Iran
Secret document lifts Iran nuke constraints usatoday
The document is the only secret text linked to last year's agreement between Iran and six foreign powers. It says that after a period between 11 to 13 years, Iran can replace its 5,060 inefficient centrifuges with up to 3,500 advanced machines. Since those are five times as efficient, the time Iran would need to make a weapon would drop from a year to six months.
Also see A Year After Iran Nuclear Deal, What Has Changed? npr w!
Turkey
Turkey's Erdogan is targeting more than 50,000 people to purge after the failed coup businessinsider
Turkey vowed to root out allies of the U.S.-based cleric it blames for an abortive coup last week, widening a purge of the army, police and judiciary on Tuesday to universities and schools, the intelligence agency and religious authorities.
Also see Turkey sacks 15,000 education workers in purge after failed coup theguardian
Israel
On Lebanon war anniversary, PM vows ‘iron fist’ response to attacks timesofisrael
Hezbollah and Hamas, [Netanyahu] said, “have established forward bases of Iran on our border. Everything that has happened in the Middle East in recent years is part of the same trend: radical Islamic terror that seeks to shatter liberty and culture with its sword thrusts.
Former marine, future soldiers fight nerves for journey ‘home to Israel’ timesofisrael
Joining Rich were 217 other North Americans immigrating to Israel on a jet specially chartered by the nonprofit organization Nefesh B’Nefesh nbn. On board were 29 families, including 103 children and five separate sets of twins.
Big Brother
EU eyes Israeli technologies for spotting militants online reuters
Beset by Palestinian street attacks, often by young individuals using rudimentary weapons and without links to armed factions, Israeli security agencies that once focused on "meta data", or information regarding suspects' communications patterns, have refocused on social media in hope of gaining advance warnings from private posts.
Cyborg
Sea slug tissue used to create ‘biohybrid’ robot that could crawl, search underwater digitaltrends v
Case’s biohybrid robot is capable of functioning in both fresh water and seawater, and at a wide range of temperatures. Currently, the robot is controlled by an external electrical field, although future versions may be upgraded to include ganglia, bundles of neurons and nerves, as an organic controller. Collagen from the slug’s skin will also be tested as an organic “scaffold” in later versions of the robot.
Also see 'Cyborg' robot built out of sea slug muscle and 3D printing cnet
Research
Stem Cells Could Replace Hip Replacements livescience
Scientists have coaxed stem cells to grow new cartilage on a scaffold shaped like the ball of a hip joint. This is a major step toward being able one day to use a patient's own cells to repair a damaged joint, thus avoiding the need for extensive joint-replacement surgery.
Vehicles
Mercedes Shows Off the Self-Driving Bus of the Future autoguide
The Future Bus made its first public journey on part of Europe’s longest Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route in the Netherlands, linking Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport with the town of Haarlem. Based on the Citaro, the Future Bus has a top speed of 43 mph on the open road and throughout the journey, the bus driver didn’t need to operate the gas or brake pedals at all, and only needed to take the wheel in accordance to traffic regulations when there was oncoming traffic.
Space
NASA is sending a probe straight towards the sun nerdreactor
The probe will have to be manufactured to withstand more heat and move faster than any created before it. It will come within 6 million kilometers of the Sun’s surface, 7 times closer than any spacecraft has ever gotten to the colossal star, meaning it will have to withstand extreme temperatures of 1,400°C (2,500°F). Not only that, but the Probe will also have to accelerate to a speed of 200 kilometers (124 miles) per second as it approaches the Corona of the Sun. This will make it the fastest man-made object to ever have been created.
SpaceX Lands Another Rocket, Gets Closer to Target 70% Success Rate fool
The successful landing follows a failed attempt in June, when "early liquid oxygen depletion caused [a Falcon 9 engine] shutdown just above the deck," Musk said on Twitter last month. By following up its failed landing attempt in June with a success, Monday's landed Falcon 9 gives the CEO's bold prediction earlier this year that SpaceX could achieve a 70% landing rate during 2016 more credibility than ever.
AI
Why did SoftBank buy ARM? To prepare for our robot overlords, of course theverge
SoftBank's founder and CEO, Masayoshi Son forbes, has a reputation for eclectic interests and big bets. While most of his business career has focused on the telecom sector, his purchase of ARM brings SoftBank deep into the world of hardware. That would position it to reap the rewards of new explosion in computing driven by the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. Here's a revealing quote he gave to the Nikkei Asian Review last month:
"I think we are about to see the biggest paradigm shift in human history. The Singularity is coming. Artificial intelligence will overtake human beings not just in terms of knowledge, but in terms of intelligence. That will happen this century."
Archeology
Ancient Logbook Documenting Great Pyramid's Construction Unveiled livescience
The Great Pyramid of Giza britannica was built in honor of the pharaoh Khufu (reign ca. 2551 B.C.-2528 B.C.) and is the largest of the three pyramids constructed on the Giza plateau in Egypt. Considered a "wonder of the world" by ancient writers, the Great Pyramid was 481 feet (146 meters) tall when it was first constructed. Today it stands 455 feet (138 meters) high.
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