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Thursday March 21, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Flash memory combines graphene and molybdenite Full-brain waves challenge area-specific view of brain activity HP invents glasses-free 3D Amazingly realistic digital screen characters are finally here Latest News Flash memory combines graphene and molybdenite March 21, 2013   EPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties — graphene and molybdenite — into a flash memory prototype that is promising in terms of superior performance, size, flexibility and energy consumption. An ideal “energy band” “For our memory model, we combined the unique electronic properties of molybdenite (MoS2) with graphene’s amazing conductivity,” explains … more… Full-brain waves challenge area-specific view of brain activity March 21, 2013   Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas — when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. New research by an international team of psychologists shows that this view may be wrong. The entire cortex, not just the area responsible for a certain function, is activated when a … more… HP invents glasses-free 3D March 21, 2013   HP researchers have developed a glasses-free, multi-directional diffractive backlight technology that allows for rendering of high-resolution, full-parallax 3D images in a zone up to 180° and up to one meter away, HP Innovation blog reports. In other words: glasses-free 3D for your mobile device. The display technology forms 3D images by projecting different 2D images … more… Amazingly realistic digital screen characters are finally here March 21, 2013   Meet Zoe: a digital talking head. She can express a range of human emotions on demand with “unprecedented realism” and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction, according to researchers at Toshiba’s Cambridge Research Lab and the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, who created her. Zoe, or her offspring, could be used as … more… New EVENTS   BollyDoll: A Live Cinema Experience Dates: Mar 22, 2013 Location: Los Angeles, California more...   ON THE EDGE OF CHAOS: Finding Flow & Resilience through Creativity & the Arts Dates: Apr 7, 2013 Location: Los Angeles, California more... Long Now Seminar — Nicholas Negroponte presents ‘Beyond Digital’ Dates: Apr 17, 2013 Location: San Francisco, California more... New VIDEOS   Create kinect 3D avatars using your body New books Robot Futures author Illah Reza Nourbakhsh   With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in … more… Latest Kurzweil Collection posts How Larry Page and the Knowledge Graph helped Ray Kurzweil decide to join Google   Source: The Verge — March 20, 2013 | Nathan Ingraham It’s been a few months since noted author, futurist and AI guru Ray Kurzweil joined Google, and Singularity Hub has interviewed him to catch up on how his machine learning projects are going thus far. While Kurzweil said his projects haven’t progressed too far at this point, he did reveal some details on how he ended up at Google … 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|*.