Microprocessor with DNA (illustration). Scientists have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing machine capable of manipulating genetic codes, and using the output as new input for subsequent computations (Credit: © Giovanni Cancemi / Fotolia) May 23, 2013… Read More ›
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E-tattoo monitors brainwaves and baby bump : “now modifying the tattoo to transmit data wirelessly to a smartphone”
26 April 2013 by Sara Reardon Magazine issue 2914. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the The Human Brain Topic Guide An electronic patch can analyse complex brainwaves and listen in on a fetus’s heart MIND… Read More ›
Creating indestructible self-healing circuits
Contact: Brian Bell bbell2@caltech.edu 626-395-5832 California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers build electronic chips that repair themselves PASADENA, Calif.—Imagine that the chips in your smart phone or computer could repair and defend themselves on the fly, recovering in microseconds from… Read More ›
Cloud-computing platform for robots launched
Contact: Markus Waibel mwaibel@ethz.ch 41-446-323-192 ETH Zurich An Internet for robots Researchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots. The platform allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications… Read More ›
Blueprint for an artificial brain
Published 26. February 2013, 15:18 h Bielefeld physicist Andy Thomas takes nature as his model Scientists have long been dreaming about building a computer that would work like a brain. This is because a brain is far… Read More ›
Killer robots must be stopped, say campaigners
‘Autonomous weapons’, which could be ready within a decade, pose grave risk to international law, claim activists Tracy McVeigh The Observer, Saturday 23 February 2013 16.52 EST A scene from the 2003 film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Scientists… Read More ›
Temporary Tattoos Could Make Electronic Telepathy, Telekinesis Possible
February 19th, 2013 | by Charles Q. Choi Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say. Commanding machines using the brain is no longer the… Read More ›
CU-Boulder team develops swarm of pingpong ball-sized robots
December 14, 2012 University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll likes to think in multiples. If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much more could be accomplished if you had hundreds of them. Correll and his… Read More ›
Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested
By Vince StricherzNews and Information A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation run by our descendants. While that seems far-fetched, perhaps even incomprehensible, a… Read More ›
Robopocalypse, or killing robots: where humans are the target
Sarah Neary Dec 6, 2012 18:12 Moscow Time © Photo: SXC.hu Run for cover! Robots may become self-governing devices with built-in firearms in massive numbers worldwide. Yet, robots’ picking who to destroy on the battlefield is a recipe for disaster…. Read More ›
U.S. DoD’s Autonomous Weapons Directive Keeps Man in the Loop: ” Humans still must play an oversight role “
Nov. 27, 2012 – 01:43PM | By AARON MEHTA | The U.S. Defense Department has issued a new directive on the use of autonomous and semi-autonomous weapon systems, an attempt to regulate a technology that officials say could be years… Read More ›
Will machines kill mankind? Cambridge academics want to know
Academics highlight threat of super-intelligent technology James Legge Monday, 26 November 2012 Academics at Cambridge University are pondering the risk to humanity from super-intelligent technology which could “threaten our own existence.” Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge,… Read More ›
Brain-like chip outstrips normal computers
22 November 2012 by Michael Marshall Magazine issue 2892. COMPUTER chips that mimic the human brain are outstripping conventional chips in crucial ways. They could also revolutionise our understanding of how the brain functions.Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve… Read More ›
Rise of the Machines: Autonomous killer robots ‘could be developed in 20 years’
Militaries around the world ‘very excited’ about replacing soldiers with robots that can act independently U.S. leads the way with automated weapons systems, but drones still need remote control operator authorisation to open fire Human Rights Watch calls for worldwide… Read More ›
UK Ministry of Defence hacked by NullCrew ( Profanity Warning)
Posted by Mohit Kumar on 11/06/2012 07:56:00 AM | . The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence website (www.qhm.mod.uk) hacked by two Null Hacking Crew members @OfficialNull and @Timoxeline and They extracted data published online. The data dump include 3400 email … Read More ›
Could we copy a specific brain or transfer our minds to another device? Research suggests this amazing idea might be feasible
Mind transfer: human brains in different materials 02 November 2012 by Randal A. Koene Magazine issue 2888. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the The Big Idea , The Human Brain and Death Topic Guides HUMAN brains and the… Read More ›
U.S. Army Sponsored Artificial Intelligence Surveillance System Attempts to Predict The Future
10/29/2012 @ 5:12AM |4,088 views In something that looks straight out of the CBS show “Person of Interest“, the science website Phsy.org is reporting on a potentially important breakthrough from researchers at Carnegie Mellon. In research sponsored by… Read More ›
Titan Supercomputer Debuts: Computer Churns Through More Than 20,000 Trillion Calculations Each Second
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is home to Titan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science with a theoretical peak performance exceeding 20 petaflops (quadrillion calculations per second). That kind of computational capability—almost unimaginable—is on par with each of the… Read More ›
Robots That Perceive the World Like Humans
ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2012) — Perceive first, act afterwards.The architecture of most of today’s robots is underpinned by this control strategy. The eSMCs project has set itself the aim of changing the paradigm and generating more dynamic computer models in… Read More ›
The Internet of Things will transform our everyday: Objects in the home or office will “converse”, understand each other, and share information
Contact: Heikki Ailisto heikki.ailisto@vtt.fi 358-207-222-233 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Internet of Things is the next ICT disruption Information technology and electronics are becoming entwined with our everyday lives in industry, the service sector, transport, logistics, health care, housing,… Read More ›
The Military Is Building Integrated Hybrid Living-Nonliving Robotic Organisms
Geoffrey Ingersoll|Oct. 16, 2012, 12:41 PM|1,624|7 In a request released Sept. 14 of this year, the Office Of Naval Research sought to find proposals for “Synthetic Biology Tools for Sensing and Bioprocessing” — essentially hybrid, organic inorganic “sensing” robots. But… Read More ›
U.S. Navy builds robot modelled on Star Wars character C-3PO to fight fires on board warships
By Emma Clark PUBLISHED:10:46 EST, 14 October 2012| UPDATED:11:49 EST, 14 October 2012 A robot with the ability to fight fires on board warships has been developed by military scientists based on the popular Star Wars character C-3PO. It might… Read More ›
Did the Pentagon just take over America’s cybersecurity?
Ready Player One It was bound to happen. The Senate fumbles and the House proffers only magical solutions for cybersecurity. The task of improving cybersecurity reverts to the executive branch, but the Department of Homeland Security does not inspire confidence…. Read More ›
Mother Nature, Version 2.0
Welcome to the world of synthetic biology, where micro-organisms can be programmed to invade and destroy cancer cells By SCOTT GOTTLIEB It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read… Read More ›
Futurist Ray Kurzweil Wants to Move Your Brain Into the Cloud
Oct 11, 2012 10:34 AM EST By Michael J. Miller Above: Futurist Ray Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines and a pioneer of artificial intelligence software, has always been one of the most provocative thinkers on… Read More ›
Do we live in the Matrix? Researchers say they have found a way to find out
Any simulation of the universe must have limits, and finding these would prove we live in an artificial reality, physicists claim By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED:08:15 EST, 11 October 2012| UPDATED:08:28 EST, 11 October 2012 If the Matrix left you with… Read More ›
Mysterious Algorithm Generates 4% of Stock Trading Activity
Tuesday, 09 October 2012 A single mysterious computer program that placed orders — and then subsequently canceled them — made up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week, according to the top tracker of… Read More ›
Team builds most complex synthetic biology circuit yet
Mon, 10/08/2012 – 7:39am Using genes as interchangeable parts, synthetic biologists design cellular circuits that can perform new functions, such as sensing environmental conditions. However, the complexity that can be achieved in such circuits has been limited by a critical… Read More ›
Training Computers to Understand the Human Brain
The activation maps of the two contrasts (hot color: mammal > tool ; cool color: tool > mammal) computed from the 10 datasets of our participants. (Credit: Image courtesy of Tokyo Institute of Technology) ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2012) — Tokyo… Read More ›
How synthetic biology will change us
By Alan Boyle October 4, 2012, 7:05 pm NBCNews.com Lisa Poole / AP file Harvard geneticist George Church shows off the DNA sequence of a colleague. In the future, genetically modified organisms could be making our medicines, our fuel, our… Read More ›
Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence
AI is achievable, but it will take more than computer science and neuroscience to develop machines that think like people David Deutsch guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 October 2012 02.00 EDT The defining attribute of an intelligent being, whether human… Read More ›
Robocop gets real: The remote controlled robot that could put injured police back on the beat
Project aiming to develop a robot controlled remotely by injured officers Officers would control the virtual cop through a virtual reality headset Could be used to patrol nuclear facilities, ports and even urban areas By Daniel Bates PUBLISHED:09:46 EST, 1 … Read More ›
Nanosciences: All Systems Go at the Biofactory: Should furnish a way to develop, construct and utilize designer nanomachines
In order to assemble novel biomolecular machines, individual protein molecules must be installed at their site of operation with nanometer precision. LMU researchers have now found a way to do just that. Green light on protein assembly! (Credit: Image courtesy… Read More ›
Bioengineers Introduce ‘Bi-Fi’ — The Biological ‘Internet’
ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) — If you were a bacterium, the virus M13 might seem innocuous enough. It insinuates more than it invades, setting up shop like a freeloading houseguest, not a killer. Once inside it makes itself at home,… Read More ›
Never lose your data again! Hitachi develops glass-based storage system that will last for 100 MILLION years
By John Hutchinson PUBLISHED:15:13 EST, 27 September 2012| UPDATED:15:18 EST, 27 September 2012 Breakthrough: A woman holds up Hitachi’s newly unveiled quartz glass plate technology, which can be used for the indefinite storage of data The developments in recent years… Read More ›
Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing’s centenary
Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer daniel.oppenheimer@utexas.edu 512-745-3353 University of Texas at Austin BotPrize winners score as more human than half their human competitors VIDEO:Under heavy fire from a human judge, UT^2 manages to fight his way to a nearby weapon and obliterate… Read More ›
Fifteen Billion Online Devices by 2015
The internet of things is coming, and it’s not just the CIA who are excited. Last week Intel, the chip manufacturer, predicted that by 2015 there will be more than 15 billion internet-connected devices and one third of these… Read More ›
Project Gives Computers a More Powerful Way to Detect Threats: “Space Travel”
Project Gives Computers a More Powerful Way to Detect Threats Technique Nicknamed ‘Space Travel’ Allows a Machine to Travel Virtually to Another System Sep. 19, 2012 UT Dallas computer scientists have developed a technique to automatically allow one computer in… Read More ›
Sen. Jay Rockefeller pitches cybersecurity bill to top CEOs: Offers them immunity from liability in the event of a cyberattack
By The Christian Science Monitor Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:02 EDT Seeking to overcome opposition from the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups to a cybersecurity bill, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D) of West Virginia took the unusual… Read More ›
Out-Of-This-World Nanoscience: A Computer Chip That Can Assemble Itself?
This image shows the work by UD’s Eric M. Furst, who reports new findings of how tiny particle building blocks can be directed to self-assemble into specific structures. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Delaware) ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) —… Read More ›
U.S. finance industry warned of cyber attacks
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, September 19, 2012 20:22 EDT Topics: bank of america ♦ cyber attacks ♦ Site Intelligence Group NEW YORK — A US financial industry group warned banks and other institutions to beware of cyber attacks Wednesday, after… Read More ›
How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
By The Christian Science Monitor Sunday, September 16, 2012 13:38 EDT In Silicon Valley, Nikolas Janin rises for his 40-minute commute to work just like everyone else. The shop manager and fleet technician at Google gets dressed and heads out… Read More ›
Moving plane exchanges quantum keys with Earth
16 September 2012 by Jacob Aron For similar stories, visit the Quantum World Topic Guide AN AEROPLANE has beamed quantum encryption keys to a station on the ground, paving the way for an ultra-secure global communications network. Quantum key… Read More ›
Slices of brain tissue can store patterns of activity for short periods of time: scientists
By Mo Costandi, The Guardian Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:44 EDT Topics: activity patterns ♦ Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland ♦ Ohio It sounds like the plot of a science fiction film, or like something from a transhumanist fantasy:… Read More ›
Criminals to be caught by their tattoos: Recognition software will scan Facebook for incriminating markings
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:13:30 EST, 9 September 2012| UPDATED:14:25 EST, 9 September 2012 Police may soon be able to catch criminals by the ink they are sporting. Computer scientists are developing a new program that will be able to… Read More ›
EU funding ‘Orwellian’ artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for “abnormal behaviour”: Project Indect
Repost for Filing 2009 The European Union is spending millions of pounds developing “Orwellian” technologies designed to scour the internet and CCTV images for “abnormal behaviour”. By Ian Johnston 9:08PM BST 19 Sep 2009 A five-year research programme, called Project… Read More ›
Towards Computing With Water Droplets: Superhydrophobic Droplet Logic
Water droplets moving on a superhydrophobic surface collide with each other and rebound like billiard balls. (Credit: Image courtesy of Aalto University ScienceDaily (Sep. 7, 2012) — Researchers in Aalto University have developed a new concept for computing, using water… Read More ›
Copyright’s Robot Wars Heat Up as Algorithms Block Live-Streams First and Ask Questions Later
September 7, 2012 | By Kurt Opsahl and Parker Higgins Copyright’s robot wars have burst onto the scene of streaming video sites, silencing live feeds with bogus infringement accusations and no human oversight. Two examples from just the past week… Read More ›
Don’t Wait for the UK Snoopers’ Charter to Pass: Encrypt Wikipedia Now
September 6, 2012 | By Eva Galperin A joint committee of the UK’s House of Lords and the House of Commons is preparing to debate a draft bill known as the Snoopers’ Charter, a disastrous data retention bill which, as… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 