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Submission + - Doctor Who to be legally downloadable

Submitted by Porsupah on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @10:32PM

Porsupah writes: It appears Azureus Inc. and BBC Worldwide have reached agreement on making Doctor Who, as well as a few other series including Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, and The League of Gentlemen, available as legal downloads on their recently announced Azureus 3.0-based Zudeo platform. There's no word yet on what episodes, pricing, or DRM.

Submission + - Live Forever With Computers-If They Let Us

Submitted by

docinthemachine

on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @09:23PM

docinthemachine writes: "The inventor, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that in 15 to 30 years, nanobots will roam our blood streams fixing diseased or aging organs, computers will back up our human memories, and conference calls will be replaced by meetings in virtual resorts. Information week reports on Kurzweil's lecture and conducts a fascinating interview. Kurzweil told a keynote audience at last week's SCO6 supercomputing conference his predictions of future life. Key points of his lecture: 1) people and computers will intermix with nanobots, blood cell-sized robots, that will be integrated into everything from our clothing to our bodies and brains. 2) Think of replacing everyone's "human body version 1.0 with nanotech that will repair or replace ailing or aging tissue, he says. Parts will become easily replaceable. 3) "A $1,000 worth of computation in the 2020s will be 1,000 times more powerful than the human brain," says Kurzweil, adding that in 25 years we'll have multiplied our computational power by a billion. 4) "Fifteen years from now, we'll have cured cancer and heart disease, or at least rendered them to manageable chronic conditions that aren't life threatening. Details and more information at : http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/19/kurzweilfutu re/"

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