Comment Nice Names (Score 1) 296
Top of the line model: Quid Pro
Base model: Status
Windows model: Vadis
Feed Male And Female Brain Patterns Differ During Reaching (sciencedaily.com)
Men's and women's brains "fire" differently when they are planning how to reach for something, so rehabilitation after brain injuries such as strokes may need to be tailored to the sex of the person, says a new study. Researchers found differences in patterns of brain activity in men and women preparing to do visually-guided actions related to tasks such as using a computer mouse or driving a car.
Submission + - New Laws of Robotics proposed for US kill-bots
jakosc writes: The Register has a short commentry about a proposed new set of laws of robotics for war robots by John S Canning of the Naval Surface Warfare Centre. Unlike Azimov's three laws of robotics Canning proposes (pdf) that we should "Let machines target other machines and let men target men." although this sounds OK in principle, "a robot could decide under Mr Canning's rules, to target a weapon system such as an AK47 for destruction on its own initiative, requiring no permission from a human. If the person holding it was thereby killed, that would be collateral damage and the killer droid would be in the clear.."
Feed Targeted real-time ads reach downloaded content (com.com)
Start-up YuMe brings customized real-time ads to downloadable content like videos on BitTorrent's new distribution site.
Journal Journal: Parallel Programming 90
Hello Slashdot community. Shobhan and Clay here to talk about parallel programming this week,
a topic that is both interesting and familiar to us. As processors for server, desktop and
mobile platforms move from dual to quad core and beyond, software must be parallelized to best
benefit from the potential performance gains now possible. Software developers have
successfully introduced parallelism to their software through multithreading using Intel
resources such as software development tools
Submission + - Possibly convert all transfusion blood Type O
UnanimousCoward writes: The BBC has an article that talks about a submission to Nature Biotechnology (not the current issue) in which scientists claim to have discovered a technique to convert all blood into Type O with the discovery of an enzyme that can strip the A and B antigens. This has implications to transform the stored blood supply into transfusable blood for all. It does not address the RH negative issue, though.
