Google Earth Adds Virtual Time Travel, Moves a Step Closer to Gelernter's...
Not only did Google add an ocean to its Earth platform today, the company also enabled "Historical Imagery", a new feature that brings to life a crude version of what Yale computer scientist David...
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Pipl.com is the Best Free Background Check Online, Another Blip on the...
Pipl.com is a new biographical search engine that actually works. The secret? In addition to doing a good job with the search basics, Pipl also returns results from what it calls "the deep web", "a...
View ArticleAsocial Singularitarianism - Breeding an Incomplete View of Convergent...
The now-publicized curriculum of Ray Kurzweil's newly launchedSingularity University (SU), a very necessary institution that aims to "assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to...
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2.7 Inch Cubic Projector Hits Market in Japan
The latest intriguing mini-projector to hit store shelves (in Japan) is a small cubic, 25 ANSI Lumen LED called the Miseal. Manufactured by little-know Japanese comapny Sanko, the device is just...
View ArticleRFID for Identity Documents May Not Fly in the Future
White/Grey-hat hacker Chris Paget demonstrates a $250 mobile device that can read and clone RFID tags embedded in United States passport cards and enhanced drivers' licenses.As I often remind readers,...
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Will the Next Google be a Prosumer-Based Quantification Company?
To scale and dominate as quickly as Google has, a new company will need to generate serious end-user value, monetize effecively, and take a new web-based approach to human resources. One such...
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Singularity University Curriculum Suggestions (Running List)
Stating a lack of social focus as a fundamental problem, I recently joined the ranks of those critiquing the tentative Singularity University (SU) curriculum. I found (and still do) the proposed...
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Is Google's Interest-Based Advertising Push a Positive Development in the...
Google's announcement that they are now openly beta-testing "interest-based advertising" confirms that the near-term future of web advertising will involve tapping into your behavior and interest...
View ArticleNew Kurzweil Documentary Film 'Transcendent Man' To Lead the Singularity...
Edging out the forthcoming Singularity Movie (not to be confused with this web version), here comes Transcendent Man, a new documentary film that portrays Ray Kurzweil and his vision of a, well,...
View ArticleImmersive Data Visualization for Search & Drug Discovery, Green Phosphor...
By helping us to climb the stairs of abstraction, user-friendly immersive data visualization (ie, geospatial data mapping) is poised to become one of the more significant near-term drivers of...
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Cognitive Research Findings May Help Explain Social Brinkmanship
New cognitive research may help explain why human social systems prefer to push the envelope, creating critical "perfect storm" situations, instead of settling into equilibrium.If the global social...
View ArticlePresident Obama Kicks Off a New Era of Video Diplomacy
President Barack Obama's video/web overture to the Iranian people marks not only a strategic shift in U.S. policy toward the country, but also a fundamental change in tactics better-suited for an...
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Data Compression Breakthrough Could Accelerate Virtual Worlds, Mirror Worlds,...
It's rare that a broadly disruptive, industry shattering/accelerating technology sneaks up on you, much less everyone else all at the same time. But according to Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat, a...
View ArticleAstrophysicist Believes We'll Locate "Hundreds of Earth-Like Planets" by 2013
Astrophysicist Alan Boss believes Nasa's Kepler Mission will turn up "hundreds of Earth-like planets", many of which will probably be "inhabited with something."Considered a leader in the search for...
View ArticleAsimo Controlled By Human Thought (Video)
We've already seen thought-controlled avatars, so it comes as no surprise that robotics represents a new frontier for brain computer interfaces (BCIs). Still, the following video of a human...
View ArticleIBM Set to Tackle Jeopardy, Pushing Into Qualitative Search?
Is IBM gearing up to compete with Wolfram Alpha in the computational search game? Maybe. Is IBM gearing to take on the top minds on popular TV game show Jeopardy? Definitely. Check out this video...
View ArticleWolfram Demos Alpha (VIDEO)
Wondering what all of the Alpha hype is about? Here's a dense 10-minute video snippet of the official Wolfram Alpha "computational knowledge engine" unveiling, presented by the mathematician himself,...
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The Singularity Backlash
With a pair of feature films due for release in 2009, Ray Kurzweil is poised to shotgun the Singularity mega-meme to the mainstrean.But how will the message and messenger be received? And what effect...
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Are We Destined to Merge With Our Avatars?
Futurist Thomas Frey of the DaVinci Institute has posted a thought-provoking avatar roadmap detailing an increasingly critical and symbiotic relationship between man and this progeny of ours. Frey...
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10 Questions with SIAI President Michael Vassar
Recently appointed Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) President Michael Vassar, a hardcore proponent of science and reason, emphasizes the importance of "human rationality" when...
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