Publisher Oxford University Press said Sunday that…

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I should mention that my Amazon Kindle includes The New Oxford American Dictionary which allows me to easily look up words as I’m reading by placing the curser in front of the word I want defined.

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According to a study released Friday, the number of internet users over 50 who use social-networking sites has…

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Because it is based on the established iOS mobile operating system — and because it is relatively cheap and increases productivity — the iPad has found uncharacteristically quick approval from many information-technology managers at U.S. corporations…

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Devices like the Amazon Kindle are pricing out upstart e-reader competitors…

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The Coming Technological Singularity - New Century Edition with DirectLink Technology is my most recent Kindle book purchase.

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An incredible article I recommend reading the entire thing!

FOR generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They’re not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed. Then something remarkable happens. One steps forward, and that changes everything. Tens of thousands of generations down the line, some of its descendents will evolve memory.

Avidians are not microbes, or sci-fi alien life forms. They are the digital offspring of Charles Ofria and colleagues at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing. They “live” in a computer world called Avida, and replicateMovie Camera using strings of coded computer instructions instead of DNA. But in many ways they are similar to real life: they compete with each other for resources, replicate, mutate, and evolve. They - or things like them - might eventually evolve to become artificially intelligent life forms.

Similar to microbes, Avidians take up very little space, have short generation times, and can evolve new traits to out-compete their rivals. Unlike microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected. “They’re wonderful evolutionary pets,” says Ben Kerr, a biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. more>>>

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Learn more about it. Listen to Peter Lee, director of the new Transformational Convergence Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as he shares TCTO’s mission, research areas and approaches to technology innovation.

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Though the sun offers us a couple options for exploiting its energy — light and heat — we’ve always had to choose to use one at a time, because solar-energy technology hasn’t been able to capture both typs of radiation simultaneously. Stanford researchers say that’s about to change, however. Their new breakthrough could put solar power on par with oil, price-wise.

Using readily available materials, a team of engineers has come up with the first solar technology to combine photovoltaic and thermal electricity generation.

Called “photon enhanced thermionic emission,” or PETE, the process uses cesium to more than double existing systems’ efficiency levels. PETE devices could be easily incorporated into existing solar collection systems, and they’re cheap to boot. more>>>

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A stretchy new fabric made by linking together the proteins found in muscle tissue could provide a scaffold for growing new organs. It could also be used as a coating for bandages to help wounds heal quickly and with less scarring. The fabric was made in the laboratory of Kevin Kit Parker, a professor at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. more>>>

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Amazon.com revolutionized book reading in 2007 when it introduced its Kindle e-reader. But now…

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Google is bringing Android software development to the masses…

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TOKYO—Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. is in talks with videogame-device makers about adding 3G network connections to the next generation of hand-held consoles in a push to expand connected-game play.

“Videogame makers know that in order for portable game machines to take the next step forward, they need wireless communication,” NTT DoCoMo President Ryuji Yamada said in an interview Wednesday. “We are discussing this with various players.” more>>>

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Consumers have been steadily dropping their landline phones in favor of wireless options for quite some time now, and it appears that they are now starting to cut the cord when it comes to Internet use as well…

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