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Reassuring news for parents about violent videogames:
a new study released today shows that violence is not what attracts players. http://www.sciencentral.com…
Penn and Teller compare video games to football
Since its first release, the award-winning Call of Duty franchise has sold in excess of 55 million units worldwide. The latest title in the franchise, Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty(R):Modern Warfare(R) 2, recently shattered box office and video game records with a worldwide estimated five-day sale through of approximately $550 million, establishing the game as the biggest entertainment launch in history.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt breaks down the future of his search engine and speaks about his views on the Future of Technology
Need a job? Watch closely that health care is moving from 15% of our economy to 21% investment pushing the hiring expansion here, so get your education in medical related fields…
The Blue Brain Project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.
The cerebral cortex, the convoluted “grey matter” that makes up 80% of the human brain, is responsible for our ability to remember, think, reflect, empathize, communicate, adapt to new situations and plan for the future. The cortex first appeared in mammals, and it has a fundamentally simple repetitive structure that is the same across all mammalian species.
The brain is populated with billions of neurons, each connected to thousands of its neighbors by dendrites and axons, a kind of biological “wiring”. The brain processes information by sending electrical signals from neuron to neuron along these wires. In the cortex, neurons are organized into basic functional units, cylindrical volumes 0.5 mm wide by 2 mm high, each containing about 10,000 neurons that are connected in an intricate but consistent way. These units operate much like microcircuits in a computer. This microcircuit, known as the neocortical column (NCC), is repeated millions of times across the cortex. The difference between the brain of a mouse and the brain of a human is basically just volume – humans have many more neocortical columns and thus neurons than mice.
This structure lends itself to a systematic modeling approach. And indeed, the first step of the Blue Brain project is to re-create this fundamental microcircuit, down to the level of biologically accurate individual neurons. The microcircuit can then be used in simulations.
The singularity approaches us quickly and we should embrace it. Trends are increasing exponentially and at some point in time, a singularity will inevitably occur. These are some very cool future projects: X seed 4000, ultima tower, space elevator, nanotechnology, bug spies, Dubai s underwater hotel, world sports center, UAVs, solar sails, future ziggurats, moon and mars base, the Illinois, mega city pyramid and many many more..
No Longer Terrorism but Social Unrest is Now the Focus of Worry as the Speed of Change is Ten Years in Just Ten Months: http://t.co/d4D5kPuX18 hours ago
