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8/01/2008 Permalink
  An interesting look at the future of display tech Here is an interesting look at the future of display technology from a company called Obscura from CNET TV ... watch Labels: Next Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe: RSS + FriendFeed + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + FriendFeed + Reddit + StumbleUpon- - - - - - - - -
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Prions can survive in the ground for several years  Prions, the pathogens that cause scrapie in sheep, can survive in the ground for several years, as researchers have discovered. Animals can become infected via contaminated pastures. It is not yet known whether the pathogens that cause the similar human diseases, BSE and CWD, are equally resistant. "Even after 29 months," said Dr. Bjorn Seidel, who headed the investigations at Federal Research Institute for Animal Health in Germany, "we were still able to detect prions in the soil." ... more Labels: Memes Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe: RSS + FriendFeed + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + FriendFeed + Reddit + StumbleUpon- - - - - - - - -
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Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence  The Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence will be held March 6-9, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. This is the only major conference series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond. By gathering together active researchers in the field, for presentation of results and discussion of ideas, we accelerate our progress toward our common goal. Registration opens October 1, 2008 ... more Labels: Bots Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe: RSS + FriendFeed + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + FriendFeed + Reddit + StumbleUpon- - - - - - - - -
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Week's nano research with humods applications This week's nano-tech research papers with humods applications:
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IBM announces massive cloud computing effort In a series of three press releases, IBM announced a massive expansion of their cloud computing capabilities. IBM is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to create ultra-sophisticated delivery centers around the world to power the cloud-like computing model that the next era of computing will demand ... more Plans to build a $360 million state-of-the-art data center at its facility in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina that will include new technologies and services that will enable IBM to deliver Cloud Computing capabilities to clients ... more IBM will unveil its ninth cloud computing center worldwide in Tokyo, Japan. The center will give large enterprise customers, universities and governments immediate access to the resources they need to pilot cloud infrastructures and applications, and deliver new and innovative services to their customers ... more Labels: Cloud Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe: RSS + FriendFeed + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + FriendFeed + Reddit + StumbleUpon- - - - - - - - -
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Eroded telomeres causes early aging syndrome  Each time a cell divides, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes shorten — and when these caps are gone, you die. Telomeres are partially rebuilt with an enzyme called telomerase. When researchers genetically engineered mice that didn’t produce telomerase, the mice had very short telomeres but didn’t show any signs of early aging disease, particularly its hallmark: bone marrow failure. Next they made mice that lack POT1b, a protein that protects telomeres from getting degraded. Without POT1b, mice do not show the signs and symptoms of dyskeratosis congenita, but the telomeres shorten so fast that telomerase is incapable of keeping up with the loss and the mouse die of the disease. When the mice that lacked POT1b were bred with mice that lacked telomerase, the offspring died. Together, these results suggest that in patients suffering from dyskeratosis congenita, the enzyme telomerase can’t elongate telomeres as fast as the nucleases chew them away ... moreLabels: Mods Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe: RSS + FriendFeed + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + FriendFeed + Reddit + StumbleUpon- - - - - - - - - Send comments to: humods [at] gmail [dot] com |