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The Humble User Interface Comes of Age

Monday, June 7, 2010
By Cygnus Atratus

John Underkoffler points to the future of UI »

Extremists destroy kids summer camp in Gaza, threaten UNRWA

Monday, May 24, 2010
By Cygnus Atratus
Extremists destroy kids summer camp in Gaza, threaten UNRWA

Armed, masked men torched a UN run Summer Camp for Gazan children this weekend. They also threatened UNRWA, and its director in the Gaza Strip John Ging, when they left three bullets along with a letter demanding an end to these kinds of UN activities. UNRWA claims that around 250,000 children were due to use these... »

First synthetic cell created at Venter Institute

Friday, May 21, 2010
By Cygnus Atratus
First synthetic cell created at Venter Institute

Dr. J. Craig Venter and his team at the Venter Institute have synthesised the first cell to have its DNA artificially engineered by a computer, rather than generated from a “parent” cell or parent organism. It is a major step in gene manipulation which has been variously compared to other great feats such as the cloning... »


My Top 10 TED.com talks

Saturday, May 1, 2010
By Cygnus Atratus

1. Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight 2. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything 3. Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds 4. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions 5. Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn 6. VS Ramachandran on... »

Stephen Wolfram shifts it up a gear … then hits the turbo boost button!

Saturday, May 1, 2010
By Cygnus Atratus

It’s a modest goal really. Wolfram only wants to be able to model the universe with computational knowledge. Hold on to your socks – they’re about to be blown off . . . »