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Monday November 26, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines A 3D microscopic device for high-speed processing of infrared light New insights into how the brain stores memories Samsung plans flexible, unbreakable, lighter phones Can a robot make a better, faster burger? New York Times bestseller: Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind Reform to require warrant for private online messages up for vote, but down on privacy Huge Mars colony eyed by SpaceX founder Elon Musk Latest News A 3D microscopic device for high-speed processing of infrared light November 26, 2012   Rice University researchers have produced a micron-scale spatial light modulator (SLM) like those used in sensing and imaging devices, but with the potential to run orders of magnitude faster. Unlike other devices that use two-dimensional semiconducting chips, the Rice chips work in three-dimensional “free space.” The chips promise to speed up applications that are free-space … more… New insights into how the brain stores memories November 26, 2012   Exactly how does long-term memory get updated (or “written,” in computer language)?  One hypothesis, for example, is that while in deep dreamless sleep, the hippocampus sends messages to the cortex and changes its plasticity, transferring recently acquired knowledge (in short-term memory) to long-term memory.  Background Many invasive studies in nonhuman primates and clinical investigations in … more… Samsung plans flexible, unbreakable, lighter phones November 26, 2012   Samsung plans to start mass production of  displays using plastic rather than glass to make mobile devices unbreakable, lighter, and bendable, to be released in the first half of next year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Samsung’s flexible displays will incorporate OLEDs, a display technology that the South Korean company is already using in its smartphones … more… Can a robot make a better, faster burger? November 26, 2012   Momentum Machines says it’s created a new robot that can make about 360 burgers an hour in a 24-square foot area and that they plan to use it in “the first restaurant chain that profitably sells gourmet hamburgers at fast food prices.” Why robots? Besides efficiency, Momentum Machines says they will offer custom meat grinds for every single … more… New York Times bestseller: Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind November 26, 2012   How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil is now #5 on the New York Times Bestseller List for Hardcover Nonfiction. It came out at #1 among all books on the Barnes & Noble bestseller list and went into its third printing one week after publication. The book is available from the book website and … more… Reform to require warrant for private online messages up for vote, but down on privacy November 25, 2012   The Department of Justice argues it can read your private electronic messages, like emails and private Facebook messages, older than 180 days without a warrant, due to an archaic distinction in the outdated Electronic Privacy and Communications Act (ECPA), EFF Deeplinks reports. Senator Leahy wants to change this and has scheduled a markup hearing the … more… Huge Mars colony eyed by SpaceX founder Elon Musk November 25, 2012   Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers there for perhaps $500,000 a trip, Space.com reports. In Musk’s vision, the ambitious Mars settlement program would start with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people. … more… New VIDEOS   20th Century Fox | Viral trailers for Prometheus feature David the android Latest Kurzweil Collection posts The Blaze TV The Glenn Beck Program | Glenn Beck interviews Ray Kurzweil   Source: The Blaze TV | The Glenn Beck Program Your browser does not support iframes. Related: The Blaze | “Ridiculously accurate ‘futurist’ shares his bold prediction on The Glenn Beck Program” The Blaze TV | The Glenn Beck Program Why you should bet big on bionic brains   Source: The Wall Street Journal — November 23, 2012 | Matt Ridley When an IBM computer program called Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, wise folk opined that since chess was just a game of logic, this was neither significant nor surprising. Mastering the subtleties of human language, including similes, puns and humor, would remain far beyond the reach of a computer. Last year … more… Read full article here Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.