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• Intel Crafts Algorithms for Pocket Supercomputers

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 431
  Pocket supercomputers, due by 2018, will likely use the perception algorithms being developed today by Intel Labs’ People and Practices Research group….
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• Interview with Salim Ismail - Executive Director of Singularity University

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 431
  
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• The Army’s Newest Weapons.

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 431
  Col. Doug Tamilio takes CNN to the testing grounds for a first look at the Army’s newest weapons.
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• Crowds of Bacteria Turn Gears a Million Times Their Size

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 431
  Tiny bacteria may seem rather unintelligent, but a bacterial crowd can accomplish the Sisyphean task of turning microgears millions of times bigger than themselves. The microbes start out by swimming randomly, but occasionally collide with the spokes of a gear and begin pushing. Scientists from the U.S. Department of ...
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• Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 441
  For the next decade . Neat stuff, I’m glad to hear his projections on solar power. I think it’s a crying shame how much we’ve let politicians slow down our economy fighting against our use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy, but if we can solve all our energy problems with cheap solar, I’m fine with letting ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
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• “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It”

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 431
  Click here on the highlighted book title Googled: The End of the World As We Know It for more information on both the book and the author.
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• Ray Kurzweil on the next ten years

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 137
  Via KurzweilAI.net — Anyone who’s read this blog for any amount of time knows I regularly cover the offerings at KurzweilAI in general and Ray’s thoughts on the future in particular. He’s certainly one of the most prominent futurists out there right now. Top futurist, Ray Kurzweil, predicts how ...
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• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
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• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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• Google Goggles

  
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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
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