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How big data is going to help feed nine billion people by 2050 http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-big-data-is-going-to…e-by-2050/

Direct Brain to Brain Communication Between Animals and Humans http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/07/28/direct-brain-to-brain-co…nd-humans/

How Facebook is evolving into a mobile ad giant http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/17562949-how-faceb…e-ad-giant

This Website Advertises A Bunch Of Jobs That Pay In Bitcoin http://www.businessinsider.com/profile-of-coinality-2013-12

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CIOs, Companies Sharpen Skills for ‘Internet of Things’ Future http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/07/28/cios-companies-sharpen-s…gs-future/

Freeman Dyson Predicts the Future http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/space-flight/fr…the-future

IPCC climate change report’s findings must be accepted, MPs say http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/29/ipcc-clim…ed-mps-say

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by Eric Mack — c/net

One of the persistent challenges of manned space exploration is that pesky lack of oxygen throughout much of the universe. Here on Earth, trees and other plant life do us a real solid by taking in our bad breath and changing it back to clean, sweet O₂.

So what if we could take those biological oxygen factories into space with us, but without all the land, sun, water, soil, and gravity that forests tend to require? This is the point where NASA and Elon Musk should probably start paying attention.

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TWENTY “WHITE SWAN BOOK” COMMANDMENTS OF RESILIENCY … http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140728221803&#4…resilience

The Scottish government has announced funding for a initiative to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-28279336

WORLD ORDER IS RIGHT NOW CHANGING BEYOND EXPONENTIALLY, DEEPLY CHANGING MANY, MANY THINGS, INCLUDING THE PAUSING OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY. LET US GET CONCERNED AND OPERATIONAL ABOUT THIS FOOLISH PRESENT!

Mapping the Spread of Drought Across the U.S. http://nyti.ms/1rZ27S9

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Beijing Has Top-Secret View of China’s Employment http://online.wsj.com/articles/heard-on-the-street-beijing-h…1406187890

How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon’s Cloud http://www.wired.com/2014/07/how-hackers-hid-a-money-mining-…ons-cloud/

Scientists Just Reversed Paralysis http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2014/07/22/led-light-paralysi…n-disease/

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Anders Sandberg, a member of the advisory board for the Lifeboat Foundation, recently took part in a panel debate on the future of human cloning produced by the Institute of Art and Ideas.

Debate blurb:

Human cloning is anathema to most of us conjuring up Metropolis visions of identical humans serving tyrannical masters. But might this be a mistaken horror story? Could human cloning instead lead to medical breakthroughs and the end to infertility?

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Five reasons HarperCollins’ ecommerce is just part of a clever anti-Amazon strategy http://www.publishingtechnology.com/2014/07/five-reasons-har…-strategy/

Italy gives Google 18 months to comply with European privacy regulations http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/italy-goog…egulations

Yahoo buys mobile analytics firm Flurry http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/yahoo-buys…irm-flurry

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Written By: Jason Dorrier — Singularity Hub

Robots come in all shapes and sizes—some are mechanical, and some aren’t. Last year, a team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made a seven-millimeter-long 3D printed robot powered by the heart cells of a rat.

The device, made of 3D printed hydrogel—a water-based, biologically compatible gel—had two feet, one bigger than the other. The smaller, longer foot was coated in heart cells. Each time the cells contracted, the robot would crawl forward a few millimeters.

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