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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:36:07 -0400 (EDT)

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Singularity play features Yudkowsky
KurzweilAI.net July 5, 2007
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"In a seemingly deserted island,
Dr. Eliezer Yudkowski [sic] and his
artificial intelligence drones and
cohorts wage a war to keep their
circular narrative from ending.
Their only weapon? The hope that
humanity can finally evolve." That's
the premise of a play dealing with
AI and the Singularity called
"Yudkowski Returns: The Rise And
Fall...
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What's next for the Internet
Business 2.0 July 3, 2007
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If you think of the World Wide Web
as a cloud of largely
undifferentiated information, the
mission of Radar Networks is to take
that cloud and impose order on it
via the semantic Web -- moving from
Web 2.0 to Web 3.0....
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A Web That Thinks Like You
BusinessWeek July 9, 2007
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Radar Networks plans later this
year to launch Radar, which uses
semantic Web technologies to help
individuals and communities mine and
share information from Internet
sites, blogs, and social media
services. Built-in artificial
intelligence will continually learn
as people use the service and
computers troll for similar
information....
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DOE Invests $125 Million in
Synthetic Life to Develop Biofuels
Wired News July 2, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Energy has
committed $125 million to an
aggressive effort called Joint
BioEnergy Institute (JBEI,
pronounced Jay Bay) that will
develop fuels from plant material,
by creating new forms of life that
will produce ethanol with
unprecedented...
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Jeff Han on a Better Interface
Technology Review July 5, 2007
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The inventor of the multitouch
screen that influenced the iPhone
displays his work in a video,
"TOUCHING MIRROR WORLDS."...
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Minisodes: Watch an hour of TV in 6
minutes
CNN July 3, 2007
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In a sign of accelerating times and
YouTube-aided choice overload, the
Minisode Network prunes vintage TV
episodes from their original
half-hour or hour length down to a
running time of four to six minutes....
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Humanity gobbles a quarter of
nature's resources
NewScientist.com news service July 2, 2007
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People appropriate 24 percent of
the Earth's production capacity that
would otherwise have gone to nature,
according to figures for the year
2000, including 15.6 trillion
kilograms of carbon annually. If we
expand production of biofuels, it
would mean clearing what remains of
the world's rainforests in countries
such as Brazil and...
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Micro-generator feeds on good
vibrations
NewScientist.com news service July 4, 2007
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A sugar-cube-sized electric
generator that feeds on
environmental vibrations has been
developed. It could power swarms of
wireless sensors, devices attached
to bridges and buildings, or even
medical implants....
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Rat-brained robot thinks like the
real thing
NewScientist.com news service July 4, 2007
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An AIBO robot controlled by a
simulated rat brain has proved
itself to be a remarkable mimic of
rodent behaviour in series of
classic animal experiments. The
robot's biologically-inspired
control software uses a functional
model of "place cells." These are
neurons in the hippocampus that help
real rats map their environment.
They fire when...
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Canadian Mother Freezes Own Eggs
For Infertile Seven Year Old
Daughter
Medical News Today July 5, 2007
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A Canadian mother has had her eggs
frozen for her daughter, who is
seven years old and likely to be
infertile when she grows up. Should
the girl use one of her mother's
eggs to have a baby later in life,
she would effectively give birth to
her own half brother or...
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Google: You ain't seen nothin' yet
Financial Post July 3, 2007
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Google Inc. has been putting
together a massive cable network
that could provide customers around
the world with telecommunications
services ranging from broadband
Internet to home and mobile phones.
Google has reportedly approached the
Federal Communications Commission
recently about obtaining wireless
spectrum, the base upon which mobile...
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