Archive for April, 2010

The Army intelligence officer nominated to lead the Pentagon’s new command devoted to warfare in cyberspace has warned Congress that policy directives and legal controls over digital combat are outdated and have failed to keep pace with the military’s technical capabilities…

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Click herefor more information on Cyberwar. Note this information includes a link to the new book Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clarke and Robert Knake.

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Andrew Hessel reasons that Synthetic Biology will be the next big IT industry. In his remarkable talk Andrew talks about the parallels between IT and biology.

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An Android tablet PC from Google and a two-screen slate from Microsoft may join devices from Acer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo to vie with Apple’s iPad…

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DISCOVERY CHANNEL ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT DEAL WITH STEVEN SPIELBERG, DREAMWORKS TELEVISION AND DREAMWORKS ANIMATION…

Future Earth aims to be an epic mini-series examining what life on Earth will be like in 25, 50 and 100 years. The mini-series will draw from a vast number of sources, including the leading futurists, scholars and great minds of today, to dramatize and explore how various facets of our daily lives – health and medicine, technology, the environment, the military, the economy and media – will evolve over the next century…

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Google has become synonymous with “search,” but the discovery of the fossil remains of a previously unknown species of hominid gives new meaning to “googling”…

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Here George Rebane will try to convince you that “enormous impact” is an understatement…

Click here for the article found on The Union newspaper website. The Union serves Western Nevada County, California. Located in the Brunswick area of Grass Valley, midway between Grass Valley and Nevada City, CA.

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These trends show that couples with the means are already willing to pay more in the hopes of getting a child with smarter genes…

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Scientists say Canada’s “Enviropig” is both Eco-friendly and Will Cut Farmers’ Feed-Supplement Costs…

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A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that…

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The next generation of solar energy with Dan Nocera -

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Click here for more information on the film debut at the Sonoma Film Festival.

Let’s also remember that on April 28, 2009 “Transcendent Man” debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in the World Documentary Feature Competition. We are still waiting for the annoucement of its official release date which should be sometime this year.

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Click herefor more information on the book “The Singularity is Near”.

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The U.S. Navy hopes to take a major step toward fielding a cyber-attack system on a tactically survivable, fighter-size aircraft…

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TIME has a long history with Steve Jobs. We first put him on the cover in 1982 for a story about what we called “America’s risk takers” — and he has been taking risks ever since. Over the years, Jobs has given us behind-the-scenes access to Apple’s product development, as when we did a feature about the launch of the iPhone three years ago. This time, in anticipation of the iPad’s launch, we…

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Silicon Valley is known for innovative ideas in technology, and now some of the area’s greatest minds have come up with a new way to solve one of their biggest operational problems: securing foreign talent. It’s called the “startup visa” and it’s getting a lot of attention in both California and D.C., because it would help create new jobs…

Click here to view the entire article by Sonia Arrison found on the TechNewsWorld website.

Click herefor a book “Digital Dialogue: Technology, Capitalism, and the Pursuit of Freedom” by Sonia Arrison.

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It is a process that will be necessary to enable people to live longer than an average of 150 years when…

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