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Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity
Seeded on Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:04 PM EDT (Wired News)
An interview with futurist/Singularitarian Ray Kurzweil concerning his life-extension and wellness regime as well as his personal history as an inventor and his hopeful future history as one of the Singularity's first great success stories.
Can America Handle a Little Truth
Seeded on Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:57 PM EDT (10 Zen Monkeys)
Before any further pundits, liberal or conservative, begin shooting their mouths off concerning the "inflammatory and un-American" rhetoric of the Reverend Wright, Barack Obama's pastor, perhaps ALL of us should read this article and realize that the man may possess a certain amo …
Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax dies at 69
Seeded on Tue Mar 4, 2008 2:27 PM EST (WKBT.com)
Gary Gygax, co-creator of the legendary RPG Dungeon's & Dragons, has died. He was 69. Barbarians and sorcerors everywhere observe a moment of silence in their mead-halls and libraries.
The Martin Luther King You Don't See On TV
Seeded on Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:58 PM EST (The Humanist)
Mass media is no more "impartial" to the news it presents than are the viewers who turn to mass media for information. This is most evidence in the fact that to this day one rarely finds any national news programme celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Ghostbusters' War on Religion
Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:39 AM EST
The movie Ghostbusters was released in 1984, coincidentally, the same year in which I was born.
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Atheism on the rise
Seeded on Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:23 AM EST (The New York Times)
It's time to start listening to a sane view of how we exist. Religions have proven their lack of worth by being useless, money grubbing organizations. It's time to hear the REAL truth about this fictional character called "God" .
Japan, Denmark Set New Climate Goals
Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:57 PM EST
The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it.
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Bots With Brains: Future Robotic Overlords?
Seeded on Thu May 24, 2007 12:05 AM EDT (ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom)
Advanced in Artificial Intelligence will likely produce sentient robots within the next 10-15 years.
Sizing up the coming robotics revolution.
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2007 12:38 PM EDT (CNET)
CNet News interviews Rodney Brooks, Panasonic professor of robotics at MIT and the director of their Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab as well as co-founder and chief technology officer of iRobot, about the forthcoming RoboBusiness 2007 conference and the commercia …
Twatter: Who Are You Doing?
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2007 2:52 PM EDT (Twatter itself)
A brilliant parody of popular microblogging site Twiiter. *Mildly* unsafe for work.
Commencement 2007: Unlocking the Power of Music
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2007 1:52 PM EDT (Rensselaer Polythecnic Institute press release)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student Zane Van Dusen, a lifelong musician, spearheaded a project that "designed and implemented a computer interface that tracks the movement of a user's head to allow them to produce electronic sounds and compose music on a virtual keyboard i …
Robo-Quandary
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2007 1:44 AM EDT (The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Marquette University assistant philosophy professor Keith A.
The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence's $400K Matching Challenge
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2007 2:05 AM EDT (SIAI Homepage)
The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence is seeking funding to advance studies in and development of AI. Matching fund donors include Peter Thiel, founder and former CEO of PayPal, and current advisor for the SIAI.
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Fri May 4, 2007 11:27 PM EDT
Oh no! THE NUMBER! *Whew* Glad I forcibly interrupted myself there before I scribbled out all of the offending hex digits! If I hadn't...well, I could be facing a DMCA takedown notice courtesy of the code's "authors", the defrocked and now defamed AACS, or perhaps the very end of …
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Windows Vista: Far From a Failure..but Far from All the Hype as Well.
Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:33 PM EDT
Ever since Microsoft announced a final release date for Windows Vista, latest update to their flagship OS, the web has been seething with opinions over whether the new OS would revolutionize the world of personal computing or simply drive more users to alternative operating syste …
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Office, Vista Launches Boost Microsoft Sales
Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:58 PM EDT (CNet News.com)
The debut of new versions of Microsoft's flagship products, Windows Vista and Microsoft Office, has given Microsoft a somewhat-better-than-expected sales performance in the third quarter of 2006/2007.
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