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January 14, 2006
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Living Forever - SpaceDaily Kurzwell's latest futuristic tome is the sequel to his last bestseller, "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence," which posited that the ever-accelerating rate of technological change would lead to computers that would rival the full range of human intelligence. He now takes his readers to the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the fusion of human brain and machine. Thus, "the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will merge with the vastly greater capacity, speed and knowledge-sharing ability of our own creations." Kurzweil is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame, |
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Convergence Comes To China - SpaceDaily A number of converged network communications projects are expected to move forward in China this year -- with wired and wireless elements -- spanning from Shanghai to Beijing, experts tell United Press International's Networking. One of the biggest networking projects is China's landmark west-east gas pipeline project (WEPP), which has selected an IP-based converged networking solution from Nortel to power voice and multimedia communications, both wired and wireless, along its 4,200-kilometer route. Operated by PetroChina Company Ltd., a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. |
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Flat-screen marvels to show at CES - C/Net From big-screen flat-panel televisions that can simultaneously display four high-definition videos to a small dual-lens digital camera for wide-angle photography, this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will not be short on new gadgets. "Sling Media's Slingbox takes us closer to our overall goal, which is to turn every display that a consumer interfaces with into not only TV or some video source but turn it into the TV that you love the most, which is your living-room TV," said Blake Krikorian, CEO of Sling Media. Other electronic gizmos that will be shown off this week include Kodak's Easyshare V570 digital camera, which has two lenses that work together to mimic a wide-angle lens camera. The new compact 5-megapixel camera allows the photographer to capture a bigger chunk of the subject without having to stand farther back. It will be priced at $399 when it hits store shelves later this month, the company said. One company will claim its flat-panel television will have one of the highest resolutions. Westinghouse is expected to unveil a 56-inch LCD that contains 8 million pixels. That's enough resolution to display four high-definition videos at the same time, said Rey Roque, vice president of marketing. Also, at 56 inches, it will be among the largest LCD displays to be available this year, Roque said. "This will have 23 times higher picture quality than images from standard DVDs," he said. The price is not set yet, but it will be ready for sale in the second half of the year, he said |
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Alzheimer's Disease: :
Biosciences:
1/14/2005: Study
Reveals Classic Symbiotic Relationship Between Ants,
Bacteria - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Researchers
Find Link Between Social Behavior, Maternal Traits In
Bees - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Tandem
Transcripts Team Together - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: On
The Loose: Urban Coyotes Thrive In North American
Cities - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Newfound Eye
Cells Sense Night and Day - Live
Science
1/14/2005: Ants
Use Antibiotics to Fight Pests - Live
Science
1/14/2005: Research
Tracks Whales By Listening To Sounds - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Science
takes stock after clone row ... - FirstScience
1/14/2005: S.Korea
Science Fraud Leaves Sponsors in Limbo ... - FirstScience
Climate,
Environment:
1/14/2005: Logging
May Hinder Forest Regeneration, Increase Fire Risk - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: How
Marine Reserves Are Giving Coral Reefs A Helping Hand - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Satellites
Capture First-ever Gravity Map Of Tides Under Antarctic
Ice - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Europe
Moves Ahead With Weather Satellite Blacklist - Space.com
1/14/2005: Indian
Small EO Satellites To Study Atmosphere - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Space
Imaging Get Extra $24M From Pentagon - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: EGNOS
Demonstration In South Africa - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Radar
Sat Checks Stability Of Artificial Hole - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Delhi
Gets First Winter Ice In 70 Years - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Many heavy
metals are toxic to the environment or to humans. Legal limits for these
pollutants in drinking wat ... - FirstScience
1/14/2005: Whalers ram
Greenpeace ship ... - FirstScience
1/14/2005: Gov's plan
to cut mercury emissions fuels criticism- Industry, lawmakers question
feasibility and cost of prop ... - FirstScience
1/14/2005: Greenpeace
wages war on high seas ... - FirstScience
1/14/2005: Making trap
for greenhouse gas ... - FirstScience
1/14/2005: Commission
tightens up car pollution limits ... -
FirstScience
1/14/2005: Experts to
Study Nica Volcanoes ... - FirstScience
Computers:
Devices
1/14/2005: Multimedia on
demand dominates electronics show - New Scientist
1/14/2005: Highlights
from CES -
Technology
Review
1/14/2005: Battle
of the Big-Ass TVs - Wired News
1/14/2005: Gadgets
Galore at CES - Wired News
1/14/2005: Game
Year in Review: 2010 - Wired News
1/14/2005: High-Def
DVD Shows Off at CES - Wired News
1/14/2005: Xbox 360 Killer App: Deep
Throat - Wired News
Communications
1/14/2005: Convergence
Comes To China - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Choosing
Mobile TV Channels - Technology
Review
1/14/2005: Stern
Puts Sat Radio Into Orbit - Wired News
Technology
PC's
1/14/2005: Rumors
of Revamped Apple Laptops - Wired News
Internet
1/14/2005: Diary
of an Expat Downloader - Wired News
1/14/2005: U
of Texas E-Mail Ban Upheld - Wired News
1/14/2005: Google
Goes for Web Video Gold - Wired News
1/14/2005: Page Layout Got You
Down? - Wired News
Miscellaneous
1/14/2005: Semantic
Descriptors To Help The Hunt For Music - Science
Daily
Energy:
1/14/2005: New
Research To Help Guarantee Future Of Oil Supplies - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Tiny
Crystals Promise Big Benefits For Solar Technologies -
SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Portable
Fuel Cell-Based Power Pack For Battlefield - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Energy
Crisis Drives Europe To Nuclear & Green - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Oil
Still A Lucrative Business - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Behind
Russia's Gas Policy - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: EU officials
urge governments to look at renewable energy and nuclear power
... - FirstScience
1/14/2005: Avista seeks
out more renewable energy; Utility predicts energy shortage by 2010, looks
for additional sources ... - FirstScience
1/14/2005: Nuclear
update ... - FirstScience
Health:
Cardiovascular
1/14/2005: Bringing
Hearts Back To Life: After Cardiac Arrest, Children Fare Better Than
Adults, Landmark Study Shows - Science
Daily
Cancer
1/14/2005: Dogs as good as
screening for cancer detection - New
Scientist
1/14/2005: Loss
Of Caspase-8 Makes Neuroblastoma More Aggressive - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Loosen
Leash On Cancer Protein 'Watchdog,' Researchers Say - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Abdominal
Chemo Boosts Survival In Ovarian Cancer Patients - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Cell
Stress Protein Linked To Aggressive Breast Cancer - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Hopkins
Researcher Links Gene Mutation With Poor Outcomes In People With Most
Common Thyroid Cancer - Science
Daily
Infectious
1/14/2005: Special
feature: The bird flu threat - New
Scientist
1/14/2005: Human bird flu
cases spread in Turkey - New
Scientist
1/14/2005: New
Vaccine For Condition That Kills 500,000 Children A
Year - Science
Daily
Non-Infectious
1/14/2005: Viral
Infection At Birth Linked To Cerebral Palsy - Science
Daily
Miscellaneous
1/14/2005: Could organ
transplants use a dose of teen hormones? - New Scientist
1/14/2005: Down
Syndrome And Cleft Lip, Palate Most Prevalent Birth
Defects - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Questions
Over 'Healing Effect' Of Magnets - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Biomarker
For Age-related Macular Degeneration Found - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Turn
Down That Radio! Years Of Loud Noise May Lead To Tumor - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: University
Of Alberta Researcher Unveils World's Largest Drug
Database - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Exercise
Helps Speed Wound Healing In Older Adults - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Caffeine
May Boost Female Sex Drive - Live
Science
History, Anthropology:
Miscellaneous:
1/14/2005: Born free, shot
for sport - New Scientist
1/14/2005: India is missing
10 million daughters - New
Scientist
1/14/2005: SUVs
No Safer Than Passenger Cars For Children, New Study
Finds - Science
Daily - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Dogs
Keep Dying: Many Owners Unaware Of Toxic Dog Food - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Dow
closes above 11,000 for first time since before 9/11
attacks - Seattle
Times
1/14/2005: E-mails
give legs to myths - Seattle
Times
1/14/2005: Putting
myself on the line with 2006 predictions - Seattle
Times
1/14/2005: VoiceBox
knows what you're talking about - Seattle
Times
1/14/2005: Iraq's
Dark Realities - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Taiwan
Produces 3 Cruise Missile Prototypes - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: BMDS
Sensor Netting & Integration - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: "Bigfoot"
Excitement Mounting In Malaysia - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Sino-India
Trade To Reach New High - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: The
Great Chinese Experiment - Technology
Review
Neurosciences:
1/14/2005: Study
Suggests That Heritability Of Major Depression Is Higher In Women Than In
Men - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Scientists,
Linking Gene With Serotonin And Depression, Offer Insights To New
Treatments - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Nobelist
Discovers Antidepressant Protein In Mouse Brain - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Chemical
Signaling Helps Regulate Sensory Map Formation In The
Brain - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Man's
Best Friend: Study Shows Lonely Seniors Prefer Playtime With Pooch Over
Human Interaction - Science
Daily
Physics and
Astronomy:
1/14/2005: How the
universe's first magnetic field formed - New Scientist
1/14/2005: 'Mild'
collision spawned Earth's moon - New
Scientist
1/14/2005: Hubble
reveals Pole Star's closest companion - New Scientist
1/14/2005: Perspectives:
Unifying the universe - New
Scientist
1/14/2005: A medium-sized black
hole? - PhysicsWeb
1/14/2005: Integral
Identifies Supernova Rate For Milky Way - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Physicists
Capture Small Numbers Of Atoms In Laser Traps - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Milky
Way's Warp Explained - Space.com
1/14/2005: Chemists
Calculate Structure Of Puzzling 'Scrambler' Molecule - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Vanishing
Gas Confirms Black Hole Event Horizons -
Space.com
1/14/2005: North
Star's Unseen Companion Photographed -
Space.com
1/14/2005: UI
Researchers Discover Star Orbiting A Medium-Sized Black
Hole - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: One-way
trip into black hole takes 200,000 years ... - ABC
Prolongevity
1/14/2005: Living
Forever - SpaceDaily
Robotics:
Space:
1/14/2005: What
we learned on Mars - New
Scientist
1/14/2005: Official:
Genesis Pre-Launch Test Skipped - Space.com
1/14/2005: NASA
Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: 2007
Moon Rocket Production Kicks Off - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Stardust On Route For Sample Return To Earth - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Comet Dust Brought Back To
Earth: Paving The Way For Rosetta - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Last Hours of Stardust Mission Filled With Milestones - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: First Galileo Signals Transmitted By GIOVE-A - SpaceDaily
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Technology:
1/14/2005: Suffocation
leaves a mark in the genes - New
Scientist
1/14/2005: Breathing
in oceans full of air - New
Scientist
1/14/2005: 'Quiet'
Mach 6 Wind Tunnel At Purdue Helps Shape Future
Aircraft - Science
Daily
1/14/2005: Honda
car, truck win top awards - Seattle
Times
1/14/2005: Military
Sensor Hears Through Walls - Live
Science
1/14/2005: Chemical
Oxygen Iodine Laser Tests Well - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Solid-State
Laser Tech For Mil Apps - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: Global
Hawk UAV Passes 5,000 Flight Hours - SpaceDaily
1/14/2005: LM-
Sensor Array For Advanced Development UUV - SpaceDaily