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Wednesday January 23, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines O’Reilly Open Government book now a free download, in honor of Aaron Swartz Phoenix rising: DARPA’s plan to repair communication satellites in orbit Intel’s new interface idea is a mash-up of all the others ‘The future might be a hoot’: how Iain M. Banks imagines Utopia How to kill lymphoma cancer cells without chemotherapy Latest News O’Reilly Open Government book now a free download, in honor of Aaron Swartz January 23, 2013   To honor Aaron Swartz, a contributor to the Open Government book, O’Reilly Media has posted the Open Government book files for free for anyone to download, read and share, says co-author Laurel Ruma on O’Reilly Radar. The files are posted on the O’Reilly Media GitHub account as PDF, Mobi, and EPUB files for now here: … more… Phoenix rising: DARPA’s plan to repair communication satellites in orbit January 23, 2013   DARPA’s planned Phoenix program is intended to develop and demonstrate technologies to cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable components from retired, nonworking satellites in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) at greatly reduced cost. Today, when a communication satellite fails, it usually means the expensive prospect of having to launch a brand new replacement communication satellite. Many of the … more… Intel’s new interface idea is a mash-up of all the others January 23, 2013   At CES, Intel demoed its latest big idea — “perceptual computing,” MIT Technology Review reports. With perceptual computing, Intel envisions a new kind of interface for devices that will let users switch fluently between keyboards, trackpads, touch screens, voice commands, and gestures — or use several modes of interaction at once. Perceptual computing is Intel’s … more… ‘The future might be a hoot’: how Iain M. Banks imagines Utopia January 23, 2013   For 25 years, Scottish science fiction writer Iain M. Banks, author of the Culture Series, has been writing about a utopian post-scarcity civilization managed by artificially intelligent drones known as Minds, and preoccupied by artificial intelligence, games, and interactions with other civilizations. In the latest novel published in October, The Hydrogen Sonata, a civilization known as … more… How to kill lymphoma cancer cells without chemotherapy January 23, 2013   Northwestern Medicine researchers have developed a nanoparticle that attacks a cancerous lymphoma cell by mimicking HDL.(high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol, an essential nutrient for the cell. The nanoparticle tricks the cell by blocking cholesterol from entering the cell. Deprived of an essential nutrient, the cell eventually dies. The new study by C. Shad Thaxton, M.D., and Leo I. … more… New VIDEOS   Deep Space Industries video 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|*.