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Video game bosses' lament. Posted at MonkeyFilter Mar 16, 18:40 GMT Video game bosses' lament. Computational feat speeds finding of genes to milliseconds instead of years Posted at KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News Mar 16, 12:28 GMT Computational analysis of existing data bases can dramatically shorten the time required to discover the specific combination of new genes involved in certain biological processes, Stanford University researchers have found. The analytic methods can provide clues about where researchers should look next, such as finding new genes that play a role in developing cancers. More info: Stanford School of Medicine (Source: ) Also posted: FCC plan would greatly expand broadband Internet connections Shape-shifting polymer pulls off amazing memory tricks Human arm transmits broadband Electronics 'missing link' brings neural computing closer Rutgers plans online course on the Singularity Not left to chance. Posted at MonkeyFilter Mar 16, 10:30 GMT Not left to chance. Making sure you get that amazing wildlife shot by renting the wildlife is apparently a widespread, if somewhat under the radar, practice. [more inside] Twitter Announces @Anywhere Platform Posted at KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News Mar 16, 09:18 GMT Twitter's Evan Williams has announced @platform, which will allow publishers to integrate Twitter deeper into their sites. Users will be able to follow a site's or columnist's feed without every having to leave the site, and publishers will be able to find more followers. (Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_announces_anywhere_publishers_platform.php) Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction - a new resource for cubicle warfare Posted at Bernie DeKoven, funsmith Mar 16, 09:00 GMT [pic]If I could travel back in time and give my early adolescent self a gift of potentiation and portends of power, it would be a copy of John Austin's Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction. If I were [...] Fingertip Bacteria: A Promising Forensic Tool Posted at KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News Mar 16, 08:06 GMT In a scene out of the movie Gattaca, researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have matched three individuals to keyboards they used, based on the genetic makeup of microbes on their skin -- their microbiome. The approach, when developed more fully, could potentially provide information where existing forensic techniques fall short, says Martin Blaser, a professor of medicine and microbiology at New York University. (Source: Different parts process deliberately recalled and spontaneously triggered memories Posted at Technoccult Mar 16, 01:09 GMT The studies in Kristiina Kompus’s dissertation show that these two different ways of remembering things are initiated by entirely different signal paths in the brain. Efforts to retrieve a specific memory are dealt with by the upper part of the frontal lobe. This area of the brain is activated not only in connection with memory-related [...] Related posts: Also posted: Harry Clarke’s illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe The First Decade of Computer Art (1965-1975) What would it cost to make you STOP making art? Mix and match album covers Posted at MonkeyFilter Mar 15, 21:40 GMT Mix and match album covers Album cover art literally stitched together to create something new. The Dropout Economy Posted at Technoccult Mar 15, 19:31 GMT Resilient communities hit Time: Imagine a future in which millions of families live off the grid, powering their homes and vehicles with dirt-cheap portable fuel cells. As industrial agriculture sputters under the strain of the spiraling costs of water, gasoline and fertilizer, networks of farmers using sophisticated techniques that combine cutting-edge green technologies with ancient Mayan [...] Related posts: Also posted: Neanderthals Not Dumb, but Made Dull Gadgets Alex and Allyson Grey healing after car accident