Dag: 24 april 2005

  • Rymdturism blir stort

    En helt ny bransch håller på att födas. Space Tourism Will Thrive, But Regulations Hinder Progress Speaking before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Wednesday, SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan said the commercial space industry will thrive but the current regulatory system is need of repair and nearly destroyed his program. Rutan was one a…

  • Automatiserad tandläkare?

    Gapa stort för roboten. Robotic dentist’s drill A robotic dentist’s drill is to be tested on humans in Europe and the US. It could represent the first step towards automated dental procedures, reports New Scientist. erikstarckframtidstanken.com

  • Automatiserad rirajt?

    Nytt sätt att summera texter, exempelvis nyheter. Summarizer ranks sentences The method, dubbed LexRank, combines the content-sorting concepts of prestige and lexical similarity to find the most important sentences in a group of documents on the same subject. erikstarckframtidstanken.com

  • Blödarsjuka botas med genterapi

    Endast med djurförsök än så länge. Gene therapy completely corrects hemophilia in laboratory animals Newborn mice and dogs with hemophilia A were restored to normal health through gene therapy developed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The technique introduced into the animals’ cells a gene that makes clotting factor VIII,…

  • U.S. Military’s Elite Hacker Crew

    USA förbereder sig på cyberkrig. U.S. Military’s Elite Hacker Crew The U.S. military has assembled the world’s most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks — from electric grids to telephone nets. Den här texten i en anställningsannons skulle få vilken programmerare som…