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A collection of news articles and stories relating to the accelerating nature of technology
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Flies' eyes could enhance robot vision
Researchers from the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California, and the University of Wyoming have developed a fiber optic sensor inspired by the hyperacuity of the compound eye of the common housefly.
(D. Fischer)
Machines such as unmanned vehicles, guided missiles, and high-speed industrial inspection robots might take advantage of this ability to locate tiny, moving objects with high precision. (Source: http://www.physorg.com/news129545593.html)
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Virtual Iraq
The Department of Defense is testing Virtual Iraq, a virtual-reality program for treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
(Source: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/19/080519fa_fact_halpern?currentPage=all)
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A New Approach to Treating Alzheimer's
Neurosurgeon Andres Lozano at the University of Toronto is testing electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus as a novel treatment for Alzheimer's disease. (Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20756/?a=f)
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Nanohealing Material Heads to Market
Arch Therapeutics plans clinical trials of a nanostructured fluid that stops bleeding almost instantly by transforming into a gel in the presence of blood.
Eventually, the material could be used by first responders to stop bleeding at accident sites and on the battlefield.
The material, a synthetic peptide, was discovered at MIT in the early 1990s.
(Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/20755/)
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Powerset brings the Semantic Web to Wikipedia
Powerset has launched a public beta of its Wikipedia search engine that brings a new, rich semantic dimension via natural language query processing to Wikipedia, greatly improving the search and reading experience.
Powerset's engine, based on techology licensed from PARC, has read 2.5 million Wikipedia pages and extracted "meaning" from the sentences, creating a navigation and semantic layer on top of the popular Web encyclopedia.
Powerset has also indexed Freebase, Metaweb's evolving, open database of structured information. The search result page presents Factz, a summary of key information extracted from Wikipedia pages. It also shows a tag cloud of things and actions found by its linguistic analysis engine on the page.
Powerset has said that the longer term plan is to read, linguistically analyze and index 20 billion documents on the Web. (Source: http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9938959-80.html?tag=newsmap)
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