"...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...
IEEE produced a special report on the singularity in its June 2008 issue located here:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/singularity
This is a comprehensive report, representing many diverse views about...
Moore's law looks set to continue with recent research that paves the way for 25 nanometer etching of silicon chips. According to the article:
Today...
The University of Florida today reports that scientists have reduced the Casimir force between two metal plates by changing the surface of the plates...
Technology Review reports that for just $1,350,000 USD you can have have the worlds fastest commercially available DNA sequencer, called the Heliscope. The machine...
Decent piece in BusinessWeek profiling Jeff Hawkins' startup Numenta. Numenta is building artificial intelligence that attempts to replicate the function of the human...
