Biblia Cubano; Baby Died With Dignity...and Neglect; Shift Towards the B; Seed Vault; Poor Sisters; A World without Traffic Lights; Deep Learning; Traveling Plutonium; Self-Healing Metal; and Cloaking Material

Bible

The Bible returns to Cuba foxnews

For the first time since diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba were restored, one of the world’s largest private Bible collections was made available to all Cuban people – free and open to the public daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. – on display from February 6 – March 13.

Abortion

Doctors Left Baby Die After An Hour Of Crying Following Botched Abortion Of Baby With Down Syndrome theglobaldispatch

The baby was born on March 7, 2016 at 24 weeks, after an abortion failed. The child cried and screaming for an hour before dying, according to witnesses, as reported on Republika Television.

Banking

ASX will be a global blockchain pioneer theage.com.au

Blythe Masters is confident that Australia will build one of the world's first bitcoin-like databases for settling equities trades, allowing brokers to save millions of dollars in back office costs.

Blockchain, what?? Check out this easy to understand, 2 minute video for Explaining Bitcoin's blockchain technology.

End of the World

Inside a mountain is a ‘doomsday’ vault holding the key to human survival in a post-apocalyptic world news.com.au

Located 1300km from the North Pole, hidden behind thick concrete walls and buried 130 metres inside a mountain is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Created by scientists in 2008, the vault aims to preserve potential crops in the event of a global disaster such as climate change or nuclear war.

This vault sure seems to be in the news a lot lately :)

Society

FAQs: Religious Liberty and the Little Sisters of the Poor thegospelcoalition

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow in a case from religious nonprofit groups challenging the federal government’s contraceptive/abortifacient mandate. Here is what you should know about that case.

Automation

MIT researchers envision a future without traffic lights slashgear

We have just barely reached the tip of the iceberg when it comes to self-driving cars but researcher's from MIT's "Senseable City Lab" are already preparing the theoretical ground work for one of that technology's biggest implications.

AI

A Short History Of Deep Learning slaforbesshgear

Deep learning is a topic that is making big waves at the moment. It is basically a branch of machine learning (another hot topic) that uses algorithms to e.g. recognize objects and understand human speech. Scientists have used deep learning algorithms with multiple processing layers (hence “deep”) to make better models from large quantities of unlabeled data (such as photos with no description, voice recordings or videos on YouTube).

Nuclear

Ship carrying 331kg of weapons-grade plutonium leaves Japan for US ibtimes.co.uk

A ship carrying up to 331kg of weapons-grade plutonium has left the port in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan for the US, where the material will be downgraded. The amount of plutonium carried by the vessel is enough to produce up to 50 nuclear bombs.

Robots

Morphing, self-healing metals could let us build soft robots techradar

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a hybrid material that combines stiff metal with soft rubber foam, and can shift between the properties of both.

Also see New hybrid material can morph shape and self-heal. This includes a link to a video...but it’s not the most exciting video :)

Future Tech

Iowa State engineers develop flexible skin that traps radar waves, cloaks objects news.iastate.edu

Iowa State University engineers have developed a new flexible, stretchable and tunable “meta-skin” that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of radar.