EA declares end to Tiberium wars with C&C 4
July 10, 2009
TG Daily – EA declares end to Tiberium wars with C&C 4
San Francisco (CA) – Electronic Arts has confirmed that its popular Tiberium-war series will be brought to an “epic conclusion” with Command & Conquer 4. According to EA, C&C 4 introduces a “multitude of innovations” while retaining the “core compulsions that fans have come to love.”
Mardan Palace – Europe’s Most Expensive Hotel
July 10, 2009
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The Mardan Palace Hotel one of the most luxurious hotels in the Mediterranean region, was opened in the popular Turkish resort town of Antalya costing nearly 1.5 billion USD.
The most expensive hotels in Europe Mardan Palace includes a total 560 rooms, cost from $ 475 up to $ 19,000 per night. The most expensive rooms have a pool, a concert grand piano, huge TV and a toilet with a remote control.
Best Office Furniture & Accessories
July 9, 2009
Best Office Furniture & Accessories – by Digital Trends
Your new home office has fresh drywall from floor to ceiling, a fragrant new patch of short-nap carpet, and a window that looks out on the backyard garden. Now you just a need a spot to put that computer. And the printer. And all those papers. And the phone.Maybe it’s time for some furniture.
But before you make a trip to the local office store and come back with a minivan full of flat-packed particleboard, it’s worth doing a little research and planning. We’ve broken down the key elements to any office, explained some of the key factors you should weight when picking them out, and given a few of our favorites.
GM cereal crops created to grow in salty water
July 8, 2009
First Drug Shown to Extend Life Span in Mammals
July 8, 2009
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Rapamycin, an immunosuppressant, enables elderly mice to live longer.
BFG Announces GeForce GTX 295 H2OC
July 8, 2009
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The BFG GeForce GTX 295 H2OC graphics card with ThermoIntelligence Water Cooling Solution features a custom single slot water block co-developed with Danger Den to deliver superior performance and decrease your graphics temperatures by up to 40°C. “Singly the fastest and coolest pre-assembled water cooled graphics card on the market to date” said Graham Brown, European Marketing Manager for BFG Technologies.
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Recently, a simple electronic circuit[33] consisting of an LC network and a memristor was used to model experiments on adaptive behavior of unicellular organisms.[34] It was shown that the electronic circuit subjected to a train of periodic pulses learns and anticipates the next pulse to come, similarly to the behavior of slime molds Physarum polycephalum subjected to periodic changes of environment.[34] Such a learning circuit may find applications, e.g., in pattern recognition.
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In true memristive fashion, Chua had anticipated the idea that memristors might have something to say about how biological organisms learn. While completing his first paper on memristors, he became fascinated by synapses – the gaps between nerve cells in higher organisms across which nerve impulses must pass. In particular, he noticed their complex electrical response to the ebb and flow of potassium and sodium ions across the membranes of each cell, which allow the synapses to alter their response according to the frequency and strength of signals. It looked maddeningly similar to the response a memristor would produce. “I realised then that synapses were memristors,” he says. “The ion channel was the missing circuit element I was looking for, and it already existed in nature.”
So now we’ve found them, might a new era in artificial intelligence be at hand? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency certainly thinks so. DARPA is a US Department of Defense outfit with a strong record in backing high-risk, high-pay-off projects – things like the internet. In April last year, it announced the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics Program, SyNAPSE for short, to create “electronic neuromorphic machine technology that is scalable to biological levels”.
Williams’s team from Hewlett-Packard is heavily involved. Late last year, in an obscure US Department of Energy publication called SciDAC Review, his colleague Greg Snider set out how a memristor-based chip might be wired up to test more complex models of synapses. He points out that in the human cortex synapses are packed at a density of about 1010 per square centimetre, whereas today’s microprocessors only manage densities 10 times less. “That is one important reason intelligent machines are not yet walking around on the street,” he says.
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Ethical storm flares as British scientists create artificial sperm from human stem cells
July 8, 2009
In a world first, British scientists have grown human sperm in the laboratory.
The breakthrough in stem cell science offers a potential cure for male infertility and could be used in IVF clinics in as little as five years.
It would allow thousands of men to father children that are genetically their own, possibly from just a sliver of their skin.
But the cutting-edge work is fraught with medical and ethical problems.
It raises the possibility of babies being born entirely through artificial means, and even the macabre scenario of long-dead men ‘fathering’ children from beyond the grave.
Şeful Arhivelor Secrete ale Vaticanului, Mgr. Sergio Pagano, a cerut Bisericii să fie mai smerită atunci când se confruntă cu descoperirile ştiinţifice, pentru a evita repetarea greşelilor precum cea faţă de Galileo.
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