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Uni open day held in Second Life
2008-03-22 06:34:00 A university is holding an open day in the virtual world of Second Life . BA Media students at Liverpool Hope University have set up a virtual campus on the imaginary world website as part of a six-month project. Virtual students will be on campus on Thursday to interact with prospective students from across the globe. Second Life is ... More About: Open , Held
Building a Machine to Search for Cosmic Secrets
2008-03-22 06:20:00 By Katherine McAlpine, U.S. Large Hadron Collider Communications posted: 21 March 2008 ET This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation On the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 22, the cold, wet wind was enough to shock me awake as I arrived at the surface assembly building above the cavern of ... More About: Building , Machine , Search , Secrets , Cosmic
Evidence for Ocean Found at Saturn?s Moon Titan
2008-03-22 06:19:00 By Charles Q. Choi Special to SPACE.com posted: 2008 March 20 2:03 pm ET An ocean seasoned with the chemical ingredients of life may lie hidden beneath the icy surface of Saturn ’s moon Titan . The evidence? The entire surface of Titan appears to be sliding around, scientists say, like cheese over tomato sauce on a slice of pizza. Scientists had long ... More About: Moon , Evidence , Ocean
Scientists discover signs of ancient life on Mars
2008-03-22 06:18:00 By Dave Mosher updated 1:47 p.m. CT, Thurs., March. 20, 2008 For the first time, satellite imagery reveals thick Martian salt deposits scattered across the planet’s southern surface, which one planetary scientist claims could be sites of ancient life. The mats of sodium chloride ? the same taste-enhancing mineral found on your kitchen table ? serve as more ... More About: Life , Mars , Signs , Scientists , Ancient
?Consciousness is an aspect of life?
2008-03-22 05:42:00 Fritjof Capra is best known as the author of The Tao of Physics. Over the last 20 years, his work has evolved to include ecology and activism. He is the founding director of the Centre for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He spoke with Swati Chopra: How did you come upon the metaphor of the dance ... More About: Life , Consciousness
63-year-old solves riddle from 1970
2008-03-22 05:40:00 By Aron Heller updated 5:06 p.m. CT, Thurs., March. 20, 2008 JERUSALEM - A mathematical puzzle that baffled the top minds in the esoteric field of symbolic dynamics for nearly four decades has been cracked ? by a 63-year-old immigrant who once had to work as a security guard. Avraham Trahtman, a mathematician who also toiled as a ... More About: Year , Riddle
Male whales are singing fools for love
2008-03-22 05:35:00 By Jay Lindsay BOSTON, May 6, 2004 - The male humpback whale is believed to sing its mysterious songs mainly for the same reason generations of teenage boys have started bad garage bands: to get girls. Researchers had thought the ocean crooners serenaded their women only during their winter mating season in the tropics. Now, scientists know ... More About: Love , Male , Whales , Singing
Nanoscience will change the way we think about the world
2008-03-22 05:33:00 Blacksburg, Va. — The ubiquity of mineral nanoparticles in natural waters, the atmosphere, and in soils and their intriguing properties provide Earth scientists with another dimension in which to understand our planet. So states a team of scientists from seven universities in a review article in the March 21, 2008, issue of Science, ?Nanominerals, Mineral Nanoparticles, ... More About: World , Change , The World
At OMMA, We Saw The Future, And It Was Freaky
2008-03-22 05:33:00 by Erik Sass, Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008 7:00 AM ET HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — IMAGINE A remote control headset that scans your brainwaves to figure out what you want to see. “Pure science fiction,” you say. Actually it’ll be on sale by Christmas 2008. No, really. The headset was just one of a series of future-is-now revelations ... More About: Future , The Future , Freaky
All of the Feeds on Blogging the Singularity as of Now
2008-03-16 08:18:00 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/rss/index. html http://www.physorg.com/physorg.rss http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=1019 http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/9548203/devic e/rss/rss.xml http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/wp-rss2. php http://www.smalltimes.com/rss/smalltimes. rss http://www.smalltimes.com/rss/articlefeed .cfm?subcat=WIBrf&p=109 More About: Blogging , Housekeeping
Aubrey de Grey
2008-03-12 07:17:00 This is pretty cool thought I’d post it in case any of you haven’t seen it around yet… More About: Grey , Aubrey
Slaves to the Machine? Death of a Nation?
2008-03-12 06:31:00 Bush just sent a 3.1 TRILLION dollar budget to Congress. 3.1 WHAT?!? TRILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you kidding me??? That’s over $10,000 for every man, woman, AND child in the United States. Forget the Matrix Trilogy, it seems as though we are slaves to the machine already… This government is too big to govern ANYTHING. The right hand can’t POSSIBLY know ... More About: Machine , Nation , Death , Slaves
I used Stanfords Make3D Program
2008-03-09 11:05:00 Well, when it gets done processing it should show up HERE More About: Program
Racing Heart Site and Promo Video Now Live!
2008-03-07 15:39:00 Hey Everyone! If you haven’t heard yet I am filming a documentary and have recently built a website and put up a trailer for you to see. If you want to know what keeps me busy when I’m not updating Blogging the Singularity then visit: Racing Heart Movie.com There is a video trailer on there and also check out the ... More About: Video , Site , Live
From 2-D pictures to 3 dimensions
2008-03-03 19:17:00 An award-winning 3D reconstruction algorithm designed by a team of computer science researchers from UC San Diego brings this dream within the grasp of reality. This research gets at the heart of ?autocalibration,? a well-studied, fundamental problem in computer vision. Autocalibration aims to recover the three dimensional structure of a scene using only ... More About: Pictures
Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV
2008-03-03 19:00:00 February 28, 2008 - Edmonton - A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has discovered a gene that is able to block HIV, and in turn prevent the onset of AIDS. Stephen Barr, a molecular virologist in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, says his team has identified a gene called TRIM22 that ... More About: Gene , Discover , Blocks
Japan looks to a robot future
2008-03-03 18:58:00 The country is betting on robots to replenish the aging work force. TOKYO - At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up to a database of words clustered by association, the robot ? dubbed Kansei, ... More About: Japan , Robot , Future
Japanese robots enter daily life
2008-03-03 18:57:00 By Hiroko Tabuchi, Associated Press TOKYO ? At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up to a database of words clustered by association, the robot ? dubbed Kansei, or “sensibility” ? responds to the word ... More About: Life , Daily , Robots , Japanese , Enter
Orgasmotron: Orgasms at the Push of a Button
2008-02-28 22:41:00 ‘Would it be considered adultery if I gave the remote control to someone other than my husband?’ There are women who do not even know what an orgasm feels like. Others must ’squeeze’ a stud, like a lemon, to get one. And, let’s face it, how many males are real studs?… The solution is found in ... More About: Button , Orgasms , Push
Robot wars are a reality
2008-02-28 22:16:00 Armies want to give the power of life and death to machines without reason or conscience * Noel Sharkey * The Guardian, The deployment of the first armed battlefield robots in Iraq is the latest step on a dangerous path - we are sleepwalking into a brave new world where robots decide who, where and when to kill. ... More About: Reality , Robot , Wars
Plan to teach baby robot to talk
2008-02-28 22:13:00 A university in Devon is preparing to find out if a baby robot can be taught to talk. Staff at the University of Plymouth will work with a 1m-high (3ft) humanoid baby robot called iCub. Over the next four years robotics experts will work with language development specialists who research how parents teach children to speak. Their findings ... More About: Baby , Robotics , Robot , Talk , Plan
Jump into the screen with 360-degree immersive video
2008-02-27 22:17:00 A company based in Calgary, Alberta, called Immersive Media Corp. is trying to achieve exactly this type of immersive experience with a new camera and software technology. When watching a video filmed with the Immersive Viewer (IMViewer) system, users can control the scene, seamlessly moving the perspective up, down, sideways, or even behind the ... More About: Video , Screen , Jump , Degree
Penn researchers engineer first system of human nerve-cell tissue
2008-02-27 22:15:00 Researchers at the University of Penn sylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that living human nerve cells can be engineered into a network that could one day be used for transplants to repair damaged to the nervous system. They report their findings in the February issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery. ?We have created a three-dimensional ... More About: System , Cell , Human , Engineer
What banged?
2008-02-27 22:13:00 Top scientist Neil Turok at Canada’s Perimeter Institute to share insight on deepest mysteries of the cosmos The evidence that the universe emerged 14 billion years ago from an event called ‘the Big Bang’ is overwhelming. Yet the cause of this event remains deeply mysterious. In the conventional picture, the ‘initial singularity’ is unexplained. It is ...
?Silicon womb? to begin fertility trials
2008-02-27 22:09:00 * 14:21 27 February 2008 * NewScientist.com news service * Tom Simonite Printable versionEmail to a friendRSS FeedSyndicate The ’silicon womb’ compared to conventional IVF (Image: Anecova) Enlarge image The ’silicon womb’ compared to conventional IVF (Image: Anecova) Tools digg thisAdd My YahooAdd Google Reader reddit submitNewsvineciteulike submit Related Articles ... More About: Cyborg , Trials , Silicon , Genetics
Copyright this: Intellectual property?s social value may trump copyright la
2008-02-27 22:04:00 y Dallas Weaver February 20, 2008 Jon Healey correctly points out that the debate over intellectual-property theft is complex because we are often dealing with “non-real properties.” These properties cost nearly nothing to produce, and an infinite number of people can use the same property at the same time. And yet, we still want to treat them ... More About: Social , Property , Intellectual , Copyright , Trump
CO2-Absorbing Crystals Just the Tip of Iceberg for UCLA Lab
2008-02-27 22:03:00 By Dave Bullock Write to the Author 02.26.08 | 9:00 PM LOS ANGELES — Researchers at UCLA made headlines this month by developing a nanoscale crystal that traps roughly 80 times its volume of carbon dioxide. This particular crystal has excited proponents of carbon-capture technology for its ability to absorb CO2 and nothing else, but the ... More About: Iceberg
Neither Gods Nor Goo: Avoiding both utopian and apocalyptic forecasts for n
2008-02-27 22:01:00 By the middle of the century, the inventor Ray Kurzweil suggests in his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near, human beings will live in perpetual clouds of nanobots, molecule-sized robots that spend each moment altering our micro-environments to our precise preferences. Over the longer term, he imagines that nanotechnology?the manipulation of matter at the molecular ... More About: Gods , Forecasts
One million trillion ?flops? per second targeted by new institute
More articles from this author:2008-02-27 22:00:00 Preparing groundwork for an exascale computer is the mission of the new Institute for Advanced Architectures, launched jointly at Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories. An exaflop is a thousand times faster than a petaflop, itself a thousand times faster than a teraflop. Teraflop computers ?the first was developed 10 years ago at Sandia ? currently ... More About: Million 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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