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Tuesday December 18, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Studying ethical questions as the brain’s black box Is unlocked Tissue engineering at MIT: where it’s going A powerful microscale actuator for microrobotics and drug delivery IBM reveals five innovations that will change our lives within five years Latest News Studying ethical questions as the brain’s black box Is unlocked December 18, 2012   S. Matthew Liao, director of the bioethics program at New York University, has a singular title: neuroethicist. Some researchers claim to be near to using fMRIs to read thoughts. Is this really happening? The technology, though still crude, appears to be getting closer. For instance, there’s one research group that asks subjects to watch movies. When … more… Tissue engineering at MIT: where it’s going December 18, 2012   Tissue engineering research at MIT is now largely focused on creating tissue that can be used in the lab to model human disease and test potential new drugs. MIT professor Sangeeta Bhatia recently developed the first stem-cell-derived liver tissue model that can be infected with the hepatitis C virus. She has also designed thin slices … more… A powerful microscale actuator for microrobotics and drug delivery December 18, 2012   A powerful new microscale actuator that can flex like a miniature beckoning finger has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley. It is based on a material that expands and contracts dramatically in response to a small (15 degrees … more… IBM reveals five innovations that will change our lives within five years December 18, 2012 IBM announced today the seventh annual “IBM 5 in 5” — a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years, based on market and societal trends as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s R&D labs. This one is focused on cognitive systems. … more… New EVENTS   Electric Universe 2013 Conference – The Tipping Point Dates: Jan 3 – 6, 2013 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico more... New VIDEOS   Electronics nerds light up the holidays! New books Nexus author Ramez Naam   In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link human together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. There’s more to Nexus than meets the eye. When a young scientist is caught improving … more… 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|*.