text: - January 31, 11:56 AM
  Rex the bionic man shows how close technology is to catching up with — and exceeding — the abilities of the human body, The Guardian reports.Housed within a frame of state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs is a functional heart-lung system, complete with artificial blood pumping through a network of pulsating modified-polymer arteries.He has a bionic spleen to clean the blood, and an artificial pancreas to keep his blood sugar on the level. Comment +
  - December 10, 2012 5:11 PM
  Another computer is setting its wits to perform human tasks. But this computer is different. Instead of the tour de force processing of Deep Blue or Watson's four terabytes of facts of questionable utility, Spaun attempts to play by the same rules as the human brain to figure things out. Instead of the logical elegance of a CPU, Spaun's computations are performed by 2.3 million simulated neurons configured in networks that resemble some of the brain's own networks. It was given a series of tasks and performed pretty well, taking a significant step toward the creation of a simulated brain. Comment +