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Coming soon: First pictures of a
black hole
New Scientist Space May 20, 2009
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Astronomers are working to tie
together a network of microwave
telescopes across the planet to make
a single instrument with the most
acute vision yet in an attempt to
image the supermassive black hole at
the center of our galaxy, code name
Sagittarius...
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Harnessing science to create the
ultimate warrior
New Scientist Science in Society May 20, 2009
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Super-soldiers could be selected
for specific duties on the basis of
their genetic makeup and then
constantly monitored for signs of
weakness, says a report by the US
National Academies of Science. If a
soldier is struggling, a digital
"buddy" might step in and warn them
about nearby threats, or advise
comrades to zap them with an
electromagnet...
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Spielberg: Games consoles doomed
Register Hardware May 21, 2009
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Steven Spielberg has suggested that
game consoles will one day be
replaced by in-home virtual reality...
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"MISSING LINK" FOUND: New Fossil
Links Humans, Lemurs?
National Geographic News May 21, 2009
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"Ida," a critical missing-link
species in primate evolution,
bridges the evolutionary split
between higher primates such as
monkeys, apes, and humans and their
more distant relatives such as
lemurs, says paleontologist Jorn
Hurum, who led the team that
analyzed the 47-million-year-old
fossil found in Germany. Also see:
Why Ida fossil is not...
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Modeling Sneaky Robots
Technology Review May 20, 2009
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An algorithm that models stealthy
robot behavior has been developed by
. Seoul National University
professors. They designed
simulations in which a robot waits
in the shadows and moves quickly
between obstacles to intercept a
target....
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Google Suggest Adds Hyperlinks,
Personalization And Yes, Ads
TechCrunch May 20, 2009
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When you start typing in the Google
search box, the suggest drop down
menu is now populated with a number
of interesting things, including
direct links to pages, personalized
results and sponsored...
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The Churchill Club's 2009 Tech
Trends: Energy, Data And More Energy
TechCrunch May 20, 2009
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Advanced batteries will be the most
popular alternative energy
investment in 2009, the unstructured
data deluge creates the next great
information leaders, and real-time
crowdsourcing will control much of
the interesting things people look
for on the web: these were among the
predictions at the Churchill Club's
11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends...
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I.B.M. Unveils Real-Time Software
to Find Trends in Vast Data Sets
New York Times May 20, 2009
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System S, new software from IBM,
can acquire huge volumes of data
from many sources and quickly
identify correlations within it,
harnessing advances in computing and
networking horsepower in a fashion
that analysts and customers describe
as unprecedented. Instead of
creating separate large databases to
track things like currency
movements,...
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New memory material may hold data
for one billion years
Nanowerk News May 20, 2009
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A new experimental computer memory
device that can store 1 terabyte per
square inch (allowing for storing
thousands of times more data than
conventional silicon chips) with an
estimated lifetime of more than one
billion years has been developed by
Alex Zettl of UC Berkeley and
colleagues. The device consists of
an iron nanoparticle enclosed in...
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Novel nanotechnology method to
stimulate growth of new neurons in
adult brain
Nanowerk News May 20, 2009
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Integrative FGFR1 Signaling (INFS),
a new mechanism that plays a central
role in adult brain stem cell
development and prompts brain stem
cells to differentiate into neurons,
has been identified by University at
Buffalo researchers. The INFS
mechanism is considered capable of
repopulating degenerated brain
areas, raising possibilities for new...
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Nanotechnology can enable the
creation of 'five dimensional' discs
with huge storage capacities
Nanowerk News May 20, 2009
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Discs with a storage capacity 2,000
times that of current DVDs could be
commercially available within 5 to
10 years, based on resarch from
Swinburne University of Technology.
Discs currently have three spatial
dimensions, but inserting gold
nanorods onto a disc's surface, the
researchers were able to introduce
wavelength (color) and...
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Detecting, tracking, and killing
cancer cells in real time with
carbon nanotubes
Nanowerk News May 20, 2009
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A method of detecting, tracking,
and killing cancer cells in real
time with carbon nanotubes has been
developed by University of Arkansas
scientists. Using Raman
spectroscopy, they monitored
nanotubes moving through the
circulation or a rat and detected
single cancer cells tagged with
carbon nanotubes. A laser was then
used to heat the...
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Dutch Supercomputer Establishes New
Record in Go
HPC Wire May 15, 2009
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The Go program MoGo TITAN, running
on the Dutch national supercomputer
Huygens, defeated two human Go
professionals at the Taiwan Open
2009, held in Taiwan Feb. 10-13.
After the victory of IBM's Deep Blue
against Garry Kasparov, the game of
Go -- one of the last board games
where humans are still able to
easily win against AI -- has
replaced...
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