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Biotech

Submission + - Scientists Closer to Turning Skin Cells toTissue

Submitted by Nrbelex
Nrbelex writes: The New York Times is reporting that 'In a surprising advance that sidesteps the ethical debates surrounding stem cell biology, researchers have come much closer to a major goal of regenerative medicine, the conversion of a patient's cells into specialized tissues that might replace those lost to disease. The advance is an easy-to-use technique for reprogramming a skin cell of a mouse back to the embryonic state. Embryonic cells can be induced in the laboratory to develop into many of the body's major tissues.'
Education

Submission + - ASUS $199-$299 Notebook Announced

Submitted by
Plekto
Plekto writes: "http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/3951/asus_introd uces_new

I ran across this last night, but it evidently is slow to get out into the news.

Go to the ASUS site and select "global" as your area — there's an area on the left bottom side of the screen that you can click to bring up a nice bit of animation(the site's all JAVA, so I can't provide a direct link).

Prices will be $199-$299 — and it's not marketed as a OLPC, but a small basic laptop aimed at the younger crowds/college students/etc — who need more than a PDA but don't want it to be huge, either. It reminds me a lot of the Toshiba Libretto. Just under a pound."
Programming

Submission + - Pushing the Limits of Game AI Technology (aigamedev.com)

Submitted by
alexjc
alexjc writes: "AIIDE '07 starts tomorrow (Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment), featuring the most cutting edge research in game AI. The proceedings read like a "who's who" in the field, and there's lot to learn from! Here's a collection of highlights from the conference, and references that can be found online.

Topics range from dynamic scripting using reinforcement learning, hierarchical task network planning for team AI, automated storyline generation, and the more traditional A* optimizations."
The Internet

Submission + - Dell's "Direct model" extends to FMCG.

Submitted by
Michaeltt8
Michaeltt8 writes: "Do check out this interview article to read about how Dell's model of "Direct virtual integration" is now being utilized for the FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) industries to compress workload, increase productivity using technology and costs savings to consumers.

Moreover with the ever increasing prices of petrol, unnecessary shipping and logistic arrangements can add to unnecessary cost for customers.

Finally a turnkey system of an Online Hypermarket known as "Demandby.com — Make IT happen" which merges 3 categories of users — buyer, seller & marketer.
  • from which marketers can assist sellers to get buyers.
  • marketers offer the personalized touch to add greater trust which is non existent in ecommerce for more trade success.
  • After marketing, buyers get to deal direct with seller source and the "direct model" actually reduces costs of administration, hence cheaper pricing to buyers.
What Dell has pioneered for the hardware industry, Demandby.com is pioneering the virtual integration for the entire mass market. Click here to read more."
Security

Submission + - *nix systems more likely to be targeted by malware

Submitted by
Jerry Smith
Jerry Smith writes: "A Senior Virus Analyst from Kaspersky Lab writeshttp://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=2 04791938: "It's also likely that there will be a significant increase in the number of malicious programs for other operating systems, primarily for MacOS, and for other *nix systems. Gaming consoles such as PlayStation and Nintendo are also likely to be targeted, as the increasing number of such devices and their ability to connect to each other and the Internet will make them a juicy potential target for virus writers." I guess there's software waiting to be sold?"
Google

Submission + - Google Unveils Universal Search

Submitted by
marcog123
marcog123 writes: "Google has been expanding its collection of products enormously over the years. A large chunk of these products are search engines, each refined to work well with a specific content type. There's Google News, Maps, Scholar, Code Search — the list goes on. Today Google started combining the efforts of the separate search engines and packaging them into the so-called Universal Search. So now when you search for Steve Jobs you get a mixture of web, image, news and video results all on one page. The upgrade is gradually spreading out, so you might have to wait before you get the new results."
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - "We're halfway there": Sun on Open Source

Submitted by antistrophe
antistrophe writes: Builder AU has just posted a video interview with Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps of Sun Microsystems. He covers the possibility of forks in Java, GPL v3 and why Sun is living on the prayer of Open Source. Phipps says: "I believe that open source is going to be come the dominant way that software is going to be created over the coming decade."

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