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.

BBC News told us about the gigantic amount of information flowing around the world. Some 800MB of information is produced per annum for every single human on the planet.
World drowning in oceans of data

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New Scientist had a piece on smart robots that avoid collisions with objects, such as near-by humans.
Smart software helps robots dodge collisions

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Yahoo News, reported that the National Research Council (“the” meaning USA, as it so often does), is urging scientists to explore the depths of the oceans, as they may conceal “Undiscovered foods, useful chemicals and drugs, and potential sources of energy”.
Report Urges Major New Study of Oceans

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Wired pointed out that the DNA sequences for man, mouse and other species are available for download from an open database. The keepers hope this will lead to faster discoveries of what the GATTACCA is all about.
DNA That’s Yours for the Taking

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Nature Science Update informed us of a meeting called “Digital Biology: the Emerging Paradigm” (http://www.capconcorp.com/digitalbiology/), where biologists and techies are meeting to discuss how they can best work together especially on new methods of biology research.
Biology gets digital in Maryland

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On the funnier side, The Register discussed the Miss Digital World contest, where the world’s most beautiful avatar will be selected.
Lara Croft to hit the catwalk

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Australian IT, reported on plans to connect China and Japan with a fiber optic network that has built-in automatic translation, meaning that what goes in at one end in Japanese comes out the other in Chinese.
Japan, China test fibre translation

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Yahoo News posted a reminder that the newest battle in the war against the machines is coming up. Kasparov meets Deep Blue’s grand-child X3D Fritz in just over a week.
Chess Great Kasparov Faces NY Virtual Realty Test

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And MIT’s Rodney Brooks wrote in Technology Review about a direct Google-Brain Interface. Search like you’ve never felt it before.
This Is Your Brain….This Is Your Brain on the Internet