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Larry Smarr discusses the state of the art in supercomputing, with a focus on how current computation compares to the human brain and when supercomputers will surpass human processing power. Current supercomputers are estimated to match the human visual cortex and will reach human brain’s computational ability within the next twenty years.

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Anatoly Perminov first proposed building the ship at a government meeting Wednesday but didn’t explain its purpose. President Dmitry Medvedev backed the project and urged the government to find the money.

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Has the space race to Mars already started?

I just answered my own question by goolgling “space race to Mars”. Click here for the first item that came up titled “The new space race”.

For me this brings up memories of long ago. I actually worked on the Apollo program at GE for almost 4 years back in the mid-1960s. GE’s Apollo Support Department was located across the street from the Daytona International Speedway - not all that far from both Daytona Beach and the Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Center. It was an exciting time.

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Lars and Jens Rasmussen were broke and jobless…

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The two-decade erosion in newspaper circulation is looking more like an avalanche…

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An article documenting Australian news in the Sydney Morning Herald brings us commentary on this past summer’s first ever Singularity University class.

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As globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally. But, he says, if we can recognize this danger, we might yet realize the possibility of improved life for everyone…

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Scientists from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock mixed nanotubes with tomato seeds and discovered that…

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It’s been noted before that there is a significant gender imbalance among those who subscribe to transhumanist and/or technoprogressive ideas. The most recent Singularity Summit came in for quite a bit of criticism when their initial speaker list included no women at all. As it turned out, only one of the 25 speakers was female.

How different are men from women? And how much could those differences affect your future?

Click here for some answers in an article posted by Mike Treder found on the The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) website.

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With over a billion users, today’s Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Future Internet, an initiative driven by the European Union, has become a prime research focus of STI International and the Service Web 3.0 project. In order to explain, promote, and attract new contributors, we created a video to be viewed by stakeholders, who may be non-experts, in a new generation Internet. The video outlines the basic themes of the European Union’s Future Internet initiative. These include: an Internet of Services, where services are ubiquitous; an Internet of Things where in principle every physical object becomes an online addressable resource; a Mobile Internet where 24/7 seamless connectivity over multiple devices is the norm; and the need for semantics in order to meet the challenges presented by the dramatic increase in the scale of content and users.

Let us know your opinion - Fill in the Service Web 3.0 survey: Click here.

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California Carjacking Suspect Nabbed After GM’s OnStar Halts Fleeing SUV - It was the first time since OnStar began offering the service in the 2009 model year that it was used to end a chase that could otherwise have had dire consequences…

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The existence of the so-called exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — was announced at the European Southern Observatory/Center for Astrophysics, University of Porto conference in Porto, Portugal, according to a statement issued by the observatory…

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New research suggests that there is plenty of oxygen available in the subsurface ocean of Europa to support oxygen-based metabolic processes for life similar to that on Earth. In fact, there may be enough oxygen to support complex, animal-like organisms with greater oxygen demands than microorganisms. more>>>

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Carbon nanotubes are the crucial chemical ingredient that could make artificial photosynthesis possible, say a team of Chinese researchers. The team has found that nanotubes mimic an important step in photosynthesis that chemists have been unable to copy until now.

Artificial photosynthesis has the potential to efficiently produce hydrogen that could be used as a clean fuel for vehicles. It could also be used to mop up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. more>>>

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The Film About the Life and Ideas of Ray Kurzweil Makes West Coast U.S. Premiere on November 5th as an Official Documentary Selection of AFI Fest 2009…

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