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Friday February 15, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines How much is an asteroid worth? Solve for X: celebrating moonshot thinking How unconscious processing improves decision-making Kinect-based system dramatically cuts cost of telemedicine Artificial retina receives FDA approval Black hole discovered just 26,000 light years away, says NASA Latest News How much is an asteroid worth? February 15, 2013   When asteroid 2012 DA14 flies by Earth today, we could be watching a fortune fly over our heads and disappear into the void. DA14 could be worth up to $195 billion in metals and propellant, Deep Space Industries (DSI) said in a statement —  if it were in a different orbit … and  if we … more… Solve for X: celebrating moonshot thinking February 15, 2013   Last week, Google hosted its 2013 Solve for X event, where they gathered 50 experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world who are taking on moonshots — proposals that address a huge problem, suggest a radical solution that could work, and use some form of breakthrough technology to make it happen, Megan Smith … more… How unconscious processing improves decision-making February 15, 2013   New brain imaging research from Carnegie Mellon University finds that the brain regions responsible for making decisions continue to be active even when the conscious brain is distracted with a different task. The research provides some of the first evidence showing how the brain unconsciously processes decision information in ways that lead to improved decision-making. … more… Kinect-based system dramatically cuts cost of telemedicine February 15, 2013   A Kinect game controller and Microsoft software could cut the U.S. healthcare bill by up to $30 billion by allowing physicians and other medics to interact with patients remotely, reducing the number of hospital visits and the associated risk of infection. It could also bring medical services to underserved areas around the world. Janet Bailey of … more… Artificial retina receives FDA approval February 15, 2013   In an historic move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted market approval to an artificial retina technology, the first bionic eye to be approved for patients in the U.S. The device, called the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, from Second Sight Medical Products, transmits images from a small, eye-glass-mounted camera wirelessly to … more… Black hole discovered just 26,000 light years away, says NASA February 14, 2013   A supernova remnant called W49B 26,000 light-years away may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy, new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggests. The remnant, about a thousand years old as seen from Earth, appears to be the product of a rare explosion in which matter is ejected at high … more… New EVENTS   BIL 2013 Dates: Mar 2 – 3, 2013 Location: Long Beach, California more... New VIDEOS   TED | 2012 Intel Science Talent Search grand prize winner Jack Andraka and his detection method for pancreatic cancer Latest Kurzweil Collection posts Google Now offers glimpse of where the search giant is headed   Source: The News and Observer — February 10, 2013 | Paul Gilster Google Translate has many languages to work with and plenty of computer horsepower behind it. Thinking about its methods reminds me that Ray Kurzweil has now gone to work for Google. Kurzweil is an Edisonian figure who came up with the first flatbed scanner and the first machine that could read text aloud. He has … more… Read full article here Ray Kurzweil: Your brain in the cloud   Source: Big Think — February 10, 2013 | Jonathan Fowler & Elizabeth Rodd Transcript | Ray Kurzweil: Sometimes people think that emotion and art are sort of sideshows to human intelligence and the real essence of intelligence is thinking logically. If that were true, computers are already smarter than we are because they’re much better at logical thinking than we are. It’s actually things like being funny, being … 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|*.