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As announced at the end of March, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories has upgraded the Opportunity rover (already stationed on Mars) with artificial intelligence firmware, code-named AEGIS.

Jason Silva, h+ magazine contributor, transhumanist enthusiast, and CurrentTV show host has posted what he calls a "Concept Teaser" on Vimeo for a film he’d like to make titled TURNING INTO GODS.

A few weeks ago, Mark Bernardin at io9 asked: “Why doesn’t Syfy or AMC or HBO roll the dice and make a Starship Troopers miniseries, one with all the production value and attention to detail of The Pacific or Battlestar Galactica?”

Abundance is a condition where everyone has enough to eat, a decent place to live, a steady income, good medical care, a good education, a safe neighborhood, a clean environment, and a secure retirement.

Researchers get Brain-Like Computing on Organic Molecular Material: "An international research team from Japan and Michigan Technological University has created a similar process of circuit evolution in an organic molecular layer that can solve complex problems."

“I think it very likely — in fact inevitable — that biological intelligence is only a transitory phenomenon, a fleeting phase in the evolution of the universe,” writes Paul Davies a British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, and SETI scientist at Arizona State University.

Wouldn’t it be nice if your digital watch or cellphone quickly charged, without a battery to replace? How about solar panels with built-in energy storage?

Pathogens like the pandemic H1N1 flu virus can now be as easily tracked as the weather using Supramap, a new web application that maps genetic mutations onto a virtual globe such as Google Earth or NASA World Wind.

Nicknamed "Sound Bullets," researchers at Caltech are developing a way of using an "acoustic lens" that can be used like a scalpel "to revolutionize applications from medical imaging and therapy to the nondestructive evaluation of materials and engineering systems."

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