The Malaria Clock -- A Geen Legacy Of Death An ongoing disaster that has so far killed over 86 million people. All from ill-thought (or in this case, thoughtless) governmental regulation. The scale of this makes the Darfur situation seem trivial. Tragic.

MRI Gets Nanoscale Resolution. If they can develop this degree of resolution for imaging macro-scale objects such as a living human brain, then non-destructive uploading of an emulation of oneself becomes much more possible. If molecular nanotechnology allows precise reconstruction of a physical brain from such a template, then we can take backups of ourselves and/or spawn exact reproductions (no more of this messy mixing of gametes).

The first ultra-portable computer. Want one. Need one. mmmm....