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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... »
