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"Google will be one node on a vast social web" When Chris Messina joined Google in January, just as he turned 29, many were surprised. Why would a guy who'd been so successful in pushing forward the concept of an open and social web give up his independent voice and work for "The Man", as he himself put it? After all, he co-founded BarCamp, helped run the Spread Firefox campaign, proposed the Twitter hashtag, advocated the use of microformats and OAuth and is still a board member of the OpenID and Open Web foundations. Why did he need Google? evans - Plus Size Clothing We have set your delivery country to Canada and your language to English | Change country Close X Welcome to Evans.co.uk Fastest Integrated Circuit Doubles the Previous Record, Getting Following up on a 2007 world record for the fastest transistor speed, Northrop Grumman announced today that it has shattered the world record for integrated circuit performance. The new circuit layout operates at 0.67 terahertz, or 0.67 trillion cycles per second, more than doubling the frequency of the fastest known IC in the world. Northrop Grumman's Terahertz Monolithic Integrated Circuit (TMIC) was developed as part of DARPA's Terahertz Electronics program, which aims to introduce the next generation of high-performance electronics that push performance levels above the 1 terahertz center frequency range. Such electronics should lead to better communications technologies, sub-millimeter wave sensors, and terahertz imaging systems that blow current technologies out of the water. Obviously, 0.67 terahertz doesn't quite reach DARPA's goals, which as always are quite ambitious.

DARPA's "Prophecy" Wants to Predict Virus Evolution to Make Drug Biz Proactive DARPA's issued a new "funding opportunity" dubbed Prophecy--it's a program to investigate how virus evolution may be predicted, notionally to improve the way the drug business tackles health threats. But it's DARPA, so there're military issues in the mix too. In the introductory text for its new Prophecy grants program, DARPA notes that "a large number of emerging pathogens impacting human and animal health are viruses," rather than bacterial infections or poisons, and hence Prophecy's task is to stimulate technologies "that predict natural viral evolution" by providing money that advances the science.

New Class of Smart "Piezotronic" Materials Could Create Self-Powering Micro-Bots Piezoelectric materials have long been used to turn kinetic energy into electrical energy, but a clever application by Georgia Tech researchers is making those materials much smarter. By adding a gate to piezoelectric circuits, researchers have turned a mechanical action directly into a logic operation for the first time. This approach could turn conventional "dumb" circuits into computational circuitry that might run smaller micro-robots to harvest power as they perform their functions. Piezoelectric materials generate a very tiny charge when placed under stresses like twisting or bending.

Seven Creepy Faux Pas of Google CEO Eric Schmidt In the last few months Eric Schmidt, the gaffe-prone CEO of Google, has made public statements that make us question whether the company's slogan still is "Don't be evil." In interview after interview, Schmidt has made tactless comments on especially sensitive and controversial topics such as online privacy and net neutrality. As CEO, one of Schmidt's largest roles is to act as a spokesperson for the company, but that ironically seems to be his Achilles' heel.

How a Physically Aware Internet will Change the World Pete Hartwell is a Distinguished Technologist in HP’s Quantum Structures Research Laboratories. You can learn more on HP’s Data Central Blog as well as on the HP YouTube channel. If you think about it, the first “Internet” looked nothing like it does today. In fact, it was created as a specialized network architecture for the purposes of national defense and security. Future Shock at 40: The Tofflers Stir Up "Cyberdust" With New Scenarios Carlos Slim Helú--the world's richest man--Steve Case, and seemingly half the military-industrial complex are gathering at a private club in Washington D.C. this morning to honor the husband-and-wife futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler on the 40th anniversary of their first and most influential book, Future Shock. Published under Alvin's name in 1970, Future Shock added "information overload" and "prosumer" to the lexicon, along with its title--which refers to the culture shock that results when the culture that's changing so fast it feels foreign is your own. Today's invitation-only event is essentially a retirement party for the pair, structured as an opportunity to reflect on their track record. And, as part of the proceedings, Future Shock is revisited--and spun forward. Many of the new Tofflerian predictions are merely predictable: China will rise; cities will grow; Social Security will cease to exist, and Iran's leaders will remain irrational.

Hydrogen Highway Is One Station Closer to Reality A SunHydro hydrogen fueling station has opened in the parking lot of Proton Energy Systems in Wallingford, CT, the first in a network of hydrogen stations that SunHydro’s founder hopes will eventually line the East Coast. Back in January, we first told you about SunHydro’s ambitious plans to open enough solar-powered hydrogen refueling stations to create a “hydrogen highway” from Maine to Miami. Now, the first station is open and refueling a fleet of test cars from Toyota (shown above). Eventually, it will serve local fleets and public transportation systems in New Haven and Hartford.

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