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Google Provides Free Optical Character Recognition and results can be Translated

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Google Optical Character Recognition (OCR), allows your application to create editable Google Documents from highttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=17555522h-resolution images containing text (such as faxes or scanned letters). To perform OCR on a .png, .jpg, or .gif upload, add the ocr=true parameter onto your upload request: POST /feeds/default/private/full?ocr=true HTTP/1.1 Check …

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Astrox Hypersonic Vehicle Designs and the US Air Force Technology Priorities for 2010-2030

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software For more than a decade Astrox worked in semi-obscurity on several major hypersonic programmes, including the NASA X-43A scramjet and the Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) Blackswift Astrox is featured prominently in “Technology Horizons”, a 20-year roadmap for science and technology advances published by Werner …

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Liveblogging the Singulary Summit – Gregory Stock Evolution and the Posthuman Future

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Gregory Stock – Evolution and the Post-Human Future We are in the midst of a major evolutionary breakthrough. Life is beginning not only to reshape itself and its workings, but to animate the inanimate world around it. I will examine the nature of this present transition …

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Liveblogging the Singularity Summit – Michael Vassar the Darwinian Method

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Capitalism and Science is what enabled us to go beyond merely rational methods to go beyond sailing ships and pyramids and enabled to take off and go beyond a backwater to dominance from the 17th through the 19th century. People have always thought and achieved useful …

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Spacex talks Falcon X Heavy for 125 tons of heavy lift and Falcon XX for 140 tons and Nuclear Thermal interplanetary Rockets

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Elon Musk and Spacex had mentioned plans for BFR (Big F**ing Rocket) and the Merlin 2 rocket engine back in 2005. Now there are details of the designs for the Merlin 2 and the Falcon X, Falcon X heavy and Falcon XX rockets. * Falcon 9 with one successful trial launches 10 tons into orbit. …

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Techonomy – High School Student Erika DeBenedictis – Automatic Piloting the Low Energy Gravity Manifolds to Go Anywhere in the Solar System

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Erika DeBenedictis is a high school student who wrote a prototype software system that would allow a spacecraft to autonomously calculate and fly low-energy orbits. Erika is one of ten winners of the Intel Science contest who were at the Techonomy conference. The Interplanetary Superhighway is …

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A Crippling Cyber Attack on the United States Would only Cost $100 Million and Take Two Years to Deploy

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A $100 million project over two years would be enough for crippling cyber attack on the United States, according to Charlie Miller, who spent five years with the US National Security Agency under then-director Michael Hayden. “I already knew it was easy, but now I know …

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China is Stockpiling Uranium and the Ukraine has Increased Nuclear Generation

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. China is buying unprecedented amounts of uranium, signaling that prices are poised to rebound after three years of declines. The nation may purchase about 5,000 metric tons this year, more than twice as much as it consumes, building stockpiles for new reactors, according to Thomas …

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China has a Catalyst to Convert Shale Oil Directly into Transportation Fuel

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Greencarcongress.com – China has identified a catalyst—NiMoW—for the hydrotreating of the diesel distillate fraction from Fushun shale oil to produce a product that can be directly used as a transportation fuel. In China, reserves of oil shales account for about 500,000 billion tons. It is distributed …

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Diamondlike BC5 Material is Superhard and a Superconductor

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software BC5, a diamond-like material with an extremely high boron content that offers exceptional hardness and resistance to fracture, but unlike diamond, it is a superconductor rather than an insulator. In 2008, french researchers calculated that BC5 would superconduct with a critical temperature of the same order …

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carbon nanotubes in a lithium battery can increase energy capacity up toTen Times

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software MIT researchersfound that using carbon nanotubes for one of the battery’s electrodes produced a significant increase — up to tenfold — in the amount of power it could deliver from a given weight of material, compared to a conventional lithium-ion battery. Such electrodes might find applications …

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