- Wed Nov 18 12:01 AM PST 2009 IBM: Computing rivaling human brain may be ready by 2019
A leading scientist, working with colleagues from several top universities, has pioneered computational analysis that rivals that of a cat's cortex. The human brain could be just a decade away.
- Tue Nov 17 9:01 AM PST 2009 Start-up Solasta seeks growth in solar nanowires
The company, now backed by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, is raising money for next-generation solar cell technology built around arrays of "nanocoax" wires.
- Wed Nov 11 6:00 AM PST 2009 Singularity University seasons executives for the future
During the institution's inaugural executive program, 20 students are getting an intense education in the exponential technologies that could shape their companies and industries for decades to come.
- Wed Nov 11 6:00 AM PST 2009 I wear my suncontacts at night
Researchers are working on photochromic lenses that let you go from inside to outside without putting on UV-filtering lenses.
- Tue Nov 10 5:37 PM PST 2009 Sponge absorbs 180 times its weight (in toxic sludge)
Researchers in China have adapted carbon nanotubes into a sponge-like material that can be squeezed dry and used to mop up oil spills.
- Tue Nov 3 5:25 PM PST 2009 Microsoft's Mundie: IT needed to solve global woes
At Harvard, Microsoft Chief Research Officer Craig Mundie argues that computer science is on the brink of breakthroughs that can crack daunting energy and environmental problems.
- Tue Oct 6 12:30 PM PDT 2009 BOL 1078: Smokinger gun
Viacom may have found a smoking gun in its billion-dollar case against YouTube, but on the other hand, we speculate YouTube may have a smokinger gun. Also the FTC wants you to disclose all that money you've been paid to blog about cleaning products. Or
- Mon Oct 5 5:27 PM PDT 2009 IBM Research jumps into genetic sequencing
Big Blue hopes its electronic automation technology will give people and their doctors individual genetic records for less than $1,000.
- Mon Sep 28 1:40 PM PDT 2009 IBM's 35 atoms and the rise of nanotech
Don Eigler moved a single atom two decades ago. Since then, he and IBM have taken new steps in pursuing a dream of compact, power-efficient computing.
- Wed Sep 23 8:12 AM PDT 2009 We'll be immortal in 20 years, says Kurzweil
Celebrated inventor and singularity specialist Ray Kurzweil believes science is moving at such rapid speed that we will all be able to live forever, starting soon.




