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MIT discovers yet another use for a simple webcam: measuring your pulse rate. It's desktop video-chatting and heart physician in one tiny unit. The work is the result of studies by graduate student Ming-Zher Poh, and it's all about a clever algorithm that looks at a webcam feed of your face and measures subtle brightness changes in your skin over time. http://tinyurl.com/7zby9ht No comment yet.
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Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? Perhaps at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are possibly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also possible.
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Are you depressed, checking e-mail and Facebook, or home alone ruminating for hours? Cheer up. Scientists are inventing web-based, mobile and virtual technologies to treat depression and other mood disorders at a new National Institutes of Health-funded Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine center.
In the works: a virtual human therapist to prevent depression, a medicine bottle that reminds you to take antidepressant medication and tells your doctor if the dosage needs adjusting, and a web-based social network to help cancer survivors relieve sadness and stress.
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These acrobatic robots can launch themselves through rings, duck and weave around obstacles, and even fly through your bedroom window. Delete the scoop?
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Humanity’s advances to date have been accompanied by great leaps in the density, diversity, and virtuality of our societies, and in the miniaturization and efficiency of our technologies. Among these and other variables determining social progress, two stand out as particularly special. The more our intelligence gains access to “Inner Space,” both to the domain of very small size scales (“Physical Inner Space”), and to the domain of very powerful brain-based and computer-based simulations (“Virtual Inner Space”) the faster we learn to generate major new economic, social, and adaptation benefits for civilization. This “race to Inner Space” may turn out to be the dominant developmental trend for our species. Delete the scoop?
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In its "5 in 5" forecast, IBM predicts the power to control things with thoughts will be common in five years. Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino Delete the scoop?
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2011 was an amazing year of accelerating developments in science and technology. These articles offer a good summary. - Ed. Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino Delete the scoop?
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The term "cyborg bugs" might invoke images of space movies with futuristic settings way beyond our lifetimes.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) thinks cyborg insects have a lot of potentially useful applications. Cyborg bugs share applications with micro-aerial vehicles (MAV), including search-and-rescue, surveillance, detection of explosives, and environmental monitoring. Some researchers even find the robo insects to be the superior choice between the two, that they choose to abandon MAVs altogether. Delete the scoop?
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10 D-wave technology presentation video lectures given by Dr. Suzanne Gildert from D-wave (http://www.dwavesys.com) in 2009 plus all her talks on quantum computing and whether the end for silicon chips is near? She has also a lecture series on adiabatic quantum computation and AI - where is machine intelligence going and what do superintelligences REALLY want in future? Suzanne Gildert is also the cofounder of Carboncopies (http://www.carboncopies.org) - an organization that works on connectome mapping of the brain and downloading memories. Delete the scoop?
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The physicist sees two major trends in the world today: the first is toward a multicultural, scientific, tolerant society; the other, as evidenced by terrori... (Will Mankind Destroy Itself? Via Susan Cook Delete the scoop?
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Keep in mind that the first wave of driverless vehicles will be luxury vehicles that allow you to kick back, listen to music, have a cup of coffee, stop wherever you need to along the way, stay productive with connections to the Internet, make phone calls, and even watch a movie or two, for roughly the same price. Via Szabolcs Kósa Delete the scoop?
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Phase one of the world's first commercial spaceport, which will be the hub for Virgin's consumer spaceflights, is now 90 per cent complete. The 1,800-acre Spaceport America site, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is the home base for Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's most ambitious business venture yet. It already boasts a runway stretching to nearly two miles long, a futuristic styled terminal hanger, and a dome-shaped Space Operations Center.
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Today's groundbreaking entry into the Uncanny Valley is a pair of mechanical, robot legs that are propelled entirely by their own weight: they can walk with a human-like gait without motors or external control. Delete the scoop?
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Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. Delete the scoop?
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Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.
It's exciting to see the development of 3D printing move from little objects to human organs. This advancement illustrates soon many objects will be printable from home - with a printer we drop resources into, or even a sorter that breaks apart other objects to salvage resources for new products. Delete the scoop?
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Computing and mathematics legend Stephen Wolfram is worried about bigger problems than climate change or overpopulation. Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino Delete the scoop?
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An 83 year-old woman in Belgium had a severely infected jawbone, and researchers and doctors were able to replace it with the world's first 3D printed jaw. 3D printing is an innovative process that allows engineers to essentially spray layers of a material (a plastic or metal for instance) on top of each other in order to create a solid 3D form. 3D printing has allowed engineers to make beautiful art pieces, airplanes and food replacements but until now they’ve not been able to create a bone replacement that was ready to be tested in an actual person — though research is underway at many institutes using a plethora of materials. Delete the scoop?
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Want to find out why mind uploading is not science fiction? Watch Randal Koene’s interview for www.SingularityWeblog.com to find out! Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino Delete the scoop?
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1. Energy Revolution - Mass produced fission, fusion, and maybe cold fusion
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To mark his 70th birthday, physicist Professor Stephen Hawking answered a selection of questions from listeners to Radio 4's Today Programme. Topics ranged from the origins of the universe to the prospects for extra terrestrial life and the impact on Einstein's theory of relativity should neutrinos be confirmed to travel faster than light. Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino Delete the scoop?
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The power to edit genes is as revolutionary, immediately useful and unlimited in its potential as was Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. And like Gutenberg’s invention, most DNA editing tools are slow, expensive, and hard to use—a brilliant technology in its infancy. Now, Harvard researchers developing genome-scale editing tools as fast and easy as word processing have rewritten the genome of living cells using the genetic equivalent of search and replace—and combined those rewrites in novel cell strains, strikingly different from their forebears. Delete the scoop?
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Claudia Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person -- and first woman -- to receive a "bionic" arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone. The device, designed by physicians and engineers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, works by detecting the movements of a chest muscle that has been rewired to the stumps of nerves that once went to her now-missing limb. Delete the scoop?
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Currently being developed by DARPA researchers at Washington-based Innovega iOptiks are contact lenses that enhance normal vision by allowing a wearer to view virtual and augmented reality images without the need for bulky apparatus. Instead of oversized virtual reality helmets, digital images are projected onto tiny full-color displays that are very near the eye. These novel contact lenses allow users to focus simultaneously on objects that are close up and far away. This could improve ability to use tiny portable displays while sill interacting with the surrounding environment.
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IBM's CTO predicts PCs are being replaced at the center of computing not by another type of device — though there's plenty of excitement about smartphones and tablets — but by new ideas about the role that computing can play in progress. It's becoming more and more clear that innovation flourishes best not on devices but in the social spaces between them, where people and ideas meet and interact. It is there that computing can have the most powerful impact on economy, society and people's lives. Delete the scoop?
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For decades our options for interacting with the digital world have been limited to keyboards, mice, and joysticks. Now with a new generation of exciting new interfaces in the pipeline our interaction with the digital world will be forever changed. In this post we will look at some amazing demonstrations, mostly videos, that showcase new ways of interacting with the digital world. Delete the scoop?
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