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Submission + - Suprnova back up and running (suprnova.org)

Submitted by Chris on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @06:48PM

Chris writes: Just a few weeks after the announcement that the guy's of The Piratebay are going to relaunch Suprnova.org the page is finally up with a beta version. Aside of the usual greeting they also hailing the non-internet loving companies with a explanation "how it works"...

Whatever you sink, we build back up. Whomever you sue, ten new pirates are recruited. Wherever you go, we are already ahead of you. You are the past and the forgotten, we are the internet and the future. y'arr!

Submission + - Paramount Pictures drops Blue Ray

Submitted by AmigaMMC on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @06:38PM

AmigaMMC writes: August 20, 2007 — Paramount Pictures announced today that it will drop support for Sony's Blu-ray high-definition format in favor of exclusively supporting the Microsoft-backed HD DVD. The decision further complicates the race between the competing technologies.

Submission + - Software for reverse engineering the human brain (colorado.edu)

Submitted by on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @01:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: In his book, "The Singularity is Near", Ray Kurzweil says the future of artificial intelligence may be in reverse engineering the human brain. Now, scientists at the University of Colorado have released software, dubbed "Emergent," that is aimed at allowing you to do just that. Using the ODE library for realistic physics, you can construct a robot with a simulated brain in a simulated world with a simulated body. I've seen neural network software before, but seeing a robot with his brain hovering over his head in 3D was a bit..shocking to say the least. Especially in light of this recent Oxford paper which asks, "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?." I was even able to "lesion" his brain and see his performance go down. Could this approach possibly bootstrap us into real artificial intelligence? Will these new simulated robotic overlords someday assimilate us?

Flash Player 9 Gets H.264 Support 257

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @08:52AM from the game-changer dept.

ReadWriteWeb alerts us to the release later today of Flash Player 9 Update 3 Beta 2, codenamed Moviestar, which will support H.264 standard video as well as High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) and other improvements. Adobe engineer Tinic Uro, who works on the Flash Player, has more technical detail on his blog.

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