Technology

Cartoons May Teach Machines To Understand The Visual World

A human child can look at a cartoon picture of a chicken and recognize it is a chicken, but that is a show-stopper for machine learning. Unless it matches a cartoon chicken programmed in, it will not understand cartoon chicken-ness. Devi Parikh of Virginia ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2014 - 12:35pm

Lymphocyte Genome Sensitivity Determines Likelihood Of Getting Cancer

A new report shows early detection of cancer could one day be as easy as a simple blood test. This test, called the "lymphocyte genome sensitivity" (LGS) test, could not only detect some cancers earlier than ever before, but it may eliminate the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2014 - 1:30pm

Questions a Surface Pro 3 user has about Windows 10.

I own a brand new Surface Pro 3, and if  all the good touch features of Windows 8 are removed to make Windows 10 placate non-touchscreen users, I and others are going to be very disappointed.  Many websites are reporting that the new Windows 10 "kills ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 2 2014 - 10:31pm

A Status Bar For Wounds: 'Smart' Bandage Emits Phosphorescent Glow For Healing

In video games, and in software downloads and processes, the status bar is often cheered or reviled. But they are here to stay. And now it may be possible to 'gamify' your medical progress.  Inspired by a desire to help wounded soldiers, researc ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2014 - 10:30am

Why Crowdfunding Publisher Unbound Poses A Threat To Literary Prizes

Giving publishing power to the people. Credit: Thinglass/Shutterstock By Gillian Rudd, University of Liverpool ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 1 2014 - 6:00pm

Cosmic Dust, Fish-Inspired Wind Farms And DARPA's Quest For The New GPS

We are stardust- scientists and citizen scientists alike Physics Today's Ashley Smart describes a huge recent win for citizen science: some 30,000 volunteers pored over millions of microscopic images looking for dust collected a decade ago by NASA� ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2014 - 7:00am

Transverse Field Detectors Gather 12 Times More Information Than The Human Eye

A new imaging system is capable of obtaining up to twelve times more color information than the human eye and conventional cameras, which implies a total of 36 color channels. The system involves a new generation of sensors in combination with a matrix of ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2014 - 11:28am

A Science 2.0 Approach To Knowledge Sharing In The Healthcare Sector

Social network analysis could improve knowledge sharing in the healthcare sector, according to a paper which shows how knowledge management systems (KMS) can be critical in capturing, retaining and communicating project results and staff knowledge. They c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2014 - 11:01am

24 hours with Windows 10 on a Surface Pro 3

After 24 hours of using Windows 10, as a tablet user, it is an incremental improvement on Windows 8.1.  The biggest improvement is that my Pro 3's WiFi now works without issues. Right now Windows 10 is not a HUGE revolutionary jump that would merit sk ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 3 2014 - 9:48am

RCas9: A Programmable RNA Editing Tool

A tool for editing the DNA instructions in a genome can now also be applied to RNA, the molecule that translates DNA's genetic instructions into the production of proteins, according to a team of researchers who demonstrated a means by which the CRIS ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2014 - 6:30pm