From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Mon Sep 26 2005 - 13:30:47 UTC
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>Date: 26 Sep 2005 06:10:04 -0700
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>'The Singularity Is Near' published
>KurzweilAI.net Sept. 26, 2005
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>Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is
>Near book, officially published
>today, has been in the top 25 among
>all books on Amazon.com, along with
>extensive coverage in the press,
>including the San Jose Mercury News
>and Boston Globe on Sunday. Kurzweil
>also spoke to large audiences last
>week at the Accelerating Change 2005
>conference at Stanford...
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>NSA granted Net location-tracking
>patent
>CNET News.com Sept. 21, 2005
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>The National Security Agency has
>obtained a patent on a method of
>figuring out an Internet user's
>geographic location. Patent
>6,947,978 describes a way to
>discover someone's physical location
>by comparing it to a "map" of
>Internet addresses with known
>locations. The NSA's patent relies
>on measuring the latency, meaning
>the time lag between...
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>Like High-Def? Here Comes the Next
>Level
>New York Times Sept. 26, 2005
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>Scientists and engineers in the
>United States and Japan plan to test
>the world's highest-resolution
>videoconferencing system: a
>state-of-the-art Sony video
>projector that displays "4K" digital
>video, with images that are about
>4,000 pixels across. The data will
>be sent over a 9,000-mile optical
>network linking the University of
>California, San...
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>The Fastest Net Yet
>PC World October 2005
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>Ultrafast broadband services from
>phone and cable companies could
>speed up your downloads to 15
>megabits per second or more by
>replacing copper cables with
>fiber-optic...
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>The digital Dark Age
>Sydney Morning Herald Sept. 23, 2005
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>A major challenge faces the
>"digital" generation: how can masses
>of machine-generated, machine-read
>material be stored in a form that is
>safe, secure from degradation.
>Computer experts worldwide believe
>that, far from a panacea that
>provides increasingly efficient
>answers to problems of recording,
>storing and retrieving information,
>technology...
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>Sun president: PCs are so yesterday
>ZDNet News September 23, 2005
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>Increasingly, the personal computer
>is a relic, says Sun Microsystems
>president Jonathan Schwartz.
>Instead, what has become important
>are Web services on the Internet and
>the mobile phones most will use to
>access them. Schwartz points to the
>increasing wealth and power of
>companies, like eBay, Google, Yahoo
>and Amazon.com, that profit from...
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>Bill Would Permit DNA Collection
>From All Those Arrested
>Washington Post September 24, 2005
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>Suspects arrested or detained by
>federal authorities could be forced
>to provide samples of their DNA that
>would be recorded in a central
>database under a provision of a
>Senate bill to expand government
>collection of personal data. This
>scenario is portrayed in the
>precautionary file Gattaca. -...
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>Nanowires detect cancer
>KurzweilAI.net Sept. 26, 2005
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>Molecular markers indicating the
>presence of cancer in the body are
>readily detected in blood scanned by
>special arrays of silicon nanowires
>-- even when these cancer markers
>constitute only one
>hundred-billionth of the protein
>present in a drop of blood, Harvard
>University researchers have found.
>"This is one of the first
>applications of...
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