10 Key Bible Verses on Hope

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As believers, we put our ultimate hope not in this world, but in what is unseen. We trust and wait expectantly for God to usher forth the promised King and kingdom. Be encouraged by these verses and commentary adapted from the ESV Study Bible. Romans 5:2–5 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. The grace in which we stand refers to the secure position of the believer's standing (as a blessing of justification), and the hope of the glory of God refers to the promise that Christians will be glorified and perfected at the last day—a hope that results in joy. The people of God rejoice not only in future glory but in present trials and sufferings, not because trials are pleasant but because they produce a step-by-step... Read More TOP SERMONS How to Live a Worry-Free Year by Ernest L. Easley Read More How Great Is Your God? (How Great Is Our God) by Jeff Strite Read More The Struggle Is Real by Bob Ingle Read More Victory In The Valley by Donald Cantrell Read More Eyes on the Prize by James Merritt Read More SERMONS BY TOPIC

 

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We may have only weeks to act before a variant coronavirus dominates the US

How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn't already know

Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software The Download Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology It's an emergency 01.13.21 Good morning! Today: experts are sounding the alarm that the US is running out of time to stop a new covid-19 variant overwhelming the country, and how agriculture tech is finally starting to deliver on its promise. Get your friends to sign up here to get The Download every day. We may have only weeks to act before a variant coronavirus dominates the US   A dire situation: The US may face a rapidly closing window to bring a suspected extra-contagious variant of covid-19 under control. If the variant strain, first spotted in the United Kingdom, is as infectious as some suspect (British scientists estimate it’s 50% to 74% more transmissible) it could dominate US case numbers by March, send covid-19 deaths to unprecedented levels, and collide with the rollout of vaccines.  Already circulating: More than 20 countries have now spotted the variant, including the US. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of January 11 there were 72 confirmed variant cases in 10 states. That’s a drop in the bucket given that the US is confirming over 200,000 cases of covid per day. Yet the variant is likely more widespread than it appears, is one of several variants that have been identified, and the US still lacks the ability to adequately monitor changes to the virus.  What’s needed: Some scientific leaders say the US should now consider a coordinated national lockdown period, and step up the pace of vaccinations. Some are comparing 2021 to last spring—that is, we are facing a short window to clamp down on the variant before it, too, spirals out of control. Read the full story. —Antonio Regalado How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn’t already know As a machine operator for the robotics startup FarmWise, Diego Alcántar spends each day walking behind a hulking robot that resembles a driverless Zamboni, helping it learn to do the work of a 30-person weeding crew.  He works in a gigantic cauliflower field in the hills outside Santa Maria, at the southern end of the vast checkerboard of vegetable farms that line California’s central coast. Cooled by coastal mists rolling off the Pacific, the Salinas valley is sometimes called America’s Salad Bowl. Together with two adjacent counties to the south, the area around Salinas produces the vast majority of lettuce grown in the US during the summer months, along with most of the cauliflower, celery, and broccoli, and a good share of the berries.  The robot straddled a planted bed three rows wide with its wheels in adjacent furrows. Alcántar followed a few paces back, holding an iPad with touch-screen controls like a joystick’s. Periodically, Alcántar stopped the machine and kneeled in the furrow, bending to examine a “kill”—spots where the robot’s array of cameras and blades had gone ever so slightly out of alignment and uprooted the seedling itself. Taking an iPhone out of his pocket, Alcántar pulled up a Slack channel called #field-de-bugging and sent a note to a colleague 150 miles away about five kills in a row, with a hypothesis about the cause (latency between camera and blade) and a time stamp so he could find the images and see what had gone wrong. It isn’t a stretch to think that one day, no person will ever lay a hand to the ground around these seedlings. The term “ag tech” was coined at a conference in Salinas almost 15 years ago; boosters have been promising a surge of gadgets and software that would remake the farming industry for at least that long. And although ag tech startups have tended to have an easier time finding investors than customers, the boosters may finally be on to something. Read the full story. —Rowan Moore Gerety If you want to learn more about how these sorts of advanced technologies and what they mean for you and your sector, sign up for our virtual conference next month, Future Compute. Over the course of two days, you will learn about how advances in computing will transform businesses around the world. Plus you'll get to hear from some of the most interesting people working in technology today (and me, as I'm chairing one of the panels!) Take a few moments out of your day to enjoy this sumptuous short fiction story about memories and family histories by Anjali Sachdeva. Both that, and the piece above, come from the latest issue of MIT Technology Review's print magazine. Read it, and if you haven’t already, subscribe. I promise it is worth it. We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction in these weird times. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or tweet 'em at me.)   + This AI will judge your Spotify. Watch out though, it's brutal (and if you want tips on how to expand your listening, scroll to the end of the 10 links section.)   + A man has given away 500 free pizzas by lowering them from his apartment window. What a champion. (WP $)   + A short film of people psyching themselves up (or out) of jumping from a 10 meter pool platform. SO gripping.    + What is it like to live in the past? These people can tell you (sort of).    + A Brazilian church created a mini waxwork museum. You do not need to understand Portugese to find the commentary utterly hilarious.    + Did you know you can make gnocchi from pretty much any vegetable? Sponsor Message With trust in AI, manufacturers can build better Some people might not associate the word “trust” with artificial intelligence (AI).   Stefan Jockusch, Vice President of Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software, is not one of them. AI can improve production speed, take away tedious tasks from creative engineers, and make products customers want, explains Jockusch. He gives the example of Apple’s iPhones and its facial recognition software—technology that has been tested “millions and millions of times” and produced just a few failures.    Listen to the podcast here. The top ten must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 One day, covid-19 will just be an annoying childhood infection That's what many researchers are predicting, and a new study suggests. (NYT $)   + The US will require all international airline passengers to show proof of a negative covid-19 test. (WSJ $)   + A series of visualizations showing how the novel coronavirus has evolved. (Reuters)  2 Can you spread the coronavirus if you get vaccinated? 💉 We simply won't know until there's more data. So we'd better assume you can. (Quartz)   + Brazilian clinical trials found China's Sinovac vaccine is 50.4% effective. (BBC)   + Elderly people (at highest risk) are struggling to get vaccine appointments online in the US. (The Verge)   + Uber and Lyft are trying to push Biden for a role in the vaccine rollout. (WSJ $)  3 Uganda's government blocked social media ahead of an election It's furious at Facebook for taking action against some pro-government accounts. (Reuters)   4 YouTube has banned Trump from uploading videos for at least a week Which is, of course, how long it will be until Biden's inauguration. (Axios)   + Trump's furious (as per.) (WP $)   + Deplatforming works, but Trump's most extreme fans will still find him. (NBC)   + The violence at the Capitol was horribly predictable (and predicted.) (The Atlantic)   + There's no excuse to ignore warnings of domestic terrorism. (Wired $)   + The attempted coup should be a wake-up call for brands to look at what their online ads are funding. (Fast Company)  5 Gene editing could turn back the clock on a rapid aging disease 🧬 This entire field of biotech is progressing at an astounding rate. (Future Human)   6 Parler was SO insecure "This is as bad as it gets," as one security researcher put it. (Wired $)   + GPS data shows Parler users breaching the Capitol. (Gizmodo)   + How Parler could come back. (Vox)  7 The biggest illegal darknet marketplace has closed Police arrested the 34-year-old Australian man who ran the site in Germany last weekend. (Vice)   8 US emissions are at their lowest level in three decades They will come roaring right back the second life as usual starts to resume though. (Quartz)   + The pandemic taught us how not to deal with climate change. (TR)  9 Yelp now lets you snitch on unsafe restaurants 🍽️ Good idea. But… so open to abuse. (The Verge)   + How to make restaurants safer during the pandemic. (TR)   10 How to break out of the Spotify algorithm and find new music 🎧 Or just keep going with the teenage nostalgia. It's working for me. (Wired UK) Discover how the next wave of computing technologies will change your business. Join us this February for Future Compute, our virtual conference on intelligent computing. We'll explore the building blocks of computing and how advancements in these areas will revolutionize the business world. Register now. Quote of the day “For the first time, I'm not sure we will be able to treat everyone who needs it." —A grim assessment of the situation in London from an emergency healthcare worker, the BBC reports. Top image credit: SCOTT OLSON | GETTY IMAGES Please send gnocchi to hi@technologyreview.com. Follow me on Twitter at @charlottejee. Thanks for reading! —Charlotte Was this newsletter forwarded to you, and you'd like to see more? Sign up for free The age of implementation Join us virtually | March 23–25, 2021 Follow us: MIT Technology Review One Main Street Cambridge, MA 02142

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