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Bruce Sterling writes in Wired about the Singularity-- that hard to imagine sci-fi future event that is supposed to be a sort of boundary between the human and the transhuman, a time when ever accelerating change overtakes everything and, some...
The planned recovery of a capsule carrying solar-wind particles from NASA's Genesis deep-space mission went awry this morning. The capsule failed to deploy its parachutes and slammed into the desert near the Air Force's Utah Test and Training Range at...
The San Jose Mercury News and various other sources report that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has joined a false-claims lawsuit against Diebold, the manufacturer of a touch-screen voting system purchased by several counties in the state.The civil suit was...
Advances in semiconductor manufacturing are making it easier to etch two or more processors onto a single piece of silicon. For the last year or more, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard have been building such "multi-core" chips for use in...
Days after 9/11/01, New Jersey surgeon Richard Seelig didn't want to take any chances that his body could be lost in a disaster. After seeing the firefighters writing their social security numbers on their forearms, he knew there must be...
According to this article in USA Today, Cellmark is trying to develop a DNA identification technique that could distinguish identical twins using micro-mutations that occur after the egg has split. It's needed to help settle some criminal cases where the...
This hurricane approaching Florida raises a question that is no doubt crossing many a climatologist's mind today (and maybe some Floridians'): is the one-two punch of Hurricanes Charley and Frances a product of global warming? The right way to describe...
Those wizards at Dartmouth's Computer Science Department have come up with a clever technique for automatically detecting forged JPEG images.To quote from the abstract:We describe an efficient technique that automatically detects duplicated regions in a digital image. This technique works...
Score one for openness on the Web. Google and Amazon both share their application programming interfaces, or APIs, with outside software writers, meaning that anyone who wants to develop a new service that uses or enhances data from Google or...
Police arrested a man today in the case of a pipe bomb explosion last Thursday at a Boston-area laboratory specializing in stem-cell research.According to a Reuter's report, the man had already been charged last year with trying to blow up...
