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10 Worst Evolutionary Designs 232

Posted by samzenpus from the everyone-makes-mistakes dept.
JamJam writes "Besides my beer gut, which I'm sure has some purpose, Wired is running a story on the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs. Ranging from baby giraffes being dropped 5-foot during birth to Goliath bird-eating spiders that practically explode when they fall from trees."
The Matrix

Submission + - Will robots replace scientists ?

Submitted by ptr2004
ptr2004 writes: We have all heard about robots and fear among people that they might take away jobs. Untill now it was restricted to labor intensive jobs. But it seems like even the highly skilled need to fear. Scientists have created a "Eureka machine" that can work out the laws of nature by observing the world around it — a development that could dramatically speed up the discovery of new scientific truths. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/02/eureka-laws-nature-artificial-intelligence-ai
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Submission + - Tivo for Games

Submitted by ptr2004
ptr2004 writes: The folks are OnLive are claiming to stream real time graphics to your TV , or a 5 year old PC. And that too not pacman but bleeding edge games. For once Mac Users won't be left behind either. http://www.onlive.com/ claims that "OnLive is launching the world's highest performance Games On Demand service, instantly delivering the latest high-end titles over home broadband Internet to the TV and entry-level PCs and Macs" Here is Chris Holt's indepth look at OnLive http://www.macworld.com/article/139646/onlive.html
Transportation

Flying Car Flies From London To Africa 148

Posted by timothy from the laden-or-unladen dept.
krou writes "It may not be exactly what people have envisioned or tried over the years, such as the flying car in Bladerunner, or the previously reported Terrafugia Transition, but the BBC is reporting that a flying car (creatively dubbed the Skycar, but different from this Skycar) has flown from London across into Africa. They modified a parajet fan that can fly a man into a bigger fan with a canopy that is capable of flying a car."
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Google Unofficially Announces GDrive By Leaked Code 342

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the more-than-speculation dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Google has unofficially announced the GDrive by source code. In an in-direct way, Google has publicly advertised the new, much-anticipated online storage drive called the GDrive. If you take a look at the source code of some javascript within the Google Pack, you will clearly see the GDrive referenced. The code categorizes the GDrive as an 'Online file backup and storage' device. It also provides the following descriptions; 'GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents' and 'GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device — be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone.'"

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