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(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Backed by $39 Million, This Breathalyzer Aims to Predict Cancer (1) The ReCIVA Breath Sampler detects the kinds of volatile organic compounds that are early markers for disease. [Extracted from the article]

The Azuri system's AI software distinguishes it from other solar startups in Africa, says Benjamin Attia, a solar analyst at researcher Wood Mackenzie Ltd. He spun Azuri out of his solar panel company, Eight19 Ltd., in 2012, after spending two years developing the storage cell and figuring out how sensors and panels could be used to better predict customers' energy habits. Azuri's HomeSmart adjusts power output based on prior solar battery use. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- SpaceX and Restaurateurs Grow Greens in Old Shipping Containers Los Angeles startup Local Roots retrofits 40-foot-long shipping containers, turning them into "TerraFarms" that yield as many leafy greens as five acres of farmland - only faster, using as little as 1 percent of the water. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- What to Know Before You Go Tracking Snow Leopards at 13,000 Feet (Correct) Those wolves trotted right past where I slept, and leopards are often sighted from the lodge. Back in Ulley, we wolfed down tsampa noodle soup as Morup showed off pictures of the mother leopard they'd named Gyamo, Queen of the Mountains. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the remote controlled Puppy 1 suitcase developed by Clark Wu of Chinese luggage maker MiEcosystem.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The Puppy 1 Suitcase Will Roll Behind You at Up to 10 MPH Mi Ecosystem says it's negotiating to distribute the Puppy 1 through Amazon.com Inc. and Best Buy Co. Wu, meanwhile, says he's working on a larger suitcase and a backpack that can charge electronics with solar power. [Extracted from the article]

The article profiles electrical engineering professor Ali Hajimiri of the California Institute of Technology, noting his invention of a miniature camera.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Caltech Engineer Makes Camera Prototype Slimmer Than Human Hair But not for long. Ali Hajimiri, a professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, estimates his lozenge-shaped camera, thinner than a human hair, could come to market in as few as three years. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses how the city of Los Angeles, California is trying to mitigate the problems that are associated with a warming climate by applying the CoolSeal sealant product manufactured by the GuardTop LLC sealcoating firm to the municipality's asphalt roads, and it mentions how CoolSeal will help the asphalt reflect solar rays as opposed to absorbing them. Professor George Ban-Weiss and street temperature reduction are examined, along with city budget allocations.

Careem Networks FZ LLC, a five-year-old ride-hailing company based in Dubai, operates in 80 cities across 13 countries from North Africa to Pakistan and leads the field in most of them. As oil prices dipped, Saudi investors poured money into ride-hailing companies, including $250 million into Lyft Inc. in 2015 and $3.5 billion into Uber in 2016, but neither has much presence on Careem's turf. Careem has employed women drivers in Pakistan, where 70 percent of its riders are female, for a little more than a year and has added women to its ranks in Egypt and Jordan, too. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- This Coating Can Make Streets Cooler Los Angeles is trying to mitigate that heat with CoolSeal, a sealant applied on top of set asphalt that reflects solar rays instead of absorbing them. George Ban-Weiss, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Southern California, says the coating, which is based in part on his research, should last five to seven years at a cost of $25,000 to $40,000 per mile. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the efforts of Welsh philanthropist C.W. Nicol to restore Japan's forests, particularly via the Afan Woodland Trust.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- This Improbable Welshman Is the Patron Saint of Japan's Forests A Santa dressed in a down coat and a blue beanie, the 77-year-old Welshman may also be Japan's best hope for protecting its forests. [Extracted from the article]

The plastic guns helped Wilson define himself as an online provocateur catering to the extreme right. Hannah Shearer, staff attorney at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which has lobbied to shut down Defense Distributed, says she's convinced Wilson knows Hatreon is being used to break the law - that users are inciting violence - and his banks probably do, too. The ACLU's Wizner says Hatreon's limbo, though it may be short-lived, is evidence of Wilson's vaunted market forces at work. [Extracted from the article]

A professional biography is presented for Victor Luo, the lead project manager for the OpsLab at the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration's (NASA’s) Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California who specializes in virtual reality. He was born in Beijing, China in 1985, and moved to Indiana when he was 5 years old. He got his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and his computer science master's degree at University of Southern California. He interned at the aeronautics company Boeing Co. before joining NASA in 2008.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Victor Luo Is Making NASA Cool for Coders Victor Luo Is Making NASA Cool for Coders Funding is always an issue at a government agency, but Luo is optimistic about NASA's future backing. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the nonprofit group Gen Next, which uses both online and in person contact to help deradicalize or deprogram radical Islamists by using former radicals who have left potentially terrorist groups such as the British-based Hizb ut-Tahrir, which promotes a unified Islamic state, but praises jihad and has been linked to murder. Gen Next intends to expand it operations from Europe into the U.S. using its Against Violent Extremism Network, with support by companies including Google and Facebook.

(Bloomberg) -- The High Price of Protecting Arctic Towns From Tsunamis and Icebergs Temperature increases mean more landslides, icebergs, and tsunamis. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers a profile of Eric Rodenbeck, founder of the graphics company Stamen Design LLC. Emphasis is given to topics such as his interest in the visualization of data in the technology industry and mass media, representing emotions in images and charts, and the honoring of his company at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards Gala in October 2017.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- You Have Eric Rodenbeck to Thank for All Those Sweet Infographics Rodenbeck is the founder of the graphics company Stamen Design LLC, which he started in 2001 so he could do the thing he'd dreamed about at Cooper Union: use patterns, numbers, and images to communicate big concepts. "As someone who was expelled from [Cooper Union], to win the national design award is a great irony", Rodenbeck says. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- How Narwhals Are Helping NASA Understand Melting Ice Narwhals Are Helping NASA Understand Melting Ice and Rising Seas. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Robots Are Cutting Down on the Need for Space Doctors NASA doctors are using telemedicine and remote controls to treat motion sickness and minor trauma in space. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Horse Clones Start Heading to the Races Meeker says that gives the company a 90 percent chance the surrogate mother's system will accept the clone embryo and produce a healthy clone. [Extracted from the article]

Soon the best example will be Wikelski's Icarus project, an open-source online database designed to follow animals around the world via embedded tracking devices that relay their locations to a satellite scheduled for launch in October. "It's something like a new global SMS [Short Message Service] with animals as autonomous units", Wikelski says of Icarus, short for International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space. The late professor George Swenson Jr., who developed NASA radio beacons to compete with Sputnik in the '50s, advised Wikelski on radio tagging, and in July the Russian space agency approved the Icarus hardware for a spacewalk this fall. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the submersible drone product PowerRay by the firm PowerVision Technology Group, which can be used for fishing.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- This Drone Fishing Buddy Spots the Fish and Drops the Bait This Drone Fishing Buddy Spots the Fish and Drops the Bait. [Extracted from the article]

The article covers research that analyzed Komodo dragon blood and found that it contains compounds that could be used as antibiotics.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Komodo Dragon Blood May Hold the Secret to Killing Superbugs Komodo Dragon Blood May Hold the Secret to Killing Superbugs. [Extracted from the article]

The article briefly reviews the Future World exhibit at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore.

The article presents profiles of several companies which the author claims are working on the design and mass production of higher-order synthetic tissues such as bone, cartilage, and bodily organs as of 2017, and it mentions the Organovo Holdings Inc., Aspect Biosystems Ltd., and Materalise NV tissue research firms. According to the article, the potential production of synthetic tissues using three-dimensional (3D) printers could help with organ donor list-related problems.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- We're Getting Closer to Mass Production of Bones, Organs, and Implants Now a few companies are getting closer to mass production of higher-order tissues (bone, cartilage, organs) and other individually tailored items, including implants. [Extracted from the article]

Bahamas-born conceptual artist Tavares Strachan dug hundreds of geometric ditches across a stretch of desert the size of two football fields and filled them with neon tubes. The photo billboards by Cleveland-born artist Jennifer Bolande along the Gene Autry Trail advertise the mountains they sit in front of. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- These VR Systems Help Treat Veterans Recovering From PTSD Rizzo runs Bravemind, an academia-Pentagon venture that makes VR hardware and software for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Academic-Pentagon venture Bravemind has put virtual-reality equipment on 100 military bases and is expanding elsewhere. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- This $425 DIY Implant Will Make You a Cyborg The bottom line: Cyborg Nest has sold about 1,000 DIY implants that vibrate when a wearer faces north, retraining their sensory comprehension. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Startup Gets Tech-Industry Experts to Mentor Convicts (Correct) Startup Gets Tech-Industry Experts to Mentor Convicts. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the apparently self-taught engineer Palmer Luckey who reportedly developed the Oculus Rift (OR) virtual-reality headset product, focusing on Luckey's apparent use of the Kickstarter crowdfunding website to generate funding for his OR device. According to the article, several computer software developers have produced games which are designed to use the OR headset. It states that Luckey sold his startup firm to the Facebook Inc. social media firm in 2014.