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By Tim O'Reilly
"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." --William Gibson.
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- Korean roboticist Kim Jong-Hwan has developed "artificial chromosomes" he says will allow robots to feel lust.
- UK researchers have developed a computer that was able to learn "rock, paper, scissors" by watching humans play the game.
- At the University of Bath, a tiny sensor drone powers itself by feeding on dead flies.
- A University of Minnesota team has constructed synthetic DNA that could be used to direct the assembly of computer circuits.
- Some Lexus cars may be vulnerable to infection by a virus transmitted via Bluetooth from mobile phones.
- New Orleans is experimenting with IP-based surveillance cameras on a wireless mesh network in high-crime areas.
- A new service uses cellphone location to track how fast teens are driving, and sends alerts to parents.
- California is entertaining proposals to require GPS in all cars so that it can tax miles driven rather than gasoline used.
- China plans to launch 100 surveillance satellites by 2020.
- HP just received a patent on a system that would broadcast an "image inhibitor" that would fuzz facial images captured by a digital camera.
- The spread of GPS navigation systems is leading to the closure of lighthouses along the German coast.
- Traffic near LA was snarled as thousands tried to get to a new-release event with the creators of World of Warcraft MMORPG.
- Maria Schneider won a Grammy for an album financed by her fans and distributed only on the web.
- A Seattle supermarket introduced "pay by fingerprint."
- Alaskan researchers create an artificial aurora they say might be useful for advertising messages on the night sky.
- University of Manchester scientists have developed an inkjet printer that prints human cells.
- A Chicago chef prints out flavored-paper sushi.
- Ophthamologists implanted articficial silicon retina microchips in the eyes of five patients.
- Researchers plan to hold an arm-wrestlying match between a human being and an artificial one made from electroactive polymers.
- A Utah State University Professor plans RFID-equipped robots to guide blind people to products in the supermarket.
- A company in Los Angeles is taking orders for hypo-allergenic cats.
- Freeman Dyson wonders if we're ending the "Darwinian Interlude."
- At MIT, a space elevator prototype successfully climbed a 260-foot building.
- A group of amateur astronomers processed the raw images of Titan from the Huygens probe faster than the official space agencies.
- A new solar-sail design could theoretically reach Mars in a month.
- NASA looks at commercial alternatives for resupplying space stations.
- Private Spaceflight Bill signed into law.
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