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Siri lifts veil on intelligent
assistant
Mercury News May 27, 2009
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Siri, a San Jose company, has
announced that it would offer an
"intelligent agent" for the iPhone
that responds to natural-language
queries to find movie theaters, book
restaurant reservations and airline
flights, buy from online retail
sites, and even answer trivia
questions....
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Radio waves erase pre-cancer cells
in esophagus
PhysOrg.com May 28, 2009
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Heat generated by high frequency
radio waves conducted through a
catheter erases most pre-cancerous
cells associated with chronic acid
reflux, providing an lower-cost
(10:1) alternative to...
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How oxidative stress may help
prolong life
PhysOrg.com May 29, 2009
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Scientists at the University of
California, San Diego, have
discovered the gene responsible for
the effect that small exposure to
oxidative conditions may actually
offer protection from acute doses.
The finding may explain recent
studies suggesting that eating less
may, in fact, raise reactive oxygen
species (ROS) levels (which normally
cause...
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XMM-Newton Takes Astronomers To A
Black Hole's Edge
Science Daily May 28, 2009
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Astronomers have probed closer than
ever to a supermassive black hole
estimated to have the mass of about
3 to 5 million solar masses, at the
core of a distant active galaxy.
Illustration of a supermassive black
hole at the center of galaxy
1H0707-495 (ESA; image by C.
Carreau)...
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Portable Device Can Detect Viruses
In Minutes
ScienceDaily May 28, 2009
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A portable device that can show in
five minutes is a person is infected
with a particular virus or bacterium
has been developed by Ostendum, a
University of Twente spinoff. When a
micro-organism such as a virus is
present in the sample being
analyzed, it binds to the relevant
antibody on the chip, creating an
interference pattern that...
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Superconducting Chips To Become
Reality
Science Daily May 29, 2009
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Superconducting germanium doped by
gallium has been produced by
scientists at the Forschungszentrum
Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) research
center. Germanium as a new material
for chips would enable both faster
processes and further
miniaturization in micro- and
nanoelectronics....
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Human speech gene gives mouse a
baritone squeak
New Scientist Life May 28, 2009
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German researchers has created mice
with a human gene (a version of the
mouse FOXP2 gene) implicated in
speech problems and thought to play
a role in the evolution of language.
Mice with the human version of FOXP2
have deeper squeeks than normal
mice....
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Restoring Sight
Technology Review May 29, 2009
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Scientists aim to treat retinitis
pigmentosa by developing novel gene
therapies using channelrhodopsin-2
(a light-sensitive protein derived
from algae) and similar tools to
make different retinal cells, such
as bipolar cells (shown in pink in
the middle section of the photo),
responsive to light. (Steve
Gschmeissner/Photo...
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First Evidence of Entanglement in
Photosynthesis
The physics arXiv blog May 28, 2009
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Molecules taking part in
photosynthesis can remain entangled
even at ordinary atmospheric
temperatures, Berkeley, California
researchers have found, suggesting
the possibility of photosynthetic
quantum computers. Does this support
the Hameroff/Penrose idea of quantum
computation in brain microtubules as
a model of consciousness? -...
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4 Apps That Turn Your iPhone Into a
Canvas
New York Times Gadgetwise May 28, 2009
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New iPhone apps let anyone use an
existing photo as the basis for an
artistic illustration, with tools
like virtual bushes and pencils to
apply to your photos, and various
paper and canvas textures. The
week's much-discussed New Yorker
cover used the advanced Brushes app:...
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Microsoft Bing: Much better than
expected
CNET News May 28, 2009
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Microsoft's renamed Bing search
engine uses technology from Powerset
to display "related searches" and
groups search results into
categories such as product reviews,
movie listings, weather, travel, and
stock prices, among other new...
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