stories on progress « the Kurzweil Library

stories on progress « the Kurzweil Library

OpenBCI DIY EEG brain-computer-interface Kickstarter ends Jan. 22 [update: $215,438 raised from 947 backers]

Carbon-nanotube sponge shows improved water clean-up

A scaffold that enables gene silencing to heal wounds

Marvin Minsky honored for lifetime achievements in artificial intelligence

Tiny swimming ‘biobots’ propelled by heart cells or magnetic fields

Cosmic web imaged for the first time

How Internet surveillance predicts disease outbreak before WHO

Creating your own disease surveillance maps

3D counterpart to graphene discovered [UPDATE]

Promises faster transistors and more compact hard drives

A smart-object recognition algorithm that doesn’t need humans

Skynet alert

The brain can process images seen for just 13 milliseconds

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