Discover Magazine has just blown me away with a fascinating story on the current state of brain-computer interfaces (BCI). The story cites numerous projects...
Timesonline is reporting on a UK company called Image Metrics that has taken animation of human characters for games (Grand Theft Auto, Unreal Tournament)...
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Researches across the globe are making daily advances towards the development of human level artificial intelligence, but sadly the algorithms and the software...
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The Harvard Crimson and the LA Times offer some of the better articles reporting that researchers have genetically reprogrammed mice pancreas cells directly...
Yesterday Intel CTO Justin Rattner delivered his keynote presentation about the future of technology and the coming of the singularity at Intel's annual Intel...
News outlets are reporting that researchers from Advanced Cell Technology, Inc have been able to differentiate human embryonic stem cells into red blood cells....
In May the New York Times and many other outlets reported on the "most striking demonstration to date of brain-machine interface technology". From the...
New Scientist released an awesome article describing how researchers are using rat brains to control a robot. Approximately 300,000 neurons from a rat fetus...
Intuitive Surgical introduced its Da Vinci robotic surgical system to the world in 1999, converting surgeons into "super surgeons" by giving them eyes with...
In the coming decades mankind will unleash an amazing torrent of technological abilities as we march toward the singularity, but that won't mean much...
"...perhaps as early as 2012 we'll see the lines between human and machine intelligence begin to blur. Nanoscale chips or machines will move through...
Nature recently published an article written by Armand Marie Leroi that opens with this interesting question:
"Now that many people approve the elimination of certain...
In this piece from the IEEE special report on prosthetics we learn about Deka's amazing noninvasive prosthetic arm. As noted earlier, DARPA gave $30.4...
HP, Intel, and Yahoo announced today the creation of a global cloud computing infrastructure to be used by researchers across the world.
Cloud computing is...
Michael Chorost published an article in MIT Technology Review about a networked pill from a company called Proteus Biomedical. The pill, called Raisin,...
Newscientist reports that researchers at the University of Toronto have created a microgripper device capable of grabbing and releasing objects as small as a...
The University of Texis at Austin reports that Professor Adela Ben-Yakar and colleagues have developed a femtosecond laser "microscalpel" that is so precise that...
The SIAI (Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) recently posted the videos from its Singularity Summit 2007 on their website. These videos offer an...
HQ Inc. offers the CorTemp temperature pill that can record body temperature and heart rate data continuously and wirelessly transmit this data to an...
