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Seeing in four dimensions
Science News Aug. 22, 2008
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Étienne Ghys of the École
Normale Supérieure in Lyon,
France has created a series of
videos teaching others to visualize
four dimensions the way he does....
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Mexicans get microchipped over
kidnapping fears
New Scientist Tech Aug. 22, 2008
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Affluent Mexicans worried by
soaring kidnapping rates are
spending thousands of dollars to
implant tiny transmitters under
their skin so satellites can help
find...
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Surveillance made easy
New Scientist news service Aug. 23, 2008
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Governments around the world are
developing increasingly
sophisticated electronic
surveillance methods in a bid to
identify terrorist cells or spot
criminal activity. German
electronics company Siemens has gone
a step further, developing a
complete "surveillance in a box"
system called the Intelligence
Platform, pooling data from sources
such...
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Flat-panel ion thrusters
New Scientist news service Aug. 22, 2008
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University of Michigan researchers
propose that tiny "nano thrusters"
could be made into flat sheets
mounted on the side of spacecraft.
Nanoparticles just tens of
nanometers across are ionized by
electrodes in a chamber. Those
charged ions are accelerated by the
electric field and ejected from a
vent, producing...
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Home Network Where Your TV Talks to
Your Fridge
New York Times Aug. 24, 2008
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Leading consumer electronics
industry players are revamping their
audio and video equipment for a
future centered around the Internet,
a world in which televisions,
stereos and computers --even
dishwashers and refrigerators -- can
communicate with each other over a
wireless home network....
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Turning Point for Touch Screens
New York Times Aug. 23, 2008
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Apple's slick use of touch
technology on its iPhone has created
a new market for touch screens....
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Fish Tale Has DNA Hook: Students
Find Bad Labels
New York Times Aug. 21, 2008
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Two teenagers checked 60 samples of
seafood in restaurants using a
simplified genetic fingerprinting
technique to see whether the fish
New Yorkers buy is what they think
they are getting. They weren't.
Although the testing technique is at
the forefront of research, the fact
that anyone can take advantage of it
by sending samples off to a...
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At Conference on the Risks to
Earth, Few Are Optimistic
New York Times Aug. 23, 2008
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At a conference on global risks
like cyberterrorism, climate change,
nuclear weapons and the world's
lagging energy supply, participants
were not particularly optimistic.
They presented data showing that the
boom in biofuels was depleting
Southeast Asian rain forests, that
"bot herders" -- computer hackers
for hire -- were hijacking millions...
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Intel touts progress toward
intelligent computers
CNET News.Com Aug. 22, 2008
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At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel
Chief Technology Officer Justin
Rattner showed off a number of
technologies in computing, robotics,
and communication that he cited as
evidence that Ray Kurzweil's concept
of "Singularity," when machine
intelligence surpasses human
intelligence, is impending.
Demonstrations spotlighted the
wireless...
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