Telegraph | Money | Google challenges EU plan to regulate the internet

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:33 PM EST (Telegraph)

Europeans want to extend TV regulations to internet videos. Google (which readily complied with Chinese censorship) is fighting this move.

google, technology, europe, internet, regulation

Covert Crawler Descends on Web

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:56 AM EST (Wired News)

An engineer unveils a web-crawling application that behaves like a person, rather than a computer program. This crawler has a page scoring system (similar to Google's PageRank) and is publicly available in open-source code.

technology, search, web, ai

Technology as Evolution: Interview with Ray Kurzweil

Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:37 AM EST

NPR's Science Friday has a very interesting interview with inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, where he discusses how technology is a necessary step in continuing evolution's exponential growth.The interview can be downloaded in MP3 format here.From the Science Friday website:"T

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technology, evolution, future, ai

The Web as artificial intelligence

Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:31 AM EST

Wired Magazine published a forward-looking article discussing the development of the World Wide Web as the ultimate form of artificial intelligence that will envelop our planet in the near future.

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technology, future, ai

Open-Source Biology

Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:24 AM EST

"In an era when organisms can be constructed from DNA and the enthusiastic Do-It-Yourself-er can buy, on eBay, equipment to change an organism's genetic structure, we face some difficult questions."Biologist Drew Endy describes three major issues: how to develop biological system

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science, biology, opensource