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Singularity

Kurzweil in Rolling Stone – We Have the PDF

Written by: Keith Kleiner 1076 days ago

As many of our readers may have heard, Rolling Stone recently did a major story on Ray Kurzweil in their [...]

Genetics

Skin Cells Reprogrammed Into Beating Heart Tissue

Written by: Drew Halley 1076 days ago

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Imagine a future when your aging organs – a failing liver, or a brain degenerated by Alzheimer’s disease – could [...]

Genetics

Designer Babies – Like It Or Not, Here They Come

Written by: Keith Kleiner 1078 days ago

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Long before Watson and Crick famously uncovered the structure of DNA in 1953, people envisioned with both horror and hope [...]

Robots

Robot Wrestling Video – Awesome!

Written by: Keith Kleiner 1079 days ago

Props to Robots-Dreams for discovering this fantastic video of robots wrestling WWF style, including a championship belt and even a [...]

Singularity

Trailer For Upcoming Kurzweil Movie On The Singularity: Transcendent Man

Written by: Keith Kleiner 1080 days ago

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Check out this trailer for the upcoming movie showcasing Ray Kurzweil’s ideas about the singularity, called “Transcendent Man“. Our verdict: [...]

Computer Interfaces

Electronic Screens As Thin As Paper Are Coming Soon

Written by: Keith Kleiner 1080 days ago

In Part II of our showcase of flat screen technology innovation, we focus on efforts at Arizona State University’s Flexible [...]

Computer Interfaces

Flat Screen Technology Heats Up – Part I

Written by: Keith Kleiner 1080 days ago

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The race to create ever thinner, more durable, and even flexible flat screen technology has really been heating up in [...]

Computer Interfaces

Augmented Human Reality Unveiled by MIT Researchers

Written by: Keith Kleiner 1084 days ago

Imagine looking at a someone and instantly being fed a visual and auditory stream of information about them, such as [...]

Genetics

Stem Cell Therapy Must Continue In Spite of Cancer Setback

Written by: Keith Kleiner 1085 days ago

The first known report of a brain tumor resulting directly from neural stem cell therapy was published yesterday.  The report [...]

Genetics

Gene Therapy Trial To Fight HIV Shows Promise

Written by: Keith Kleiner 1086 days ago

A trial to test the safety and effectiveness of gene therapy to cure or alleviate HIV in patients has seen [...]