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		<title>AI Set to Replace Journalists</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2011/10/23/ai-set-to-replace-journalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the a recent RadioLab episode called Talking To Machines cognitive scientist Dr. Robert Epstein of Harvard describes how he started looking for a date online and found the most interesting and communicative responses to be coming from what was &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2011/10/23/ai-set-to-replace-journalists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Graphene Cools and Generates Electricity</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2011/04/05/graphene-is-so-damn-cool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT only one atom thick, super strong, and an excellent conductive material, we already knew that the carbon-atom lattice known as &#8220;graphene&#8221; was the coolest supermaterial to come along since carbon nanotubes. But now a team of researchers at the &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2011/04/05/graphene-is-so-damn-cool/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers use brain interface to post to Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/04/20/researchers-use-brain-interface-to-post-to-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/04/20/researchers-use-brain-interface-to-post-to-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter — just by thinking about it. Just 23 characters long, his message, &#34;using EEG to send tweet,&#34; demonstrates a natural, manageable way in which &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/04/20/researchers-use-brain-interface-to-post-to-twitter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IBM to build brain-like computers</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/11/21/ibm-to-build-brain-like-computers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/11/21/ibm-to-build-brain-like-computers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. Part of a field called &#34;cognitive computing&#34;, the research will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists. As a first step &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/11/21/ibm-to-build-brain-like-computers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wireless Monitoring Of People And Things: Future Of Social Networking?</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/14/wireless-monitoring-of-people-and-things-future-of-social-networking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/14/wireless-monitoring-of-people-and-things-future-of-social-networking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Brother]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you&#8217;re hunting down a person or a thing, a computer&#8217;s not much help. That may soon change. Electronic tags promise to create what some call the &#8220;Internet &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/14/wireless-monitoring-of-people-and-things-future-of-social-networking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Make &#8216;Perfect&#8217; Nanowires</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/27/scientists-make-perfect-nanowires/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/27/scientists-make-perfect-nanowires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have created silicon nanowires that are perfect—at least atomically. Down at the single-atom level, the identical wires have no bumps, bends, or other imperfections. They are perfectly crystalline, even more so than bulk silicon. The full array of nanowires &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/27/scientists-make-perfect-nanowires/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Computer learns dogspeak</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/16/computer-learns-dogspeak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/16/computer-learns-dogspeak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aim of Molnár and colleagues’ experiments was to test a computer algorithm’s ability to identify and differentiate the acoustic features of dog barks, and classify them according to different contexts and individual dogs. The software analyzed more than 6000 &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/16/computer-learns-dogspeak/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Contemporary Cybernetic</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/27/contemporary-cybernetic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/27/contemporary-cybernetic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN the 12th century A.D., when the Arabic treatise “On the Hindu Art of Reckoning” was translated into Latin, the modern decimal system was bestowed on the Western world — an advance that can best be appreciated by trying to &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/27/contemporary-cybernetic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Life in 2025</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/18/future-living-in-2025/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 20:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this Discovery Channel documentary, we get a prediction of what life could be like in the year 2025, thanks to technological advancements that are happening today. This 5 part docu-drama delves into wearable computers, immersive telecom, intelligent homes, emotive &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/18/future-living-in-2025/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Antikythera Mechanism: A 2000 Year Old Computer</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/09/the-antikythera-mechanism-a-2000-year-old-computer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/09/the-antikythera-mechanism-a-2000-year-old-computer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Virtual Reality for Virtual Eternity</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/10/virtual-reality-for-virtual-eternity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/10/virtual-reality-for-virtual-eternity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nerdshit.com/wordpress/?p=2420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine having a discussion with Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein on the nature of the universe, where their 3-D, life-sized representations looked you in the eye, examined your body language, considered voice nuances and phraseology of your questions, then answered &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/10/virtual-reality-for-virtual-eternity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Demonstrate Thought-Controlled Computer</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/scientists-demonstrate-thought-controlled-computer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/scientists-demonstrate-thought-controlled-computer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget speech-recognition software: How about typing a letter just by thinking it? In a quiet corner of the Cebit trade show a small Austrian company, g.tec, was showing off a brain/computer interface (BCI). The rig, once placed on your head, &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/scientists-demonstrate-thought-controlled-computer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA Funding Development of Petascale Supercomputers</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/29/darpa-funding-development-of-petascale-supercomputers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/29/darpa-funding-development-of-petascale-supercomputers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a half million dollars in funding for development by 2010 of supercomputers capable of two petaFLOPS sustained performance, more powerful than the fastest supercomputer existing today, and scalable to greater than &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/29/darpa-funding-development-of-petascale-supercomputers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Will The Next Election Be Hacked?</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/02/will-the-next-election-be-hacked/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/02/will-the-next-election-be-hacked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debacle of the 2000 presidential election made it all too apparent to most Americans that our electoral system is broken. And private-sector entrepreneurs were quick to offer a fix: Touch-screen voting machines, promised the industry and its lobbyists, would &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/02/will-the-next-election-be-hacked/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Supercomputer Could Put A Stop To Nuclear Testing</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/08/supercomputer-could-put-a-stop-to-nuclear-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/08/supercomputer-could-put-a-stop-to-nuclear-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computer giant IBM will build the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputer at a US government laboratory. The machine, codenamed Roadrunner, could be four times more potent than the current fastest machine, BlueGene/L, also built by IBM. The new computer is a &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/08/supercomputer-could-put-a-stop-to-nuclear-testing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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