Peace
France felt 'compelled to act' on Middle East peace talks theguardian
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, and UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, attended, along with representatives from the Arab League, the European Union and key Arab states. Israeli and Palestinian representatives were absent.
Also Middle East peace talks open without Israeli, Palestinian representatives and Israel can sigh relief at parve Paris communique
Shaked sets redlines ahead of Paris conference jpost
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will collapse if he violates redlines set by Bayit Yehudi ahead of the Paris peace conference that begins Friday, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Thursday in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
“There is no problem with talking,” she said. “But giving something in response for talking is unacceptable. We will not sit in a government that freezes settlements. We will not sit in a government that releases murderers.”
Russia
(OPINION) PUTIN’S DANGEROUS PLAN TO ‘MAKE RUSSIA GREAT AGAIN’ newsweek
Russia is indeed a part of this international trend [catering to frustrated publics], and has been one of its pioneers all along. “There is a convergence of politics across the world and many of the current trends appeared first in Russia,” Fiona Hill of Brookings Institution tells me. “Putin is more mainstream than he appears. Everybody wants to be great again.”
Poland plans paramilitary force of 35,000 to counter Russia bbc
The force will have civilian volunteers trained in military skills. It is aimed at countering "hybrid" warfare of the kind that led parts of Ukraine to break away and pledge loyalty to Russia. Nato also plans to reinforce Poland.
Turkey
Armenian genocide' vote: Turkey warns Germany aljazeera
Erdogan, speaking during a visit to Kenya on Thursday, said, as a first step, Turkey was calling its ambassador to Berlin for consultations and other steps against Germany would be discussed soon.
Archaelolgy
Searching for remains of the Dead Sea Scrolls widerimage.reuters p
See also Archaeologists vs. robbers in Israel's race to find ancient scrolls
Unity
Orthodox Christian's spiritual seat issues calls for unity businessinsider
The spiritual seat of the world's Orthodox Christians on Friday issued a call for unity ahead of the first ever meeting of the faith's 14 independent churches that is expected to discuss the churches' common future and efforts to heal the nearly 1,000-year rift with the Roman Catholics.
AI
Google's AI has written its first piece of music digit.in
This is the first public result of Project Magenta, a research effort by Google to advance machine learning in music and art. It’s an amateurish start, but hey, that’s exactly how AI is supposed to start.
Yes - there's a link on that article so that you can listen to it...
Genetics
Secret Harvard meeting finally releases ambitious synthetic human genome proposal independent.co.uk
The announcement, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the latest sign that biotechnology is going through a rapidly advancing but ethically fraught period. Scientists have been honing their techniques for manipulating the complex molecules that serve as the code for all life on the planet, and this same issue of the journal Science reports a breakthrough in editing RNA, a molecule that is the close cousin of DNA.
Military Tech
Navy Engineers Develop Futuristic Next Generation HUD for Diving Helmets navy.mil
This unique system enables divers to have real-time visual display of everything from sector sonar (real-time topside view of the diver's location and dive site), text messages, diagrams, photographs and even augmented reality videos. Having real-time operational data enables them to be more effective and safe in their missions -- providing expanded situational awareness and increased accuracy in navigating to a target such as a ship, downed aircraft, or other objects of interest.
Pointless Tech
Trippy ‘zero gravity’ grow pots make plants float mid-air rt v
A group of futuristically-minded botanists have just given the common house plant a snazzy sci-fi upgrade by developing silicon flower pots that can rotate and float in mid-air.
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