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Immaterial Girl
Phil Bowermaster
03/18/2004
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Surprise, embarrassment, and
misunderstanding are all hallmarks
of a real conversation, a journalist
notes after conversing with
KurzweilAI.net's chatbot host,
Ramona.
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A Grand plan for brainy robots
BBC News Mar. 18, 2004
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On a good day, Lucy can tell a
banana apart from an apple. And
that's handy skill to have if you
are an orangutan. Even a robotic...
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Nokia Edges Toward Phone Blogging
Wired News Mar. 18, 2004
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Nokia has unveiled Lifeblog,
software designed to integrate and
organize words, audio, pictures and
even video from your mobile phone.
Uploading your life to a weblog may
be the next...
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Earth Safe from Ultra-close
Asteroid Flyby Today
Space.com March 18, 2004
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A 100 feet asteroid passed closer
to Earth than ever recorded: just
26,500 miles away. An object of this
size, where it to take direct aim,
would likely break apart or explode
in the atmosphere, astronomers say.
The result could cause local damage.
Something just slightly larger could
survive to...
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Tiny 'elevator' most complex
nanomachine yet
NewScientist.com news March 18, 2004
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Nanoscale elevators made of two
interlinking organic molecules have
been built and operated by US and
Italian scientists. They are the
most complex molecular machines
built yet, consisting of a platform
flanked by three rings that thread
through three vertical rods. The
force of an acid-base...
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Earth faces sixth mass extinction
NewScientist.com news March 18, 2004
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The Earth may be on the brink of a
sixth mass extinction on a par with
the five others that have punctuated
its history. There is growing
concern over the rate at which
species of plants and animals are
disappearing around the world. The
current extinction is being
precipitated by the widespread...
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Robolympics contestants shoot for
gold
Nature Science Update Mar. 18, 2004
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The world's first Robolympics kicks
off in San Francisco this weekend.
The 414 robots will compete for
prizes in various categories, such
as the Humanoid Robot World Cup
Soccer Tournament and Ribbon
Climber, in which robots race up a
carbon-fiber ribbon, designed to
inspire "space elevator"...
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Seeing Pessimism, Not Science, as
the Enemy
New York Times March 19, 2004
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Bypassing restricted federal
funding for human embryonic stem
cell research, New Jersey Gov. James
E. McGreevey has signed a law
permitting stem-cell research. He
also intends to provide $6.5 million
as part of a five-year, $50 million
plan to place New Jersey (and
Rutgers University) at the...
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Hello, is there anybody out there?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer March 19, 2004
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Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul
Allen announced a gift of $13.5
million to begin construction of an
unprecedented new radio astronomy
telescope in Northern California
primarily dedicated to SETI, the
Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence. The gift is in
addition to his earlier donation of
$11.5...
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