America's renewable energy set to surpass coal for the first month ever

Woot!

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/business/renewable-energy-coal-solar/index.html

DARPA is Eyeing a High-Tech Contact Lens Straight Out of 'Mission: Impossible'

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/darpa-eyeing-high-tech-contact-lens-straight-out-mission-impossible-54617

Fusion power start-ups go small in effort to bring commercial reactors to life

One of these days, damn it!

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/fusion-power-start-ups-go-small-effort-bring-commercial-reactors-ncna998451

Burger King's Meatless 'Impossible Whopper' Is Going Nationwide

Meatless meat continues to spread (that sounds wrong, but whatever):

http://time.com/5579687/burger-king-impossible-burger-whopper/

Marc Raibert shows off a close-to-production Spot Mini

Highly versatile robot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBt2aTjCNmI&feature=youtu.be

Futuristic inventions and emerging technologies that will change the world

Light on details, but topics to keep an eye on:

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/future-inventions?rebelltitem=9#rebelltitem9

Scientists Take a Step Toward Decoding Speech from the Brain

This likely could be easily modified to allow what amounts to functional telepathy between people over any distance!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-take-a-step-toward-decoding-speech-from-the-brain/

Ticklish Robot Interacts with Crowd

A useless robot, but its movements are fast and fluid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMfHMmHhA3w&feature=youtu.be

New aircraft rises 'like a balloon'

Cool concept:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-48013519

Scientists: New Device Appears to Defy the Laws of Thermodynamics

Some seriously odd science here:

https://futurism.com/device-defy-laws-thermodynamics

This Quantum Computer Can See the Future — All 16 of Them

https://www.livescience.com/65271-quantum-computer-sees-16-futures.html

Electric Car Price Tag Shrinks Along With Battery Cost

Parity with ICE vehicles could happen in 2020?

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2019-04-12/electric-vehicle-battery-shrinks-and-so-does-the-total-cost

Delivering cancer chemotherapy when and where doctors desire

A better way to kill cancer cells:

https://nano-magazine.com/news/2019/4/18/delivering-cancer-chemotherapy-when-and-where-doctors-desire

Scientists Generated Nuclear Fusion With a Tabletop Device

Well, if they can make anything practical out of this, it would change the world:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-nuclear-fusion-device-smaller

The US Has Officially Started Using CRISPR on Humans

And now it begins!

https://futurism.com/the-byte/us-human-crispr-cancer-patients

The Tangled Web of Turning Spider Silk Into a Super Material

https://singularityhub.com/2019/04/11/the-tangled-web-of-turning-spider-silk-into-a-super-material/

Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably.

A good explanation of the concepts:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/10/18275618/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-rizwan-virk

NASA 360 Presents - From Science Fiction to Science Fact

The visions of NIAC:

https://youtu.be/1cXrpSdcTEg

Scientists Say New Quantum Material Could "'Download' Your Brain"

A path to uploading a brain?

https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-quantum-material-download-brain

Tesla Says Autopilot Is Statistically Safer Than a Human Driver

If so...then the time has come:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-safety-autopilot-safer-human

Chinese Scientists Gene-Hacked Super Smart Human-Monkey Hybrids

Okay, here we go....

https://futurism.com/the-byte/chinese-scientists-super-monkeys-human-brain-genes

The problem with automation

Automation is evidently not creating more jobs than it's destroying:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-465ec948-f0e0-4532-8f75-54945eeed331.html

New Therapy Transforms Tumors Into “Cancer Vaccine Factories”

Very promising:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/therapy-tumors-cancer-vaccine-factories

Watch These Robots Do Tasks You Thought Were Simple (But for Them Are Pretty Hard)

https://singularityhub.com/2019/04/09/watch-these-robots-do-tasks-you-thought-were-simple-but-for-them-are-pretty-hard/

Harbour Air Is Switching Over To 100% Electric Seaplanes

Makes sense that a sea plane would be part of a sea change....

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/06/how-maritime-harbour-air-is-switching-over-to-100-electric-seaplanes/

5 Big Breakthroughs to Anticipate in 3D Printing

3D printing is rapidly changing the world:

https://singularityhub.com/2019/04/08/5-big-breakthroughs-to-anticipate-in-3d-printing/

The Three Frontrunners in the CRISPR Therapy Race

https://singularityhub.com/2019/04/07/the-three-frontrunners-in-the-crispr-therapy-race/#sm.0001p9abvhotbf0jwc02kzluw8213

This Floating City Can Withstand Category 5 Hurricanes (And Climate Change)

An interesting addition to architecture:

https://www.geek.com/news/this-floating-city-can-withstand-category-5-hurricanes-and-climate-change-1781843/

Business Impact Sorry, graphene—borophene is the new wonder material that’s got everyone excited

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613267/borophene-the-new-2d-material-taking-chemistry-by-storm/

“The Mice Became Smarter”: New Treatment Restores Aging Brains

I do hope this pans out:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/mice-smarter-treatment-aging-brains

Scientists Say They Can Make Light Travel 30x Faster Than Normal

This is just bizarre:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-make-light-travel-faster

China Is Taking the Worldwide Lead in Wind Power

Ugh. At least they're not as efficient as the other countries:

https://singularityhub.com/2019/04/04/china-is-taking-the-worldwide-lead-in-wind-power/

Why a lab-grown BK Whopper is cause for excitement

There are a lot of reasons to go with meatless meat, now that it is indistinguishable from meat:

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/whopper

This “Transparent Wood” Could Cut the Cost of Heating Your Home

Transparent wood. Go figure. So now the windows and the walls will need curtains?

https://futurism.com/the-byte/transparent-wood-cut-heating-cost

Extreme, Hydrogen-Crushing Physicists Are Pushing Us into a 'New Era of Superconductivity'

https://www.livescience.com/65099-room-temperature-superconductors.html

Handle Robot Reimagined for Logistics

Impressive system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iV_hB08Uns&feature=youtu.be

Why Twisted Graphene Is One of the Most Exciting Physics Stories of the Year

https://gizmodo.com/why-twisted-graphene-is-one-of-the-most-exciting-physic-1833304370?ch=99&share=514a9adc