is-a-brand/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
‘Carbon bubble’ poses serious threat to UK economy, MPs warn http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/06/carbon-bubble-threat-uk-economy-fossil-fuels-mps?CMP=twt_fd
Time running out for Great Barrier Reef: scientists http://phys.org/news/2014-03-great-barrier-reef-scientists.html
5 Things to Lessen Your Anxiety About Big Data http://www.cmswire.com/cms/big-data/5-things-to-lessen-your-anxiety-about-big-data-024382.php
Breakthrough: How to Avert Analytics’ Most Treacherous Pitfall http://smartdatacollective.com/node/189476?utm_source=feedburner_twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=autotweets
A Genetic Entrepreneur Sets His Sights on Aging and Death
A Clever Robotic Arm on Kickstarter, Straight From Chinese Factory Whizzes http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/kickstarter-robot-arm-ufactory/
The Uncertain Future of the Global Cloud https://exploreb2b.com/articles/the-uncertain-future-of-the-global-cloud
Wyoming Governor Takes Major Stand Against Modern Science http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/wyoming-next-generation-science_n_4922333.html?&ir=Politics&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016
Assange at SXSW: ‘Who really wears the pants in the administration?‘ http://www.techhive.com/article/2105863/assange-at-sxsw-who-really-wears-the-pants-in-the-administration.html
Japan’s Strategic Approach to Democracy Support http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/03/07/japan-s-strategic-approach-to-democracy-support/h2q1
NASA’s WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No ‘Planet X’ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-075
Independent Scotland would lose UK’s AAA rating, warns Citigroup http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10684468/Independent-Scotland-would-lose-UKs-AAA-rating-warns-Citigroup.html
Ukraine crisis: why Russia sees Crimea as its naval stronghold http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/07/ukraine-russia-crimea-naval-base-tatars-explainer
China Has Launched the Largest Water-Pipeline Project in History http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/china-has-launched-the-largest-water-pipeline-project-in-history/284300/
Nanomotors controlled within living cells http://www.gizmag.com/nanomotors-controlled-inside-cells/30795/
How wearables will change the enterprise landscape http://www.coppermobile.com/blog/all-post/wear-job-wrist-wearables-will-change-enterprise-landscape/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=4211381
Lockheed Martin, University of Maryland to develop next generation quantum computer http://phys.org/wire-news/155552054/lockheed-martin-university-of-maryland-to-develop-next-generatio.html
Infrastructure Threatened by Climate Change Poses a National Crisis http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infrastructure-threatened-by-climate-change-poses-a-national-crisis/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
SORRY BANKS, MILLENNIALS HATE YOU http://www.fastcompany.com/3027197/fast-feed/sorry-banks-millennials-hate-you
Russia turns to drones and robots as army shrinks http://blogs.blouinnews.com/blouinbeatpolitics/2013/12/15/russia-turns-to-drones-and-robots-as-army-shrinks/
The U.S. Does Not Have As Much Leverage Over Russia’s Energy As You Think http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2014/the-u-s-does-not-have-as-much-leverage-over-russias-energy-as-you-think/
DARPA SHIELD targets counterfeit parts http://www.c4isrnet.com/article/M5/20140306/C4ISRNET07/303060022?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Why It’s Hard to Impose Sanctions on Russia http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304554004579421533293368344?mod=e2tw
2030 Space Odyssey: NASA will search for alien life in Jupiter’s moon http://sploid.gizmodo.com/2030-space-odyssey-nasa-will-search-for-alien-life-in-1536952180/@barrett
7 hidden dangers of wearable computers http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/142881/7-hidden-dangers-of-wearable-computers-237591#slide1
The dark side of 3D printing: 10 things to watch http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-dark-side-of-3d-printing-10-things-to-watch/
PIZZA HUT’S INTERACTIVE TOUCH TABLE COULD BE COMING TO A RESTAURANT NEAR YOU http://www.fastcocreate.com/3027282/pizza-huts-interactive-touch-table-could-be-coming-to-a-restaurant-near-you
Mobile devices of the future will get energy from everywhere except the wall socket http://qz.com/180484/mobile-devices-of-the-future-will-get-energy-from-everywhere-except-the-wall-socket/?utm_content=buffer8195e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Marc Andreessen Thinks the News Business Is About to Grow 1,000 Percent http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/big-boom-news-change-read/
Robotic Technology to Preserve Wildlife: A Scenario http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2014-issues-futurist/march-april-2014-vol-48-no-2/robotic-technology-preserve-wildlife-scen
Learning without Schools: A Contrarian Future http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2014-issues-futurist/march-april-2014-vol-48-no-2/learning-without-schools-contrarian-futur
New Record Set for Data-Transfer Speeds http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/02/new-record-set-data-transfer-speeds
Glimmer of Light Appears in Search for Dark Matter http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/02/glimmer-light-appears-search-dark-matter?et_cid=3793244&et_rid=602069455&type=cta
This is what 3D printed wood looks like http://gigaom.com/2014/02/25/this-is-what-3d-printed-wood-looks-like/
Rise of the human exoskeletons http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26418358#%3Futm_source%3Dtwitterfeed%26utm_medium%3Dtwitte
How Data from Wearable Tech is Transforming Personal Training and Sport Performance http://iq.intel.com/iq/41823249/how-data-from-wearable-tech-is-transforming-personal-training-and-sport-performance?linkId=7599081
Click Your Tongue Or Wink To Control This Tiny Computer Earclip http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027183/click-your-tongue-or-wink-to-control-this-tiny-computer-earclip
Three Metrics that will Move the World http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140304184631-53060352-three-metrics-that-will-move-the-world
Microgrids will soon make large electrical grids obsolete http://www.impactlab.net/2014/03/04/microgrids-will-soon-make-large-electrical-grids-obsolete/
Futuristic Moon Elevator Idea Takes Aim at Lunar Lifts http://www.space.com/24905-moon-elevator-lunar-exploration-liftport.html
Technological Growth and Unemployment: A Global Scenario Analysis http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://jetpress.org/v24/campa2.htm
Will SpaceX Super Rocket Kill NASA’s ‘Rocket to Nowhere’? (Op-Ed) http://www.space.com/24628-will-spacex-kill-nasa-sls.html
Cameras That Can See Through Walls!
The Future of Venture Capital, Tech Valuations and the Fate of Tech Incumbents — Conversation with Bill Janeway http://www.forbes.com/sites/mgiresearch/2014/03/04/the-future-of-venture-capital-tech-valuations-and-the-fate-of-tech-incumbents-conversation-with-bill-janeway/
When Regulation Threatens, Bankers Predict Doom For Main Street http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/when-regulation-threatens-bankers-predict-doom-for-main-street?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1394047793
Human Longevity Inc. launched to promote healthy aging using advances in genomics and stem-cell therapies http://www.kurzweilai.net/human-longevity-inc-hli-launched-to-promote-healthy-aging-using-advances-in-genomics-and-stem-cell-therapies
Supplement added to a standard diet improves health and prolongs life in mice http://www.kurzweilai.net/supplement-added-to-a-standard-diet-improves-health-and-prolongs-life-in-mice
Robotic-assisted prostate surgery offers better cancer control, study finds http://www.kurzweilai.net/robotic-assisted-prostate-surgery-offers-better-cancer-control-study-finds
Study pinpoints protective mutations for type 2 diabetes http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-pinpoints-protective-mutations-for-type-2-diabetes
How to generate new neurons in brains, spinal cords of living adult mammals http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-generate-new-neurons-in-brains-spinal-cords-of-living-adult-mammals
How memory and thought alter the meaning of odors http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-memory-and-thought-alter-the-meaning-of-odors
Evidence of former life on Mars? http://www.kurzweilai.net/evidence-of-former-life-on-mars
Will 3D Printing Upend Fashion Like Napster Crippled the Music Industry? http://mashable.com/2014/03/03/3d-printing-fashion/
Ukraine: A Mistake Moscow Will Regret http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2014/03/04/ukraine-a-mistake-moscow-will-regret/
Will Google Maps Ever Come to Apple CarPlay http://mashable.com/2014/03/04/google-maps-carplay/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner
The Case for Blunders http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/06/darwin-einstein-case-for-blunders/?pagination=false
Silicon Valley real estate mogul turns to curing cancer through big data http://upstart.bizjournals.com/companies/innovation/2014/03/01/real-estate-titan-turns-to-curing-cancer.html?cid=tw_inn_mar14
3 Technologies that Will Rock Your World http://networkingexchangeblog.att.com/enterprise-business/3-technologies-will-rock-world/?__sc_=2jsl3
Ballmer: Microsoft Missed the Mobile Market Over Last Decade http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/04/ballmer-microsoft-missed-the-mobile-market-over-last-decade/
Worth $1 Billion, Iceland’s Cryptocurrency Is the Third-Largest in the World http://motherboard.vice.com/read/worth-1-billion-icelands-cryptocurrency-is-the-third-largest-in-the-world
When Start-Ups Don’t Lock the Doors
InPowered Opens Platform to Push Popular Content to Native Ads http://mashable.com/2014/03/04/inpowered-opens-platform/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link
‘Government as a Platform’: How Cloud Computing Is Progressing Inside The Beltway http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2014/02/23/government-as-a-platform-how-cloud-computing-is-progressing-inside-the-beltway/
Most Stars in the Universe Host an Alien Planet http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/03/04/most-stars-in-the-universe-host-an-alien-planet/#.UxYcUeddWDo
China Working on New Intermediate-Range Missile http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/report-china-working-new-intermediate-range-missile/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Warheads and Wealth: Five Keys to Russia’s Power http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-five-ways-russia-s-military-could-crush-ukraine-1RU89yymTjK6aZS6dmxabw.html
Banking, Information, and Technology: Toward Knowledge Banking http://www.technologyreview.com/view/525106/banking-information-and-technology-toward-knowledge-banking/?utm_campaign=socialsync&utm_medium=social-post&utm_source=twitter
Ukrainian authorities suffer new cyber attacks http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/us-ukraine-cricis-cyberattack-idUSBREA270FU20140308
Cyber weapon known as Snake attacking Ukraine’s computer network http://www.news.com.au/world/cyber-weapon-known-as-snake-attacking-ukraines-computer-network/story-fndir2ev-1226849285455
Border Patrol tells agents to retreat from rock throwers, not shoot http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/249087891.html?authenticate=y
Federal agencies embrace new technology and strategies to find the enemy within http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/federal-agencies-embrace-new-technology-and-strategies-to-find-the-enemy-within/2014/03/07/22ce335e-9d87-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html
Resolving For Cybersecurity Threats To The Cloud http://www.hstoday.us/briefings/correspondents-watch/single-article/resolving-for-cybersecurity-threats-to-the-cloud/dfa005e57915ab9e025c37dd87ec8ce6.html
Cybersecurity Priorities Unveiled in FY 2015 Budget http://www.govinfosecurity.com/cybersecurity-priorities-unveiled-in-fy-2015-budget-a-6600
NIST report on iris aging flawed: researchers http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140307-nist-report-on-iris-aging-flawed-researchers
Why Study? College Hackers Are Changing F’s To A’s http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/05/student-hacking_n_4907344.html?utm_hp_ref=technology
Suspected Russian spyware Turla targets Europe, United States http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/07/us-russia-cyberespionage-insight-idUSBREA260YI20140307
Safeguarding networks when disasters strike http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140306-safeguarding-networks-when-disasters-strike
HOW BUSY PEOPLE MAKE TIME TO READ—AND YOU CAN TOO http://www.fastcompany.com/3026923/how-busy-people-make-time-to-read-and-you-can-too
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini Risk-Management Professional Futurist and Success Consultant http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
Thinking about the end of the world is something that most people try to avoid; for others, it’s a profession. The Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, UK specializes in looking at the ‘big-picture’ future of the human race, and notably, the risks that could wipe us out entirely.
As you’d probably imagine, the risks considered by the Institute include things like nuclear war and meteor strikes, but one perhaps unexpected area that it’s looking into is the potential threat posed by artificial intelligence. Could computers become so smart that they become our rivals, take all our jobs and eventually wipe us all out? This Terminator-style scenario used to seem like science fiction, but it’s starting to be taken seriously by those who watch the way technology is developing.
By Leonard David, Space.com’s Space Insider Columnist
If scientists do find life on Mars, it may be possible to beam Martian DNA back to Earth, according to a new idea growing in popularity. If Martian bugs are found, the idea of “faxing” life from Mars is an enticing prospect, spurred on by scientist, Craig Venter, famous for his early sequencing of the human genome.
Venter proposes that researchers analyze Martian DNA on the Red Planet and then radio back that sequence to synthesize the DNA on Earth. He put forth the notion in a book published last year called “Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of the Digital Age.” [The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)]
Written By: Cameron Scott — Singularity Hub One of the greatest promises of the high-tech future, whether made explicitly or implicitly through shiny clean concept sketches, is that we will have efficient energy that doesn’t churn pollutants into the air and onto the streets. But here in the present, politicians and even many clean energy advocates maintain that a world run on hydrogen and wind, water and solar power is not yet possible due to technical challenges like energy storage and cost.
Yet Stanford University researchers led by civil engineer Mark Jacobsonhave developed detailed plans for each state in the union that to move to 100 percent wind, water and solar power by 2050 using only technology that’s already available. The plan, presented recently at the AAAS conference in Chicago, also forms the basis for The Solutions Project nonprofit.
“The conclusion is that it’s technically and economically feasible,” Jacobson told Singularity Hub.
Among the leaked Snowden National Security Agency (
If scientists do find life on Mars, it may be possible to beam Martian DNA back to Earth, according to a new idea growing in popularity. If Martian bugs are found, the idea of “faxing” life from Mars is an enticing prospect, spurred on by scientist, Craig Venter, famous for his early sequencing of the human genome.
