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Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope Shows Great Potential, Haters Say Meh

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

Vending Machines in Japan

Ray Kurzweil at Singularity Summit 2006

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03.04.08

Intel’s New "Atom" Chips Bring Us Closer to Ubiquitous Mobile Computing Hardware, Singularity | (2)
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 to. The chipset housing this new processor, Centrino Atom, will also feature low-powered integrated graphics and wireless capability. You can read more about the technical specifics of the Atom platform over at CrunchGear or Intel's press release, what I'm more interested in is what this new ...
03.02.08

Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Shows Great Potential, Haters Say Meh Microsoft, Science, Singularity | (0)
photo credit: Chip_2904 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 caught word that this uber-secret project had to do with collecting images from telescopes around the world, it quickly moved up to "must have" status. In this preview from the most recent TED conference, Roy Gould, a notable science educator, and Curtis Wong, an MS ...
09.10.07

Ray Kurzweil at Singularity Summit 2006 Singularity | (0)
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 bit of a buzzword to represent several up and coming future technologies but it usually refers to the rise of artificial intelligence at and beyond human intelligence in the next few decades.
I'll be writing much more about the Singularity ...
01.25.06

Vending Machines in Japan General, Singularity | (0)
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; some innovative, like the machines that will dispense free drinks in case of emergencies (water is often useful in these cases), and some completely unneccessary, like the machines that sell panties of young girls for perverse old men. Overall though, it's technological reliance such as ...