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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:00:06 -0400
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KURZWEILAI.NET NEWSLETTER

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The Future of Nano & Bio
Technologies
KurzweilAI.net Sept. 19, 2007
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Presentations at the recent
"Challenges & Opportunities: The
Future of Nano & Bio Technologies"
conference, presented by World Care
and the Center for Responsible
Nanotechnology, are now available
online and reported in CRN's blog....
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Metaplace: open DIY virtual worlds
for everyone
Boing Boing Sept. 19, 2007
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Just-launched Metaplace -- a
virtual world creation system that
lets anyone make their own
multiplayer games, link them and
share them -- is a world-creator
that runs right in your browser, and
that makes it simple to share
objects, characters and entire
worlds....
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Surface plasmons enhance
nanostructure possibilities
PhysOrg.com September 18, 2007
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Scientists from University College
London and at the Queen's University
of Belfast have demonstrated a
method of achieving ultrahigh light
dispersion that makes use of surface
plasmon polaritons on
nanostructures. Uses would be in
such areas as quantum information
processing, lab-on-chip applications
for spectral analysis, chemistry and...
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Free Phone Calls With Startup's
$399 Box
AP September 18, 2007
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A Silicon Valley startup will begin
selling $399 gadgets Wednesday that
consumers with broadband Internet
service can use to make unlimited
free domestic phone...
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Solar-Powered Laser
Technology Review September 19, 2007
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A new kind of efficient,
solar-powered laser developed by
researchers at the Tokyo Institute
of Technology is intended to combust
the magnesium content of seawater,
generating large amounts of heat and
hydrogen....
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Intelligent, Chatty Machines
Technology Review September 19, 2007
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A new company called Cognitive Code
has built natural-language
processing software that it believes
could let businesses, such as
cell-phone manufacturers and toy
makers, use the technology to add
conversational abilities to a...
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Cyber-Threats Outpace Security
Measures, Says McAfee CEO
InformationWeek September 18, 2007
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McAfee CEO David DeWalt says
cyber-crime has become a $105
billion business that now surpasses
the value of the illegal drug trade
worldwide. Worldwide data losses now
represent $40 billion in losses to
affected companies and individuals
each year, he...
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BI and Analytics: A Power Couple
Computerworld September 17, 2007
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The marriage of business
intelligence and text analytics is
starting to have a profound impact
on companies in several industries,
including health care, insurance and
finance. Text analytics tools use
linguistics, rules-based
natural-language processing,
specialized algorithms and other
methods to impose order on
unstructured text scattered...
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USB 3.0 To Boost Peripherals to
Multi-Gigabit Speeds
ExtremeTech Sept. 18, 2007
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The new "SuperSpeed" USB spec will
provide a 10X boost in transfer rate
(from 480-Mbits/s in USB 2.0 to 4.8
Gbits/s in USB 3.0), while
dramatically lowering power
consumption, with broad deployment
by 2010. One example of their speed
goals is to transfer a 27GB HD movie
to a portable device in 70 seconds.
The same thing would take 15 minutes
or...
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Intel Chips to Shrink to
32-Nanometer Process
PC World September 18, 2007
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Intel Corp. said Tuesday it will
ramp up performance and energy
efficiency in its microprocessors by
using a 32-nanometer process
technology starting in 2009. Intel
President and CEO Paul Otellini
showed a 300mm wafer built using the
32-nm manufacturing technology. The
chip will house more than 1.9
billion transistors and its
increased...
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New carbon nanotube technology to
reduce large-scale emissions
PhysOrg.com September 18, 2007
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A novel technology to trap
large-scale greenhouse gas emissions
is being developed by University of
Queensland researcher Dr. John Zhu.
He aims to develop a carbon nanotube
membrane for gas separation that
will work like a sieve to separate
high volumes of methane or carbon
dioxide from other gases. The
methane could also be used to
provide...
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