Status of Reverse Engineering the Brain

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software In 2009, tge Biomedical Computation Review looked at the status of work towards reverse engineering brain. (8 page pdf) Computer simulations of the brain already allow experiments impossible to carry out with animals. “As good as modern neuroscience is—and it has been brilliant over the last …

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Status of Protein Structure Prediction and an Overview of Whole Proteome Analysis

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software CASP, which stands for Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction, is a community-wide, worldwide experiment for protein structure prediction taking place every two years since 1994. The status of the protein structure field from 2008 is as follows: Based on well- established measures, there …

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GM shows updated versions of the Segway Followup PUMA now Called the En-V

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software General Motors and its Chinese partner SAIC will unveil the EN-V two-seat electric concept at the Shanghai Expo in May EN-V’s platform has evolved from the platform of the Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (P.U.M.A.) prototype that was developed by Segway and debuted in April 2009. …

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China Leverages the Learning Curve Cost Savings for Energy and the US Attempts at Energy Research Leapfrogging

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software * For China and Russia: 2.5c is added to coal and 1.3c to gas as carbon emission cost to enable sensible comparison with other data in those fuel/technology categories, though within those countries coal and gas will in fact be cheaper than the Table above suggests. …

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World record data density for ferroelectric recording

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Scientists at Tohoku University in Japan have recorded data at a density of 4 trillion bits per square inch, which is a world record for the experimental “ferroelectric” data storage method. As described the journal Applied Physics Letters, which is published by the American Institute of …

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One Megawatt Tidal Turbine

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software tlantis Resources Corporation one of the world’s leading developers of electricity-generating tidal current turbines, unveiled the largest and most powerful tidal power turbine ever built, the AK1000 which can generate 1 megawatt Dispatching 1MW of predictable power at a water velocity of 2.65m/s, the AK1000™ is …

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Google Android Smartphone Sales Pass Apple iPhone Sales in the USA

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Sales of Google Android phones in the U.S. are rising so quickly, the devices have outsold Apple handsets for the first time on record. New smartphone subscribers choosing Google phones accounted for 27 percent of U.S. smartphone sales, the Nielsen Company will announce this morning, nudging …

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The Wars Would Be Less Expensive if the US and Europe did not Fund Both Sides, Alternatives Need for Imported Narcotics

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The United States provides billions of dollars each year to terrorists in Afghanistan and is funding the intelligence agency in Pakistan who work with the Taliban with drug money and is causing the destabilization of Mexico with the US demand for imported narcotics. 44% of illegal …

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Another Projection for China Economy Passing the USA has Been Moved up from 2050 to 2020

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Stefan Karlsson is an economist from an Austrian University (now he is working in Sweden) who used to predict that China’s economy would pass the United States in 2040-2050. He has updated his prediction to 2020-2024The new prediction is more in line with the prediction that …

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Some Casually Toss Around the Idea of China Invading Taiwan But Think Okinawa or D-Day in World War 2

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Relations between Taipei and Beijing have been improving since Ma Ying-jeou of the China-friendly Kuomingtang Party came to power in Taiwan two years ago, promising to bolster bilateral trade and allowing the inflow of growing numbers of Chinese tourists. So there is no need for China …

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Dyson Bubbles, Statites, Molecular Nanotechnology and Submerged Dyson Spheres

Another type of Dyson Sphere is the “Dyson bubble”. It would be similar to a Dyson swarm, composed of many independent constructs. Previously, nextbigfuture had written about Dyson Swarms and dyson Spheres Unlike the Dyson swarm, the constructs making it up are not in orbit around the star, but would be statites—satellites suspended by use …

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