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.

Nature has a piece on a computer program that reconstructs the patterns of extinct butterfly’s wings by comparing the patterns on related living species.
Ancient wings unfurled

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Internet.com has a piece on how Smart Dust is going mainstream.
Smart Dust Collecting in the Enterprise

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Yahoo reported on a rubber catfish, a laser controlled dragonfly and an erratic bumblebee used as spy gadgets by CIA’s gadget master. I wonder if “M” will allow this?
CIA Used Dragonfly, Catfish as Spy Gadget Models

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In a series about technologies that influential people would like to see, John Perry Barlow told NY times he wanted a brain implant:
Dump the Doodads, and Retrofit the Brain

…and so did Donald Trump…
Your Wish Is My Command

…while William Gibson wants his computer to tell lies (that is to be able to tell him what’s lies).
Lies Exposed in Telltale Colors

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This Technology Review piece told of a research where a simulated stock market revealed some interesting behavioral patterns in traders’ strategies.
Web Game Reveals Market Sense

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BBC News reported on the results of this year’s Loebner Prize, awarded for the chat bot that comes closest to passing the Turing test.
German chatty bot is ‘most human’

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Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends, has this “slightly” weird story. Say no more:
Turn Your Head Into Speakers