Is WinFS Dead? Yes. No. Yes.

Is WinFS dead?
Yes and No. Yes, we are not going to ship WinFS as a separate, monolithic software component. But the answer is also No – the vision remains alive and we are moving the technology forward. A lot of the technology really was database stuff – and we’re putting that into SQL and ADO. [...]

Generate More Than Enough Hydrogen With NanoTech

Nano World: Stabilizing explosive elements
Capsules only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide that stabilize extremely dangerous compounds normally prone to igniting or exploding can safely generate more than enough hydrogen gas to beat U.S. Department of Energy goals for hydrogen production for 2015 just by dropping them in water.
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Microsoft Blames “Stupid Users” for Secrutiy Problems

Image courtesy Arthur Tress
Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
In a rare discussion about the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall operating systems as a practical way to recover from malware infestation.
Danseglio said the success of [...]

WinFS Scrapped, Parts Sold For Junk

“we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the previously planned Beta 2 release. With most of our effort now working towards productizing mature aspects of the WinFS project into SQL and ADO.NET, we do not need to deliver a separate WinFS offering … we are able to get the underlying feature [...]

Designing a brain with the help of nanodots

Self-organizing networks of brain cells have been created by researchers at Tel Aviv University using clustered nanotube dots.

The technique could allow the development of sophisticated biological sensors that use functioning brain cells, according to report at newscientisttech. This type of device would identify a compound – a deadly nerve agent or poison, for example – [...]

Hawking rewrites history… backwards

Hawking and Hertog call their theory ‘top-down’ cosmology, because instead of looking for some fundamental set of initial physical laws under which our Universe unfolded, it starts ‘at the top’, with what we see today, and works backwards to see what the initial set of possibilities might have been. In effect the present ’selects’ the [...]

Opera Version 9 released and reviewed

Opera 9 is available here and has been available as a free product for quite some time. Opera is more than just “worth the download”. Check out the review below for a peek at some of the features. Opera 9 improves on more than just added features, they have improved performance (which suffered some in [...]

Garage Games Announces Torque Game Builder

GarageGames on Wednesday announced the release of two new tools to make it easier for people with an idea to create their own games: Torque Game Builder and Torque Game Builder Pro. Both are available for Mac
OS X and Windows, with prices starting at $100.
Torque Game Builder features tools for making animated sprites, flexible [...]

If Microsoft Marketed the iPod…

Full screen video available here.

Nanowire Transistors Four Times Faster than Silicon

“Advances in nanowires show they can be fast enough to use as ultrasmall transistors in cheap, high-performance electronics. Researchers at Harvard University have shown that nanowire transistors can be at least four times speedier than conventional silicon devices.”
Moore’s Law? Still safe!
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Click Fraud Update: How Billions of Bogus Pages Undermined Search Engines

Over the weekend, Monetize, a blog dedicated to tricking search engines, described how a blackhat got Google to index over 5 billion webpages within three weeks.
Yahoo and MSN were fooled, too, though nowhere near as badly. (MSN, for example, indexed just 62 pages before cutting him off.)
The effort seems to have met some success. [...]

Ray Kurzweil Answers Questions About Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence
When Humans Transcend Biology
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil was online Monday, June 19 at 2 p.m. ET to answer your questions about Artificial Intelligence.
In his latest book, “The Singularity Is Near,” he examines the next step of the evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which knowledge and skills embedded in our [...]

Stem cell trigger pinpointed

The protein that turns back time

Stem cell scientists have pinpointed a molecule that confers the cells with amazing powers of self-renewal and maintains their ability to develop into any other type of cell in the body.
The discovery could help pave the way for stem cells derived from adult tissues, giving ethical debates over the use [...]

Sweater Kittenz, International Incident

Here is the Sweater Kittenz CD Cover.

With headlines like this:
Marine being probed over song on killing Iraqis
What’s with the obvious “English as a second language” grammar (or lack thereof) in that headline?
Ironic is a word that comes to mind…
Commentary about the “International Incident” by Michelle Malkin on Hot Air
Previous: Soldier sings solo ballad. Now on [...]

Flexible full-body “liquid armor”

Pictures & Video: Flexible full-body “liquid armor”

Scanning electron microscope image of the silica nanoparticles used in liquid armor.
A new “liquid armor” could be the solution for protecting the parts of the body that aren’t currently covered by standard-issue ballistic vests such as arms and legs, where many of these devastating and life-threatening injuries occur.
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Soldier sings solo ballad. Now on Google Video

Soldier sings of being led into an ambush. Dark gallows humor. Illustrates the difficulty of fighting non-uniformed terrorists. This video has been the focus of some controversy.
Judge it for yourself.

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Update:
Now on Google video, YouTube, MySpace, just about everywhere at this point. The censors just Hate the internet!

Want to see what a Stem Cell looks like?

The link says it all. It's pretty amazing if you haven't seen it before.
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Video Games, Multitasking And Blogging: Fearmongering

This Is Your Brain Online
How Video Games, Multitasking And Blogging Are Shaping The GenTech Brain.
More of the same anti computer, anti-technology claptrap. They trot out the tobacco comparison, the brain damage nonsense, etc. They do add a new one, "Multitasking" is now a danger. Don't bother … really I don't even know why I posted [...]

Biosingularity Blog on WordPress

New on the PoliTech Reading List
eneve at the Travelling Through The Wire Blog has this entry:
‘Biosingularity’ Blog Launched
Derya Unutmaz, M.D. has started the Biosingularity blog, covering advances in biological systems and inspired by KurzweilAI.net and Ray Kurzweil’s singularity ideas, says Dr. Unutmaz, who is Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University School [...]

Zuiikin Gals II

What can anyone really say about something like this?

Hat Tip: Boing Boing

Scientists respond to Gore’s warnings of climate catastrophe

This won’t get much MSM coverage.
Scientists respond to Gore’s warnings of climate catastrophe
“Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it,” Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film “An Inconvenient Truth”. With that outlook in mind, what do world climate experts actually think about the science of his [...]

Robot Legs and Exoskeletons that Walk Your Way

Robot Legs that Walk Your Way
The “WL-16III Walkbot” is a bipedal robot that is designed to aid the less able. HAL is a robotic exoskeleton that gives the wearer added strength and can help the wearer carry loads up to 40kg heavier than what they normally could.
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Update: More information here and here

CNBC’s amazing clickfraud video

CNBC’s amazing clickfraud video
Google hopes to sweep the entire clickfraud debate under the rug with their bogus class action settlement attempt next Monday. The “settlement” doesn’t give a single penny to people ripped off by Google, and Google doesn’t admit any wrongdoing.
Several articles have called this the most fraudulently contrived settlement in legal [...]

Hawking says humans must go into space

The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there’s an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, world-renowned scientist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.
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Does he mean somthing like this?

Washington Net Neutrality Reporting Full of Lies

Two separate editorials from DC newspapers both oppose net neutrality efforts — and yet, both seem to be filled with outright lies or misleading half-truths.
Why am I not surprised?
Net Neutrality is a bad idea for a number of reasons. That does not excuse the behavior of the Antique media where once again they have written [...]

Improving The Human Interface Device

This video shows some of a post grad student’s PhD research on multi user multimodal tabletop interaction. It allows multi user gesture and speech interaction. Hat Tip: eneve
Demonstrations of Google Earth and Warcraft III on a digital table display.

This differs from the system under development at Raytheon

in that there seems to be no need [...]

Magic Nano Has No Nano!

Why can’t the MSM understand this point? Check out this “News” from the Los Angeles Times. That article was again reprinted verbatim by the Arkansas Gazette yesterday.
The story just won’t die!
The author hyperventilates over something that was a non issue from the beginning. Even though he acknowledges that the initial report about Magic [...]

Things That Make You Go … Hmmmmm

When you read about this success story…
Who’s playing who?
WHEN a leading Japanese brain specialist said that playing video games rendered parts of the brain inert, it did not take long for Nintendo to arrive at his door. The video games mammoth didn’t threaten him with legal action: that’s not the way in Japan. Instead it [...]

Bush Rocks Out to U2

I don’t know if this is pro or anti Bush, and I don’t really care.
It’s just cool!

Anti I think, because it’s an anti war song.
Still cool…
Update:
Songfacts:
The lyrics are a nonpartisan condemnation of the historic bloodshed in Ireland. Politics is not something you want to discuss in Ireland.
Bono used to introduce this [...]

More Video Game Brain Health Benefits

Antique media such as Television and Magazines, regularly publish and broadcast anti video game propaganda in spite of the beneficial findings reported repeatedly by the scientific community.
Here is one such story that you will not hear much about anywhere else but on the internet.

Image courtesy of: USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Healing games: Therapy and [...]