- Memristors are being discussed heavily in AGI circles; a New York Times article (11 Apr 2010) covers HP Labs’ progress toward commercial neuromorphic chips.  
- NASA’s final Shuttle launches are approaching, prompting talk of organizing mass viewing trips before the program ends.  
- IBM’s open-source patent pledge is under scrutiny after TurboHercules filed suit and IBM countersued; debate centers on whether the pledge still holds.  
- A real-time 3-D facial-modeling system using only an RGB webcam was highlighted on Singularity Hub, showing consumer-grade computer-vision advances.  
- The FTO (fat-mass and obesity-associated) gene polymorphism rs9939609 was linked to body-fat levels in adolescents; physical activity was shown to attenuate its effect (Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2010).  
- TechShop Menlo Park received mainstream coverage in the New York Times and Slashdot, illustrating the rise of open-access fabrication spaces.  
- A Polish team released an open-source 3-D scanner design (“makerscan”) aimed at low-cost digitization for makers.  
- Texas Instruments’ eZ430-Chronos watch development kit packs a 16-bit MSP430 MCU, wireless transceiver, accelerometer, and pressure sensor into a wrist-wearable form factor.  
- “Super Stemmys: Doris and the Super Cells,” a children’s book on stem-cell science, was noted as an outreach tool for early STEM education.  
- Links to upcoming events: Yuri’s Night global space celebration (12 Apr 2010) and the Open Science Summit were circulated for community participation.