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This Week In Emerging Technology – August 9th

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Jim Rapoza
Aug 9, 2007
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Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of August 6th.

BitTorrent goes closed source – The company that makes the main client tools for the revolutionary file sharing platform has decided to move their latest versions to a closed source model. Older versions will remain open source but will be interesting to see what effects this has on the community.

Second Life Banking Crisis – The virtual world of Second Life is seeing a very real problem with users making a run on the banking systems in the virtual world. Interesting as an experiement. Almost looks like old school banking crises from a hundred years ago.

DARPATech Roundup – This Wired blog has a nice link roundup of stories from the DARPATech conference. News includes everything from war robots to healing systems.

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