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Nice article about nVidia’s ESA platform

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Tech firm Emotiv developed the advanced mind-controlled gaming device. The device, titled “The Epoc,” will retail for $299 and provide advanced control by reading electrical signals generated among the brain. Among its key features is its ability to detect over 30 facial expressions, emotions and actions based on these signals.

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Researchers at Stanford have created a new camera chip that can see in 3D that could lead to better images, especially at higher ISO settings where grain is a big issue. Anyone who shoots with a digital camera that offers adjustable ISO settings has seen the noticeable grain that shows up in images. The quality of the camera will affect how high the ISO setting can go before grainy images are a significant issue.

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Stem cells carry high hopes to help treat and possibly cure a myriad of diseases. However, the use of stem cells is a subject of great debate do to the fact that the best source for stem cells for use in this type of research is from human embryos.

Reuters reports that researchers from California-based Novocell Inc. recently used human embryonic stem cells to treat diabetes in mice. The stem cells were implanted into mice and were turned into “nearly” normal insulin-producing cells in the mice.

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A computer does better than a doctor at diagnosing certain brain diseases, research has suggested.

Experts taught a standard computer how to diagnose Alzheimer’s from brain scans, and got a 96% success rate.
The accuracy of diagnosis from standard scans, blood tests and interviews carried out by a clinician is 85%.

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The Church of Scientology is a vicious and dangerous cult that masquerades as a religion. Its purpose is to make money. It practices a variety of mind-control techniques on people lured into its midst to gain control over their money and their lives. Its aim is to take from them every penny that they have and can ever borrow and to also enslave them to further its wicked ends.

Demonstrations occurred in a reported 93 cities worldwide, including Sydney, Los Angeles, New York, London, Dublin, and Stockholm. Donning signs with slogans such as “Knowledge is Free,” “Question $cientology,” and “Enlightenment should not cost £100,000,” Anonymous took a vocal stand against the Church of Scientology’s alleged human rights violations and relentless suppression of dissent. Demonstrations proceeded peacefully, with protesters concealing themselves behind Guy Fawkes masks – among other things – as popularized in the movie “V for Vendetta.”

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British scientists reported last week that they successfully created human embryos from the DNA of not two, but three people — two women and a man. Researchers tried to downplay concerns of ethics with genetic modification, citing that the embryos chiefly consist of the DNA from one man and one women, but contain select segments from the other women.

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Scientists use nanogenerators in fabric to generate electricity

A group of scientists in the United States has a plan that will boost the run time of small gadgets like phones a MP3 players to possibly unlimited proportions, without the need for batteries. The scientists hope to do this with fabric that generates its own electricity.

The idea is that fiber-based nanogenerators would be woven into the fabric of a shirt and the friction cause by moving around would be transferred into energy to power the device. Scientists even say that simply standing in a breeze could generate all the power your iPod needs to play indefinitely.

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Samsung announced in a press release that its 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64GB SSD with a SATA II interface is now in the mass production stage. The new SATA II version of the drive was announced in Q4 2007 and is said to remove the bottlenecks of the PATA interface used in the previous version of the drive.

According to the director of Samsung Semiconductor’s flash marketing department, “While there will always be a market for HDDs, we see growing demand for our new SSDs, especially now that they are available with the SATA II interface.”

Source: Sharp develops new laser to enable recording of dual layer Blu-ray discs at 6x

Sharp has unveiled new technology which will definitely make things better for media geeks in coming months. Reportedly the firm has developed a new type of laser that enables recording of dual layer Blu-ray discs at 6x speed. The new laser achieves highest industry standards of 250mW output pulse and comes in small package of 3.3mm diameter for use in laptops.

Source: Dailytech

Clone your beloved Snookums for a mere $150k

Cloning is a subject of much debate here in the United States, therefore, we don’t hear of the cloning of animals by American scientists much. However, the process of cloning animals is done in other countries.

A Korean company called RNL Bio is working with the scientists who cloned the first canine named Snuppy. The company is offering to clone deceased pets for the tidy sum of $150,000. A company spokeswoman says that the first customer, Bernann McKunney from California, has already signed up to have her dead pit bull cloned.

Source: Dailytech

NVIDIA’s purchase of AGEIA leads to a PhysX-on-CUDA port

With the announcement earlier this month of NVIDIA’s acquisition of AGEIA, rumours began to fly immediately surrounding the future of dedicated physics hardware — and it now appears that the PhysX name will live on as a checkbox beside the capabilities of some current and most future NVIDIA GPUs.

Source: BBCNews

Rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found.

New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems.

There may also be hundreds of undiscovered worlds in outer parts of our Solar System, astronomers believe.

Source: BBCNews

A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is racing towards a collision with the Milky Way, astronomers have announced.

Dubbed “Smith’s Cloud”, it may set off spectacular fireworks when it smacks into our galaxy in 20-40 million years.

It contains enough hydrogen to produce a million stars like our Sun, researchers believe