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Wednesday December 19, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Another Earth just 12 light-years away? Power sources for flexible, stretchable electronics Energy-efficient computer memory using magnetic materials A display that makes interactive 3D seem mind-bogglingly real Earlier cancer diagnosis by detecting biomarkers in urine Is the US health care system a target for cyberterrorism? Latest News Another Earth just 12 light-years away? December 19, 2012   Astronomers have discovered what may be five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the closest single star beyond our solar system whose temperature and luminosity nearly match the sun’s, Science Now reports. If the planets are in fact there, one of them is about the right distance from the star to sport mild temperatures, oceans of liquid … more… Power sources for flexible, stretchable electronics December 19, 2012   Stretchable electronics are the future of mobile electronics, leading giants such as IBM, Sony and Nokia to incorporate the technology into their products, says University of Delaware  mechanical engineering professor Bingqing Wei. Potential stretchable applications include biomedical, wearable, portable and sensory devices, such as cyber skin for robotic devices and implantable electronics. But rechargeable and stretchable energy … more… Energy-efficient computer memory using magnetic materials December 19, 2012   By using electric voltage instead of a flowing electric current, researchers from UCLA‘s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have made major improvements to an ultra-fast, high-capacity class of computer memory known as magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM). The UCLA team’s improved memory, which they call MeRAM for magnetoelectric random access memory, has … more… A display that makes interactive 3D seem mind-bogglingly real December 19, 2012   The “Z Space” display, developed by Californian company Infinite Z, tracks a user’s eye and hand movements and adjusts the 3-D image that he or she sees in real-time, MIT Technology Review reports. The resulting effect is stunning. Unlike the 3-D video seen in a movie theater or on a 3-D TV, you can move … more… Earlier cancer diagnosis by detecting biomarkers in urine December 19, 2012   Specific proteins secreted by cancer cells circulating in the bloodstream could help diagnose cancer earlier, but the quantity of these biomarkers is so low that detecting them has proven difficult. Now MIT researchers, led by Sangeeta Bhatia, have developed nanoparticles that interact with cancer proteins to produce thousands of biomarkers that can be easily detected … more… Is the US health care system a target for cyberterrorism? December 19, 2012   Cyber threats are on the rise, and U.S. health care organizations must be better prepared to deal with them, according to an open-access article in Telemedicine and e-Health. The health care system in the U.S. is a $2.5 trillion industry and depends heavily on communication and the transfer of information via the Internet. This puts … more… Latest Kurzweil Collection posts Google hires Ray Kurzweil to head its engineering lab   Source: Popular Science — December 17, 2012 | Clay Dillow The futurist and inventor famous for his predictions on the technological singularity will be Google’s new chief of turning the theoretical future into consumer products. At Google, Kurzweil will take the title of Director of Engineering, where he will be in charge of shaping the future by turning some of Google’s (and his own) most … more… Read full article here Ray Kurzweil now on the job at Google   Source: Fast Company — December 17, 2012 | Neal Ungerleider The search giant welcomes a Singularity evangelist. He will work on unspecified machine-learning and language-processing projects. Ray Kurzweil is best known these days as the world’s foremost Singularity evangelist and as a prophet of a whizbang, techno-utopian future. However, Kurzweil first came to tech fame as a machine-learning guru whose groundbreaking work on voice recognition and … more… Read full article here The Singularity is nearer, Google appoints Ray Kurzweil as Director Of Engineering   Source: Knovel — December 18, 2012 Staff working at Google who think that the new Director of Engineering looks slightly familiar may not be too far off the mark, after the internet search giant announced the hiring of Ray Kurzweil for the position. According to The Wall Street Journal, the acclaimed futurist and author of The Singularity Is Near, has been brought in … 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|*.