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- Is this the great greentech break-through?
- Twenty-five years ago nobody thought computers would revolutionize human communications and commerce. Computers were speedy calculators with the ability to store data, right? The phone and fax and video camera were the dominators of all communication. Right now greentech is dominated by the rush for better and...
- Tags: DNA, Biotechnology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Can we engineer insect-free crops?
- Can we engineer insect-free crops?I think that if the past has taught us anythingit is that it is not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Genetic crop engineering is a nice idea, but who knows the long term health consequences.We, after about 50 years of trying, still can't engineer a...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, food, patent, Agribusiness
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- Can we engineer insect-free crops?
- The promise of bio-engineering and genetically-modified crops is that we'll get better yields, more food or cotton for us, less for our six-legged opponents. Now comes research that insect evolve more quickly than expected and may rapidly overcome any pest-repelling chemicals in our genetically modified plants. Evolutionary escalation...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- "Organic" Marketing melarky, not scientific term
- "Organic" Marketing melarky, not scientific termOrganic integrity Contrary to what is said in the title of this post, the organic label is not "marketing malarky." By law, organic products must comply with federal regulations for production and handling. These regulations prohibit the use of toxic and persistent pesticides, antibiotics,...
- Tags: marketing, organic ingredient, organic product
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- Legends: The Visible Man 2.0 (Mobile)
- This science fiction novella tells of a future where genetic engineering allows Black people to become White-- for a terrible price. Racists rule this nightmarish world where skin is the ultimate status symbol and a persons color is solely determined by income. We follow the struggle of a young Black...
- Tags: Mobile, Race, ZappTek, Milton, Biotechnology, Government, Operational Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- America loses its moral technologist: Michael Crichton
- Author, Producer and Director Michael Crichton, 1942-2008. Photo: Associated Press With election week and coverage of other events such as the Microsoft PDC and the latest Windows 7 builds, many of ZDNet's readers may be unaware that one of America's most...
- Tags: America, Fiction, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Linus Pauling's revenge
- Linus Pauling's revengeMatter of degreeI think there's a fair amount of evidence that Vitamin C does a lot more than prevent scurvy and that at least some of Dr. Pauling's claims are true. I think that reasonable people can disagree as to whether all of the claims made by...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Blogging, Linus Pauling, health care, revenge
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Selecting the Best Spanning Tree in Metro Ethernet Networks Using Genetic Algorithm
- IEEE Spanning Tree Protocol STP is a layer-2 protocol which ensures a loop free topology in Metro Ethernet networks. It is based on Minimum Spanning Tree solution that involves determining the links which can join all the nodes of a network together such that the sum of the costs of...
- Tags: Algorithm, Network, Metro Ethernet, Iran, IEEE Spanning Tree Protocol, Ethernet, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Small differences can make a BIG difference
- I recently got a chance to talk with one VC firm that's focused some of its attention and money on cleantech. One of their investments is in OPX, which seems to have a unique approach to solving some of the energy and raw material supply issues facing the planet....
- Tags: Chemicals, Clean Technology, Costs, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- USAF ready for cyber offensive
- ZDNet UK has an exclusive interview with LTGEN Robert Elder Jr., who said that the Air Force Cyber Command is set to become operatational Oct. 1. Cyber Command will not just fight off "cyber" attacks from foreign countries (read "China") and terrorist groups but will go...
- Tags: Ars Technica, R&D, Adversary, Air Force, Research & Development, Government, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Bandwidth Constrained IP Multicast Traffic Engineering Without MPLS Overlay
- Existing multicast Traffic Engineering TE solutions tend to use explicit routing through MPLS tunnels. This paper shifts away from this overlay approach and address the bandwidth constrained IP multicast TE directly based on link state IGP routing protocols. The objective is that, through plain PIM-SM shortest path routing with optimized...
- Tags: Bandwidth, MPLS, IP Multicast, IP, University Of Surrey, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Life in extreme environments
- U.S. biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a bacteria named Halobacterium salinarum, which can live in extremely salty environments, and that can survive to radiation which would be deadly to most other organisms. Their model shows how these bacteria adapt themselves in response to their environment....
- Tags: Genome, Environment, Gene, Bacteria, Cell, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-30
- My 2007 predictions - wrong, wrong, and wrong
- My 2007 predictions - wrong, wrong, and wrongSolaris communitySo, like what[b]EVER[/b]. It's another Unix. Do what you like under the hood, and to the extent that it's not compatible people have finally learned not to go near it.Sun spent twenty years trying to position itself as "not like...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Xmas Gift, attendant, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-12-14
- Apple: Is this really a dangerous moment?
- Apple: Is this really a dangerous moment?Message has been deleted.The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!!Not to say that Apple will always be king of the hill, but I'm not ready to unload my Apple stock just yet. The Mac part of the business is just picking up steam....
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., dangerous moment
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- A surprise in nature's operating system
- A surprise in nature's operating systemGenetic manipulation"Can we encode the HIV virus into the human genome, rendering it harmless, and should we?"I know it's "too geeky" for some, but in the Star Trek Deep Space 9 series they had a character, Dr. Bashir, who had been born with abnormally low...
- Tags: Biotechnology, RNA, DNA, antibiotic, bacteria, genetic manipulation, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
- GMOs down to the chromosome level
- If don't like the concept of 'Frankenfoods,' I have bad news for you. U.S. researchers have developed an artificial chromosome for corn plants. The Chicago Tribune reports that researchers can now make chromosomes to order. These artificial chromosomes are accepted as natural by the plants and passed through generations. As...
- Tags: Gene, University Of Chicago, Chromosome, Cell, Preuss, C/C++, Biotechnology, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-20
- Today's Debate: New drugs or new technology?
- Today's positive investor call on Cardinal Health should lead us to consider this question, namely whether technology or pharmacology should drive medical advances. Cardinal Health was mainly a drug maker and distributor in the 1990s, until accounting scandals laid its stock low. Now, under CEO Kerry Clark,...
- Tags: Drug, Biotechnology, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Barney Pell: Pathways to artificial intelligence
- Barney Pell has a passion for artificial intelligence AI and natural language processing NLP. His latest foray into those related fields is Powerset, a search engine that he hopes will challenge Google. He will be speaking, along with other experts in the AI field, at the Singularity Summit 2007, held...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Barney Pell, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Steve Omohundro: Building self-aware AI systems
- Steve Omohundro is president of Self-Aware Systems, which has a goal of developing an AI systems that understand their own behavior and work to improve themselves. He will be speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on September 8-9. ...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Omohundro, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Coming to grips with intelligent machines
- Coming to grips with intelligent machinesResponse to SingularityGiven the present response to current problems - ie. Global Climate Change, Overpopulation, Corruption, War, Action on Blind Faith - is it likely that Homo Sapiens will last long enough to reach the state of Singularity? If we do survive, maybe...
- Tags: intelligent machine, Singularity
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
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