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Jeffrey Citron, chairman and CEO of Vonage Long, excellent interview with the CEO of Skype. The cable VoIP providers are “pricing perfectly to match their anticipated market share and maximize their profits.”
Strand Beest Insane wind-powered robots created through genetic algorithms and breeding.
Google Translator: The Universal Language The Google translator “learns” languages by comparing identical documents in different language. This is brute force AI without any consideration of the underlying grammar. It is supposed to work well.
The Law of Accelerating Returns In The Law of Accelerating Returns, Ray Kurzweil argues that exponentially improving technologies will yield an upcoming Singularity, “a technological change so rapid and so profound that it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history.”
Pixel Group This is probably the single greatest thing I have ever seen in my life. Collaboratively draw a picture with other people on the net. Every step is being captured to make a movie
The Guns N’ Roses Self-Similar Midi Synth Take a song and speed it up so it lasts only as long as a note. Then use that note as a sample to replay the original song. Repeat and you have fractal music. Sounds like hell.
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