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Mark Zuckerberg is acting pretty presidential lately. From meeting new people in each state across the US, to taking the fake news issue on with gusto. The biggest thing however, is that he has a clause in the latest shareholder restructuring that allows him to take a leave of absence from Facebook and still retain voting power in the company. Even if he is in government office.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, who just had their first child earlier this year are pledging to cure all diseases in their child's life time. With a $3bn investment over 10 years they hope to put the money to research instead of treatment. "We spend 50x more on treatment than we do on research of why we are sick." Mark stated when addressing the tools they hope for in the future.

With advancements in technology, we will live longer, smarter and better. I talk about self-driving cars, clean energy and better food through science in this episode but the article in the show notes has 8 more really awesome technologies to be excited about.

A camper went missing after searching for a millionaire art dealer's buried treasure. It's not the plot of the next Michael Bay movie, it happened in the mountains of New Mexico where the treasure was buried in 2010. Since then there have been yearly excursions to find this pot of gold. But earlier this year, a camper never returned back to camp and his belongings were found up river. For months, search parties and local law enforcement have been trying to piece together the story of Randy Bilyeu. But now, using a cutting edge AI technology, they have found his body in some brush in an area this system predicted he would be.

You've heard of Internet of Things (IoT), are you ready for Awareness of things? AoT is an emerging form of technology that is somewhat of a blend between the Internet of Things and traditional accessories for devices. An example is Trackr, a device you stick to your keys, bike or wallet and you can report it lost then everyone who has the app will essentially search for it in the background. If a user detects the beacon then it will alert you to the location.

A Falcon 9 rocket explodes in florida, carrying a payload for Facebook. A $95 Million satellite meant to orbit the planet and provide free access to the internet for third-world countries was sitting atop the rocket as it blew Thursday Morning. A small set back for commercialized space programs, but NASA is confident in the overall status of the program, adding that space exploration is challenging and hard.

A group of 6 scientist have just completed a one year long experiment where they locked themselves in a dome, lived in close quarters with each other and provisioned their food to simulate a manned mission to mars.

Move over Mars, we found a new world that we are looking at now, and this one seems habitable. A likely candidate for a second earth has been discovered orbiting in the goldilocks zone of our closest neighboring star, proxima centauri.