Seagate to Minnesota nanotech community: Never mind

Seagate to Minnesota nanotech community: Never mind Seagate Technology giveth (sort of). Seagate Technologies taketh (definitely). Bolstered by better than expected revenue, the disc driver maker has reversed plans to convert a state-of-the-art nanotech facility in Edina into the Minnesota Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology. Seagate, based in Scotts Valley, California, has major operations in [...]

The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine

Editor’s Note: This article was originally printed in the 2008 Scientific American Special Report on Robots . It is being published on the Web as part of ScientificAmerican.com’s In-Depth Report on Robots . Sometime early in this century the intelligence of machines will exceed that of humans. Within a quarter of a century, machines will [...]