This Week in the Future, October 3-7

This Week in the Future, October 3-7 Baarbarian

This week's Baarbarian illustration is a tribute to the memory of Apple's visionary Steve Jobs. In other news, we've found the fold in the brain that distinguishes imagination and reality, and Apple's Siri voice command application has an older cousin in the military.

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• Steve Jobs Has Died, Apple Confirms
• Found: The Particular Brain Fold That Helps People Distinguish Between Imagination and Reality
• Apple's New iPhone Assistant is a Voice-Activated DARPA Spinoff

And don't forget to check out our other favorite stories of the week:

• Voice Control Is for Your Mom
• Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded to Scientist Who Prolonged His Own Life With His Research
• Dark Energy Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
• Five Reasons You Should Care About the New Ozone Hole Over the Arctic
• Video: With Semantic Search, PR2 Robot Can Plan Its Own Sandwich-Hunting Mission
• Chemist Once Accused of 'Quasi-Science' Wins Nobel For Quasicrystal Discovery
• With Two New Space Science Missions, ESA Will Fly to the Sun and Look For Dark Energy
• Video: Underwater Nano-Mirage Effect Enables On-Demand Invisibility
• Apple's iPhone 4S: Faster, and a Better Listener, But the Same iPhone You Know and Love
• Video: Monkeys Demonstrate Brain-Controlled Arm With a Sense of Touch
• Futuristic Predictions From the Past That Steve Jobs Fulfilled