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New York Times Aug. 21, 2008
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Microsoft's new free Photosynth
service turns your overlapping
photos into a online 3-D panorama
(Windows only). Microsoft hopes to
design a way to connect these
photosynths, eventually building a
complete photographic, navigable,
digital version of our real...
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The Internet's New Shortcut
Forbes Aug. 21, 2008
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University of Washington and Yale
University researchers have
developed a faster way to send data
across the Internet, accelerating
peer-to-peer traffic. Their
algorithm, which they call P4P or
"local file-sharing," finds the
shortest path across the Internet by
tracking users' locations and ISP
network maps without revealing
details to either...
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The news on Intel's Nehalem; chips
with integrated GPUs up next
ZDNet Aug. 20, 2008
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Intel Corp. is accelerating efforts
to boost computing performance
without increasing power
consumption, in a new generation of
microprocessors code-named Nehalem.
A new "turbo" feature powers down
unused processor cores to hold down
the total power consumed by a chip.
An initial model for desktop
computers, Core i7, will offer four...
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Monolithic comb drive -- a
nanoscale manipulator with
atomic-scale precision
Nanowerk News Aug. 20, 2008
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Purdue University engineers have
created a "monolithic comb drive,"
which can precisely move or sense
nanoscale movement and forces and
might be used as a high-precision
nanopositioner for such uses as
biological sensors and computer hard
drives....
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Intel Moves to Free Gadgets of
Their Recharging Cords
New York Times Aug. 20, 2008
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Intel has made progress in a
technique for wirelessly powering
consumer gadgets and computers,
using "resonant induction" to
transmit power several feet without
wires. See also: Charging Batteries
without...
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Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain
ScientificAmerican.com Aug. 19, 2008
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A recent experiment by University
of Minnesota and University of
California at Santa Barbara
psychologists suggests that people
may behave less responsibly if they
regard their actions as beyond their
control. But a survey by City
Univeristy of New York philosopheres
found that free-will skeptics were
also much more likely to say that
people...
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Boosting 'good' fat to burn off the
bad
Nature News Aug. 20, 2008
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A simple solution to the growing
obesity problem might be to find a
way to generate extra "brown fat"
(burns a tremendous amount of
energy) and let the body burn away
the energy stored in its excess
"white...
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Watson vs Venter: the loser is
race-based medicine
New Scientist news service Aug. 20, 2008
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A new comparison of the publicly
available genome sequences of James
Watson and Craig Venter indicates
that skin color doesn't necessarily
tell you much about the rest of
their genome or how they'll respond
to drugs or which drugs they'll
respond to, says Venter. But the
availability of cheap genetic
testing -- and soon complete
individual...
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California Licenses 2 Companies to
Offer Gene Services
New York Times Aug, 19, 2008
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California has granted business
licenses to companies that offer
consumers information about their
genes: Navigenics and 23andMe,
requiring doctors to be involved in
ordering genetic tests. Both offer
services, costing from $1,000 to
$2,500, that scan a person's whole
genome, providing a variety of
information about the risk of
various...
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