'Big data' is solving the problem of $200 billion of wasted energy

http://www.businessinsider.com/big-data-tackles-energy-waste-from-big-buildings-2015-5

Using sound to dry clothing could save the US 1% of total energy use

Rather amazing:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-dry-clothes-using-little-energy-2015-7

Scientists discover genetic pathway responsible for aging

It's a long way from roundworm to human, but...

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/211044-scientists-discover-genetic-pathway-responsible-for-aging

Researchers boost solar energy by tapping infrared light

Sounds very promising, if they can overcome their two main hurdles:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/28/solar-energy-from-infrared-light/

and

http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/30606

SolarCity launches plan to bring solar power to small and midsize firms

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-solarcity-20150728-story.html

Solar technology could give consumers the power to get off the grid

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/20150725-solar-technology-could-give-consumers-the-power-to-get-off-the-grid.ece

Super-elastic conducting fibers for artificial muscles, sensors, capacitors

http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2015/7/23-31627_Scientists-Stretch-Electrically-Conducting-Fibers-_story-wide.html?WT.mc_id=NewsHomePageCenterColumn

The Windows PC That's Smaller Than a Snickers Bar

I'm going to have to get myself one of these:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/intel-compute-stick-a-full-windows-pc-smaller-124848163919.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

Genome editing technologies poised to revolutionize medicine and industry

http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-crispr-craze-genome-editing-technologies-poised-to-revolutionize-medicine-and-industry?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d93d2f698b-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-d93d2f698b-281903081

New computer program first to recognise sketches more accurately than a human

http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/se/159633.html

Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking Announce $100 Million Breakthrough Initiatives to Dramatically Accelerate Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/yuri-milner-and-stephen-hawking-announce-100-million-breakthrough-initiatives-to-dramatically-accelerate-search-for-intelligent-life-in-the-universe-300115403.html

Can Elon Musk's battery really cut your power lines?

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2918235/sustainable-it/can-elon-musks-battery-really-cut-your-power-lines.html

Renewable energy boom will mean vastly cheaper electricity

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2947870/sustainable-it/renewable-energy-boom-will-mean-vastly-cheaper-electricity.html

Scale Model WWII Craft Takes Flight With Fuel From the Sea Concept

https://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/08/1290380/-Navy-lab-makes-gasoline-from-seawater-as-low-as-3-per-gallon?detail=emailclassic

Porn industry’s billion-dollar new frontier

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-the-future-of-virtual-reality-depends-on-porn-2015-07-15

A jet engine powered by lasers and nuclear explosions?

Not really appropriate for within the atmosphere, but for spaceflight...yes!

http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-jet-engine-powered-by-lasers-and-nuclear-explosions?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6398b7c763-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-6398b7c763-281903081

And the Cheapest Electricity in America Is … Solar

Yes!

http://ecowatch.com/2015/07/15/cheapest-electricity-solar/

IBM announces first 7nm node test chips

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-announces-first-7nm-node-test-chips?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=dcec9fd066-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-dcec9fd066-281903081

Wind power temporarily generates 140% of Denmark's total electricity demand

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/10/denmark-wind-windfarm-power-exceed-electricity-demand

IBM Discloses Working Version of a Much Higher-Capacity Chip

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/technology/ibm-announces-computer-chips-more-powerful-than-any-in-existence.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003&_r=1&referrer=

The Cloud Will Be the Key to Our Robotic Future

http://time.com/3951109/cloud-robotics-elements/

Researchers zero in on more than a dozen factors that can predict how fast you’re aging — and have some ideas about what makes people age more slowly

http://time.com/3946850/slow-down-aging/?xid=newsletter-brief

Omnidirectional free space wireless charging developed

http://www.kaist.ac.kr/_prog/_board/?code=ed_news&mode=V&no=37305&upr_ntt_no=37305&site_dvs_cd=en&menu_dvs_cd=060101

Engineers Give Invisibility Cloaks a Slimmer Design

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/engineers_give_invisibility_cloaks_a_slimmer_design

Autonomous taxis could be cheaper and improve the environment, says Berkeley Lab study

http://www.kurzweilai.net/autonomous-taxis-could-be-cheaper-and-improve-the-environment-says-berkeley-lab-study?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=30f29662c7-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-30f29662c7-281903081

Woolly Mammoth Clones Closer Than Ever, Thanks to Genome Sequencing

http://www.livescience.com/51424-woolly-mammoth-genome-sequenced.html?cmpid=NL_LS_weekly_2015-07-06

Solar-energy storage cell that works at night developed

http://www.uta.edu/news/releases/2015/06/Fuqiang-Liu-solar-cell.php

Elon Musk commits $10 million to ensure artificial intelligence benefits humanity

http://futureoflife.org/misc/2015selection

New electron microscopes will capture images at subnanometer resolution

http://news.rice.edu/2015/06/29/rice-university-boots-up-powerful-microscopes-2/