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By using a super- computer to virtually squeeze and heat iron-bearing minerals under conditions that would have existed when the Earth crystallized from an ocean of magma to its solid form 4.5 billion years ago, two UC Davis geochemists have ….. Scientists have identified a protein in the brain that plays a key role in the function of mitochondria – the part of the cell that supplies energy, supports cellular activity, and potentially wards off threats from disease.

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A company called AORA has developed a hybrid solar power plant in the Israeli desert. Comprised of a number of 100kWe base units, the operation is modular (additional units can be added) and it should be complete sometime in the next ten days. When operational, thirty mirrors will track the sun and direct its rays up to the 98.4 foot tall “flower,” where the concentrated sunlight heats compressed air, which in turn drives an electric turbine

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We don’t like touching other people’s C.diff on bathroom door handles. As a matter of fact, even when visiting each other’s houses, we regularly find ourselves ripping an extra paper towel to grab the handle on a bathroom door, then fiddling with the feet to prop it open, and finally trying to masterfully throw the towel into the garbage bin located on the opposite wall. To stop all this silly juggling, Xela Innovations out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin has created a set of doorknobs that feature an automatic sleeve dispenser so that no two people touch the same handle twice Here are features and benefits from the product page: Advancing an antimicrobial-treated sleeve with every use, Purleve reduces the amount of disease-causing germs and bacteria, helping in the global fight against germ cross-contamination

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Doorknob With Auto Sleeve Refresher Keeps Contagions At Bay

Sure, a few still photos of the sushi-making Chef Robot now on display at the International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition in Tokyo are all well and good, but there’s nothing quite like a high def video to really bring all that creepiness home, and one has now surfaced courtesy of the brave folks at DigInfo . In case you missed it, the robot itself is actually just a standard issue FANUC M-430iA robot arm with a way too realistic hand attached to it, which apparently not only helps it prepare sushi, but some tasty desserts as well. Head on past the break for the must-see video, you’ve nothing to lose but your ability to unsee it.

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Willow Garage, a group of ‘bot builders who see ” personal robots as the next paradigm shifting personal productivity tool for mankind,” are working toward that end by developing robots that are unobtrusive and self-maintaining. One such robot is the PR2, which Willow Garage is teaching to locate power outlets to plug into, all inside a bustling office : For Milestone 2, our tester designated ten different outlets that the robot was required to plug into, although only nine of the selected outlets were physically reachable. The robot was expected to successfully detect that one of its ten goal outlets was behind a locked door, abort that effort, and move on to its next outlet.

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Willow Garage’s PR2 navigates crowded offices in its quest to find a power outlet

Well, there’s not exactly a whole lot to go on with this one, but Mintpass looks to have just recently launched an English version of its Mintpad website, which could well be yet another a sign that the MID / PMP is finally nearing a release outside of South Korea. Of course, that’s still not quite a sure thing, especially since the previously rumored April / May release date has now come and gone, and there’s unfortunately not so much as a price on the website to further back things up. There are plenty of specs, however, including the same 400MHz ARM processor, 128MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, and built-in WiFi as before, plus no shortage of pics in case you’ve yet to get an up close look at the device

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Even though positron emission tomography has been a popular oncology imaging tool for years, the quality in this technique does suffer when scanning moving organs like the heart. To overcome the blurring of the image, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have used in-house developed “motion-frozen” technology in combination with a Siemens high definition PET scanner to spot myocardial defects that would otherwise have been invisible

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"Motion-Frozen" Technology Takes The Blur Out of PET

Apple might have bumped the 13-inch unibody MacBook to Pro status at WWDC last week, but it looks like all the shuffling around to reduce costs has had an unfortunate side effect: new MacBook Pros that ship with HDDs only have a 1.5GBps SATA enabled, while SSD configs are apparently getting the full 3.0GBps SATA II experience that used to be standard. For most people this won’t make too much difference since traditional hard drives can’t move data that fast, but it’s something to keep in mind if you’re hoping to buy an HDD unit and swap in a speedier SSD, since your max performance will be bottlenecked. We’ve verified that our review units with HDDs all have the slower settings, but we’ve put in a call to Apple to get some more answers on this — stay tuned.

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And here I was getting all excited about scientists working on warp drive : A different group of physicists in Italy have determined that such an engine could create a black hole that would kill everyone on a spaceship and then suck Earth into it, according to Discovery News . “Warp drives are so far the best case scenario to attain faster-than-light travel,” said Stefano Finazzi of Italy’s International School for Advanced Studies in the article. This paper “makes it much harder to realize, if not almost impossible, warp drives.” There are two ways that humans could move faster than the speed of light (normally an impossibility).

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Scientists: Warp Drive Might Not Be a Good Idea

As of now, the brand of custom social network service CollectiveX is no more, and the “social collaboration communities” of Groupsite.com have taken its place. Obvious names for social web platforms may not be all the rage ( Ning , anyone?), but a move to Groupsite/s will definitely be a boon for communicating what the service is all about. The free public or private social networks, with the pro package for enterprises, will remain essentially the same, just with a new identity wrapped around it

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CollectiveX Gets Axed, Rebrands as Groupsite.com

HARDWARE CPU & PLATFORM * Intel® Atomâ„¢ Processor N270 1.6GHz * Intel 945GSE Chipset UTILITIES * Tablet Sensor: When switching from clamshell to tablet mode, display rotates 180-degrees * Accelerometer: Display rotates as device is rotated … MyScript Stylus not only provides handwriting and character recognition, it also provides a virtual on screen keyboard and math keyboard which accept input by taping on the screen (useful when the screen is folded into tablet mode … Here is the original:  (Encore Data Products Blog)

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Internet companies should be forced to filter the web in order to reduce the volume of indecent material being shared online, according to children’s charities. In a new “digital manifesto” published today, a leading group of charities including the NSPCC, the Children’s Society and the National Children’s Bureau argue that the government should legally compel ISPs to screen out images of child abuse and underage sex. Compulsory filtering is just one of a number of recommendations made by the Children’s Charities Coalition on Internet Safety (CCCIS), which believes that action must be taken now to prevent new technologies from being used to proliferate abusive images online.

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Make the unfiltered web illegal, says children’s coalition

A young and enthusiastic crowd packed the 92nd Street Y on Friday night to enjoy yet another reunion of science and art at the World Science Festival — an event that featured two stars of the SciFi Channel’s hit show Battlestar Galactica , two scientists in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, and one futurist/transhumanist philosopher. The lively, thought-provoking session, moderated by effervescent radio host and actress Faith Salie, covered the prospects for developing real cyborgs and the possible ramifications of creating them. Swedish philosopher and TEDster Nick Bostrom , co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association and Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, while unwilling to say exactly when fully functioning cyborgs or artificial intelligence might be created (or exactly what they might do), he was clear that the fact that making them is theoretically possible is reason enough to consider the consequences.

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World Science Festival 2009 report: Battlestar Galactica: Cyborgs on the Horizon

[ Amir Zmora is now on his way to InfoComm and is as excited as I am about the announcement of the new HD Video Conferencing Desktop Solution, which was a RADVISION and Samsung joint project. He wanted to share his enthusiasm with you and he is waiting to hear your feedback about this new and innovative project.] As I’m getting ready for the long flight from Israel to Orlando, I’m all excited about the announcement of the joint project between RADVISION and Samsung for a new, affordable desktop Video Conferencing solution.

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HD Thoughts on the way to InfoComm [VoIP Survivor]

Welcome to this weeks round-up. All articles in the NewsBot Centre are imported from blog and site feeds from the world of security and technology. This weeks top articles are: Hackers claim T-Mobile breach after sensitive database info is offered for sale Spam drops 15 percent after FTC Pricewert takedown UK firm wins top prize for Chinese water cube Facebook usernames to be released ‘Millionth English word’ declared Will Microsoft’s Free Antivirus App be Worth the Price?, Free AV from Microsoft: It’s about time Anti-virus vendors fined ($375,000) over auto-renewals No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe There are more articles located within the NewsBot Centre .

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The 2009 World Science Festival kicked off its third day of festivities on Friday with a truly original and delightful event called WSF Spotlight , which stripped away the trimmings of what you might think of as “traditional” science presentations (flat lighting? a vast echoey lecture hall? dry droning delivery?), and replaced them with a dramatically lit, intimate, cabaret-style setting — the 92nd Street Y’s new location in Tribeca on Hudson Street

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WSF Spotlight: A cabaret-style celebration of science (with a song)

Dogfight! Noah from PhoneDog! Palm Pre vs Apple iPhone 3G. Round Three: Multimedia – Music and Video Players, YouTube Apps, and Amazon MP3 vs iTunes stores.

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“In solar cell technology, it is becoming a matter of interest to improve efficiency without increasing the thickness of the active layer of a solar cell,” Carsten Rockstuhl, a physicist from the Institute of Condensed Matter and Solid State Optics at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena, Germany , says. He and his team are currently working on bringing the average solar cell efficiency up with the use of nanotechnology . The exact particles in use are metallic nanodiscs, but the process goes beyond the contents and explores the possibility of improving efficiency by the nanoparticles’ placement on the solar cell.

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