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I have come up with a better solution for the quick links here in the Trendwatch. It is now a spurl.net list (yes, I made spurl.net, but it is still better).
For those of you that want to continue following the links I picked out for the Trendwatch, the new RSS feed is here. And now [...]

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This week’s Wetware related stuff in the media, including:

Robots from the Victorian era
Buildings get nerve systems
AI helicopters
BOINC for distributed computing
Running robots

…and more.

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This week’s Wetware related stuff in the media, including:

Mind controlled video games
Self-assembling chips from IBM
Social insects inspire algorithms for robot teamwork
Google becoming a command line interface to the Internet
Game theory helps to work out peace treaties

…and more.

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This week’s Wetware related stuff in the media, including:

Programming like a human or breeding your software?
Walking wheelchairs (is it still a “wheel”-chair?)
Animals that know their cognitive limits
Memory makes Sims more fun
Paraphrasing software

…and more.

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This week’s Wetware related stuff in the media, including:

Software that predicts customer behavior
The flaws of an ever-changing web
Robot receptionists
The latest maps of the Internet
A lobster-inspired robot

…and more.

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Sorry about the lack of posts this week, I’ve been pretty busy with the conference coming up.
In any case, here’s this week’s Wetware related stuff in the media, including:

Man vs. Machine: It’s a tie
Genetic Algorithms and compiler optimizations
Finally: A PDA that controls your brain
Glowing fish
Artificial nose wags the dogs

…and more.

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This week’s Wetware related stuff in the media, including:

Vatican approving genetically modified food?
Robot Hall of Fame
Dirty details of machine learning
Swarm robots
Kasparov and Fritz tied with only one game to go

…and more.

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This week’s Wetware related stuff in the media, including:

Drowning in data
Call for deep-sea exploration
Digital Biology meeting in Maryland
Japan and Chine connected with automatic translation
Google connected to your brain

…and more.

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This week’s Wetware related stuff in the media, including:

Computer reconstructions of butterfly wing patterns
CIA’s equivalent of James Bond’s Q reveals old tests
Donald Trump and Perry Barlow want brain implants
This years Loebner prize awarded
Using your head as speakers

…and more.

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As I promised, I’m starting a weekly Wetware Trendwatch, linking to Wetware related news gathered during the week. This is by no means intended to be a complete list, just a glimpse at the week in passing.
So here’s this week’s batch, including:
- Programmers’ view on the design of the human brain
- “Daily Me” saved by [...]

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