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AMD Ships Teraflops Line Of
Graphics Cards
Information Week June 25, 2008
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Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday
released a line of graphics cards
capable of performing a teraflop (a
trillion calculations) per second,
double the computing power of the
company's previous generation of
high-end cards....
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Physicists Produce
Quantum-Entangled Images
PhysOrg.com June 25, 2008
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Researchers from the National
Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) and the University
of Maryland (UM) have produced
"quantum images," pairs of
information-rich visual patterns
whose features are entangled (linked
by the laws of quantum physics).
(NIST) Matching up both quantum
images and subtracting their
fluctuations, their...
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Methuselah Foundation Announces
Aging 2008 at UCLA
KurzweilAI.net June 26, 2008
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The Understanding Aging conference,
running June 28-29 at UCLA, will
begin with a free opening session:
Aging 2008: The Disease - The Cure -
The Implications. The speakers at
Aging 2008 will argue that the
near-term consequences of intense
research into regenerative medicine
could be the development of
therapies that extend healthy human
life...
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How biological 'alchemy' can change
a cell's destiny (article preview)
New Scientist June 18, 2008
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In a step closer to a
"regenerative" approach to repairing
damaged tissue, scientists have made
two recent breakthroughs. Kyoto
Uninversity: Pancreatic cells that
secrete digestive enzymes have been
converted directly into
insulin-producing beta cells, using
retroviruses carrying the genes for
four transcription factors (proteins
that regulate...
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Time reversal allows wireless
broadband under the sea
New Scientist news service June 25, 2008
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Researchers at Scripps Institution
of Oceanography and NATO Undersea
Research Center have developed an
"acoustic time reversal" technique
that boosts underwater wireless
broadband speed by up to three
times, or extends the range up to
3500 km. The system compensates for
reduced signal/noise ratio due to
phase-delay artifacts from surface
and...
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Dual-display e-book reader lets you
flip pages naturally
Technology/New Scientist blog June 25, 2008
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Researchers at the University of
Maryland and UC Berkeley have
developed a dual-display prototype
e-reader that allows two pages to be
opened and closed, simulating
turning the page and other book-like
behavior....
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AI could power next-gen CCTV
cameras
PC Pro June 25, 2008
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University of Portsmouth scientists
are developing fuzzy-logic-based
technology that would allow CCTV
cameras to "hear" violent sounds
(glass breaking, gunshots, etc.) and
react quickly, respond to visual
cues such as fights or violent
behavior, and pick up key words and
phrases it associates with criminal
activity....
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Scandinavian scientists designing
robotic snakes
Australian PC World June 26, 2008
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The Sintef Group of Trondheim,
Norway is designing a robot modeled
on snakes to inspect and clean
complicated industrial pipe systems
that are typically narrow and
inaccessible to humans. The
intelligent robots have multiple
joints to enable them to twist
vertically and climb up through pipe
systems to locate leaks in water
systems, inspect...
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How to deliver DNA into cells
without triggering immune responses
KurzweilAI.net June 26, 2008
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University of Georgia researchers
have used self-assembling small
peptides (short chains of amino
acids, which bind to genes and mimic
proteins) packaged in a
biocompatible polymer scaffold to
deliver DNA into cells (for gene
therapy) without triggering immune
responses (such as allergies and
anaphylactic shock). Modified
viruses are currently...
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Viruses use microRNA to block the
immune system
KurzweilAI.net June 26, 2008
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Researchers have discovered that
viruses use microRNAs (small RNA
molecules that suppress gene
expression) to block the human
immune system, making it harder to
fight the virus. The discovery could
lead to new antiviral therapies that
target viral microRNA. Conversely,
it could lead to new methods to
suppress the...
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