Fw: KurzweilAI.net Daily Newsletter -- starts yer day aright! Luke, feel the pull of the future..... Rich Murray 2008.04.11

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Fw: KurzweilAI.net Daily Newsletter -- starts yer day aright! Luke, feel the
pull of the future.....Rich Murray 2008.04.11

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Using nanotechnology to improve
Li-ion battery performance
Nanowerk News April 7, 2008
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Chinese scientists have developed
500-nanometer lithium-ion-battery
electrode materials using tin
nanoparticles encapsulated in
elastic hollow carbon-nanotube-based
spheres, replacing conventional
graphite. The scientists have found
that the new materials provide
higher initial and long-term
ampere-hours capacity, prolonging
battery life....
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'Big brother' buildings offer less
invasive security
New Scientist news service April 9, 2008
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Mitsubishi Electric Research
Laboratories researchers have placed
215 small, cheap motion detectors
along hallwalls in their building as
a lower-cost, less-invasive, and
more useful system for security
monitoring. The researchers say CCTV
footage, besides being more
invasive, is difficult to search
through or interpret...
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Devices That Track Every Precious
Need
New York Times April 9, 2008
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GPS tracking devices have become so
compact and inexpensive that some
people are using them routinely to
keep tabs on their most precious
things, including cars, pets,
children, art, and bikes....
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RSA - Top botnets control 1M
hijacked computers
Computerworld April 10, 2008
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Botnets control just over a million
hacked computers on the Internet and
are capable of flooding the Internet
with more than 100 billion spam
messages every day, Joe Stewart,
director of malware research at
SecureWorks, said at the RSA
Conference Thursday. A botnet is a
collection of software robots, or
bots, that run autonomously and...
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Nanoscale freighter hauls its first
load
New Scientist news service April 10, 2008
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A nanoscale "monorail" that can
creep along a nanotube track has
shifted its first load, hauling a
gold nugget a distance of 0.5
micrometers. The central tube is one
micrometer long and acts as a rail
for the second, smaller,
200-nanometer nanotube. The outer
"monorail carriage" is driven by
applying current to the inner rail,
and can move in...
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IBM creates working racetrack
memory device
New Scientist news service April 10, 2008
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A "racetrack" memory device, a new
type of computer memory that could
provide faster, cheaper and higher
capacity storage than RAM or hard
disk storage, has been demonstrated
by IBM researchers. Bits in
racetrack memory are stored in the
tiny magnetic domains of a very thin
U-shaped wire. A magnetic field is
used to write data to the domains....
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