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Axixa: a technology we need to import ASAP
by Ritwik on July 28, 2009
With the axixa urinal concept, Mexican designer Miguel Melgarejo has hit upon what seems be a jackpot idea which would revolutionize urban living, or at the very least, clean up some walls.
Continue ReadingIs The Matrix coming true?
by Ritwik on July 26, 2009
Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society’s workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone.
Continue ReadingAnt mega-colony takes over the world
by Ritwik on July 1, 2009
Very interesting story from BBC.co.uk: Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the largest of its type ever (…)
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