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If you’re going to go, you might as well go big, right? In a confirmation for the ages , Dell spokesperson Andrew Bowins has clearly stated that the company is “developing mobile devices for China Mobile,” giving the Round Rock powerhouse access to the biggest mobile subscriber base on the entire planet.

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IBM is already making a beeline to 28nm process technology , but it looks like the train may deviate a bit before it even reaches the bottom. Reportedly, the company responsible for PowerPC, the original business laptop and all sorts of underground things that we’ll never comprehend is now looking to use DNA as a model for crafting the world’s next great processor . DNA origami, as it’s so tactfully called, can supposedly provide a cheap framework “on which to build tiny microchips,” with IBM research manager Spike Narayan proclaiming that this is “the first demonstration of using biological molecules to help with processing in the semiconductor industry.” Sir Spike also noted that “if the DNA origami process scales to production-level, manufacturers could trade hundreds of millions of dollars in complex tools for less than a million dollars of polymers, DNA solutions, and heating implements.” The actual process still seems murky from here, but we’re told to expect real results within ten years

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Are you ready for this? Can you stomach the truth

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We take a break from reporting on the impending doom of the human race to bring you news of the latest innovation designed specifically for making our pre-apocalypse lives miserable.

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Perhaps our Future Robot Overlords[TM] aren’t planning on decimating the human population after they take over — they might have a good reason to retain a handful of bipedal hominidae . Who knows, really? But we’re betting that if they do, the lucky slave population is going to want to hear some bed-time stories from time to time

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Robots won’t be able to wrest control of the planet from us silly humans until they learn how to collaborate. Sure, they can mow the lawn or mix a drink , but only when you give ‘em explicit instructions. Luckily for our future robot overlords, The EU’s JAST project is studying the ways that humans work together, in the hope that it can someday teach robots to anticipate the actions and intentions of a human partner.

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H+ , our favorite transhumanist magazine, has just published a chat with Peter Asaro, the author of a paper titled “How Just Could a Robot War Be?” In this interview (co-authored by our old friend R.U.

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Get all of your geocache games in while you can, kids… if the Worst Case Scenario(R) goes down, the nation’s GPS system could begin to fail sometime next year

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