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United States Geological Survey confirms it: Fracking causes earthquakes | ExtremeTech: Entities all around the world, from

United States Geological Survey confirms it: Fracking causes earthquakes | ExtremeTech: Entities all around the world, from cities to whole countries, have issued moratoria on fracking pending conclusive evidence of its risks. Well, some of that evidence is in: fracking causes earthquakes.
Source: extremetech.com

Doctors Without Borders Using 3D Printing, Virtual Reality to Plan Hospitals |: Médecins Sans Frontières, aka Doctors

Doctors Without Borders Using 3D Printing, Virtual Reality to Plan Hospitals |: Médecins Sans Frontières, aka Doctors Without Borders, is investigating how 3D printing and virtual reality technologies can help the organization setup fi
Source: medgadget.com

Rare example of lost language found on stone hidden 2500 years ago: This could change our understanding of the mysterious

Rare example of lost language found on stone hidden 2500 years ago: This could change our understanding of the mysterious Etruscan civilization in Italy.
Source: arstechnica.com

Best way to stop overprescribing antibiotics? Public shaming, of course: Doctors may be as irrational as the rest of us

Best way to stop overprescribing antibiotics? Public shaming, of course: Doctors may be as irrational as the rest of us mere mortals, researchers say.
Source: arstechnica.com

Having a fridge laser could spare you from food poisoning: New method promises to cheaply and easily detect wriggling bacteria

Having a fridge laser could spare you from food poisoning: New method promises to cheaply and easily detect wriggling bacteria on your grub.
Source: arstechnica.com

SKrashen: The Most Intrusive Technology of All Time

SKrashen: The Most Intrusive Technology of All Time
Source: blogspot.com

Biosimilar drugs could save up to $110 billion by 2020 - IMS : Lower-cost copies of complex biotech drugs, known as biosimilars,

Biosimilar drugs could save up to $110 billion by 2020 - IMS : Lower-cost copies of complex biotech drugs, known as biosimilars, could save the United States and Europe's five top markets as much as 98 billion euros ($110 bln) by 2020, a new analysis showed on Tuesday.
Source: reuters.com

Machines Just Got Better at Lip Reading: New speech recognition technology can distinguish sounds that look the same on

Machines Just Got Better at Lip Reading: New speech recognition technology can distinguish sounds that look the same on lips, making lip reading easier for machines
Source: ieee.org

Two new studies undermine “over-simplistic models of human evolution”

Two new studies undermine “over-simplistic models of human evolution”
Source: arstechnica.com

What Engineers Can Learn From the Design of the Penis: The mechanics of the erection may have applications for robotics.

What Engineers Can Learn From the Design of the Penis: The mechanics of the erection may have applications for robotics.
Source: theatlantic.com

UK's National Graphene Institute in Revolt After Foreign Tech Grab: Researchers at the UK's NGI won't work at the new facilty

UK's National Graphene Institute in Revolt After Foreign Tech Grab: Researchers at the UK's NGI won't work at the new facilty for fear that their research will be pilfered
Source: ieee.org

Plastic-eating bacteria set to revolutionize waste disposal | ExtremeTech: Genetically engineering a bacterium that eats

Plastic-eating bacteria set to revolutionize waste disposal | ExtremeTech: Genetically engineering a bacterium that eats plastic could fix the world's spiraling problem of waste disposal.
Source: extremetech.com

Drone to police massive UK marine reserve - BBC News: An ocean-going drone will be helping to spot illegal fishing in the

Drone to police massive UK marine reserve - BBC News: An ocean-going drone will be helping to spot illegal fishing in the world's largest, continuous marine reserve.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Junk food ads face online ban in UK - BBC News: Advertising junk food could soon be banned from children's content online,

Junk food ads face online ban in UK - BBC News: Advertising junk food could soon be banned from children's content online, according to the UK's advertising watchdog.
Source: bbc.co.uk

New Surgical Robot with Haptic Feedback Fits Entirely Inside Body During Operation |: Engineers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic

New Surgical Robot with Haptic Feedback Fits Entirely Inside Body During Operation |: Engineers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have developed a miniaturized robot for single incision and natural orifice surgeries. The device feature
Source: medgadget.com

Estonian citizens will soon have the world’s most hack-proof health-care records: Estonia is the first country to use

Estonian citizens will soon have the world’s most hack-proof health-care records: Estonia is the first country to use blockchain, the technology that powers bitcoin.
Source: qz.com

Top strategic predictions for 2016 and beyond: the future is a digital thing. The one that caught my attention was: "By

Top strategic predictions for 2016 and beyond: the future is a digital thing. The one that caught my attention was: "By 2018, 20% of all business content will be authored by machines. ... Technologies with the ability to proactively assemble and deliver information through automated composition...
Source: gartner.com

WHO Looking at Genetically Modified, Sterile Mosquitoes to Control Zika Spread: "The World Health Organization is evaluating

WHO Looking at Genetically Modified, Sterile Mosquitoes to Control Zika Spread: "The World Health Organization is evaluating some newer techniques for mosquito control, given the rapid spread of the Zika virus. One possible method to reduce the populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit...
Source: jwatch.org

Life in Technicolor—One month wearing EnChroma’s color blindness-fixing glasses: By blocking wavelengths, glasses create

Life in Technicolor—One month wearing EnChroma’s color blindness-fixing glasses: By blocking wavelengths, glasses create a new world complete with grass, traffic lights.
Source: arstechnica.com

Google neural network can tell where photos were taken better than humans | ExtremeTech: This neural network has virtually

Google neural network can tell where photos were taken better than humans | ExtremeTech: This neural network has virtually visited millions of locations to learn what the world looks like.
Source: extremetech.com