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Microsoft Moves into Robotics
Technology Review Sept. 2, 2006
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Microsoft believes the demand for
consumer, research, and military
robots will grow significantly--and
it wants to own the market, with
Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) and
the Institute for Personal Robots in
Education (IPRE). MSRS is a visual
programming environment, similar to
the LabView-based software provided
with LEGO's Mindstorms NXT...
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Multiple copies of a mystery gene may make us human

news@nature.com Aug. 31, 2006

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A newly discovered mystery gene may
have helped build the modern human
brain. Scientists don't know what
the gene does. But they do know that
humans have more copies of it than
chimpanzees, monkeys, rats and mice.
And they know that the DUF1220 gene
gene makes a protein that is found
in the human brain. Humans carry 212
copies of DUF1220,...

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