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A collection of news articles and stories relating to the accelerating nature of technology
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Emotional robot has empathy, understands your frustration
The Feelix Growing project uses software that allows robots to adjust to how a person is feeling based on feedback from cameras and sensors.
The bots look at a human's facial expression and key in on their voice and proximity to determine what kind of mood they're in. (Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/emotional-robot-has-empathy-understands-your-frustration/)
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Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web
Google has been publishing a series of posts about how its search engine works with meaning, going beyond page rank. (Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/google-and-the-real-search-for-meaning-on-the-web/index.html)
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Losing the lasers turns CDs into memory sticks
A future generation of ultra-dense flash memory chips could be based on a new Phase Change Memory (PCM) technology, according to Numonyx, an Intel spinoff.
Flash memory transistors (currently 65 nanometers wide) will face limited lifetime (write/erase cycles) when dimensions get below 20 nanometers, due to the retention of electric charge in the flash transistor.
PCM would use use GST (an alloy of tellurium, antimony and germanium), switching between disordered and crystalline states, as in a CD or DVD. It would allow for stable use down to 5 nanometers or below, the company says.
(Source: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14330-losing-the-lasers-turns-cds-into-memory-sticks.html)
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Gore Calls for Carbon-Free Electric Power
Al Gore said on Thursday that Americans must abandon electricity generated by fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the winds and other environmentally friendly sources of power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts.
He cited military-intelligence studies warning of "dangerous national security implications" tied to climate change, including the possibility of "hundreds of millions of climate refugees" causing instability around the world, and said the United States is dangerously vulnerable because of its reliance on foreign oil. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/washington/18gorecnd.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin)
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Say goodbye to the computer mouse
A Gartner analyst predicts the demise of the computer mouse in the next three to five years for home entertainment or working on a notebook.
Taking over will be gestural computer mechanisms like Nintendo's Wii, multitouch screens like the iPhone, and facial recognition devices such as products from Sony, Canon and other video and photographic manufacturer.
Also see:
Super-sensitive controller opens Wii to music
(Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7508842.stm)
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