September 2011
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Sep 26th
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June 2011
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Jun 30th
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The Agreeableness of Robotic Vacuum Cleaners →
What would be the ideal ‘personality’ for a robotic vacuum cleaner? Via  Presurfer
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May 2011
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May 31st
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May 25th
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May 10th
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If you show people's faces to a computer, it does... →
May 10th
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May 10th
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Scientists Give a Computer Schizophrenia; →
Computer immediately takes responsibility for a terrorist plot.
May 10th
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May 6th
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May 5th
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Send a friend request to your computer, introduce it to friendship.
May 3rd
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April 2011
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One Step Closer to a Synthetic Brain →
In the future, the applications of a synthetic brain include facial recognitions, vision for autonomous vehicles, robotic rescue missions and treatment for brain trauma.
Apr 28th
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Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally — or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make ourselves smarter, faster, better. Neo-evolution is within our grasp. What will we do with it?
Apr 25th
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“The amount of digital data generated by instruments such as DNA sequencers,...”
– from Data-Intensive Supercomputing. 
Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Functioning Synapse Created Using Carbon Nanotubes →
Well, this happened. Engineering researchers the University of Southern California have made an insanely major breakthrough in the use of nanotechnologies for the construction of a synthetic brain; they’ve built a carbon nanotube synapse. The circuit’s behavior (in tests) reproduces the function of a neuron, the building block of the brain. Although replacing biological neurons in our...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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Has your computer been introduced to sound?
Apr 18th
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Apr 11th
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“What might a game for robots look like? That’s more interesting. We get to...”
– Frank Swain, from What Games Would a Robot Play?
Apr 11th
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Bot Shows Signs of Consciousness →
Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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March 2011
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First Plastic Microprocessor Developed →
Mar 29th
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Stretchy, rubbery “muscles” can be used to power a motor with very few parts, no gears, and no cogs. The muscles themselves are electroactive structures made up of layers of carbon grease separated by an insulating polymer film — these “Electro-Active Polymers” (EAPs) can stretch by over 300 percent.  When a voltage is applied, the configuration behaves like a...
Mar 29th
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Mar 24th
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Move Over Einstein, Machines Will Take it From... →
What can take scientists years to figure out can take a computer just one day — and so researchers at Cornell University have developed an evolutionary computing algorithm called Eureqa that allows the laws of nature to be extracted from data at unheard of rates. This is a huge departure from the normal scientific method, in which a hypothesis is proposed to explain an existing observation....
Mar 24th