Category Archives: Singularity

Intel’s New "Atom" Chips Bring Us Closer to Ubiquitous Mobile Computing

By Devindra | Published: March 4, 2008
Intel’s latest mobile processor offering, the Intel Atom, is one powerful little beast. It measures around 25mm, but still manages to fit in the Core 2 Duo instruction set and speeds up to 1.8Ghz. While these tiny trooopers certainly won’t be able to compete with a 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo processor, they shouldn’t really have [...]
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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Shows Great Potential, Haters Say Meh

By Devindra | Published: March 2, 2008
photo credit: DRB62 This morning I woke up to a Slashdot posting on Microsoft’s latest software project, the WorldWide Telescope (WWT). This is the rumored world-changing project that made Robert Scoble cry, and it’s something I’ve been waiting eagerly for since Scoble’s teasing posts. I’ve loved astronomy since I was a kid, so when I [...]
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Ray Kurzweil at Singularity Summit 2006

By Devindra | Published: September 10, 2007
I spent much of today perusing the video content at the Singularity Institute and the TED conference sites and came across this recording of Ray Kurzweil’s talk at the recent Singularity Summit in Stanford. Kurzweil is a celebrated futurist and one of the defining figures in the Technological Singularity movement. The Singularity has become a [...]
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Vending Machines in Japan

By Devindra | Published: January 25, 2006
Somehow I think Japan will be the first country to to pursue the use of robots and A.I. to better their society, not just in development but in actual utility. The vending machine culture in Japan right now seems as if it is a precursor to this. They’ve found many uses for the vending machine; [...]
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