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...have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons.' RAY KURZWEIL, American engineer and futurist, prophesizing at a meeting of scientists in Boston that human-level artificial intelligence will be a reality by 2029 and that nanotechnology will help "make us smarter...
...MEDIA 80% Percentage of high-definition DVDs sold last year in Sony's Blu-ray format. Because of Sony's dominance, Toshiba this week shelved its competing HD DVD format $2 billion Estimated amount Toshiba spent on HD DVD including efforts to gain film studios' support...
Inside an empty former electronics factory in the Dutch town of Eindhoven, hundreds of Philips employees sit around endless rows of tables. Split into small groups, staffers of the Amsterdam-based firm--maker of everything from lightbulbs and toothbrushes to TVs and X-ray machines--get to work. "We're not always an easy company to deal with," says Theo van Deursen, boss of Philips' lighting division. From a platform in the center of the vast space--still latticed with girders and pipes, its walls temporarily lined with giant TV screens--Van Deursen lays down a challenge. "We have...
...Jeremy Lin is reaching baller status here at Lavietes. Shakes his defense out of his shoes, pounds it in the inside for the basket.....and ONE. Someone call UHS, Columbia's Mack Montgomery might need an ankle X-ray. [Harvard 42, Columbia...
...Making the situation worse is that the Hornets have never really fit in with a town that already lost one sad hoops franchise, the New Orleans Jazz, to Utah almost 30 years ago. The team slipped into New Orleans in 2002, when co-owners Shinn and Ray Wooldridge moved the team from Charlotte after years of fighting the city for a new arena (in early 2005, Shinn bought Wooldridge's stake in the franchise). The team struggled to draw fans in the Crescent City, and after just three seasons Katrina forced the Hornets to fly off to Oklahoma City...