Monday, January 22, 2007

Google plots e-books coup. Google is working on a system that would allow readers to download entire books to their computers in a format that they could read on screen or mobile devices.  Sony recently launched its Reader, a digital book device with an online book store sto... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 9:07:08 AM      Google It!.

How brain protein turns toxic in Alzheimer's disease. The long-suspected link between Alzheimer's disease and abnormalities in the way amyloid protein is processed in the brain has been confirmed. ... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 9:05:16 AM      Google It!.

Neural 'extension cord' developed for brain implants. A "data cable" made from stretched nerve cells could someday help connect computers to the human nervous system. The modified cells should form better connections with human tissue than the metal electrodes currently used for purposes such as remotel... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 9:04:16 AM      Google It!.

'Yahoo research uses artificial intelligence everywhere'. AI is being used in every part of Yahoo's research, especially since they collect over 12 terabytes of data everyday, according to Ronald J Brachman, vice-president of Worldwide Research Operations.... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 9:03:17 AM      Google It!.

Something in Your Food is Moving. [Probiotics] Dekortage writes "The New York Times has a report on probiotic food: food that has live bacteria in it. From the article: "[for Dannon's] Activia, a line of yogurt with special live bacteria that are marketed as aiding regularity, sales in United States stores have soared well past the $100 million mark.... Probiotics in food are part of a larger trend toward 'functional foods,' which stress their ability to deliver benefits that have traditionally been the realm of medicine or dietary supplements.""[Slashdot] --Medications or health supplements can be delivered from scientifically engineered bacteria their added to products like  yogurt.   The primary advantage is that would these bacteria would continue producing health benefits for a considerable period of time.   Any event that a mistake is made the process could be reset by taking a suitable  antibotics that   kill off the flora at in the intestine.   Given the advances in biology  with gene splicing and DNA sequencing this probiotic technology  has to potential to be entirely disruptive to the pharmaceutical industry. --BL 8:30:34 AM      Google It!.

Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for January 21, 2007. Here's the Cognitive Daily weekly podcast for January 21. Don't forget that you can subscribe to the podcast using the special RSS feed: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/rss-podcasts.xml To subscribe using iTunes, select Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu, then paste or type in the URL. To access the podcast directly, click on the links below: Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for January 21, 2007 (AAC version) Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for January 21, 2007 (MP3 version) Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... By Dave Munger. [Cognitive Daily's Weekly Podcast] 8:14:53 AM      Google It!.