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Emotional robot has empathy,
understands your frustration
engadget July 18, 2008
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The Feelix Growing project uses
software that allows robots to
adjust to how a person is feeling
based on feedback from cameras and
sensors. The bots look at a human's
facial expression and key in on
their voice and proximity to
determine what kind of mood they're...
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Google and the Real Search for
Meaning on the Web
New York Times July 17, 2008
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Google has been publishing a series
of posts about how its search engine
works with meaning, going beyond
page rank....
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Losing the lasers turns CDs into
memory sticks
New Scientist news service July 16, 2008
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A future generation of ultra-dense
flash memory chips could be based on
a new Phase Change Memory (PCM)
technology, according to Numonyx, an
Intel spinoff. Flash memory
transistors (currently 65 nanometers
wide) will face limited lifetime
(write/erase cycles) when dimensions
get below 20 nanometers, due to the
retention of electric charge in...
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Gore Calls for Carbon-Free Electric
Power
New York Times July 18, 2008
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Al Gore said on Thursday that
Americans must abandon electricity
generated by fossil fuels within a
decade and rely on the sun, the
winds and other environmentally
friendly sources of power, or risk
losing their national security as
well as their creature comforts. He
cited military-intelligence studies
warning of "dangerous national
security...
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Say goodbye to the computer mouse
BBC News July 17, 2008
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A Gartner analyst predicts the
demise of the computer mouse in the
next three to five years for home
entertainment or working on a
notebook. Taking over will be
gestural computer mechanisms like
Nintendo's Wii, multitouch screens
like the iPhone, and facial
recognition devices such as products
from Sony, Canon and other video and
photographic...
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Strongest Material Ever Tested
Technology Review July 17, 2008
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In a strain measurement using
perfect samples of graphene,
Columbia University researchers have
confirmed that is the strongest
material ever tested. Illustration
showning the one-atom-thick atomic
structure of graphene (Jeffrey
Kysar, Columbia University) The
finding provides evidence that
graphene transistors could be the
most effective...
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A Musical Score for Disease
Technology Review July 18, 2008
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Gil Alterovitz, a research fellow
at Harvard Medical School, is
developing a computer program that
translates protein and gene
expression into music. In his
acoustic translation, harmony
represents good health, and discord
indicates disease. Using data
collected from a study of protein
expression in colon cancer,
Alterovitz analyzed...
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Quantum Leap
Technology Review July 17, 2008
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An international team of
researchers has shown that it can
control the quantum state of a
single electron in a silicon
transistor--even putting the
electron in two places at once.
Their discovery could help pave the
way toward a practical quantum
computer. The electronc could be in
one of three states. At low electric
fields, the electron...
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Arthritis drugs help with other
inflammatory diseases
KurzweilAI.net July 18, 2008
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The Imperial College London
researchers who developed effective
rheumatoid arthritis drugs through
targeting cytokines (immune system
signaling proteins) have found that
similar anti-cytokine therapies may
help with atherosclerosis and other
medical conditions. The researchers
previously discovered that in
autoimmune diseases (such as...
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New Targets for Treating
Huntington's Disease Discovered
Scientific American July 16, 2008
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Researchers at University College
London have discovered early blood
markers (excess cytokines--signaling
proteins--a sign of an overly
aggressive immune system) in people
with the gene for Huntington's
disease, a neurodegenerative
disorder . These markers show that
the neurodegeneration may start more
than 15 years before neurological
symptoms...
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Obsessed Brains May Be Sluggish
ScienceNOW Daily News July 17, 2008
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University of Cambridge researchers
have found that patients with
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
have reduced activity in the
orbitofrontal cortex, the region
that helps people make decisions and
keep compulsive behaviors in check.
Orbitofrontal cortex activity (Paul
Wicks) The researchers took fMRI
scans as participants engaged in a...
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'Ten Commandments' of race and
genetics issued
NewScientist.com news service July 17, 2008
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A multidisciplinary group focused
on contentious issues related to
race, genetic markers and medicine
has released a set of 10 guiding
principles for the scientific
community. The group--ranging from
geneticists and psychologists to
historians and philosophers--was led
by anthropologist Sandra Soo-Jin Lee
of Stanford University. The...
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