Wind Energy Has Officially Become Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels

https://futurism.com/wind-energy-has-officially-become-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels/

Solar will undoubtedly overtake wind (since solar need have no moving parts, and light is faster than wind ;-) ), but the more viable alternative options, the better.

Is the Brain Augmentation Hype Justified? Here’s an Expert’s Take

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/27/is-the-brain-augmentation-hype-justified-heres-an-experts-take/

New Material Could Lead to Devices That You Only Need to Charge Once Every Three Months

https://futurism.com/new-material-could-lead-to-devices-that-you-only-need-to-charge-once-every-three-months/

And surely this would spill over into other battery uses, perhaps even cars?

A New VR Headset That Mimics the Human Eye Has Been Unveiled

A major advance in VR:

https://futurism.com/a-new-vr-headset-that-mimics-the-human-eye-has-been/

"Its resolution is more than 70X beyond any other announced head-mounted display."

Is Universal Basic Income a Solution to Tech Unemployment?

Another UBI perspective:

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/26/is-universal-basic-income-a-solution-to-tech-unemployment/

10 Amazing Things Scientists Just Did with CRISPR

https://www.livescience.com/59602-crispr-advances-gene-editing-field.html

6 Things Quantum Computers Will Be Incredibly Useful For

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/25/6-things-quantum-computers-will-be-incredibly-useful-for/

Physicists Propose a Mirror Universe Where Time Moves in the Opposite Direction

It's a hypothesis, not a theory, but an interesting one either way:

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/physicists-propose-a-mirror-universe-where-time-moves-in-the-opposite-direction

California is embarrassing the rest of the country with the amount of solar energy it's producing

Nice. But Arizona is ruining the good feels:

http://www.businessinsider.com/california-solar-industry-production-2017-6

Flying Cars Could Hit the Skies as Soon as 2018

I'm sure mass adoption of flying cars won't happen until the pilot's license part is removed...and that will require self-flying flying cars:

https://futurism.com/flying-cars-could-hit-the-skies-as-soon-as-2018/

Fusion Breakthrough Puts Us One Step Closer to Limitless Clean Energy

https://futurism.com/fusion-breakthrough-puts-us-one-step-closer-to-limitless-clean-energy/

Science Isn’t The Reason That Humans Can’t Live Forever

Funding is a major obstacle:

https://futurism.com/science-isnt-the-reason-that-humans-cant-live-forever/

Is There a Multidimensional Mathematical World Hidden in the Brain’s Computation?

I wonder what this implies for the timeline for developing human-level A.I.:

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/21/is-there-a-multidimensional-mathematical-world-hidden-in-the-brains-computation/

New chemical method could revolutionize graphene use in electronics

http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-chemical-method-could-revolutionize-graphene-use-in-electronics

Graphene-based computer would be 1,000 times faster than silicon-based, use 100th the power

http://www.kurzweilai.net/graphene-based-computer-would-be-1000-times-faster-than-silicon-based-use-100th-the-power

New Aluminum Batteries Increase the Range of UUVs Tenfold

"New batteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles, giving UUVs a tenfold increase in range over traditional lithium-ion batteries used for the same applications":

https://scitechdaily.com/new-aluminum-batteries-increase-range-uuvs-tenfold/

Only good for ocean exploration, but still...

Why Interstellar Travel Will Be Possible Sooner Than You Think

Breakthrough Starshot: how to get to the nearest stars within a couple of decades:

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/18/why-interstellar-travel-will-be-possible-sooner-than-you-think

Renewable Energy in the U.S. Broke Energy Records for the First Time

https://futurism.com/renewable-energy-in-the-u-s-broke-energy-records-for-the-first-time/

This New Era of Automation Is Going to Completely Transform Our Way of Life

Great detail on how automation will destroy jobs:

https://futurism.com/videos/this-new-era-of-automation-is-going-to-completely-transform-our-way-of-life/

These 7 Disruptive Technologies Could Be Worth Trillions of Dollars

Now to figure out in which companies to invest....

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/16/the-disruptive-technologies-about-to-unleash-trillion-dollar-markets/

A New “Solar Paint” Lets You Transform Your Entire House Into a Source of Clean Energy

Yet another source of clean energy:

https://futurism.com/a-new-solar-paint-lets-you-transform-your-entire-house-into-a-source-of-clean-energy/

What if Every Prisoner in the US Produced Electricity?

Fight obesity and generate renewable energy in one step:

https://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/what-if-every-prisoner-in-the-us-produced-electricity.html

This is how Big Oil will die

Demand for oil will start crashing by 2025? It's all about the electric car and basic economics:

https://medium.com/@sethmiller_59231/this-is-how-big-oil-will-die-38b843bd4fe0

Why human intelligence isn’t a roadmap for AI

"Human intelligence is bloatware." Hah!

https://medium.com/towards-data-science/ai-roadmap-bc43d4cce490

Researchers decipher how faces are encoded in the brain

Here's to hoping all functions of thought and memory turn out to be so simple:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/researchers-decipher-how-faces-are-encoded-in-the-brain

Ray Kurzweil: Our Health Is About to Be Radically Transformed

Kurzweil predicting radical life extension technologies over the next one or two decades:

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/09/​​ray-kurzweil-our-health-is-about-to-be-radically-transformed/

Technology Will Erase Jobs—But Also Make Everything Cheap or Free

It's already true that the poor of today in developed countries are far richer than kings of thousands of years ago:

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/08/technology-will-erase-jobs-but-also-make-everything-cheap-or-free/

Yale Engineers Develop New Colors for Solar Energy

Nice to have some variety:

https://scitechdaily.com/yale-engineers-develop-new-colors-for-solar-energy/

Breakthrough Research Has Made Synthetic Photosynthesis Possible

https://futurism.com/breakthrough-research-has-made-synthetic-photosynthesis-possible/

Here Are the Microsurgeons That Will Soon Roam Our Bodies

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/07/here-are-the-microsurgeons-that-will-soon-roam-our-bodies/

New “Instantly Rechargeable” Battery Deals a Fatal Blow to Fossil Fuels

Game changer?

https://futurism.com/new-instantly-rechargeable-battery-deals-a-fatal-blow-to-fossil-fuels/

GALEX Reveals Flares May Threaten Habitability of Planets Near Red Dwarfs

Bummer if true:

https://scitechdaily.com/galex-reveals-flares-may-threaten-planets-near-red-dwarfs/

How AI Can Keep Accelerating After Moore’s Law

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607917/how-ai-can-keep-accelerating-after-moores-law/

VR glove powered by soft robotics provides missing sense of touch

This is a critical component in the evolution of virtual reality:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/vr-glove-powered-by-soft-robotics-provides-missing-sense-of-touch

How Robots Will Win Your Trust

Getting past the uncanny valley:

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/03/how-robots-will-win-your-trust/

What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn From the Neocortex

An important step in the development of A.I.:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/what-intelligent-machines-need-to-learn-from-the-neocortex

Common antioxidant could slow symptoms of aging in human skin

At least we codgers can now look youthful, even if the rest of us is decrepit:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/common-antioxidant-could-slow-symptoms-of-aging-in-human-skin

Experts Say AI Has a 50% Chance of Beating All Human Intelligence Within 45 Years

"Interestingly, the experts (who answered in 2015) predicted that AI would not surpass humans at Go until 2027 — yet that’s already happened. This suggests the sobering thought that in general their predictions may have been far too conservative against AI":

https://futurism.com/experts-say-ai-has-a-50-chance-of-beating-all-human-intelligence-within-45-years/

A World First CRISPR Trial Will Edit Genes Inside the Human Body

And so it begins:

https://futurism.com/3-this-crispr-trial-will-be-the-first-to-try-editing-cells-inside-the-body/

A New Hyperloop System is Slated to Connect European Cities by 2021

Glad to see people working on this, but I have a hard time believing that it can be practical:

https://futurism.com/4-the-hyperloop-is-coming-to-this-key-european-transportation-hub/

A startup that charges $8,000 for young blood transfusions swears they’re worth every penny

And so it starts. This company is touting disease-fighting, but as I understand it the benefit that has been proven (at least in mice) is reduced senescence:

https://qz.com/996190/ambrosia-says-a-transfusion-of-young-blood-plasma-lowered-disease-markers-in-a-human-trial/