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Who’s Who in the Singularity
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1103 days ago
As part of its special report on the singularity last year, IEEE Spectrum published a Who’s Who in the Singularity [...]
Army’s Cyborg Beetle Takes Flight
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1104 days ago
Technology review has one of the better reports about the army’s success in creating a remote controlled cyborg beetle in [...]
Stanford Creates World’s Smallest Writing, Less Than a Nanometer
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1105 days ago
“Stanford researchers have reclaimed bragging rights for creating the world’s smallest writing, a distinction the University first gained in 1985 [...]
Fracture Putty – Bioactive Nano Scaffold Could Revolutionize Bone Healing
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1107 days ago
In June 2008 DARPA solicited proposals from interested institutions to participate in a project to develop fracture putty: A dynamic [...]
Geron CEO Speaks About the Promise of Stem Cell Therapy, Great Damage Done By Bush Presidency
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1108 days ago
We just uncovered this awesome 3 minute video of Geron CEO Thomas Okarma explaining the promise of stem cell therapy [...]
FDA OKs 1st Embryonic Stem Cell Trial for Geron, Stock Skyrockets
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1110 days ago
The first clinical human trial using embryonic stem cells as a medical treatment in the United States has been approved [...]
Wired For War: The Rise of Robotic Armies
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1111 days ago
P.W. Singer just launched his latest book titled Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. [...]
The Onion: Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power?
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1111 days ago
Need a good laugh? The onion has a funny spoof about computers taking over the world below:
10 Forecasts for 2009 and Beyond
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1112 days ago
Each year since 1985, the editors of The Futurist have collected their most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts into an annual [...]
Mind Reading Revisited
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1113 days ago
Just recently we posted about a story in which researchers from Carnegie Mellon were able to read people’s actual thoughts [...]