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Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 16:41:17 PST
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Digital, P.I.
TIME Dec. 15, 2003
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Tje new "digital detective" firms
that are developing technologies
that can monitor everything from
deciphering buying trends in retail
outlets to identifying dangerous...
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Scientists say poles might flip
Mercury News Dec. 12, 2003
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The Earth's protective magnetic
field is weakening, and if that
continues, the field could flip. The
strength of the magnetic field has
fallen about 10 percent since...
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Let the Nanotech Wars Begin!
KurzweilAI.net Dec. 14, 2003
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The debate over whether molecular
manufacturing and nanoassemblers are
feasible has turned into a PR war.
With billions of dollars of research
funding and industrial profits at
stake, both sides are taking their
ideological clash to the public. So
far, Eric Drexler and the Foresight
Institute own...
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'AI Bush' chatbot uses advanced
natural-language programming
KurzweilAI.net Dec. 14, 2003
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AI Bush, "an interactive Robot
President," is an experimental
natural-language program and game
from EllaZ Systems. Announced today,
it is based on the program "Ella,"
which won the worldwide Loebner
Prize Contest in 2002 as the "most
human computer." AI Bush games
include the strategy...
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Comparing Genomes Shows Split
Between Chimps and People
New York Times Dec. 12, 2003
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By comparing the human genome with
that of chimpanzees, people's
closest living relative, scientists
have identified a partial list of
the genes that make people human.
Because the sequence of DNA units in
the two genomes is 98.8 percent
identical, just a handful of genes
might define the...
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EPA board examines environmental
impacts of nanotech
KurzweilAI.net Dec. 14, 2003
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Technologically intensive cleanup
using nanotech could become a much
cleaner and cheaper method of
environmental remediation, said
Center for Responsible
Nanotechnology (CRN) Director of
Research Chris Phoenix in testimony
on Dec. 11 before the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory...
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A Net of Control
Newsweek December 2003
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Picture, if you will, an
information infrastructure that
encourages censorship, surveillance
and suppression of the creative
impulse. Where anonymity is outlawed
and every penny spent is accounted
for. Where the powers that be can
smother subversive (or economically
competitive) ideas in the...
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