July 2012
Can Your Smartphone Talk to Your Brain Implant? →
'Not a Mistake': NASA in Disbelief over Rate of... →
Scientists say there has been a freak event in Greenland this month: Nearly every part of the massive ice sheet that blankets the island suddenly started melting.
The ice melted so fast that scientists at NASA first thought it was a computer error or some other malfunction.
For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30...
Your Laptop Can Now Analyze Big Data - Technology... →
The Avatar Economy - Technology... →
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms now Writing the... →
Is The Web Driving Us Mad?, By Tony Dokoupil →
realcleverscience:
From a tech and transhumanism enthusiast, let me be the first to say, READ THIS ARTICLE!!!
Highlights:
Now, however, the proof is starting to pile up. The first good, peer-reviewed research is emerging, and the picture is much gloomier than the trumpet blasts of Web utopians have allowed. The current incarnation of the Internet—portable, social, accelerated, and...
The Rise of the Virtual Office - Technology Review →
Video Roundup Friday #2 →
Smarter materials: Self-powered, homeostatic... →
singularitarian:
Living organisms have developed sophisticated ways to maintain stability in a changing environment, withstanding fluctuations in temperature, pH, pressure, and the presence or absence of crucial molecules. The integration of similar features in artificial materials, however, has remained a challenge — until now.
"Big Bang or the Big Bounce?" --New Science Points... →
A Phone that Knows Where You're Going - Technology... →
Holy Singularity! →
Raghava KK: What’s your 200-year plan? →
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Go Fetch Robot
is it possible to make a go fetch robot from existing technology? could i take a picture with my phone, use a pointer to deffine an object, and ask a robot to bring that object to me? could i take a destination photo, use a pointer to deffine a destination, and ask the robot to deliver that object to that destination?
In unlocked genes, clues to parrot ‘speech’ →
A new approach to water desalination - MIT News... →
Epigenetics alters genes in rheumatoid arthritis →
Artificial cerebellum than enables robotic... →
Sneak Peek: iRobot's Hall of Awesomeness →
Scientists develop alternative to gene therapy →