Mixed news

''Amazing World Watch (in javascript)'' [source]
''The brain-machine disanalogy revisited
Michael Conrad was a pioneer in investigating biological information processing. He believed that there are fundamental lessons to be learned from the structure and behavior of biological brains that we are far from understanding or have implemented in our computers.
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[...] if we abandon the classical computational frame and adopt one in which the user interacts with the system (artificial or natural) in real time, it becomes easier to examine the key attributes that Michael believed place biological brains on a higher plane of capability than artificial ones. '' [source]
''Metamaterials offer a path through the looking glass'' [source]
''Are we sure birds are dinos?
Only now can we say beyond reasonable doubt that birds aren't just built like dinosaurs – they actually are dinosaurs.'' [source]
''IR-embedded Surc case converts iPhone into a universal learning remote'' [source]
''Russian Soyuz launches new crew to space station'' [source]
''SATURN CYCLONE SPINS FOR FIVE YEARS'' [source]
''Saturn’s Moon Made Mountains Out of Moonlets'' [source]
''Smart Way To Organize, Manage And Tag Your Files, Folders And URLs'' [source]
''The Art of Predicting Products'' [source]
''"The sheer scale of this research -- 500 billion words traced over two centuries -- takes the breath away," comments Harvard cultural historian Robert Darnton, who was not involved in the project. "The first results point the way toward a rigorous, quantitative, historical linguistics."
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In one part of its analysis, the culturomics team estimates that about 8,500 new words annually entered the English language between 1950 and 2000. That process fueled a 70 percent growth in the number of English words, from 597,000 to 1,022,000.'' [source]
''Is Blu-ray Finally Hitting Its Stride?'' [source]