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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:00:06 -0500
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Mapping News
Technology Review Nov. 9, 2007
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A new startup called YourStreet is
bringing hyper-local information to
its users by collecting news stories
and placing them on its map-based
interface, down to the nearest
street corner. While there have been
many companies that combine
information and maps, YourStreet is
novel in its focus on classifying
news by...
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>From Molecules To The Milky Way:
Dealing With The Data Deluge
Science Daily Nov. 8, 2007
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CSIRO Australia has a new research
program aimed at helping science and
business cope with masses of data
from areas like astronomy, gene
sequencing, surveillance, image
analysis and climate modelling. The
research program, which began this
year, is called "Terabyte Science"
and is named for the data sets that
start at terabytes (thousands of...
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New Technology Can Be Operated By
Thought
Science Daily Nov. 6, 2007
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Neuroscientists have significantly
advanced brain-machine interface
(BMI) technology. Wadsworth Center
scientists have succeeded in
developing a BCI that lets the
severely disabled use their personal
computers Severely handicapped
people who cannot contract even one
leg or arm muscle now can
independently compose and send
e-mails and...
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NASA pressed to avert catastrophic
Deep Impact
PhysOrg.com Nov. 8, 2007
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NASA penny-pinching risks exposing
humankind to a planetary catastrophe
if a big enough asteroid evades
detection and slams into Earth, US
lawmakers warned...
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Oil from Wood
Technology Review Nov. 9, 2007
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Dutch biofuels startup Bioecon and
Khosla Ventures have launched a
joint venture called Kior, which
will commercialize Bioecon's process
for converting agricultural waste
directly into "biocrude," a mixture
of small hydrocarbon molecules that
can be processed into fuels such as
gasoline or diesel in existing oil...
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Robot Consumers, Grow Up!
PC Magazine Nov. 7, 2007
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"Someday the robots will rise up
and kill us all. They'll record our
lives, obliterate our privacy, set
off nuclear war, and eventually turn
on us and eat our brains. If any of
this ever did happen, it would serve
us right. We, at least American
consumers, don't deserve the future
that robots really have to...
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The End of Oil is Upon Us. We Must
Move On - Quickly.
Autopia Wired Blog Nov. 7, 2007
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The International Energy Agency
states in no uncertain terms in its
annual World Energy Outlook that
"alarming" growth in worldwide
energy needs will within a
generation threaten energy security,
accelerate global climate change and
possibly bring worldwide shortages
and...
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