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By Annalee Newitz
Sunday, August 30, 2009
If machines ever become sentient, science fiction movies have conditioned us to expect one thing: Our new mechanical masters will try to take over the world and destroy us all. But the reality of artificial intelligence is a lot weirder than even the machines vs. humanity “Matrix” movies suggest. When AI finally emerges, it will be a lot more like an erudite video store clerk than a superpowered killer.

If you’ve ever bought something at Amazon.com or rented a movie from Netflix, you’ve interacted with a software program that owes its existence to over half a century of research into artificial intelligence. That program composes sentences such as: “Because you enjoyed the movie ‘Godzilla,’ we think you would enjoy ‘Ultraman.’ ” It’s called a “recommender system,” and it’s designed to learn about you and your fellow humans by gathering data about you and drawing conclusions from it; eventually, it will know more about what you like than you do.

via Denis Pacheco

Veículo de 7,6 metros alcançou 225 km/h em deserto da Califórnia (EUA).
Recorde para este tipo de desafio durava 103 anos.

i fooled them! but i’ll be extra careful next time in Santos. they know about my Zuda plan - but i knew about theirs all along. i’ll let them have Ellis instead - he obviously has much more to offer.

Scuba divers off the Californian city of San Diego are being menaced by large numbers of jumbo squid.
The beaked Humboldt squid, which grow up to 5ft (1.5 metres) long, arrived off the city’s shores last week.
Divers have reported unnerving encounters with the creatures, which are carnivorous and can be aggressive.
One diver described how one of the rust-coloured creatures ripped the buoyancy aid and light from her chest, and grabbed her with its tentacles.
“I just kicked like crazy,” diver Shanda Magill told the Associated Press news agency.

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What really happened to Russia’s missing cosmonauts? An incredible tale of space hacking, espionage and death in the lonely reaches of space.

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A family in Lincoln County, North Carolina is in shock and experts are scratching their heads after a bizarre car attack.

Holly Gilliam says she woke up to find her SUV ripped apart. She says the scary part is that she didn’t hear or see anything all night.

MISR Shows South Atlantic Anomaly

The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA). Even before the cover opened, the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft began making scientific measurements. The MISR cameras, designed to detect visible light, are also sensitive to energetic protons in Earth’s upper atmosphere. With the cover closed, background levels of protons stand out.

via spiceee

Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says.

Published in today’s online edition of Nature Medicine, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York City also say the older organs function as well as they did when the host animal was younger.

The researchers, led by Associate Professor Ana Maria Cuervo, blocked the ageing process in mice livers by stopping the build-up of harmful proteins inside the organ’s cells.

Médicos do hospital Waukesha Memorial, na cidade de Milwaukee, no Estado americano do Winsconsin, ressuscitaram uma mulher encontrada congelada em um barranco de neve. O cardiologista Paul Seifert, que tratou a paciente, disse que Tia Ross estava “tecnicamente morta” quando chegou ao hospital.

Segundo informa a BBC, “ela não tinha pulso, não estava respirando e tinha pouca atividade cardíaca”, afirmou o médico Michael Sore, da unidade de trauma do hospital. Ainda de acordo com os médicos, a temperatura de Ross era de apenas 23ºC, o que indicaria uma hipotermia grave, já que a temperatura normal do corpo humano deve ser de 35ºC.

A film sponsored by the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to promote friendly relations with South American countries just before World War II.Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

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