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$5 million grant to study immortality

John Templeton Foundation grant to UC Riverside philosopher John Fischer will fund research
August 3, 2012

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The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a three-year, $5 million grant  to John Martin Fischer, distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, to undertake a rigorous examination of a wide range of issues related to immortality.

“People have been thinking about immortality throughout history. We have a deep human need to figure out what happens to us after death,”… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Social/Ethical/Legal

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5 Patents to Watch

April 12, 2001

Growing human organs to ease the deadly shortages facing patients desperate for transplants. Deploying organic molecules to store a million times more data than silicon can. Harnessing the unused processing power on your desktop to attack gigantic computational problems, from genetic analysis to spotting hidden customer trends. Massively expanding the data capacity of optical networks to turbocharge the information superhighway. Modifying plants to grow cheap, lifesaving vaccines.

The editors… read more

Topics: Biotech

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5 Technologies That Will Change the World

September 30, 2003

Five technologies that could change the world are three-D printing to allow designers and engineers to get new products to market faster, biosimulation to speed development of more effective new drugs, autonomic computing (computers smart enough to configure themselves), Internet-like “distributed generation” power networks placed closer to where the power is actually being used, and smart tags to allow products to be tracked through the distribution network.

Topics: Singularity/Futures

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5 Ways to Protect Yourself (and Others) from Swine Flu

May 1, 2009

1. Don’t touch your eyes, mouth and nose.
2. Wash your hands with soap and water.
3. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
4. Cover your nose and mouth.
5. Consider buying an N95 respirator.

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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50 companies team to create open source EV

November 2, 2011
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The StreetScooter, a $7,000 electric vehicle (EV) with a 74 mph top speed and an 80-mile range, have been developed by a collaboration among more than 50 auto parts suppliers, tech companies and software developers, Autopia Wired reports.

It’s a modular vehicle, with parts that can be added, removed, and reused depending on customer preference.

StreetScooter will be available in Germany in the spring of 2013,… read more

Topics: Energy

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50 new exoplanets discovered

September 14, 2011

La Silla Observatory (credit: ESO)

Astronomers have discovered more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars, including sixteen super-Earths (planets with a mass between one and ten times that of the Earth).

They used the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO‘s La Silla Observatory in Chile, the world’s most successful planet finder.

One of the recently announced newly discovered planets, HD 85512 b, is estimated… read more

Topics: Space

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50 Years Later, a New ‘Sputnik’ Crisis: The War of Minds

October 5, 2007

The American education system is not mobilizing to support science, technology, engineering and math.

Today’s generation of kids is the most technology savvy group that this country has ever produced. They are born with an iPod in one hand and a cell phone in another. They’re text messaging, e-mailing, instant messaging. They’re on MySpace, YouTube & Google. They’ve got Nintendo Wiis, Game Boys, Play Stations.

Their world is… read more

Topics: Social Networking/Web

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$500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize awarded to futurist who makes a career of helping others

May 25, 2001

On April 24, 2001, Raymond Kurzweil was awarded the prestigious Lemelson-MIT prize, the world’s largest single award for invention and innovation.… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Social Networking/Web

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50MP CCD Image Sensor unveiled by Kodak

July 9, 2008

Eastman Kodak Company unveiled the world’s first 50 million pixel CCD image sensor for professional photography.

The sensor captures digital images with unprecedented resolution and detail. For instance, with a 50 megapixel camera, in an aerial photo of a field 1 1/2 miles across, you could detect an object about the size of a small notebook computer (1 foot by 1 foot).

Topics: Electronics

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5D nanostructured quartz glass optical memory could provide ‘unlimited’ data storage for a million years

"Superman memory crystal" recordings could survive the end of the human race
July 10, 2013

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University of Southampton and Eindhoven University of Technology.scientists have developed a new technology that could store vast quantities of information — 360 TB on a disc, about 100 times more than current disk drives — for more than a million years [1].

‘Superman memory crystal’

Using a high speed femtosecond laser, data is written  on self-assembled nanostructures created in fused quartz, and stored in… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Physics/Cosmology

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6 Billion Bits of Data About Me, Me, Me!

June 4, 2007

Soon we will all be able to decipher our own genomes for as little as $1,000, scientists say.

Topics: Biotech

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60 billion planets in our galaxy could sustain water, life: researchers

July 2, 2013

A planet with clouds and surface water orbits a red dwarf star in this artist’s conception of the Gliese 581 star system.

A new study by University of Chicago and Northwestern University researchers that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the universe.

In our Milky Way galaxy alone, 60 billion planets may be orbiting red dwarf stars in the habitable zone.

Current data from NASA’s… read more

Topics: Biotech | Physics/Cosmology

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60% of world’s population now has cell phone, highest ever

March 3, 2009

A U.N. report published today states that six in ten people (60%) of the world’s population has a cell phone subscription, up from just under 15% in 2002.

Internet use has more than doubled to 23% in 2008, up from 11% in 2002.

The report also ranked countries by how advanced their information and communications technology (ICT) is, with Sweden first and the U.S. at #17.

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Internet/Cloud/Telecom

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64-core chip promises to be a big leap ahead

August 20, 2007

Tilera Corp. is pioneering a new chip architecture based on MIT research and has begun to ship a 64-core processor, promising dramatic advances in powering devices for the networking and multimedia industries.

Tilera claims they will deliver more than 10 times the performance of current dual-core processors and 40 times the performance of today’s digital signal processors, and can be scaled to much larger grids.

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics | Internet/Cloud/Telecom

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70% of American adults have high-speed broadband access at home

August 28, 2013

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As of May 2013, 70% of American adults ages 18 and older have a high-speed broadband* connection at home, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

Groups with the highest rates of home broadband adoption continue to be college graduates, adults under age 50, and adults living in households earning at least $50,000, as well as whites and adults living in… read more

Topics: Internet/Cloud/Telecom

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