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Google Enters the Browser Wars
TIME Sep. 2, 2008
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On Tuesday, Google will unveil its
own browser, called Chrome,
available for downloading initially
for Windows, and announced via a
Scott McCloud comic book....
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Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters
teach themselves to fly
PhysOrg.com Sep. 1, 2008
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Stanford computer scientists have
developed an AI system that enables
robotic helicopters to teach
themselves to fly difficult stunts
by watching other helicopters
perform the same maneuvers. The
result is an autonomous helicopter
than can perform a complete airshow
of complex tricks on its own. There
is interest in using autonomous...
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Book Excerpt: The Numerati by
Stephen Baker
BusinessWeek Aug, 28, 2008
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The Numerati introduces us to the
mathematical wizards who are digging
through our data to decode us as
patients, shoppers, voters,
potential terrorists -- even lovers.
IBM mathematicians are building
predictive mathematical models of
50,000 of IBM's tech consultants,
creating inventories of all of their
skills to calculate, mathematically,
how...
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New Study Shows Solar System is
Unique
The Future of Things Sep. 1, 2008
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Research conducted by a team of
North American scientists shows our
solar system is special, with very
specific conditions needed for a
proto-stellar disk to evolve into a
solar system-like planetary system
-- contrary to the accepted theory
that ours is an average planetary
system....
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A Chinese Challenge to Intel
Technology Review Sep. 1, 2008
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Chinese researchers have unveiled
details of Godson-3, a scalable
microprocessor with four cores (work
in parallel) that they hope will
bring personal computing to most
ordinary people in China by 2010,
with an eight-core version in...
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Gaming Evolves
New York Times Sep. 1, 2008
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Spore, a computer game about
evolution to be released Friday,
starts with single-cell microbes and
follows their evolution across
billions of years into intelligent
multicellular creatures that can
build civilizations, colonize the
galaxy and populate new planets,
while touching on some of the big
questions that evolutionary
biologists...
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The Odds It Will Kill You? See New
Charts
New York Times Sep. 1, 2008
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New risk charts in a paper
published in The Journal of the
National Cancer Institute provide a
broader perspective than most of the
risk calculators on the Internet,
because they cover the risks for 10
different causes of death, and for
all causes combined, while
differentiating by age and between
smokers, nonsmokers and former...
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Cyberwar fears grow after Georgia
websites attacked
New Scientist news service Sep. 1, 2008
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The distributed denial of service
(DDOS) attacks that hit Georgian
government and news websites have
U.S. military officials concerned
that bands of independent "cyber
militias" will increasingly wield
power over international...
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Genetic data withdrawn amid privacy
concerns
New Scientist news service Sep. 1, 2008
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A new statistical method of
forensic DNA analysis from the
Translational Genomics Research
Institute allows identification of
individual DNA profiles from a
mixture of DNA of more than 1000
people, but allows possible
violations of the privacy of
volunteers in genetic studies.
Craig's method uses sophisticated
algorithms to analyze between...
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