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Overload - What Digital Art Tells Us About the Future
Art Print Issues | 3 hours ago by Barney Davey
Artists seeking to express themselves will use whatever means available to forcefully and eloquently bring forth their vision. I'd say Rick Simpson's work shown here punctuates and exemplifies that thought. read more
Plastic film could make house lights obsolete
Singularity & The Price of Rice | October 10th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
msnbc - October 10, 2008, by Peter SvenssonFlexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) could be lighting's futureNISKAYUNA, N.Y. - On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make read more
Long-Lasting Quantum Memory Leads to Long-Distance Quantum Commun…
Singularity & The Price of Rice | October 9th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
Physorg.com - October 07, 2008, by Lisa Zyga A) In the scientists’ apparatus, the atomic ensemble is confined in an optical trap formed by a focused laser beam. This beam is overlapped with counterpropagating “write” and “read” b read more
Atomically Precise Manufacturing Consortium Receives Award from T…
Singularity & The Price of Rice | October 8th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
AZOnanotechnology - October 3rd, 2008 Zyvex Labs today announced the award of a $9.7M program funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and Texas' ETF (Emerging Technology Fund). The goal of this effort is to develop a new man read more
'Intelligent' computers put to the test
Singularity & The Price of Rice | October 7th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
guardian.co.uk - October 5 2008, by David Smith Programmers try to fool human interrogators Can machines think? That was the question posed by the great mathematician Alan Turing. Half a century later six computers are about to converse with human read more
Lying about your age? A computer can tell
Singularity & The Price of Rice | October 6th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
MSNBC - October 6, 2008, by Bryn Nelson How well can you hide your age? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a software program that estimates age based solely on someone’s facial appearance, suggest read more
Russian billionaire builds $400m super yacht complete with anti-m…
The Vancouver Blog Everyone Talks About | October 6th 2008 by Frederic Desjardins
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich feels he has a special need for safety. (His net worth is $22.45 Billions.) The solution is to order a new armour-plated mega-yacht with missile detection system to offer early warning of attack by pirates or te read more
This is your grid on brains
Singularity & The Price of Rice | October 5th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
Physorg.com - October 2, 2008 Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that involves literally tapping br read more
Where is the water-powered car?
Blogging the Singularity | October 5th 2008 by Chris Williamson
Via: Video Blog WHERE IS THE WATER POWERED CAR? read more
Brain cells love attaching to RFID chips.
Blogging the Singularity | October 1st 2008 by Chris Williamson
Hybrid Nanoparticles Image and Treat Tumors
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 29th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
PhysOrg.com - September 26, 2008 By combining a magnetic nanoparticle, a fluorescent quantum dot, and an anticancer drug within a lipid-based nanoparticle, a multi-institutional research team headed by members of the National Cancer Institute read more
Visa develops software for Google phone
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 27th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
msnbc - September 25, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO - Visa Inc. said Thursday it's developing mobile payment software for the new wireless phone powered by Google Inc.'s Android system. San Francisco-based Visa said Android users will be able to receive near read more
HP Labs aims at exascale computing
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 26th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
EETimes - September 19, 2008 by R. Colin Johnson PORTLAND, Ore. — Exascale data centers would harness farms of petaflop-caliber computers to achieve 1,000-fold increases over the world's fastest computers. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories wants to la read more
A robot in every home?
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 24th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
Physorg.com - September 23, 2008 Observers like Bill Gates believe that by 2025 we could have robots in every home. In labs across Europe, researchers are creating designs that could become the robo-butler of the future. Bill Gates likens the read more
US Army Invests in 'Thought Helmet' Technology for Voiceless Comm…
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 23rd 2008 by Barry Mahfood
Physorg.com - September 22, 2008 by Lisa Zyga In the future, soldiers may be communicating silently with sophisticated "thought helmets." The devices would harness a person´s brain waves and transmit them as radio waves, where they would be tr read more
USA : Homeland “Security” Detects Terrorist Threats by Readin…
The Vancouver Blog Everyone Talks About | September 23rd 2008 by Frederic Desjardins
FOX says, “Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind.” link Share on Facebook read more
MMO for the Apocalypse?
Ubiwar | September 22nd 2008 by Tim Stevens
Superstruct [via Jamais Cascio]. Let me know what you think. read more
Building a Self-Assembling Stomach-Bot
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 22nd 2008 by Barry Mahfood
Technology Review - September 22, 2008 by Kristina Grifantini Modules that self-assemble inside the stomach could perform more-sophisticated diagnosis and treatment. Doctors have long sought better ways to examine the workings of the human body wit read more
Computers figuring out what words mean
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 21st 2008 by Barry Mahfood
Physorg.com - September 18, 2008 The Internet got smarter this week with the release of a semantic map that teaches computers the meanings behind words -- and gives the machines a vocabulary far larger than that of a typical US college graduate. "W read more
Google's quest for the intelligent cloud
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 18th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
CNET News - September 18, 2008 by Dan Farber Google is publishing a series of brief articles by ten of its top scientists on how the Internet will evolve in the next ten years. In the first article, Alfred Spector, a vice president of engineering an read more
More on Bob Woodward’s top secret revelations
Blogging the Singularity | September 17th 2008 by Chris Williamson
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:29 PM By: Tim Collie Rumors the U.S. military has created a secret weapon that can decimate al-Qaida insurgents in Iraq and be used to hunt for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan have been heating up military/technology blogs read more
Microsoft and Cray Team Up to Drive High Productivity Computing I…
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 17th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
Cray - September 16, 2008 Supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) today introduced the new Cray CX1 supercomputer pre-installed with Windows HPC Server 2008. With U.S. list prices starting at $25,000 to read more
Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » The Avatar Afterlife
Amitai Givertz | September 15th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"The Long Now Foundation posts speculation that our avatars will soon be programmed with our online preferences, leading to an afterlife for our digital personas:The software used to track the online behavior of users, within in particular system (vi read more
Space-Based Solar Power Breakthrough
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 15th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
National Space Society - September 12, 2008 Space solar power could be a clean, renewable solution to America's long-term energy needs. John C. Mankins, former manager of NASA's Exploration Systems Research and Technology Program, and one of th read more
Transdimensional Particles: Finding The 4th Dimension...
VioletPlanet | September 14th 2008 by VioletPlanet
"A tantalizing idea considered since the early part of the last century is that the universe might have more than the three spatial dimensions of common experience.In addition to the familiar left/right, back/forth and up/down, physicists have contem read more
Researchers develop nano-sized 'cargo ships' to target and destro…
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 14th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
Physorg.com - September 12, 2008Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body's immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs read more
Danny Tenaglia e il suo nuovo album “Futurism”
TUTTOUOMINI GAY CELEBRITY MAGAZINE | September 13th 2008
Danny Tenaglia, uno dei dj più conosciuti di Brooklyn, fa uscire il suo secondo album “Futurism“, dove raccoglie i suoi migliori remix. read more
Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 12th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
Wired Science - September 08, 2008 by Alexis MadrigalA team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life.It's not as Frankensteinian as it sounds. Instead, a lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard read more
Self Surveillance
Blogging the Singularity | September 11th 2008 by Chris Williamson
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new device tracks activity and sleep patterns 24-7. By Kate Greene The simple pedometer has been given a makeover. Fitbit, a startup based in San Francisco, has built a small, unobtrusive sensor that tracks a person&# read more
Fear Looms Over Scientist's Experiment to Uncover Secrets of 'Big…
Singularity & The Price of Rice | September 7th 2008 by Barry Mahfood
Fox News - September 07, 2008 A British physicist has claimed he can explain the secrets of the Big Bang Theory, but his controversial experiment has scientists believing he could bring about the end of the world, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported. read more
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