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Monday January 21, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines AR goggles restore depth perception to people blind in one eye Facial sensors and software to help Hawking communicate faster Firefire gene makes mice glow to track cancer and aging in real time Using HIV to attack itself Highest-efficiency flexible thin-film solar cells Asteroid-prospecting spacecraft plan to be announced Kim Suozzi cryopreserved January 17 at Alcor Micron readies hybrid memory cube for debut Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing Latest News AR goggles restore depth perception to people blind in one eye January 21, 2013   People who’ve lost sight in one eye can still see with the other, but they lack binocular depth perception. A pair of augmented reality glasses being built at the University of Yamanashi in Japan artificially introduces a feeling of depth in a person’s healthy eye, MIT Technology Review reports. The researchers created software that makes use … more… Facial sensors and software to help Hawking communicate faster January 21, 2013   Intel is developing communication technology that can quickly process and respond to signals Stephen Hawking sends from the few muscles in his body that he can still control, Scientific American reports. Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner noted that Hawking can make a number of facial expressions that might be used to speed up the … more… Firefire gene makes mice glow to track cancer and aging in real time January 21, 2013 University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have developed a strain of mice that turns on a gene from fireflies to provide a visual indication of aging and tumor growth in mice. The mice light up whenever another mouse gene, p16INK4a (p16) is is activated (in cells undergoing senescence, the p16 gene is switched … more… Using HIV to attack itself January 21, 2013   A Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) Associate Professor David Harrich has developed a way to use HIV to beat HIV in the laboratory. He has determined how to modify a protein in the virus, creating the the “Nullbasic” protein, which provides strong, lasting protection from infection by stopping the virus from replicating in a lab environment. Animal trials are … more… Highest-efficiency flexible thin-film solar cells January 21, 2013 Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have developed thin-film solar cells on flexible polymer foils with a new record efficiency of 20.4%. The cells are based on CIGS  (copper indium gallium (di)selenide) semiconducting material. Thin-film, lightweight, flexible high-performance solar modules are attractive for solar farms, roofs and facades of buildings, … more… Asteroid-prospecting spacecraft plan to be announced January 21, 2013   On Tuesday, Deep Space Industries Inc. will announce plans to create “the world’s first fleet of commercial asteroid-prospecting spacecraft,” according to an email press release. “Deep Space is pursuing an aggressive schedule and plans on prospecting, harvesting and processing asteroids for use in space and to benefit Earth,” the company says. UPDATE Jan. 21, 8:36 … more… Kim Suozzi cryopreserved January 17 at Alcor January 19, 2013   Kim Suozzi, diagnosed at age 21 with brain cancer while studying neuroscience at college, passed away Thursday, January 17, 2013 at age 23. The Society for Venturism, a cryonics advocacy and support group, started a charity fund for her cryonic suspension in August of 2012 and through an overwhelming amount of support from the extreme life extension … more… Micron readies hybrid memory cube for debut January 18, 2013   The next-generation memory-maker Micron Technology‘s Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology is a multi-chip module (MCM) that aims to address one of the biggest challenges in high performance computing: scaling the memory wall, HPC Wire reports. Memory architectures haven’t kept pace with the bandwidth requirements of multicore processors. As microprocessor speeds out-accelerated DRAM memory speeds, a … more… Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing January 18, 2013   Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint server arXiv, Nature News reports. The project was publicly revealed yesterday in a blog post by Tim Gowers, a Fields Medal winner and mathematician at the University of Cambridge, UK. The initiative, called the Episciences Project, … more… New EVENTS   Life in 2030: Discuss the Future With Those Who Are Creating It Dates: Jan 23, 2013 Location: Kitchener, Canada more... New VIDEOS   Mona Lisa beamed to Moon probe in laser-link test 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|*.