Space
Out of control? China’s Tiangong 1 space station will fall to Earth — somewhere — in 2017 washingtonpost
Chinese officials appeared to admit during a Sept. 14 news conference in Jiuquan that they had lost control of the station.
Also see China's Tiangong-1 space station 'out of control' and will crash to Earth theguardian
NASA scientists find 'impossible' cloud on Titan saturndaily
The puzzling appearance of an ice cloud seemingly out of thin air has prompted NASA scientists to suggest that a different process than previously thought - possibly similar to one seen over Earth's poles - could be forming clouds on Saturn's moon Titan.
Climate Change
Paris Climate Change agreement passes key threshold sfgate
The number is higher than the 55-country threshold needed for the treaty to enter into force. But because together those countries account for 48 percent of total global emissions — short of the 55 percent threshold — the agreement must wait for more nations to join.
Satanism
New Satanic temple headquarters to open in Salem metro.us
The headquarters will feature an art gallery, with a permanent exhibition dedicated to “Satanic panic witch-hunts, past and present." The facility will also include a media room where there are plans to hold seminars, screen films and host other public events.
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico battles massive blackout after fire at electricity plant theguardian
The Electric Power Authority prepa said two transmission lines of 230,000 volts each failed, for reasons which are still being investigated.
Also see Most of Puerto Rico still in the dark after power plant fire usatoday
Iran
US Grants Airbus, Boeing a Chance to Sell Airplanes to Iran bloomberg
The deal would be the biggest for an American company since the 1979 Islamic Revolution britannica and U.S. Embassy takeover.
North Korea
North Korea only has 28 websites, according to leak of official data theguardian
The revelation came after one of North Korea’s top-level nameservers was incorrectly configured to reveal a list of all the domain names under the domain .kp.
Israel
Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu At Bilateral Meeting theyeshivaworld v
Most sites said their final talk was friendly and played up their "jokes", but it didn't seem like Obama was struggling to suppress laughing during this 8 min video :)
Military
Watch This Crazy Futuristic [Isreali] Vehicle Take Flight time
As of September, the truck-sized, self-flying vehicle can navigate on its own and is capable of ATOL (Automatic Takeoff and Landing). Tactical Robotics will start increasing the Cormorant’s speed in upcoming tests, the firm said in a press release.
Medical
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces $3 Billion Investment To Cure All Disease npr.org
It is ponying up more than $3 billion to kickstart "Chan Zuckerberg Science," an initiative that plans to bring together multidisciplinary teams of scientists in an effort to prevent, cure or manage "all diseases in our children's lifetime."
Also see one video of the announcement theguardian v
AI
Have we given artificial intelligence too much power too soon? quartz
AI and decision-support systems are embedded in a wide array of social institutions, from influencing who is released from jail to shaping the news we see. For example, Facebook’s automated content editing system recently censored the Pulitzer-prize winning image of a nine-year old girl fleeing napalm bombs during the Vietnam War. The girl is naked; to an image processing algorithm, this might appear as a simple violation of the policy against child nudity. But to human eyes, Nick Ut’s photograph, “The Terror of War,” means much more: it is an iconic portrait of the indiscriminate horror of conflict, and it has an assured place in the history of photography and international politics. The removal of the image caused an international outcry before Facebook backed down and restored the image. “What they do by removing such images, no matter what good intentions, is to redact our shared history,” said the prime minister of Norway, Erna Solberg.
Stealing an AI algorithm and its underlying data is a “high-school level exercise” quartz
Researchers have shown that given access to only an API, a way to remotely use software without having it on your computer, it’s possible to reverse-engineer machine learning algorithms with up to 99% accuracy. In the real world, this would mean being able to steal AI products from companies like Microsoft and IBM, and use them for free. Small companies built around a single machine learning API could lose any competitive advantage.
Moreover, after copying the algorithm, the researchers were also able to force it to generate examples of the potentially proprietary data from which it learned. If the algorithms are built on user data, any of that information would be up for grabs as well.
Augmented Reality
Augmented Climbing: The climbing wall of the future telegraph.co.uk v
Really the article is just a link to the site, but they have a preview video which looks fun...if you are into climbing walls and kicking imaginary balls.
Creatures
Tardigrades can live 30 years in a freezer and survive in space, and now we know why theverge w!
Tardigrades — also known as "water bears" — are microscopic animals that can live through almost anything: 30 years in a freezer, rapid dehydration, boiling and freezing temperatures, massive doses of radiation, baths in organic solvents, and a trip to open space. Today, scientists sequencing their genome have discovered clues to just how they do it — which may help us learn how to be just as tough ourselves.
Just replace they "lost" and "gained" DNA information with "were created with"
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