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September 10, 2008
On The Verge Of Artificial Life
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on September 10, 2008 at 1:50:41 PM
If you are one of those people that gets scared about artificial life (meaning that humanity creates a new biological organism), you might want to start counting your days. Science is really close to producing the first chemical compound to artificial life jump. This is big.
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Protocellular work is even more radical than the other field trying to create artifical life: synthetic biology. Even J. Craig Venter's work to build an artificial bacterium with the smallest number of genes necessary to live takes current life forms as a template. Protocell researchers are trying to design a completely novel form of life that humans have never seen and that may never have existed.
Over the summer, Szostak's team published major papers in the journals Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that go a long way towards showing that this isn't just an idea and that his lab will be the first to create artificial life -- and that it will happen soon.
February 27, 2007
Voice Chat Coming To Second Life
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 27, 2007 at 2:23:03 PM
So, when fake life gets features that the real world had forever... Still more and more people are joining fake life. Get a real life.
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Until now, Second Life users wanting to communicate with each other have had two basic choices: text chat--either personal or in a group setting--or employing a third-party voice application like Skype. But starting March 6, a limited number of users will be able to try out the new integrated voice chat, either in group mode--in which anyone with the feature enabled will be able to hear voice conversations in their immediate proximity--personal voice chat, or group voice chat.
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