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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:37:02 -0500 (EST)

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Let Robots Sweat the Boring Stuff
Wired News Feb. 27, 2007
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In advanced nations like Japan,
populations are aging and shrinking.
Combine that with ultrastrict
immigration control and you get a
situation in which "robomediation"
makes a lot of sense. "Personally, I
wouldn't mind living in a world in
which all my routine interactions
were with robots, and I kept my
quality time for human...
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Microsoft to Buy Health Information
Search Engine
New York Times Feb. 27, 2007
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Microsoft is buying Medstory Inc.
Its search software applies AI
techniques to deliver useful medical
information to consumers from
medical journals, government
documents and the...
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Star Trek-like 'Tricorder' becomes
science fact
iT Wire Feb. 28, 2007
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Purdue University researchers have
developed a portable sensing system
to analyze chemical components, with
"numerous promising uses for
detecting everything from cancer in
the liver to explosives residues on
luggage and biomarkers in urine that
provide an early warning for
diseases." The device miniaturizes a
mass spectrometer combined with a...
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Build Your Own Social Sites,
Netscape Founder Says
Reuters Feb. 27, 2007
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Ning, the latest startup of
Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen,
is looking to get a jump ahead of
MySpace and Facebook by giving
consumers free tools to create and
operate specialized online social
networks of their own. Users within
each Ning network can select the
latest Web features for watching
videos online, creating a photo
slideshow,...
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Nanotechnology Seen as Answer to
Counterfeiters
NPR Feb. 27, 2007
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A government report just released
argues that the only way for the
U.S. government to stay ahead of
counterfeiters is to use
nanotechnology. If this happens, our
money will no longer be a printed
piece of paper. It will become a
very thin, very high-tech machine.
"Say you snap a dollar bill between
your fingers and the edges become
rigid,"...
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