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[Brian Atkins]

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Subject: KurzweilAI.net Daily Newsletter
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:00:13 -0500
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Foresight Unconference breaks new
ground
KurzweilAI.net Nov. 3, 2007
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Foresight's 2007 "Unconference"
introduced an effective new approach
to conferences this past weekend, as
participants self-organized into
ad-hocm informative sessions....
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Why Google Turned Into a Social
Butterfly
New York Times November 4, 2007
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Suppose that you could leave the
island compound of a social
networking site and take your
network of friends, and friends of
friends, anywhere on the Web? This
is what makes Google's announcement
last week of a new alliance of
companies so enticing -- the
possibility that social networking
will become...
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Crops That Shut Down Pests' Genes
tec Nov. 5, 2007
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Monsanto is developing genetically
modified plants that use RNA
interference to kill the insects
that eat...
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The Charge of the Ultra-Capacitors
Spectrum Online November 2007
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MIT scientists plan to replace the
activated carbon of current
ultracapacitors, which can can store
more charge than a capacitor, with a
dense, microscopic forest of carbon
nanotubes grown directly on the
surface of the current collector.
This would create a device that can
hold up to 50 percent as much
electrical energy as a comparably
sized...
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'Aggressive but safe' SUV wins
robotic street race
NewScientist.com news service Nov. 5, 2007
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"Boss," a vehicle developed at
Carnegie Mellon University, was
declared the winner of a $2 million
prize in DARPA's urban robot car
race on Sunday. It travelled
autonomously through traffic for six
hours and 60 miles around a ghost
town in California. The US military
aims to create autonomous supply
vehicles -- with a goal of making a
third...
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Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives
for the Nano Century
The Human Future Fall 2007
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Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives
for the Nano Century, edited by
Nigel M. de S. Cameron and Ellen
Mitchell, addresses the emerging
ethical, legal, policy, business,
and social issues of nanotechnology.
It is "a core reference for
professionals dealing with
nanotechnology, including scientists
from academia and industry, policy
makers,...
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Genetically Engineered 'Mighty
Mouse' Can Run 6 Kilometers Without
Stopping
Science Daily Nov. 2, 2007
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Case Western Reserve University
researchers have bred a line of
"mighty mice" (PEPCK-Cmus mice) that
have the capability of running five
to six kilometers at a speed of 20
meters per minute on a treadmill for
up to six hours before stopping.
According to Richard W. Hanson,
Professor of Biochemistry at Case
Western Reserve, the key to this...
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The Invincible Man
Washington Post October 31, 2007
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Aubrey de Grey, 44 Going on 1,000,
Wants Out of Old Age. With adequate
funding, de Grey thinks scientists
may, within a decade, triple the
remaining life span of
late-middle-age mice. The day this
announcement is made, he believes,
the news will hit people like a
brick as they realize that their
cells could be next. He speculates
people will...
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Folding at home project sets Guinness
world record for computation speed
KurzweilAI.net Nov. 3, 2007
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Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
has announced that PLAYSTATION 3
computer entertainment systems, part
of Stanford University's
Folding at home program, have enabled
the distributed computing project to
be recognized by Guinness World
Records as the most powerful
distributed computing network in the
world. The record was initially set
on...
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