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High-Speed Photography Captures Art In Drops Of Water

by Peter Murray on February 8th, 2012

High-Speed Photography Captures Art In Drops Of Water

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Longevity And Health

Another First For 3D Printing – Woman Receives Jaw Implant

Written by: Peter Murray 1 day ago

The implant is treated with a bioceramic coating prior to implantation.

An 83-year-old woman suffering from a lower jaw infection became the first person to receive a jaw implant manufactured with [...]

Singularity

Singularity Hub Membership Program Going Exponential! Join The Fun

Written by: Keith Kleiner 2 days ago

Feeling good!

A few days ago we launched the Singularity Hub membership program, and I am pleased to announce we are off [...]

Gadgets

Kurzweil Featured In Superbowl Ad? Yes, It’s True!

Written by: Keith Kleiner 2 days ago

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If you were watching the Superbowl yesterday then you were probably as stunned as I was to see none other [...]

Computer Interfaces

Google’s Eric Schmidt On Collective Intelligence: “In God We Trust…But All Others Bring Data”

Written by: Aaron Saenz 2 days ago

Eric Schmidt

There are few people in the world with a resume like Eric Schmidt. Just finishing his decade long run as [...]

Robots

Flying Robotic Swarm of Nano Quadrotors Gets Millions of Views, New Company

Written by: Aaron Saenz 3 days ago

KMel Nanoquadrotors feature

These acrobatic robots can launch themselves through rings, duck and weave around obstacles, and even fly through your bedroom window. [...]

AI

Computer Algorithm Used To Make Movie For Sundance Film Festival

Written by: Peter Murray 4 days ago

The Pandora of movies. Films by Eve Sussman and Rufus Corporation are clips pieced together by a computer algorithm.

Indie movie makers can be a strange bunch, pushing the envelope of their craft and often losing us along the [...]

Gadgets

Dropping the F-BOMB, A Disposable Spy Computer Funded by DARPA

Written by: Peter Murray 5 days ago

Witha PogoPlug NAS box, a few antennae, flash memory and some batteries, and you've got a cheap, disposable F-BOMB with which to collect data on adversaries.

Attach a camera to a drone, fly the drone around the back of the house, locate the bad guys. Robotic [...]

AI

A Look At BMW’s Semi-Autonomous Driving Car

Written by: Peter Murray 6 days ago

The upright, folded hands is a sign of confidence. So is driving a BMW. With ConnectedDrive Connect, BMW owners can do both!

While robotic cars have a ways to go yet before rolling (themselves) out onto showroom floors, BMW is incorporating driver [...]

Debate Central

Kurzweil Says a Machine Intelligence Will Pass the Turing Test by 2029. What Do You Think?

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Hmmm.... *looks at Watson* *imagines 1000^2 times more powerful computer* *imagines Watson becomes as good as other things as he is with natural language* effectively this date gives computers after the [...]

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Seems quite possible. But will it be AI? Or will it be a well-programmed machine that understands native English? Still impressive, but there's a [...]

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How does the first question mostly made of 0's? There are clearly more 1's (especially if one distinguishes between o and 0)

Gadgets

Take A Look At Dropcam’s New High-Definition Surveillance Camera

Written by: Peter Murray 7 days ago

Dropcam adds HD, infrared and two-way audio to their new Dropcam HD.

The dropcam surveillance camera was already about as user-friendly as could be, now it’s added high-definition video and two-way audio [...]

Gadgets

The Current State Of Wind Power — 2012 Should Be The Biggest Year Yet

Written by: David Hill 7 days ago

The winds of change continue to blow for this in vogue renewable energy.

When Barack Obama ran for President back in 2008, one of the ‘changes’ that he set forth was a New [...]

Gadgets

eye3: The Robotic Copter That You Can Afford

Written by: Peter Murray 8 days ago

eye3 copy

UPDATE: Kickstarter has cancelled funding for eye3 due to delayed deliveries, skepticism that the drone will actually work and suspicion [...]

Computer Interfaces

All Your Bandwidth Are Belong To Us: Half Of World’s Bandwidth Consumed By Only 1% of Users

Written by: David Hill 8 days ago

The most extreme smartphone users are eating up the network extremely well.

It’s tough being an avid mobile device user these days. First, carriers tempt you with the latest feature-packed devices while [...]

Art

40 Years After Moon Mission Made it Famous, NASA Recreates Iconic Picture of Earth – Blue Marble 2012

Written by: Aaron Saenz 9 days ago

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If you want to see a pretty part of Earth, step outside. If you want to see all the pretty [...]

Singularity

Kickstarter: We’re Succesful, We’re Growing, We’re Changing Whole Industries

Written by: Aaron Saenz 9 days ago

Kickstarter feature

Five hundred years ago, most Western artists lived off the charity of wealthy patrons. Today, you are that patron, and [...]

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