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New Study Shows Gene Therapy For HIV Safe After A Decade

by Peter Murray on May 19th, 2012

New Study Shows Gene Therapy For HIV Safe After A Decade

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Google Search Gets Smarter With Knowledge Graph

Written by: Peter Murray 2 days ago

By tapping databases and connecting people, places, and things Google's Knowledge Graph enriches your search experience.

This week Google is rolling out a new search tool: the Knowledge Graph. Breaking with the old strategy of keywords [...]

Longevity And Health

Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Thoughts

Written by: David J. Hill 3 days ago

A neural interface device allows patients to control robotic arms with their minds.

Cathy Hutchinson hasn’t moved her limbs of her own volition for 15 years, but by imagining she was using her [...]

Singularity

New Video Humorously Imagines Life In The Singularity And All Its Potential Legal Woes

Written by: David J. Hill 4 days ago

Will the future involve wiping your memory of any copyrighted works you haven't paid for?

What will post-Singularity life be like in 2052 if you died and your mind was uploaded to a computer? Possibly [...]

Genetics

Scientists Make Bird Flu Transmissible Between Humans Then Tell World How To Do It

Written by: Peter Murray 4 days ago

The H5N1 virus, or Bird Flu, was easily transmissible between birds but not humans. Two scientists have changed that and are publishing how they did it.

The emergence of the avian flu in 2003 caused alarm around the world as it spread through countries in Asia, [...]

Art

Let the Computer Talk – Speech Synthesis is Giving Machines the Chance to Have Their Voices Heard

Written by: Doug Bierend 5 days ago

Hatsune Miku - The Virtual Diva

Just a week after Easter, Coachella music festival was shaken by the ghostly visage of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, resurrected [...]

Singularity

Singularity Hub Membership Update: These Are the Futurists in Your Neighborhood

Written by: Aaron Saenz 5 days ago

Future dudes feature

The Singularity Hub Membership Program is building a one of a kind community of future-minded thinkers, and I’m proud to [...]

Computer Interfaces

Harvard And MIT Join Forces To Become Juggernaut Of Free Online Education

Written by: David J. Hill 6 days ago

Harvard and MIT join forces to bring the world education for free...in superhero fashion.

Online education is witnessing its own Avengers-like uniting of superhero forces as Harvard University and MIT recently announced “edX”, a combined $60 [...]

Singularity

Accelerated Tech News 5 – Implants, Scanners, and

Written by: Aaron Saenz 6 days ago

ATN5 feature

You’re watching Accelerated Tech News, Singularity Hub’s experimental new video series that gives you the week’s top stories in science [...]

Debate Central

Will almost free energy be available in the near future?

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turtles_allthewaydown

Nehopsa - As you know, science was badly burned on this subject before. It's a pretty extraordinay claim, so until they have extraordinary proof, I imagine [...]

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Bento

Well, maybe this can help :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtZTIwSIuGw I like your humor, we will see, I am an 'agnostic' concerning the Ecat. There is something, LENR is real, that's for [...]

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nehopsa

...so by now the Greeks should be repaying their national debt/saving on their energy outlays with abundance of free energy. The first commercial free energy power plant [...]

Computer Interfaces

Retailer Uses Facebook “Like” Count On Clothes Hooks To Crowdsource Fashion Advice

Written by: David J. Hill 7 days ago

Would seeing the Facebook Like count for an outfit make you more inclined to buy it?

The Brazilian fashion retailer C&A has created networked clothes hooks that display the total number of Facebook “Likes” for each [...]

Singularity

Younger Generation Embracing A New View Of Privacy

Written by: David J. Hill 8 days ago

For a free BlackBerry, would you give up your privacy?

For four years, nearly 200 high school students in Dallas voluntarily allowed every text, email, and IM to be monitored. That [...]

Genetics

Controversial Anti-Aging Chemical Resveratrol Back In The Spotlight With New Details About How It Works

Written by: Peter Murray 9 days ago

Small molecule, big controversy. A new study clears doubts about how resveratrol causes its anti-aging effects.

Resveratrol, the famed anti-aging supplement extracted from red wine, has experienced its share of controversy. An experimental artifact, a pair [...]

Longevity And Health

Toothless No More – Researchers Using Stem Cells to Grow New Teeth

Written by: David J. Hill 10 days ago

Stems cells grown on polymer scaffolds form replacement teeth in customized sizes and shapes.

It may be hard to remember what it was like to lose a tooth as a child, but many adults [...]

Robots

Automation Comes To The Coffeehouse With Robotic Baristas

Written by: David J. Hill 11 days ago

It may not look like a barista's in this box, but Briggo's robot is inside prepping the next espresso shot.

Say goodbye to lattes with funky tastes or attitude from coffeehouse baristas. At the University of Texas, a startup called [...]

AI

Green Light For Google’s Driverless Car As It Receives First Autonomous License

Written by: Peter Murray 12 days ago

During test drives the cars will have red license plates. When the car is eventually marketed to consumers, the plate will be green.

We knew Nevada was serious about becoming the first state to adopt driverless cars when the governor signed a law [...]

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