US computer giant IBM has announced that it has developed prototypes of computer chips that mimic the way the human brain works.
The New York-based company known as Big Blue said on Thursday the experimental cognitive computing chips
could eventually lead to machines that emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition
.
These chips are another significant step in the evolution of computers from calculators to learning systems, signalling the beginning of a new generation of computers,
said Dharmendra Modha, project leader for IBM Research.
Future applications of computing will increasingly demand functionality that is not efficiently delivered by the traditional architecture,
Mr Modha said.
Why pay Apple $69.99 when you can build your own Lion install drive for the App Store purchase price of $29.99 — plus the cost of an inexpensive thumb drive. Here’s how to create a full install on a drive, not just the recovery disk that we recently posted about — via TUAW
Lion’s recovery partition is a wonderful idea, but doesn’t really help out if your hard drive fails. That’s why yesterday’s announcement of the Recovery Disk Assistant from Apple was welcome news to a lot of people who were trying to figure out how they could easily create a recovery disk on external media. Here’s how you can do make your own recovery disk using the assistant — via TUAW
Designer Fernanda Marques‘ core idea involved tying together a classic country villa with the rigorous Modernism of masters like Mies van der Rohe, weaving a series of boxy rectangular forms into their environment on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil — via Dornob
Faith, however, puts you outside the realm of intellectual honesty. Don’t think, it demands; the ancients have already done that for you. This freedom to believe without thinking allows for the continuation of otherwise unjustifiable prejudices into adulthood and makes it possible for svelte Christian honeys like Rebecca Hagelin to jetset around giving off spleen about the lives of others.
The Australian Family Association, a Christian lobby group, booked The Great Hall in Parliament House on Monday and had Rebecca, an author of Christian self-help books, fly in from whatever part of the States they are still free to revile queers.
She spoke of same-sex marriage, and to hear her on the radio name-checking Sodom and Gomorrah made me stop in my tracks. She said there was no greater evil
than the forces who proposed to legalise gay marriage and that we were in a war for the future of the human race
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
I used to cover my schoolbooks in brown paper bags, and then throughout the course of the year, I would draw and put stickers all over them. They looked cool, but decidedly messy, with all those incongruous stickers living on a single surface.
So I think this art installation, The Salon at Sundown, is interesting. Brian Kaspr and Payton Turner took stickers of all kinds and grouped them together to make wallpaper patterns. They look orderly and neat from far away, and up close, it’s fun to check out the variety of stickers — via CRAFT
Three healthy Pallas’ Cat kittens (two males and one female) were born on 8 June 2011 at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden following a laparoscopic oviductal artificial insemination (AI) procedure conducted by scientists from the Cincinnati Zoo’s Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW). This pregnancy and birth are the first ever in Pallas’ Cats from artificial insemination — via ZooBorns
This is a watch honouring Anders Celsius, the inventor of the modern temperature measurement scale. Though, this is not the first time BALL has incorporated a mechanical thermometer into one of its watches — the mechanical thermometer module can also be found on BALL’s Engineer Master Diver II TMT watch. The mechanical thermometer module (TMT
) was developed and patented by BALL, and is able to measure the outside temperature between -35°C and 45°C with an accuracy of 97%; the thermometer readings are given in the half-moon shaped window at six o’clock on the dial. As a final homage to the inventor of the modern temperature scale, the caseback bears the portrait of Anders Celsius — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog
Fine art print on bright white, matte, ultra smooth, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using an advanced digital dry ink method to ensure vibrant image quality — via Society6
Sometimes you just need to reboot or shut down right away-and we mean right away, with no waiting. Thankfully, If you need to reboot and you don’t feel like shutting down your apps one by one or waiting for Mac OS to walk you through them, press Ctrl+Cmd+Eject to reboot your Mac immediately, with no alerts or warning dialogs. If you need to shut down and run out the door, press Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+Eject to shut down immediately, also without alerts or warning dialogs. Be careful using these commands though: you won’t be prompted to save your work or review your open apps first.
You can also press Ctrl+Eject (or press the power button) to bring up the power management menu and select whether you want to reboot, shut down, sleep, or do nothing. Before you use any of these commands though, remember you can always press Cmd+Opt+Shift+Esc to force-quit the front-most application if that’s what’s making you want to reboot — via Lifehacker
Micheas Architects have designed the M-House in Mexico City, Mexico — via CONTEMPORIST
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has told the Gillard government to fix serious flaws
in its proposed Cybercrime Bill, which will force ISPs to collect real-time internet traffic data and make it available for police locally and internationally for up to 30 days.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland introduced the bill in June, saying the new laws would allow Australia to join a global treaty on fighting cybercrime.
More than 40 nations are signatories to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, which aims to fight fraud and other offences committed using the internet, such as computer hacking, child pornography and copyright infringement.
But Senator Ludlam said the proposed legislation goes well beyond the already controversial European convention on which it is based
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Orright, Matey, if this isn’t the quintessential Steampunk pirate necklace, I’ll eat my hat? Or for that matter, it would be perfect with Victorian sci-fi, grunge, industrial, post-apocalyptic or nihilistic genres — via Etsy
The C700 Grand Rapide Chronograph is made from a carbon fibre dial as used in the aerospace industry, the military and Formula 1, which is good if nothing groundbreaking — via Watchuseek Watch Blog
The neodymium magnets are super powerful and even though they are not attracted to the copper, they still produce eddy currents that buffer the fall as seen in the video. Lenz’s Law make a great experiment for kids to adult. Also, great at parties when conversation goes stale
If you’ve never heard of the Villa V4, it’s not surprising: this racing motorcycle never turned a wheel in anger. The lovely machine here is an immaculate replica of Francesco Villa’s planned 1969 GP racer — a bike that was killed overnight by an FIM edict limiting 250cc bikes to two cylinders. This example was built in 2008 by one of Villa’s former employees, and uses many original components. It’s going to be auctioned off by Bonhams at the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show in the UK on 16 October, and the estimate is — wait for it — $40,000 to $55,000 — via Bike EXIF
The Bridle Road House in Cape Town, South Africa by Chilean architect Antonio Zaninovic won an American Society of Landscape Architects Honour Award, for both the house and the landscaping. It is comfortably sited in big sky country at the base of Table Mountain.
Both suburban and sophisticated, the South African house rests easily at the intersection between the tamed and the wild — via Home Design Find
Montreal police announced an arrest has been made in the so-called Mabus
case of a man making death threats online.
The police have been inundated with complaints from around the world regarding the man, and made a public plea last week for people to stop sending complaints because an investigation is underway.
The threats often come from someone using the pseudonym David Mabus
, but he is widely believed to be Dennis Markuze, 36, a St-Laurent man. He also uses the screen name Hebert Marxuxe.
Police did not announce who they arrested and said no further details would be provided as the investigation is ongoing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The RSPCA and Animals Australia have released new footage they say shows the horrendous slaughter
of cattle in Turkey.
The latest video, screened at a press conference in Canberra this morning, came as two separate bids to end the live animal export trade failed to win the support of a single government or opposition MP — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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