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Wednesday January 2, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Acrobatic space rovers to explore moons and asteroids Better than human Google Glass update Cosmic radiation found harmful to astronauts during space travel Latest News Acrobatic space rovers to explore moons and asteroids January 2, 2013   Stanford researchers in collaboration with NASA JPL and MIT have designed a robotic platform that involves a mother spacecraft deploying one or several spiked, roughly spherical rovers to the Martian moon Phobos. Measuring about half a meter wide, each rover would hop, tumble and bound across the cratered, lopsided moon, relaying information about its origins, … more… Better than human January 2, 2013   It’s hard to believe you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force. But that — in slow motion — is what the industrial revolution did to the workforce of the early 19th century, says Wired maverick Kevin Kelley. Two hundred years ago, 70 percent of … more… Google Glass update January 2, 2013   Summary of an IEEE Spectrum report In the next few weeks, Google will start shipping its Google Glass to developers. More-polished consumer models are expected in 2014. Details about Glass are still sketchy but here’s what we know: The lightweight browband, which looks like an ordinary pair of reading glasses minus the lenses, connects to … more… Cosmic radiation found harmful to astronauts during space travel January 2, 2013   Cosmic radiation — which would bombard astronauts on deep space missions to places like Mars — could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE shows. “Galactic cosmic radiation poses a significant threat to future astronauts,” said M. Kerry O’Banion, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the University of … more… New VIDEOS   Arthur C. Clarke predicting the future in 1964 Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.