Archive for May, 2010

By providing a royalty-free video codec and a store to help sell Web apps, Google is trying to make the Web the leading development platform…

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“The QB is an extension of you,” Bob Christopher, chief operating officer of Anybots told Wired.com. “It removes the barriers between people and work so people can teleport themselves to the office space”…

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It might not relieve all the horrors of air travel these days, but a new inflight entertainment system based on the iPad could help you…

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YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday with a post showing its meteoric growth, some celebrity musings and news that it still doesn’t turn a profit…yet…

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Susan Schneider, Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, discusses Future Brains…

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Google Inc. has been vacuuming up fragments of people’s online activities broadcast over public Wi-Fi networks for the past four years, a breach of Web etiquette likely to…

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If you thought nanobots might give us cause for concern when the singularity occurs, how about nanobots made from DNA? U.S. scientists have developed microscopic robots composed of DNA that can follow instructions and work together like an assembly line to make products such as particles of gold…

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For most of us, it will likely never be more than an idle threat. But what happens if you actually do decide to sign off from Facebook — for good?

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If you read any science fiction or futurism, you’ve probably heard people using the term “singularity” to describe the world of tomorrow. But what exactly does it mean, and where does the idea come from?

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Scirus is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 370 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

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Sam Harris’ goal, both in speaking at conferences like TED and in writing his book, is to start a conversation that a wider audience can engage with and find helpful…

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While traveling through Southeast Asia last year…

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We should open our minds to the limitless, mind-boggling possibilities…

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The number of people using mobile broadband to access the Internet is expected to soar from around 400 million today to some 3.5 billion by 2015…

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I was so busy with school I forgot to celebrate THREE YEARS of Blogging the Singularity in March! We also recently reached a milestone surpassing 1200 feed readers in one day!

A big thanks goes out to ALL OF OUR LOYAL READERS and of course my blogging buddy FRANK who has really helped out a lot this year while I’ve been concentrating on maintaining a 4.0 average in school.

And further into an amazing new decade we go…

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