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A Fight to Win the Future: Computers vs. Humans

February 15, 2011

Rapid progress in natural language processing is beginning to lead to a new wave of automation that promises to transform areas of the economy that have until now been untouched by technological change.

The repercussions of technology such as IBM’s Watson are unknown, but it is possible, for example, to envision systems that replace not only human experts, but hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs throughout the economy and… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Computers/Infotech/UI | Social/Ethical/Legal

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A first in integrated nanowire sensor circuitry

August 5, 2008

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world’s first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays, combining light sensors and electronics made of different crystalline materials.

Their method can be used to reproduce numerous such devices with high uniformity.

Topics: Electronics | Nanotech/Materials Science

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A First Look at the Google Phone

November 13, 2007

Google has teamed up with others in the wireless industry to create an open-source operating system, as well as other services, for mobile phones.

To show what the Android phones will look like, Google today has posted a couple of demos of their user interface, including iPhone-like functions, and some applications.

Google executives Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the Android SDK and demo applications on the… read more

Topics: Electronics

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A first step towards Minority Report ads from Inwindow Outdoor (demo)

November 22, 2011

Inwindow Outdoor is testing several prototype digital “Experience Stations” in malls and hotel lobbies that combine several interactive technologies — including motion capture, large touch screens, and NFC readers (to buy tickets
or unlock deals in local stores) — to create immersive experiences in physical locations, similar to the scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise is walking through a mall and all the digital signs are talking… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Entertainment/New Media

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A first: organs tailor-made with body’s own cells

September 17, 2012

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Andemariam Beyene sat by the hospital window, the low Arctic sun on his face, and talked about the time he thought he would die.

Two and a half years ago doctors in Iceland, where Mr. Beyene was studying to be an engineer, discovered a golf-ball-size tumor growing into his windpipe. Despite surgery and radiation, it kept growing. In the spring… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech | Nanotech/Materials Science

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A Flash Of Light Turns Graphene Into A Biosensor

September 23, 2009

DNA with an attached fluorescent molecule turns its fluorescent light switch on and off when near graphene, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton University have found, suggesting that the combination could be used to create a biosensor.

Possible applications: diagnosing diseases like cancer, detecting toxins in tainted food, detecting pathogens from biological weapons, and drug delivery for gene therapy.

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech | Nanotech/Materials Science

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A Flashy Web Communication Tool

July 21, 2002

The new Flash Communication Server MX allows Flash developers to create multimedia Web applications that let users talk and stream video, collaborate on documents in real time, chat, and send instant multimedia messages.

Topics: VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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A flexible, transparent gesture sensor

February 22, 2013

A comparison between the image being focused on the sensor surface and the reconstructed image (inset) (credit: Oliver Bimber, Johannes Kepler/ University Linz)

A new method of capturing images based on a flat, flexible, transparent, and potentially disposable polymer sheet has been developed by a team of researchers at Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria.

The new imager, which resembles a flexible plastic film, uses fluorescent particles to capture incoming light and channel a portion of it to an array of sensors framing the sheet.

With no electronics or internal components,… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Nanotech/Materials Science | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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A fluorescent test for antioxidant drugs

November 25, 2011

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A study by UC San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Australia, to visualize accumulation of oxidized LDL in genetically modified zebrafish could lead to a rapid test for the potential effectiveness of new antioxidant and dietary therapies for human atherosclerosis.

Atherosclerosis is a process of lipid deposition and inflammation in the artery walls. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) that carries “bad” cholesterol in blood is easily oxidized, and… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech

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A Flute Made on a 3D Printer, and the Possibilities to Come

January 5, 2011

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MIT Media Lab researcher Amit Zoran has printed a playable flute, using a 3D printer that is capable of on-the-fly use of multiple materials, in 15 hours.

The instrument is playable, but Zoran plans additional iteration and improvement.

The 3D printer could represent new potential for instrumental research. It’s too difficult now to prototype ideas. Being able to rapidly prototype a lot of variations inexpensively could mean… read more

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A ‘fountain of youth’ for stem cells?

December 29, 2009

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and MIT are exploring ways to successfully keep stem cells “forever young” during implantation by slowing their growth, differentiation and proliferation.

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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A fourth branch of cellular organisms?

March 28, 2011

Researchers using DNA analysis have shown that there may be at least one hidden domain of life, a fourth branch of cellular organisms, says Jonathan Eisen at UC Davis, and colleagues.

The researchers analyzed metagenomic data and used them to search the Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) Expedition dataset for novel lineages in three gene families commonly used in phylogenetic studies: trees that use small subunit… read more

Topics: Biotech

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A free database of the entire Web may spawn the next Google

January 24, 2013

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A nonprofit called Common Crawl is now using its own Web crawler and making a giant copy of the Web that it makes accessible to anyone.

The organization offers up over five billion Web pages, available for free so that researchers and entrepreneurs can try things otherwise possible only for those with access to resources on the scale of Google’s, MIT Technology Review reports.… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Computers/Infotech/UI | Internet/Telecom

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A Free Mesh Network for San Francisco

August 17, 2007

Meraki Networks, a wireless mesh-network company is bypassing San Francisco city hall, giving away some 200 wireless routers to city residents in the past couple of months.

The routers have been accessed by more than 6,000 city residents who can pick up the Wi-Fi signal. Meraki is now offering to expand the program to give away a few thousand routers, thereby building a free Wi-Fi mesh-network system from the… read more

Topics: Internet/Telecom

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A French autonomous car

January 13, 2012

Stahle robot driver

French researchers have developed a self-driving vehicle, IEEE Spectrum Automaton reports.

IFSTTAR, a French R&D organization, and the Embedded Electronic Systems Research Institute at ESIGELEC, an engineering school in Rouen, are developing autonomous vehicle technologies to help test automotive safety systems.

The researchers modified a Renault Grand Espace by adding a “robot driver” to  control the exact trajectory, speed, and behavior of the vehicle and compare… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics

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