Monthly Archives: April, 2011

Exclusive Interview With Barry Ptolemy, Director of Kurzweil Documentary Transcendent Man

How do you get everyone to sit up and pay attention to the idea of the Singularity? Make it entertaining. No doubt about it,...

As Safer Fetal Genetic Tests Arrive, Abortions Could Rise

The impending  arrival of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) will allow more parents than ever before to discover congenital disorders early in pregnancy...but will it...

Cynthia Breazeal at TED: We’re Making Robots Personal (video)

"People just behave like people, even when interacting with a robot." -- Cynthia Breazeal 2010 Forget the automated factories, the Mars rovers, and the vacuum...

10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year…Here’s a Look At One

Right now, as you read this, there are five or six million shipping containers on enormous cargo ships sailing across the world's oceans. And...

Japan’s Twimal USB Device Will Read Your Twitter Feed to You (video)

Some people will go to great lengths to enable their Twitter addiction. Japan created an entirely new species. The Twitter Animal, or Twimal, from...

Kurzweil Is Confident Machines Will Pass Turing Test by 2029 (video)

It continues to be a good Spring for Ray Kurzweil. Not only has the media been rather kind to him lately, some of his...

Ad Network Monitors 76% of US – Knows What You Buy, What You Want

In tens of thousands of stores in the US and EU, a marketing company is monitoring how you shop. 150 million shoppers, 250 million...

Watch the Wifi: Visually Stunning Look at the Digital World Invading Cities (video)

Much as our ancestors may have envisioned the spirit world permeating and flowing through our mundane existence, we can only imagine the complex web...
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