Technology

How Hackers May Control Your Brain In The Future

Several years ago former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney had his doctors disable the wireless capabilities of his heart’s pacemaker to thwart any assassination attempt by hacking into his implant’s software. The ongoing revelations of the many ways the NSA ...

Article - Eric Leuthardt - Feb 9 2014 - 12:56pm

The Science Of How To Optimize Your Kickstarter Fundraising Campaign

Crowdfunding is just like anything else; it is wonderfully naive to believe that a great idea will organically take off and be successful- but doomed to fail most of the time. Computer scientists from Georgia Tech are here to help; after analyzing more th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2014 - 11:58am

MACRO Test Detects Genetic Modification In Food

As food science continues to advance, so do calls to label and ban foods that have been modified using modern techniques. In GMOs, the genes of some plants used for food are tweaked to make them more healthful (Golden Rice) or pest-resistant (lots of othe ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2014 - 2:16pm

MicroMilk: Pasteurizing Milk With Microwaves

Everyone's heard of microwave ovens by now.  These mass-market kitchen devices were a by-product of a much more narrow application- radar. During World War II, the magnetron, a tube that produces microwaves, was invented to spot German bombers on thei ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2014 - 4:58pm

The NSA Should Use All That Data For More Accurate Airport Waiting Times

Want a more accurate estimate of waiting time to get through security at airports?  Obviously monitoring Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is one way to go, but often people shut those off in the airport to conserve energy. Monitoring cell phones and tablets doesn' ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2014 - 6:01am

LineUp: How To Game Your Way To The Top Of Those Top 100 Lists

You probably recognize that there are no objective measures to creating those "Top 10" and "Top 100" lists. There is a generous sprinkling of personal bias and subjective decisions. Yet the assumption is that rankings of median home pr ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2014 - 9:24pm

How Do You Break the Internet?

There is a great deal of rhetoric and propaganda about "threats to the Internet" floating around the ethernet these days.  It's mostly political talk, in my opinion.  The majority of people don't seem to stop and check the laws before g ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Feb 8 2014 - 2:00am

Primitive Artificial Cell Turned Into Complex Biological Material

For decades, scientists have been pushing toward the goal of creating artificial building blocks that can self-assemble in large numbers and reassemble to take on new tasks or to remedy defects. Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have tak ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2014 - 11:25pm

Bionic Hand Gives Amputee Real-Time Ability To Feel

Nine years ago, Dennis Aabo Sørensen of Denmark lost the use of his left hand handling fireworks during a family holiday.  Now he has become the first amputee in the world to feel sensory-rich information, in real-time,  with a prosthetic hand wired to ne ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 6:19pm

Tech Product Coolness- Why Record Players Are Hip Again But Few Own Them

People who gravitate toward the latest technology regard themselves as progressives mavericks on the cutting edge- and then they stand in a line outside the Apple store. Apple products don't look good, and they aren't particularly original- havi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2014 - 5:28pm