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• KLM forms SkyEnergy to develop sustainable biofuels; completes biofuels flight tests with passengers on board

  
  Biofuels Digest Biofuels DIgest — Authority: 562
  KLMs Boeing 747 biofuels test flight was successfully completed yesterday in Amsterdam In the Netherlands, KLM has also announced the formation of a joint-venture company to develop sustainable biofuels called SkyEnergy , together with North Sea Petroleum and Spring Associates. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) ...
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• Retrofit kit allows cars to drive themselves

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 710
  Let’s say you want to go for a ride in your car, but you don’t feel like driving it. Or perhaps you want to drive your car, but you don’t want to go for a ride in it. These two seemingly contradictory scenarios are probably not what Kairos Autonomi had in mind when it developed the Pronto4 Agnostic Autonomy ...
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• Darpa’s Simulated Cat Brain Project a ‘Scam’: Top Scientist

  
  Danger Room — Authority: 746
  Last year, the Pentagon’s premiere research arm gave IBM nearly five million dollars to make electronics that mimic the “ function, size, and power consumption ” of a cat’s brain. Last week, IBM’s lead researcher on the project, Dharmendra Modha, announced that he had made major progress towards that ...
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• Where did the storyline for Connect the Dots come from?

  
  DENISE ROBBINS BLOG — Authority: 130
  This is one of those “On the way to the bank. . .something happened tales.” A little over a year ago in about August maybe September I found myself intrigued by the Georgia-Russia War. Not because I am a ghoul but for the simple fact that a longtime friend was in the Republic of Georgia and I wanted to understand ...
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• CounterTech – A(F)I: Artificial (Feline) Intelligence

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 586
  SittingNow.com have employed the A.I. powers of Disinformation the Podcast host Joe McFall to kick off their new and improved ‘CounterTech’ series. This week, IBM scientists and their university partners announced a breakthrough in cognitive computing research: the simulation of a brain the size of a ...
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• Darpa Bugs Possibly Used For Surveillance On Subways

  
  NYC The Blog — Authority: 526
  Photo on left: Possible Darpa Bug riding on 6 trian/NYC The Blog. Photo on right: Illustration of a Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (HI-MEMS)/Cornell University Darpa Bugs , known as the Bugs of War , are all the rage these days. The Pentagons Darpa website explains the program and the ...
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• CounterTech – A(F)I: Artificial (Feline) Intelligence

  
  Right Where You Are Sitting Now! - Subculture, Counterculture, Alternative, Occult, Underground Music — Authority: 413
  This is a terrifying concept This is a terrifying concept This week, IBM scientists and their university partners announced a breakthrough in cognitive computing research: the simulation of a brain the size of a cat’s.  Using 144 terabytes of RAM and almost 150,000 processors, scientists were able to model ...
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• Episode 276 – Germany Upset At GM, Toyota’s Pedal Solution, Chrysler Eyes Quality

  
  John's Journal — Authority: 131
  Runtime 7:06 A number of German politicians say GM should not get any government aid to restructure Opel. Toyota may modify the gas pedals on its vehicles due to its massive recall. Chrysler is changing the way it will improve quality. All that and more, plus a preview of this week’s Autoline Detroit about when ...
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• HELLADS: DARPAs Laser Weapons Takes Another Step Forward

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 133
  DARPA is getting ready to move to the next phase of its High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) program to demonstrate a laser weapon system compact enough to be carried on board a tactical aircraft - say a B-1B bomber or an AC-130 gunship - without affecting their ability to perform traditional ...
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• Another Step to the Robo Future

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 133
  On Oct. 27, 2004, a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up alongside a U.S. Army flatbed truck in Balad, in north-central Iraq. The blast killed the truck’s driver, Staff Sgt. Jerome Lemon, from the South Carolina-based 1052nd Transportation Company. Nearly five years later, at a sandy outdoor range at ...
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• warwhores: failure, funding & finding

  
  media monarchy — Authority: 434
  global warfare USA: the world is the pentagons oyster* army sends infant to protective services, mom to afghanistan* US army arrests mother who failed to turn up for afghanistan deployment* army suicides set another yearly record* nato chief: quick exit from afghanistan will unleash global jihad* how the US funds the ...
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• Son of Dyna-Soar

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 126
  Next year the Air Force will launch atop of an Atlas V rocket an unmanned space plane code named “X-37″. It will have a 4′ x 7′ cargo bay and extensive improvements that was learned during the space shuttle era. But the X-37 has a deeper ancestry than the space shuttle that reaches back to the beginnings of ...
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• IBM / DARPA SyNAPSE announce new cat brain simulation at Supercomputing Conference

  
  Technology Report — Authority: 107
  At the Supercomputing Conference SC09  in Portland Oregon IBM has announced a spectacular advance in our ability to mechanically simulate cognitive activity with machines  - they have developed a brain simulation that approximates a cat brain in complexity. We have profiled the SyNAPSE project here at Technology ...
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• IBM simulates cats brain, humans are next

  
  Engadget — Authority: 870
  Almost exactly a year ago we noted DARPA pouring nearly $5 million into an IBM project to develop a computer capable of emulating the brain of a living creature. Having already modeled half of a mouses brain , the researchers were at that time heading toward the more ambitious territory of feline intelligence ...
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• IBM simulates cat’s brain, humans are next

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  Almost exactly a year ago we noted DARPA pouring nearly $5 million into an IBM project to develop a computer capable of emulating the brain of a living creature. Read more here:  IBM simulates cat’s brain, humans are next
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• DARPA Will Build and ground-test a 750 kilogram 150kilowatt laser in 2012

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 625
  DARPA intends to award a 24-month contract to either or both of the HELLADS developers - General Atomics and Textron Defense Systems - to build and ground-test a 150 kilowatt laser compatible with the requirement for a weapon-system weight of 750kg. High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) The goal ...
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• Darpa’s ‘Liquid Laser’ Gunship Program Pushes Ahead

  
  Danger Room — Authority: 746
  The Pentagon’s mad science arm is moving ahead with a project to build a laser weapon “ compact enough to be carried on board a tactical aircraft - say a B-1B bomber or an AC-130 gunship,” Aviation Week reports. Darpa is getting ready to hand out 24-month research contracts to defense contractors Textron or ...
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• Ascend Gets DARPA Contract to Supply TIGR Multimedia Reporting System

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 530
  TIGR system screenshot (click to view full) Ascend Intelligence in Arlington, VA received a $14 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to supply the tactical ground reporting (TIGR) system for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. First tested in Iraq in ...
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• The mad scientists who built the internet

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 512
  DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has been around for 50 years, and it’s created some of the most important technological advances of the century, including the Internet and GPS. In his new book, The Department of Mad Scientists , Michael Belfiore tells the Internet tale, but he also presents the ...
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• DARPA projects for 2010

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 625
  DARPA project solicitations for 2010 SB101-001 Development of Robust, Effective, Inexpensive, Flexible Water and Oxygen Barriers for Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (FOLEDs) SB101-002 Enabling Effective Intelligent Tutoring Systems by Sensing Affect SB101-003 Therapeutic Hypothermia for ...
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