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According to this article by David Gelernter on the future of computing "The power of desktop machines is a magnet that will reverse today's "everything onto the Web!" trend. Desktop po

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"... the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propag

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"As predicted, the principle of natural selection could successfully produce specialized circuits using a fraction of the resources a human would have required. And no one had the foggiest notion

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"A new type of memory device has been made by researchers in the US and Italy by attaching individual viruses to tiny specks of semiconducting material called quantum dots."

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Worth reading, in light of recent smoke'n'mirrors media hype and bullsh*t.

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"IBM researchers [...] assembled a simulated mouse cortical hemisphere (that is, a functional half of a mouse brain) on one of the smaller BlueGene/L supercomputers. They then ran the simulation.

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"A shoulder-mounted camera system that automatically tracks head movements and can recognise hand gestures has been developed by UK researchers." I want one of these, like, right now.

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"A lot of work into flexible sensors uses substrates that only bend in one axis," Liu explains, "we want to be able to have things fully flexible in three dimensions."

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"The basic idea is that a slew of emerging technologies -- RFID tags, wireless networking, portable devices hooked up to satellites, wearable computing -- will make objects in the real world act

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Via Captain Bruce, a link fest that I haven't yet taken the time to go through thoroughly - but it looks like it is loaded with goodies.

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"Dwave Systems has fixed the dates for the demo of their Orion quantum computing system. [...] This 16 qubit system is the beginning of commercially usable and useful quantum computers." Thi

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"With a frequency of 845 gigahertz, their latest device is approximately 300 gigahertz faster than transistors built by other research groups, and approaches the goal of a terahertz device."

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"In theory, a quantum computer could be far more powerful than any existing device. Making it work, however, means protecting the quantum particles used in its calculations from the disrupting no

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"Although extrapolating from today's phones by following technology trends can provide some clues about their future direction, the danger with this approach is that it risks overlooking disconti

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"France's gendarmes and Ministry of Culture and Communication have done it, and now members of the country's parliament are about to switch to open source." Vive la difference!

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"Augmented reality (AR) is the registration of projected computer-generated images over a user’s view of the physical world." Okay, now try scoffing at the idea of wearable computers. Via OK

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Watch presentations on a panoply of subject matter, given by all manner of boffins and smart types to the staff of the Googleplex, all hosted for free online (by Google Video, natch).

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"...unlike other social location services, [it] automatically updates the location of everyone in a private network and displays that information directly on a map on the phone." The future

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"The futuristic wall computers from Minority Report will soon be reality, Microsoft's chief [says]."

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"Social policy makers and town planners will soon be able to play 'SimCity' for real using grid computing and e-Science techniques to test the consequences of their policies on a real, but anonym

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"Big Blue has already established the biggest Second Life presence of any Fortune 500 company. It is also looking to build a 3D intranet where its clients will be able to discuss sensitive busine

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"Project Blackbox is a prototype of the world's first virtualized datacenter--built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies." C

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" ... definitions for some of the early 1990s acronyms associated with the Internet and networked communications. It is not complete, but it represents the most-used acronyms of that period."

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"...an ion trap quantum computer could be made much smaller than previously expected simply by cooling the electrodes."

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