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Telstra chief hosts conference as
hologram
NEWS.com.au may 27, 2008
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In an Australian first, Telstra's
high definition holographic video
projection system projected a
life-sized, real-time hologram of an
executive, who interacted with
business executives at an Adelaide
conference while he stood in front
of cameras in Telstra's Melbourne...
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Mobile phone users top 3.3 billion
Sydney Morning Herald May 25, 2008
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The International
Telecommunications Union reports
that the number of mobile phone
users worldwide soared to over 3.3
billion by the end of 2007,
equivalent to a penetration rate of
49 per...
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Genesis of a Virus
Technology Review may 28, 2008
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Rockefeller University researchers
have been able to watch a virus
being built in real-time, observing
hundreds of thousands of molecules
assemble inside a cell to create a
single particle of HIV. They used
multiple imaging techniques to
record each step of the process,
allowing them to watch as the virus
assembled and then gradually budded
off...
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Microfiltering Sepsis
Technology Review May 23, 2008
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Children's Hospital Boston
researchers are developing a
microfluidic filtration device to
rapidly pump blood out of the body
and clear it of sepsis-causing
pathogens before sending the blood
back to the body. Severe sepsis
happens when the immune system
overreacts to bacterial or fungal
infections. As sepsis sets in,
inflammation rapidly...
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Military robot subs seek out sunken
treasure
NewScientist.com news service May 27, 2008
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Autonomous underwater vehicles
(AUVs) designed to hunt for
underwater mines were used to
discover archaeological items,
finding several new artifacts off
the coast of Rhode Island. Sonar
image of a shipwreck (NOAA) These
results suggest that robotic
submersibles could find many
non-military applications as they
become cheaper. These...
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Robots go Where Scientists Fear to
Tread
KurzweilAI.net May 28, 2008
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Georgia Institute of Technology and
Pennsylvania State University
researchers have build autonomously
collaborating robots called SnoMotes
to collect data from dangerous
ice-shelf environments. On-site
measurements of ice-shelves can be
more accurate than satellite or
static weather station data, but
they are difficult and dangerous for...
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Vaccine triggers immune response,
prevents Alzheimer's in mice
KurzweilAI.net May 28, 2008
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University of Rochester Medical
Center scientists have created a
vaccine that prevents the
development of Alzheimer's
disease-like symptoms in mice
without causing inflammation or
significant side effects. They used
a herpes virus container (stripped
of its viral genes) loaded with the
genetic code for amyloid beta and
interleukin-4 (a protein...
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