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Alex Muller
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New Study Shows Gene Therapy For HIV Safe After A Decade
A clinical trial testing a gene therapy for HIV patients is now 11 years old. Recently, the researchers running the study published an examination of...
Google Search Gets Smarter With Knowledge Graph
This week Google is rolling out a new search tool: the Knowledge Graph. Breaking with the old strategy of keywords and webpages, Knowledge Graph makes...
The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and Were Dancing on its Grave
To help make sense of the Facebook IPO, we caught up with Steve Blank, a professor at Berkeley and Stanford and serial entrepreneur from Silicon...
Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death, Study Suggests
Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee, according...
The Dalai Lama has given his blessing to Itskovs immortality project
Apparently and a bit oddly the immortality project to transplant people’s brains into robots has received the blessing and support from the Dalai Lama. Dmitry...
Facebook shares see modest debut
Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company’s initial pricing of $38. Shares in the social network rose...
SpaceX Dragon ship aborts launch
The company was forced to abort the flight just as its Falcon rocket was about to leave the pad at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force...
General Fusion targets prototype by 2015 and a working reactor by 2020
Canadian Manufacturing has an article covering General Fusion. General Fusion is creating a prototype and subsystems at full scale. They have made a full scale...
Google patent application could give Project Glass one true ring controller to rule them all
Let’s face it: right now, the head nods and other rudimentary controls of Google’s Project Glass are mostly useful for looking good, sharing photos and...
300 GHz Chips Are Now Possible: Samsung Shows the Graphene Barristor
Samsung’s greatest R&D division, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology has reportedly published and detailed research on the Barristor in the journal Science on the...