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Singularity Summit 2007: The view from never, never land

Singularity Summit 2007: The view from never, never landRE: Singularity Summit 2007: The view from never, never landMost amusing. Love your style. But do really think it's impossible? It seems mostly a matter of RAM & links after all doesn't it? Or do you think there is a 'soul'?edward.cooper@bsa.aeNice Informative...

Tags: Singularity Summit 2007, Singularity

Discussion threads 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: Open source Singularity

"If the singularity is in fact near, the fundamental tools of information, collaboration and access will be our best hope for making it happen in a way that spreads its benefits and minimizes its dangers -- in short, making it happen in a way that lets us be good ancestors.,"...

Tags: Software, Scenario, Open Source, System, Benefit, Google Earth, Technology, Tool, Democracy, Singularity Summit 2007, AR World, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: Dancing with Dr. Doom

Singularity Summit 2007: Dancing with Dr. DoomThem vs UsThe thing that Dr. Doom and others concerned about the eventual takeover and/or deadly plundering or blundering by our cybernetic overlords fail to bear in mind is that these are extensions of our own intelligence, essentially our progeny - they are us,...

Tags: progeny, Singularity Summit 2007

Discussion threads 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: How the artificial intelligensia thinks ahead

Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Face, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: A change is gonna come

Singularity Summit 2007: A change is gonna comeEarth to David......you are clear for landing back on Mother Earth. ;)Check that...'Dan' you are clear to land.That should be enuf on the Singularity Summit 2007 front. ;)landingwhat else to do on a weekend but contemplate the AI :)

Tags: Singularity Summit 2007, Singularity

Discussion threads 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: iPod of the future

Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT and CTO of iRobot. From 1997 - 2003 and from 2003 - 2007, respectively, he was Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He knows a lot about robots, AI...

Tags: Professor, Apple iPod, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Rodney Brooks, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Steve Jurvetson: AI, nanotech and the future of the human species

Steve Jurvetson is one of the featured speakers, among other luminaries, at the forthcoming Singularity Summit 2007 on advanced artificial intelligence AI. As a managing director at the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he invested early in the first Web wave, with Hotmail, Interwoven and Kana, and...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Jurvetson, Nanotechnology, Singularity Summit 2007, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

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The future of tech IPOs

At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Frank Quattrone, co-founder of Qatalyst, talks about the dismal condition of the current IPO market, why venture capitalist backed companies are not going public right now, and what the future holds.

Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tech IPOs

Videos 2008-07-25

Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched

Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...

Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer

Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer.  From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...

Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...

Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-25

Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame

Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...

Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop

Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUs

Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUsIt's not surprising.The increased cost of the premium Office doesn't provide much that corporations need. Also, as linked, Vista Home Basic is not viable either, so they must, if they go Vista, get the premium product.I do think a clarification is needed. [B]He...

Tags: Elop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?

Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week

During Microsoft's annual Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, the company will finally show off semi-publicly the spherical Surface computer that has been rumored for the past few months. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Multi-touch, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

323 mln broadband users in 2007, 499 mln by 2012

Worldwide consumer broadband connections will grow from 323 mln connections in 2007 to 499 mln in 2012, according to Gartner. Worldwide consumer broadband connections penetrated 18% of households in 2007, and by 2012, households with a broadband connection will reach 25%. Five countries exceeded 60% broadband penetration into the home...

Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, AM

Blog posts 2008-07-24

How SlideRocket plans to make money

How SlideRocket plans to make moneyWhy?After reading about the product I'm left with a "so what" and "why" would I want it feeling. I can see some niches where it might fit, but with the exception of those niches, why would you want to be on a monthly subscription...

Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, nich, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space

Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone spaceMicrosoft Store in the works...My rep told me Microsoft is looking into significant retail space in higher end upscale shopping malls. In the mock-up of the store, boxes of Vista and Office 2007 were kept under lock and key. Customers will be...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., PC phone, PC, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship

NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...

Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-24