Don’t speak. Princeton researchers know just what you’re saying — kind of. Alright, so the Ivy league team of neuroscientists, led by Prof. Matthew Botvinick, can’t yet read your minds without the help of a functional MRI , but one day the group hopes to take your silent pauses and broadcast them for public consumption. By mapping highlighted areas of brain activity to words meditated upon by subjects, the group was able to create “semantic threads” based on “emotions, plans or socially oriented thoughts” associated with select neural activity. So, what good’ll these high-brow word association experiments do for us? For one, it could pave the way for automatic translation machines, extending a silicon-assisted grok into our nonverbal inner worlds that churns out computer-generated chatter; giving a voice to those incapable of speech. And if it’s used for bad? More terrifically horrific psychobabble poetry penned by Jewel’s unencumbered mind. Actually, wait. We might be into that. Princeton neuroscientists map your brain, play words with subjects originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Doom may run on just about everything these days, but one place it hasn’t been very accessible during the past 17 years — regardless of the device — is in Germany. That finally changed this week, however, with both Doom and Doom 2 receiving a USK-16 rating that allows them to be made available wherever video games are sold. Both games had previously been “indexed” by the country’s Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons, which has effectively confined them to the underground market since their debut. According to the BBC , the ban was lifted because the agency now considers Doom to be “mainly of historical interest,” although it notes that Germany is maintaining the ban on one particular version of Doom II that contains levels from Wolfenstein with Nazi imagery. As for Doom publisher Bethesda Softworks, it tells Joystiq that it’s “obviously very pleased” with the decision, and that it will let folks know when it plans to actually makes the game available in Germany. Doom now approved for sale in Germany, 17 years later originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Tuscaloosa Forward Alabama Football Promo All Access West Alabama vs. South Alabama Tuscaloosa Forward Alabama Football Promo mwooten11 says: Dear TCU, tune in to Alabama football this season and learn how to play defense. #rolltide
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An Indiana man forced his young grandsons for miles along a sun-baked Grand Canyon hiking trail and denied them water and food, saying later he wanted to toughen them up, according to authorities. (Sept. 2)
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Human Physiology : How Much of the Brain Do Humans Use? mocctv says: How much of the brain do humans use ? http://t.co/30mMlKG via @ AskDotCom
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Yeti the dog already had a litter of pups to care for when the piglets adopted her as a second mom. Ever since the Cuban farm dog has been pulling double-duty nursing not just her own young but also the 14 swine. (Sept. 2)
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That Maria Sharapova’s shaky serving contributed to her early exit at the US Open _ to the tune of a dozen double-faults _ came as no surprise. She’s faced that problem for quite some time. (Sept. 2)
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