Technology

Cracks In Cryptography: Codebreaking Has Moved On Since Turing's Day

After decades of cracking, the cracks are appearing in cryptography. infobunny, CC BY By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and uncovering the secrets of others, whether that’s childhood secret ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 2 2014 - 7:30am

In The 21st Century, What Counts As An Academic Publication?

Sunlight is the best medicine. rishibando, CC BY-NC By Christopher Sampson, University of Nottingham ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 3 2014 - 11:54am

No Uglies: Laser Biospeckles Can Detect Fruits "climacteric" Peak

A few years ago, Europe had a policy making it illegal to sell fruit that was not cosmetically ideal. People overpaying for food deserve to have it aesthetically pleasing as well, was the reasoning, and having someone buy ugly fruit was a sign of inequali ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2014 - 5:18pm

Open Payments Program Database Deserves Time To Improve

The Obamacare website is not the only thing that debuted incomplete, buggy, difficult to use and nonetheless mandated. The Open Payments Program database, also known as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, was 12 years in the making and designed to report ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2014 - 10:51am

Subconscious Menu: Eyetracking Technology Detects Your Pizza Desires…Or Not

You're a vegetarian? But your subconscious ordered the Meat Lover's! BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA By John M. Henderson, University of South Carolina ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 8 2014 - 12:58pm

Artificial Intelligence Lets Machines Weld The Emotional With The Physical

Not now! Roboscribe is busy creating a masterpiece (of heuristic analysis). gastev, CC BY By Peter McOwan, Queen Mary University of London The human race has long designed and used tools to help us solve problems, from flint axes to space shuttles. They a ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 10 2014 - 5:00pm

Oversharing Algorithm: Facebook "Deep Learning" Could Prevent You From Drunk Posting

"You think you're in pain now, but this is not going to look good on Facebook tomorrow." Stefano Bolognini/ National Museum of Denmark By Arosha K Bandara, The Open University ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 13 2014 - 1:27pm

New Test Finds Hidden Toxicity Of Antidepressants Earlier In Development

Though drugs spend years in development and hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars are spent in increasingly demanding clinical trials before approval, a lot of prescription drugs get added warning labels- or can even be withdrawn- after release ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2014 - 12:51pm

New Synthetic Molecules Mimic Antibodies

New molecules known as synthetic antibody mimics (SyAMs) attach themselves simultaneously to disease cells and disease-fighting cells. The result is a highly targeted immune response, similar to the action of natural human antibodies;  with both the targe ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 12:21pm

In A Real World Test, 49 Percent Of Patients Don't Want Health Care Providers To Have Their Info

In an era where hackers can easily hack into department store credit card records or Sony Corporation and the US National Security Agency is spying on everyone, it's no surprise people with a choice opt not to have all of the electronic medical recor ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 7:00pm