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The Cut-Price $6M Man: Scientists Say They can Recreate Him... for Just £150,000
 Daily Mail UK
Thirty-five years ago TV writers thought it would cost $6 million to create a bionic man. That's around £3.7 million. However, these days scientists claim they could knock a real one together for about £150,000.
Augmented Reality Soon to Change Our View of the World
 Kevin Jess
Augmented reality is heading our way, and this new generation of software has the potential to change our lives and how we view the world around us.
Japan Wants to Power 300,000 Homes With Wireless Energy From Space
 PopSci
Japan has serious plans to send a solar-panel-equipped satellite into space that could wirelessly beam a gigawatt-strong stream of power down to earth and power nearly 300,000 homes.
Mexico: Houses Put to Flood and Hurricane Test
 Verónica Díaz Favela
Federico Martínez was born in a land of hurricanes. As a young boy in Mexico he saw the wind uproot trees and roll wooden houses "as if they were shoe boxes." As an adult, he developed a house that can withstand winds up to 300 kilometres per hour and floods three metres deep.
US, Mexico to Improve Border Police Communication
 Associated Press
Mexico and the U.S. are creating a trans-border communications network that will help police on both sides fight crime and violence.
All in the Mind: The 'Telepathy' Chip that Lets You Turn on the TV Using the Power of Thought
 Daily Mail
A ‘telepathy’ chip that allows people to control computers, televisions and light switches by the power of thought is being developed by British scientists.
DHS: Expect Your Computer to be Seized Without Suspicion
 Scott M. Fulton, III
In what was presented to the public this week as a clarification of its privacy policy, the US Dept. of Homeland Security published a paper referring to new guidelines for its immigration and customs agents regarding how they may conduct border searches of travelers' computers and electronic media.
Mexico: Biological Remedy for Sickened Soil
 Emilio Godoy
Mexico is beginning to take on the environmental debts left by the oil industry, applying biological techniques to break down alcohols, solvents, glycerines, gasoline, benzene and acetone, turning them into carbon dioxide and water.
Netbooks Are Becoming Hot Commodities among Mexico Small & Medium Businesse
 AMI-Partners
According to AMI-Partners’ latest Q-Pulse Quarterly Tracking Study, Mexico small (1-99 employees) and medium (100-999 employees) businesses (SMBs) plan to buy close to half a million netbooks in the next 3 months.
An Intelligent System Avoids Forgetting Things
 FECYT
A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has created a system with Artificial Intelligence techniques which notifies elderly people or people with special needs of the forgetting of certain everyday tasks.
Microsoft Apologizes for Race-Swap Photo Incident
 Ina Fried
Microsoft apologized Tuesday for using photo editing techniques to change the race of a person depicted on the company's Web site.
 Texting While Driving Doesn't Mix
 ns-knt.com
Now this is an effective public service announcement and it certainly went on for a long time. But will people actually get the message? Pun intended.
Editors' Review: Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium)
 Seth Rosenblatt
As buggy and irritating as Vista was, Windows 7 isn't. Instead, it's the successor to Windows XP that Microsoft wishes Vista had been, and finally places it on competitive footing with other major operating systems like OS X and Linux.
The Villa Group Attracts 500 Facebook Fans & Growing Daily in New Social Media Venture
 PR.com
After just starting its social media campaign in May 2009, The Villa Group’s “digital footprint” has built an audience of over 500 fans on its Facebook Fan Page and growing every day.
New Army Camera Promises Super-Wide Surveillance
 David Hambling
The ability to provide real-time surveillance of large areas may be getting closer, as the Army launches a quest for a 2.3 gigapixel camera that could be packaged aboard a drone or a manned aircraft. The new device would be smaller and lighter than previous systems – and it would work in the infrared range too.
Future Tourism May Include Robot Sex
 AAP
It sounds like science fiction, but robot bar staff, hotel rooms that change colour, cruise ships as big as aircraft carriers and even robot sex are part of the future for travellers, a tourism conference has been told.
iTunes' Mexico Launch Could Shake Up Digital Market
 Ayala Ben-Yehuda
An expected surge in smart-phone sales could bode well for the iTunes music store's belated entry into Latin America. And that, industry observers hope, could help jump-start the region's mobile-centric digital music market.
Scientists Fear a Revolt by Killer Robots
 John Arlidge
Advances in artificial intelligence promise many benefits, but scientists are privately so worried they may be creating machines which end up outsmarting — and perhaps even endangering — humans that they held a secret meeting to discuss limiting their research.
Now on YouTube, Local News
 Brian Stelter
With its ability to collect articles and sell advertisements against them, Google has already become a huge force in the news business — and the scourge of many newspapers. Now its subsidiary YouTube wants to do the same thing to local television.
Buzz Aldrin Reveals Existence of Monolith on Mars Moon
 YouTube
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin spoke about the future of space exploration and said the public would be interested in a monolith on Phobos, one of the two small moons that revolve around Mars.
NexGen AI -A Threat to Human Civilization?
 Casey Kazan
What could a criminal do with a speech synthesis system that could masquerade as a human being? What happens if artificial intelligence technology is used to mine personal information from smartphones?
Streaming Services Soothe Music Industry
 Brad Stone
After a decade of rampant digital piracy that has helped to gut album sales, a raft of new streaming music sites is making the experience of legally finding and listening to music just as seductive as downloading it free.
Yes, Cell Phones & Driving Don't Mix
 Dale McFeatters
None of this will come as news to anyone who has been nearly run down in a pedestrian crosswalk by a driver happily prattling away on a cell phone. But the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, apparently bullied by Congress, felt that the actual proof of the dangers of distracted driving was too sensitive to share with the public.
Company Wants to Carve Ads On the Moon
 Popsci
Last week, a fly-by of the moon showed impressions remaining on the surface from the Apollo 11 landing. That was 40 years ago, and those impressions linger on undisturbed. It's that longevity that one company wants to exploit, carving messages into the surface in the moon for the purpose of selling ad space.
Moon Potential Goldmine Of Natural Resources
 AFP
As the Earth’s natural resources gradually dwindle, some scientists believe the moon could prove a goldmine for future generations
Israeli Study Sees Link Between Oral Cancer, Cell Phones
 Dan Even
A recent study documents a sharp rise in the incidence of salivary gland cancer in Israel that researchers believe may be linked to the use of mobile phones
How Did I Get Here?
 Alan Burkhart
How did I get here? That has to be the question Staten Island teen Alexa Longueira was asking when she suddenly found herself down a New York City manhole. Seems the young lady was too busy texting to pay attention to where she was going.
Bill Gates Sets His Sights On Controlling the Weather
 Popular Science
Microsoft's chairman is part of a joint patent filing for using fleets of vessels to stop hurricanes via geoengineering.
Google Challenges Microsoft
 Kelvin Soh
Low-cost netbooks could provide the fertile ground Google Inc needs to make its free PC operating system a success as it prepares to take on Microsoft Corp's dominant Windows juggernaut.
U.S. Government Web Sites Attacked
 Lolita C. Baldor
A widespread computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of the Treasury Department, the Secret Service and other U.S. government agencies, according to officials inside and outside the government.
Techies Crack Social Security Code
 Randolph E. Schmid
For all the concern about identity theft, researchers say there's a surprisingly easy way for the technology-savvy to figure out the precious nine digits of Americans' Social Security numbers.
US Virtual Fence Gets a 'Do Over'
 William Booth & Travis Fox
After years of frustration, controversy and delay - and some maddening technological glitches - the first link in the federal government’s new $6.7 billion “virtual fence” is being erected along the border.
Ask the Consul about US Visas Webcast
 elbajio.usvpp.gov
On Wednesday, July 8th 2009 from 1:30-2:30 pm, (Central Time Zone) Virtual Presence Post Principal Officer for Chiapas and Tabasco, Juan Domenech-Clar, and Virtual Presence Post Principal Officer for El Bajio, Bill Nelson, will be answering US Visa questions in a live webcast.
Big Brother is Watching: The Technologies that Keep Track of You
 Claudine Beaumont
CCTV, RFID tags and GPS-enabled phones are among the technologies that can be used to keep track of your movements.
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