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• Teachers Begin Using Cell Phones for Class Lessons

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Click here for an interesting Associated Press article documenting how some teachers are beginning incorporate cell phone usage into their classes in imaginative ways.
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• China to Launch Second Lunar Probe Next October

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Click here to read an Associated Press article detailing the status of the growing Chinese space program.
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• Genetically Enhance Humanity or Face Extinction

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  In his talk at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford., examines the nature of human beings as products of evolution, in particular their limited altruism, limited co-operative instincts and limited ability to ...
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• Cambridge’s ProFORMA does 3D scanning with any stationary webcam

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Via Engadget: Never mind that silly name: ProFORMA (which stands for ‘Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition’, if you must know) is some cool system that turns any ordinary webcam into a powerful 3D scanning tool. In fact, a camera is pretty much all you need for some “on-line” modeling ...
  6 days ago

• IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  November 23, 2009 IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed “n.Fluent” — smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously translate electronic documents and Web pages — even live, instant ...
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• Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  
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• HD Tour of the CERN LHC

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  This is a guided tour down to the CERN LHC ATLAS in Geneva Switzerland, filmed around the 7th of February, 2007
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• Anti-fraud credit card features E-Ink display

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Emue Technologies has unveiled the next generation of its anti-fraud credit card. The device combines a world first embedded 14-segment E Ink display with a 12-button numeric keypad, microprocessor and, despite being the same size as a conventional card, a battery designed to last for three years. To authenticate a ...
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• Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Brain waves will replace keyboard and mouse, dial phones and change TV channels By Sharon Gaudin November 19, 2009 02:40 PM ET Computerworld - By the year 2020, you won’t need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using ...
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• Shared Supercomputing and Everyday Research

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  “This could exponentially increase the amount of science done across the globe.” Click here for The New York Times article.
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• “Big Bang” experiment advancing fast

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  GENEVA (Reuters) - After a year’s delay, scientists at the world’s biggest accelerator have restarted an experiment to recreate “Big Bang” conditions that had sparked suggestions the earth would be sucked in by millions of black holes. Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have ...
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• Central Nervous System for Earth: HP’s Ambitious Sensor Network

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  If you follow the Singularity then you’ve already seen this coming: HP Labs has joined the race to build an infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things. The giant computing and IT services company has announced a project that aims to be a “Central Nervous System for the Earth” (CeNSE). It’s a research ...
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• What is the Google Chrome Operating System?

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Here’s the Google explanation on YouTube - Click here for Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Succeed per PC World. Click here for Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Fail per PC World.
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• The Winds of War, The Sands of Time, v2.0

  
  The Futurist — Authority: 100
  This is a version 2.0 of a legendary article written here back on March 19, 2006 , noticed and linked by Hugh Hewitt, which led to The Futurist getting on the blogosphere map for the first time.  Less than four years have elapsed since the original publication, but the landscape of global warfare has ...
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• IBM’s Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat’s Entire Brain

  
  r-echos — Authority: 138
  Using 144 terabytes of RAM, scientists simulate a cat’s cerebral cortex based on 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses Cats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of ...
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• IBM’s Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat’s Entire Brain

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Using 144 terabytes of RAM, scientists simulate a cat’s cerebral cortex based on 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses Cats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of ...
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• What if…Human Tissue Could Be Used to Make Objects?

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Bone tissue cultivated outside a patient’s body will soon be used in reconstructive surgery. As the bioscience behind this application develops, the promise of the technology provokes curiosity and speculation about alternative uses. Biojewellery explores such an alternative, providing couples with a symbol of their ...
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• Spare parts

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  A bionic eye, a new heart grown in the lab, spinal implants that will help quadriplegics walk again… Will we soon be able to replace any body part at will? Things have certainly come a long way since Australian scientists first developed the bionic ear 30 years ago. That first relatively crude cochlear implant has ...
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• ‘Universal’ Programmable Two-Qubit Quantum Processor Created

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2009) — Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first “universal” programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics — the rules governing the submicroscopic world — using two quantum ...
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• Contact Lenses to get Built-In Virtual Graphics

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  A contact lens that harvests radio waves to power an LED is paving the way for a new kind of display. The lens is a prototype of a device that could display information beamed from a mobile device… Click here for the article found on the New Scientist website.
  2 weeks ago

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