Last year, I benchmarked all the availabile data on social media adoption vs. social business, and it was obvious that businesses were about 2-4 years behind the rest of the world in adoption. The leading …
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Kurzweil AI News Feed- Growing new brains with infrared light [exclusive] May 24, 2013University of Texas Arlington scientists have discovered a way to control the growth or repair of neurons and neuron circuits, using a non-invasive “neuronal beacon” (near-IR laser beam) — essentially rewiring brains, or even creating new ones. This major discovery, just published today in Optics Letters, promises to enable several new applications, UT Arlin […]
- Baby’s life saved with 3D printed device to restore breathing May 24, 2013A bioresorbable splint used for first time, successfully stopped life-threatening tracheobronchomalacia, a case featured in New England Journal of Medicine. Every day, a baby, Kaiba, stopped breathing, his collapsed bronchus blocking the crucial flow of air to his lungs. Parents April and Bryan Gionfriddo watched helplessly. They found hope at the University […]
- Worm ‘EEG’ tests neural effects of drugs May 24, 2013Scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a microfluidic electrophysiological device called a NeuroChip that records the neural activity in the microscopic worm Caenorhadbitis elegans (C. elegans) — the worm equivalent of an EEG —.to help test the effects of drugs. How to record a worm’s ‘EEG’ With the NeuroChip, you feed the worm […]
- Nanoscale whirlpools could multiply magnetic memory May 24, 2013Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have used the unique capabilities of the Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) to advance a new concept in magnetic memory. “What we’re working on now could make these gadgets perform hundreds of times better and also be a hundred times more energy efficient,” says the Lab’s Peter Fischer. […]
- Bitcoin attracts major investors May 24, 2013Bitcoin is gaining traction outside its existing community of enthusiastic early adopters. An estimated 1,100 people attended Bitcoin 2013, the first large conference dedicated to Bitcoin, MIT Technology Review reports. The conference also showed that Bitcoin has begun to attract the backing of conventional technology industry investors, who have sunk millio […]
- Growing new brains with infrared light [exclusive] May 24, 2013