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To all my friends here on the pub, I'd like to share this site that I get daily e-mails from:

KurzweilAI.net

Basically it is daily updates of the best science and technology news..Here is today's update...

KURZWEILAI.NET NEWSLETTER

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F.C.C. to Open Radio Spectrum
New York Times Nov. 4, 2008
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The FCC has approved unlicensed
wireless devices that operate in the
empty "white space" between TV
channels, opening up the possibility
of low-cost, high-speed Internet
access and new wireless devices,
such as mobile broadband access in
rural locations....
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/news...D=9662&m=16952



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The Healthy Skinny Pill
Technology Review Nov. 4, 2008
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Sirtris Pharmaceuticals has
developed a new compound, SRT1720,
that blocks weight gain,
obesity-related disorders, and
insulin resistance in mice; it also
increases muscle stamina and
improves cholesterol....
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/news...D=9661&m=16952



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Cheap, Self-Assembling Optics
Technology Review Nov. 5, 2008
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University of California, Berkeley
researchers have created nanoscale
silver particles that can
self-assemble in solution cheaply
and on a large scale into various
optical devices, including
metamaterials, color-changing paints
and cloaking materials, components
for optical computers, and
ultrasensitive chemical...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/news...D=9660&m=16952



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Has new physics been found at the
ageing Tevatron?
NewScientistSpace Nov. 3, 2008
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New unexplained particles created
at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
could be a signature of theortical
dark matter, some physicists are
speculating....
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/news...D=9659&m=16952



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How the CNN Holographic Interview
System Works
Gizmodo Nov. 4, 2008
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CNN's "holographic" election
coverage uses 35 HD cameras pointed
at different angles at the remote
subject in a ring. Computers in the
CNN studio then merge the video
feeds into a composite image that
simulates a Star-Wars-style
hologram. Also see: Election-night
news to co-star latest technology...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/news...D=9658&m=16952