Future News - Ground Hog Day Accuracies, Drones taken down by trained Eagles, Why Cats Hate being Wet, Hyperloop Transportation Expo, Alpha Go AI beats top human player, Species Memory 10x more than Previously Thought, Saturn Best Planet

Listen Now to Future News 2.02.2016

Lots of animals in Future News this week, rodents predicting the end of winter, drones captured by Eagles, why cats hate water.  We have a new AI too, Alpha GO, Google’s Go playing AI that has successfully beaten the top Go player of Europe.  But all is not lost for humans this week - Apparently we have 10x more memory than previously thought, enough connections in our brains to be at about the same level of complexity as the entire World Wide Web! Wowie zowie, all we have to do now is figure out how to access all that memory, and just maybe we can get some respect from our evolving AI’s..

And beyond Earth, what’s your favorite planet? With a little help from The Atlantic, we make the case for Saturn!