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Google offers $10M for ideas that
can 'change the world'
Computerworld Sep. 24, 2008
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Google has unveiled a $10 million
effort to implement ideas that can
"change the world by helping as many
people as possible." As part of the
Project 10^100 (pronounced Project
10 to the 100th), Google plans to
ask its users to submit ideas until
Oct. 20 for ways to improve people's
lives. Google will choose what it
feels are the 100 best ideas...
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Google's co-founder pushes
Washington to open up unused
broadcast spectrum
Mercury News Sep. 24, 2008
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Larry Page, co-founder of Google,
lobbied the FCC and members of
Congress Wednesday to open up the
"great resource" of unused broadcast
spectrum for a new generation of
mobile and wireless devices by
unlicensed use of unused TV
spectrum, often called "white...
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Review: Lifestreaming sites can
organize Web lives
AP Sep. 24, 2008
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Lifestreaming sites like
FriendFeed,Profilactic, and Swurl
aggregate information on what you
and your friends are doing on social
media sites across the Internet....
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Astrobiology Rap
Astrobiology Magazine European Edition Summer 2008
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NASA's Astrobiology Magazine
European Edition has commissioned a
YouTube astrobiology rap video by
Jonathan Chase, aka "Oort Kuiper."...
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Paper lab-on-a-chip makes disease
tests affordable
New Scientist Tech Sep. 23, 2008
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Harvard researchers have developed
a device for testing water quality
and identifying pathogens that can
be made simply from paper, ink and
sunlight. It could help developing
countries access the latest lab
techniques inexpensively. The device
uses pores naturally present in
paper to carry liquids in a way
similar to standard microfluidic...
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Longer-Lasting Artificial Eyes
Technology Review Sep. 25, 2008
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Researchers with the Boston Retinal
Implant Project have developed a
retinal implant that can stay in the
eye for years without declining in
performance or causing inflammation.
The device sits mostly outside the
eye. A coil around the iris receives
wireless power and image data from a
microcontroller that can be carried
on a belt, and...
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Faster, Cheaper DNA Sequencing
Technology Review Sep. 25, 2008
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies has
developed a new fast, inexpensive
human-genome-sequencing system that
uses "nanopore sequencing" to
eliminate much of the time and
expense of sample preparation, and
eliminate the fluorescent molecules
typically used to label DNA bases.
The researchers are aiming for the
$1,000 genome by 2014. The hope is...
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