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 the Wetware content will start floating again.

Enjoy.

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 “Daily Us”
– 10mb transmission speed through human body
– The use of neuroscience in marketing
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