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Submission + - Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover (techdirt.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @02:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: Astronaut Bruce McCandless is suing Dido for her album cover that uses a famous NASA photograph of a tiny, tiny, tiny McCandless floating in space. McCandless doesn't own the copyright on the photo, so he's claiming it's a violation of his publicity rights... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him.

Submission + - Robot Controlled By Rat Brain Still Moves Forward (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by kkleiner on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @02:17PM

kkleiner writes: Kevin Warwick, once a cyborg and still a researcher in cybernetics at the University of Reading, has been working on creating biological neural networks that can control machines. He and his team have taken the brain cells from rats, cultured them, and used them as the guidance control circuit for simple wheeled robots. Electrical impulses from the bot enter the batch of neurons, and responses from the cells are turned into commands for the device. The cells can form new connections, making the system a true learning machine.

Submission + - Nokia Sticks with Symbian as Rivals Turn Away (wsj.com)

Submitted by pbahra on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @01:28PM

pbahra writes: Nokia looks increasingly alone in its support for the Symbian smartphone platform, even as the global handset market leader is launching new devices based on an upgraded version of the system, which should be better able to match rival software. Apart from Nokia, which builds most of its smartphones around Symbian, phone vendors like Samsung and Sony Ericsson have also made use of the open-source system in their devices. But these two have now put their Symbian development on hold, focusing instead on other platforms such as the ever more popular Android. Is this the beginning of the end for the Symbian mobile platform?

Comment Re:Is this new tech? (Score 2, Informative) 203

by Cussin_IT on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @09:58PM (#27072723) Attached to: Bionic Eye Gives Blind Man Sight

The advancement isn't in the attachment to the eye, but rather the machinerie of the device. The one that you're thinking of would have had a resolution of 4x4, meaning 16 pixels which where either black or white. If I understand corectly, this device has 60 pixels (about 7x7, it can't be square though) and produces some sort of grey scale (ether 16 or 256 both of wich beat 2). The thing is that they both interface into the optic nerve in the same way.

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