Making Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” in Ableton

YouTube – Making Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
How to make Prodigy’s legendary track “Smack My Bitch Up” in Ableton. Video describes, which samples were used by Liam in this wonderful track. Reworked by Jim Pavloff.  

OnLive 48 Mins Video Demonstration

Viddler.com – OnLive 48 Mins Video Demonstration – Uploaded by gamertagradio

The founder and CEO of OnLive, Steve Perlman. Shows a demonstration on how to play Crysis on iPhone, Mac, & console. Also talks about the features and how this works to at Columbia University in New York City.

The future of brain-controlled devices

The future of brain-controlled devices – CNN.com

One of the more controversial uses under development is telepathy. It would require at least two people to be implanted with electrodes that send and receive signals back and forth.

DARPA, the Pentagon’s technology research division, is currently working on an initiative called “Silent Talk,” which would let soldiers on secret missions communicate with their thoughts alone. This stealth component is attractive, but naysayers fear that such soldiers could become manipulated for evil means.

Hawking rewrites history… backwards

Biology News: Hawking rewrites history… backwards

How did the Universe begin? Many scientists would regard this as one of the most profound questions of all. But to Stephen Hawking, who has perhaps come closer than anyone to answering it, the question doesn’t in fact even exist.

Hawking, based at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleague Thomas Hertog of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, are about to publish a paper claiming that the Universe had no unique beginning. Instead, they argue, it began in just about every way imaginable (and maybe some that aren’t).

Decades of future science

Decades of future science – Cosmic Log – msnbc.com

In the next 50 years, we may well fall short of the breakthroughs we expect – but unexpected discoveries will pop up to keep life interesting. Here are a few of your predictions for the next decade and the next half-century:

A Review Of The Best Robots of 2009

A Review Of The Best Robots of 2009 | Singularity Hub

2009 has been an amazing year in the world of robots and Singularity Hub is here to tell you all about it! Thats right, its time to unveil our second annual roundup of the best robots of the year. In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ability. It will be several years until robots can gain the artificial intelligence that will truly make them remarkable, but in the meantime they are still pretty awesome. If you haven’t seen it yet you won’t want to miss our best robots of 2008 story from last year, but now lets not delay any further and get on with the best robots of 2009:

Computer-aided design for life itself

Computer-aided design for life itself – life – 31 December 2009 – New Scientist

FIRST it was planes, trains and automobiles that benefited from computer-aided design technology. Now, as synthetic biologists attempt to build artificial life forms, a CAD system has been developed to allow them to redesign the stuff of life much faster and more easily.

Deepak Chandran and colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle developed Tinkercell to allow biologists to meddle with the components of, say, a bacterium, and simulate the effect the change has (Journal of Biomedical Engineering, vol 3, p 19).

The package has a library of the components of life, from which users can pick different cells, membrane proteins, fluorescent proteins, enzymes and genes to create their organism. Tinkercell can then simulate the life form to see if it functions as expected.

Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture

Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture – Yahoo! News

Researchers say the overuse of antibiotics in humans and animals has led to a plague of drug-resistant infections that killed more than 65,000 people in the U.S. last year — more than prostate and breast cancer combined. And in a nation that used about 35 million pounds of antibiotics last year, 70 percent of the drugs went to pigs, chickens and cows. Worldwide, it’s 50 percent.

“This is a living breathing problem, it’s the big bad wolf and it’s knocking at our door,” said Dr. Vance Fowler, an infectious disease specialist at Duke University. “It’s here. It’s arrived.”

The rise in the use of antibiotics is part of a growing problem of soaring drug resistance worldwide, The Associated Press found in a six-month look at the issue. As a result, killer diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and staph are resurging in new and more deadly forms.

In response, the pressure against the use of antibiotics in agriculture is rising. The World Health Organization concluded this year that surging antibiotic resistance is one of the leading threats to human health, and the White House last month said the problem is “urgent.”

DirecTV To Launch A 3D Channel-HD Guru Exclusive

HDGURU.Com » DirecTV To Launch A 3D Channel-HD Guru Exclusive

(December 28, 2009) DirecTV intends to launch the first US 3D HDTV channel early next year. The satellite TV provider plans to make the announcement at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 7th.

Calorie restriction: Scientists take important step toward ‘fountain of youth’

Calorie restriction: Scientists take important step toward ‘fountain of youth’

ScienceDaily (Dec. 26, 2009) — Going back for a second dessert after your holiday meal might not be the best strategy for living a long, cancer-free life say researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. That’s because they’ve shown exactly how restricted calorie diets — specifically in the form of restricted glucose — help human cells live longer.

Neuroscientists store memories in slices of brain tissue

Neuroscientists store memories in slices of brain tissue

“It took us four years to be able to reproducibly store two bits of information for 10 seconds” says Larimer. “Our findings should progress faster now that we know what to look for and have found the brain circuit that actually holds the memory.”

Robot Romance: Inventor Le Trung takes his ‘fembot’ girlfriend to Christmas dinner

Robot Romance: Inventor Le Trung takes his ‘fembot’ girlfriend to Christmas dinner | Mail Online

Inventor Le Trung spent Christmas Day with the most important woman in his life – his robot Aiko.

The science genius enjoyed a festive dinner with his mum, dad and his £30,000 fembot which he designed and built by hand.

Le, 34, from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, even bought gifts for his dream girl, who is so lifelike she speaks fluent English and Japanese, helped cook the turkey and hang up decorations.

‘Aiko is like any woman, she enjoys getting new clothes,’ he said.

‘I loved buying them for her too.’

China’s 245mph train service is the world’s fastest… and it was completed in just FOUR years

Unveiled: China’s 245mph train service is the world’s fastest… and it was completed in just FOUR years | Mail Online

In the week that Britain’s high speed rail link closed down because the wrong sort of snow interfered with the engine’s electronics, China unveiled the world’s fastest train service on one of the coldest days of the year.

Days after thousands of passengers were left stranded when Eurostar services were cancelled, China’s new system connects the modern cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 217mph – and it took just four years to build.

The super-high-speed train reduces the 664-mile journey to just a three-hour ride and cuts the previous journey time by more than seven-and-a-half hours, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Work on the project began in 2005 as part of plans to expand a high-speed network aimed at eventually linking Guangzhou, a business hub in southern China near Hong Kong, with the capital Beijing, Xinhua added.

Citrus surprise: Vitamin C boosts the reprogramming of adult cells into stem cells

Citrus surprise: Vitamin C boosts the reprogramming of adult cells into stem cells

Famous for its antioxidant properties and role in tissue repair, vitamin C is touted as beneficial for illnesses ranging from the common cold to cancer and perhaps even for slowing the aging process. Now, a study published online on December 24th by Cell Press in the journal Cell Stem Cell uncovers an unexpected new role for this natural compound: facilitating the generation of embryonic-like stem cells from adult cells.

New materials designed to deal with hypersonic and supersonic hot stuff

New materials designed to deal with hypersonic and supersonic hot stuff (w/ Video)

University of Queensland researchers are testing new materials to withstand the extreme heat experienced by hypersonic vehicles in flight so they can fly for substantially longer.

Previous Australian experimental flight tests of scramjets, a type of very fast jet engine, have not lasted longer than five seconds.

The tests, conducted at Woomera in South Australia over the past eight years, have used scramjet engines made of conventional materials which have problems with extreme heat including melting, and are not designed for re-use.

Helmholtz şi viteza impulsului nervos

Helmholtz şi viteza impulsului nervos

La nivelul anului 1850 mulţi dintre oamenii de ştiinţă erau tributari vechii paradigme carteziene: materie-spirit, minte-trup. Se cunoştea însă că procesele cerebrale erau responsabile pentru coordonarea organismului; creierul era înţeles ca un fel de punct de comandă pentru corp. Ca şi atunci şi astăzi mai sunt unii, cel puţin în România, care vor susţine că evenimentele mentale nu sunt de natură fizică, ci sunt cumva separate de materie, pe care “mintea” o stăpâneşte într-un mod misterios. Dacă aşa stăteau lucrurile, atunci sistemul nervos, prin intermediul căruia se transmiteau comenzile creierului, trebuia să aibă proprietăţi speciale.

Scientists create world’s first molecular transistor

Scientists create world’s first molecular transistor

A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the first transistor made from a single molecule. The team, which includes researchers from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, published their findings in the December 24 issue of the journal Nature.

Scientists discover how the brain encodes memories at a cellular level

Scientists discover how the brain encodes memories at a cellular level

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a major discovery in how the brain encodes memories. The finding, published in the December 24 issue of the journal Neuron, could eventually lead to the development of new drugs to aid memory.

The team of scientists is the first to uncover a central process in encoding memories that occurs at the level of the synapse, where neurons connect with each other.

Panasonic plans home-use storage cell

Panasonic plans home-use storage cell

Panasonic Corp., which recently made a successful takeover bid for Sanyo Electric Co., plans to market a lithium-ion storage cell for home use around fiscal 2011.

“We’ll be the first to bring to the market a storage battery for home use, which can store sufficient electricity for about one week of use,” said Fumio Otsubo, president of Panasonic, in a recent interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun.

Researchers develop revolutionary technology for manufacturing micro-scale devices

Researchers develop revolutionary technology for manufacturing micro-scale devices

(PhysOrg.com) — Cranfield University has developed new technology that could significantly reduce the manufacturing costs of complex devices such as electronic noses that sniff out explosives and dangerous chemicals and gadgets that can diagnose disease.