SETI bioastro: FW: KurzweilAI.net Daily Newsletter

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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Thu Feb 12 2004 - 05:49:29 PST

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    >From: "KurzweilAI.net"
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    >Subject: KurzweilAI.net Daily Newsletter
    >Date: 12 Feb 2004 03:22:25 -0800
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    >KURZWEILAI.NET NEWSLETTER
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    >Noise boosts nanotube antennas
    >Technology Research News February 11/18, 2004
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    >Researchers at the University of
    >Southern California have shown that
    >the right amount of noise can enable
    >carbon nanotube transistors to
    >detect weak electrical signals,
    >making nanotubes useful as
    >microscopic antennas in
    >communications devices, including
    >cell phones. This is the same effect
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    >Nano-origami
    >KurzweilAI.net Feb. 11, 2004
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    >Scripps Research Institute
    >scientists have designed,
    >constructed, and imaged a single
    >strand of DNA that spontaneously
    >folds into a highly rigid, nanoscale
    >octahedron. The structure can be
    >amplified with the standard tools of
    >molecular biology and can easily be
    >cloned, replicated, amplified,...
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    >Nanobiotech Pioneers Predict
    >Nanomedicine Impact within Five
    >Years
    >KurzweilAI.net Feb. 11, 2004
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    >Ground-breaking nanotechnology
    >researcher Ralph C. Merkle, Ph.D.,
    >and the father of nanomedicine
    >Robert A. Freitas, Jr., JD, are
    >among the industry heavyweights who
    >weighed in with NanoBiotech News on
    >the state of nanomedicine and where
    >it's headed. "The evolutionary
    >spectrum in nanomedicine...
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    >The Future Gets Smaller and Faster
    >CIO Feb. 11, 2004
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    >Nanobots coursing through our
    >bloodstream, miniscule
    >microprocessors feeding displays
    >into our eyeglasses and computing
    >power to rival and surpass that of
    >the human brain -- that's the world
    >of the future, and a not too distant
    >future, described by renowned
    >inventor Ray Kurzweil at this week's
    >CIO...
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    >For Those Who Can't Wait for the
    >Future to Arrive
    >New York Times Feb. 12, 2004
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    >A line of concept laptops to be
    >announced at the Intel Developer
    >Forum on Feb. 17-19 will serve as
    >Intel's vision of how notebook
    >computers might evolve in the next
    >two years. These concepts combine
    >imaginative designs with the latest
    >technology and are meant to
    >influence the gear that will be sold...
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    >Intel Says Chip Speed Breakthrough
    >Will Alter Cyberworld
    >New York Times Feb. 11, 2004
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    >Intel scientists say that they have
    >made silicon chips that can switch
    >light like electricity, blurring the
    >line between computing and
    >communications and presenting a
    >vision of the digital future that
    >will allow computers themselves to
    >span cities or even the entire...
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    >Scientists Claim Cloning Success
    >New York Times Feb. 12, 2004
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    >South Korea scientists report that
    >they have created human embryos
    >through cloning and extracted
    >embryonic stem cells, making the
    >birth of a cloned baby suddenly more
    >feasible. So it is likely to
    >reignite the fierce debate over the
    >ethics of human...
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    >Talking to bacteria
    >Nature Science Update Feb. 12, 2004
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    >Scientists have genetically
    >engineered bacteria to "talk" to
    >each other in a new language,
    >bringing us one step closer to
    >turning cells into tiny robots that
    >we can control by flooding them with...
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    >Benign Viruses Shine on the Silicon
    >Assembly Line
    >New York Times Feb, 12, 2004
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    >MIT professor Angela M. Belcher has
    >altered the DNA in a virus to
    >generate a variety of regular
    >nanowires made of magnetic and
    >semiconducting materials that may
    >one day be part of the extremely
    >small circuitry in the next
    >generation of ever-shrinking
    >high-speed electronic...
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