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Nano-Risks: A Big Need for a Little Testing (Scientific American)
A decade ago the great worry about nanotechnology was that it could quite literally destroy the planet. As Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy warned in his essay “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” self-assembling nanobots could potentially spread out of our control (Mis-)programmed to replicate ad infinitum, these subsentient bots would spread across the... »
Sun Microsystems empowers High Performance Computing in Quebec and beyond (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. announced today that the Consortium Laval, Université du Québec, McGill and Eastern Quebec , part of a nationwide network of High Performance Computing installations collectively known as Compute Canada, is now open for business. (read the story…) Related items MSGI Energy is Formed, Establishing Strategic Partnership with Franklin Energy (Business Wire via... »
Lagostina, Alessi, Bialetti tough out recession (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A giant silver teapot shines in the pale sun outside the Alessi factory, its scale a measure of how in the 1980s and 90s Italian kitchenware, from espresso-makers to lemon-squeezers, grew into objects of desire. (more here…) Related items Nano-Risks: A Big Need for a Little Testing (Scientific American) Fish Kill: Nanosilver Mutates Fish Embryos (Scientific American) Top Italian... »
Siberian company building up cooperation with Japan in nanotechnologies. (Itar-Tass)
TOKYO, October 29 (Itar-Tass) - Russian company Sun is eyeing opportunities for an expanded cooperation with Japan in the field of nanotechnologies, Vladislav Mirchev, the president of Sun Innovations Ltd. told Itar-Tass Thursday. (read the story…) Related items Japan-RF nanotechnology partnership has good prospects-view (Itar-Tass) Nanomedicine market just taking shape in Russia - Chubais (Itar-Tass) Site for Russia’s Silicon... »
