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"What happens when every wireless user has an iPhone, a Palm Pre, or a BlackBerry Tour?" Speaking at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment in San Diego today, FCC head Julius Genachowski has said that he wants to "close the spectrum gap" -- the difference between the spectrum it's making available for wireless data versus enormous usage projections (400 petabytes a month by 2013, he says) that'll be brought about by smarter, easier-to-use devices and ubiquitous high-speed data through a handful of initiatives including the promotion of the smart use of existing spectrum through the use of femotcells, WiFi, and smart antennas, and -- more importantly -- reallocation of existing spectrum. Genachowski says there are "no easy pickings" for reallocation, but the Commission is aggressively pursuing additional airspace that can help keep 4G rollouts on track. He's gone on to say that they'll be adopting the widely-discussed "shot clock" policy for placement of new towers, giving locales a limited window to protest placement of cell sites that'll help spread 4G services over wider footprints. The guy seems genuinely concerned about keeping 4G rollouts rolling, so let's see just how far the guys in Washington are willing to go to do that.
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Posted by on under unaffected children, autm, brainwaves, infancy, autism, spectrum, brain |
Researchers believe they have discovered a potential way of spotting autism in early infancy by scanning the brainwaves...They've discovered that children with autism spectrum disorders recognize sound a fraction of a second slower (11 milliseconds) than unaffected children, making detection possible through scans...
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Posted by on under fragile x syndrome, th link, even adults, family investment, animal models, startup company, mutatis, fragile x, milli, autism, compounds, spokesman, spectrum, cambridge ma, drugs, institutes of health |
An anonymous reader sends in this link from Technology Review about a startup company testing drugs that may help those with autism-spectrum disorders — even adults. "Seaside Therapeutics, a startup based in Cambridge, MA, is testing two compounds for the treatment of fragile X syndrome, a rare, inherited form of intellectual disability linked to autism. The treatments have emerged from molecular studies of animal models that mirror the genetic mutations seen in humans. Researchers hope that the drugs, which are designed to correct abnormalities at the connections between neurons, will ultimately prove effective in other forms of autism spectrum disorders. ... The company is funded almost entirely by an undisclosed family investment of $60 million, with $6 million from the National Institutes of Health. [A spokesman] says that Seaside has enough funding to take its compounds through clinical testing and approval."
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Posted by on under mathematician alan turing, mike davey, gadgets uk, turing machine, thought experiment, thing of beauty, moti, homebrew, muffins, lego, genius, spectrum |
Mike Davey, a maker from Wisconsin, built a classic Turing Machine with a 1000 foot instruction tape that holds up to 10k. Though Turing's machine was just a thought experiment, the paper in which it is described has enough detail to create it in real life. The machining is absolutely lovely, and when it's in motion, it's a thing of beauty. A Turing Machine (Mike Davey) DIY Turing Machine (IEEE Spectrum)) (Thanks, Erico!) Previously:Turing Machine muffins Turing machine built with Lego Gadgets Will Turing Machines be illegal? LEGO Turing machine crunches the numbers Gadgets UK: Treatment of (gay) genius mathematician Alan Turing Teaching Turing: instructional tool for teaching ......
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Posted by on under humanlike robots, beautiful slide, uncanny valley, digg, mannequins, homage, slide show, assortment, freaky, imagery, spectrum |
Are you creeped out by humanlike robots? Many people say they find such imagery eerie, creepy, scary, freaky, frightening. To pay homage to the vast assortment of anthropomorphic automatons, lifelike mannequins, and CGI humans out there, Spectrum prepared a, dare we say it, beautiful slide show.
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