Imagine looking at a someone and instantly being fed a visual and auditory stream of information about them, such as their email address, education,...
The second conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is set to convene in Arlington, Virginia on March 6-9, 2009. The conference stands uniquely as...
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 From Endgaget and Playmedesign we learn that Masters student at AHO Hans Alexander Huseklepp, has a novel design, dubbed the Immaculate that opens our...
Gene therapy marked another successful milestone last week when it was used to completely cure eight of 10 children who had potentially fatal "bubble...
Daniel MacArthur at Genetic Future has just completed his post covering the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference, where an intense battle is...
There has been a great deal of talk lately about cloaks and coatings that can make things invisible:
Scientific American: Light Bent the Wrong Way
Scientific...
A shockwave passed through the singularity community today with the public launch of Singularity University at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley. Singularity...
Nick Lane from New Scientest wrote an interesting article about genetically modified humans that opens as follows:
"CHILDREN with three parents might sound like monstrous...
Technology review has one of the better reports about the army's success in creating a remote controlled cyborg beetle in collaboration with the University...
"Stanford researchers have reclaimed bragging rights for creating the world's smallest writing, a distinction the University first gained in 1985 and lost in 1990."
Thus...
In June 2008 DARPA solicited proposals from interested institutions to participate in a project to develop fracture putty:
A dynamic putty which, when packed in/around...
Each year since 1985, the editors of The Futurist have collected their most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts into an annual Outlook report. The Outlook...
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute today published a press release presenting the discovery of a gene mutation in roughly 1% of the world population...
David Gelles from The Futurist has written a very detailed piece that describes Silicon Valley as the epicenter of a worldwide transhumanist movement. Gelles'...
If you are at all interested in artificial intelligence and understanding how the human brain works then following the work of Jeff Hawkins (pictured...
IBM Research issued a major press release today announcing the creation of a microscope that can determine the 3-Dimensional structure of large molecules, bacteria,...
The Herald and other major outlets are reporting that the "UK's first genetically selected baby has been born."
This sensational claim is misleading since the...
The emerging field of gene therapy took a huge leap forward in 2008 when vision was substantially restored to several blind patients.
The patients in...
Over the weekend the 18th annual FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) was officially launched. This competition challenges and inspires high school student teams to build...
Wow! Physorg.com reports that an artificial retina has achieved real success in bringing limited sight to the blind. The Department of Energy estimates that...
