Hive45 Singularity Podcast #16 2/3 - OMG Synthetic Life & Lasers
Channel: hive45com
Date: 2010-05-26

No biggie, the human species can just CREATE LIFE for this week ending the 23/05/10: Initiate the biotechnology revolution as the world's first synthetic organism is booted-up to life with DNA watermarks, the wonderous possibilities of the semantic web and discussions of data privacy, location apps pulling big money with epic potential for smart cities, Google I/O news very promising, and fricken mosquito-killing lasers! -- Welcome to the future, don't forget to bring your towel.

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Stories covered this week:
World's First Synthetic Self-Replicating Bacteria Created From Scratch, SingularityHub Explains The DNA Watermarking Behind Venter's Creation, Craig Venter Press Announcement Video, Reddit: I am one of the creators of the first "synthetic" bacterial cell. AMA, Walgreens Selling DNA Testing Kits, Web 3.0 Documentary by Kate Ray: The Semantic Web, Location Apps Continue to Attract the Big Bucks, Reddit: What do you think the up/down arrows mean?, Google I/O Developer Conference, Engadget Recap of Google I/O, Youtube Leanback, Sleeping Beauty Apparently About Rape, Mosquito Zapping Laser, Yep You Read That Correctly, Video of the LittleDog Robot, Amateur Astronomers Spot Super Secret X-37B Space Shuttle Replacement, Secret Knock-Detecting Door Lock