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Dallas-based AT&T Inc. said Monday that it will release a new phone — the LG eXpo (GW820) — on Dec. 7 with an optional snap-on “pico projector” that uses technology from Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc.
The Windows Mobile 6.5 smart phone with a speedy 1 ...
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NASA scientists have produced the most compelling evidence yet that bacterial life exists on Mars.
It showed that microscopic worm-like structures found in a Martian meteorite that hit the Earth 13,000 years ago are almost certainly fossilized bacteria. The so-called bio-morphs are ...
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Marin Soljacic couldn’t sleep. The problem was his wife’s Nokia cell phone. The tyrannical device beeped on the bedside table when it needed to be plugged in. It could not be disabled.
Instead of taking a hammer to the phone, Soljacic marveled at the fact that this device, and ...
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“This week PayPal opened its system to third-party developers, which will mean PayPal can be built in to all sorts of applications…
Click here for The Associated Press article.
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Jack Dorsey, who came up with the idea for Twitter and is now its chairman, has unveiled Square, his new start-up. The idea: anyone with a mobile phone can accept credit card payments.
Click here for the entire article found on a New York Times website.
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SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. Experts in Holland used cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish.
The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — ...
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A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue University and the University of California at Los Angeles. more>>>
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NASA is believed to have found strong evidence that there was once life on Mars.
Scientists working on a meteorite discovered in 1984 told the Spaceflight Now website that mineral microstructures in the rock were the remains of magnetic bacteria.
Back in 1996, NASA reported that it had ...
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology which will help microchip designers create future integrated circuits. more>>>
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It looks more like the Starship Enterprise sinking in the sea - but this huge vertical vessel could be the future of ocean exploration.
Called the SeaOrbiter, the huge 51m (167ft) structure is set to be the world’s first vertical ship allowing man a revolutionary view of life below ...
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Enterprise
Here’s a list of articles that have recently caught my attention on the subject of life extension. I have posted them on my Blogging Life Extension website.
Articles include -
Synthetic Biology
Magnetic Nanoparticles To Simultaneously Diagnose, Monitor And Treat
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Click here for an interesting Associated Press article documenting how some teachers are beginning incoporate cell phone usage into their classes in imaginative ways.
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Click here to read an Associated Press article detailing the status of the growing Chinese space program.
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In his talk at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford., examines the nature of human beings as products of evolution, in particular their limited altruism, limited co-operative instincts and ...
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We have reached another great milestone to announce today. Blogging the Singularity logged over 1,000 readers yesterday!!!
As awareness of accelerating technological change is embraced by more people humanity will be in a better position to cope.
I would like to thank all of our readers for ...
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Via Engadget:
Never mind that silly name: ProFORMA (which stands for ‘Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition’, if you must know) is some cool system that turns any ordinary webcam into a powerful 3D scanning tool. In fact, a camera is pretty much all you need ...
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Last month, Matt Williams, an adjunct professor at the University of Akron, opened an e-mail from his bosses about the school’s new rules for hiring and was “absolutely blown away,” he says, “when I saw the reference to collecting DNA samples.”
The university was ...
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It’s called the anthropic universe: a world set up so that human beings could eventually emerge. So many physical constants, so many aspects of our solar system, so much seems to be finally tuned for our benefit. But was it? We hear from Professor Martin Rees, Paul Davies and Frank ...
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Spray-on skin that heals burns in days, not weeks, is set to begin clinical trials in the US.
Avita Medical’s ReCell technology uses a postage stamp-sized piece of skin from a patient to heal a page’s-worth of burned skin.
The technology could save the lives of burn victims ...
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Several lines of evidence point to the possibility of a past ocean on Mars, from apparent ancient shorelines to chemicals in the soil.
Add to the list a new map of the red planet’s valleys. The map shows extensive valley networks around the equator and in the southern hemisphere, ...
