Billionaires decide the time has come to commercialise space:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17827347

Calling all botmasters!

Sadly, the Chatterbox Challenge is no longer with us and the conditions for entering the Loebner Prize are prohibitive to most botmasters (especially to those outside the USA). This has left no way for most people with a chatbot to compare its performance against others.

To remedy this, I would like to announce the first in a series of Chatbot Battles, in which each entrant goes head to head with opponents in a league table/knockout format similar to the soccer World Cup. The main difference between this and other contests held in the past is that each entrant is judged on both question and answering abilities and also on how well they can carry out a normal conversation. Also, the bots do not have to pretend they are human to score extra marks. All chatbots are welcome to enter, whether they be web-based, downloadable, chatroom based or even Android apps.

Unfortunately, I do not have a sponsor and so the contest is currently just for bragging rights and kudos, although I may give some small prizes like T-shirts, mousemats and mugs away to the winners. If you would like to sponsor the competition, please contact me.

The closing date for entries is 1st June 2012 and the battles will start shortly afterwards.

Find out more at http://www.chatbotbattles.com

Let battle commence!

This is for Syber

Anyone have know of any good php script tutorial for a RSS feed.
I was able to get a java script one working for my site, but would like to use a php script for the seo benefits.

Nanosponges soak up more than 100x their weight in oil


Source: Nanosponges soak up more than 100x their weight in oil

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Programmable 'smart sand' can assume any shape


Source: Programmable 'smart sand' can assume any shape