Technology

Hepatitis B In Africa Might Be Solved With A $20 Test

Sub-Saharan Africa has around 80 million people infected with hepatitis B, a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus, but it infects around 250 million people worldwide. It can be a mild illness lasting a few weeks or a serious, lifelong condition ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2018 - 6:00am

A Hoax Academic Paper About How Politicians Wipe Their Butts Was Published- And I Did It

I had what seemed like rather a good idea a few weeks back. Building on some prominent findings in social psychology, I hypothesized that politicians on the right would wipe their bum with their left hand; and that politicians on the left would wipe with ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 22 2018 - 6:00am

State Attorneys General File To Block Open Source Information- Because The Info Is A Printed Gun

The Attorneys General of Democratic states Washington, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Maryland, New York (plus the District of Columbia) are filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration to block the open source distribut ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2018 - 2:27pm

3D Printed Gun Files Still Available. The Archive Isn’t Secret. Internet Censorship Is Almost Pointless.

D efense Distributed it’s 3 D gun printing plans are still available on the web if you know where to look. This archive is not secret. I will not say the name of because everyone should know its name. Everyone should know that everything they put on the w ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 1 2018 - 10:33am

Ray Tracing Is Back Again. Is It Real This Time? Nvidia Thinks So

Ray tracing has been a hot topic since...well, at least 350 B.C. in the western world, when Aristotle described his camera obscura and wrote that the eye is 'a darkened chamber awaiting light.' Da Vinci was fascinated by it, as was Descartes. And ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2018 - 9:44am

Instagram's Positivity Problem- Even When Comments Are Good They're Bad

There is a vicious cycle of vanity on social media, according to new results. College-age women who viewed positive feedback on Instagram selfies then experienced greater body dissatisfaction- because they put more focus on appearance and in the end fueled ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2018 - 8:11am

AI GAN Will Boost Credibility Of Fake Videos

Researchers at Carnege-Mellon University have found a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) schemes to transfer content from one video to the style of another. So they can make a daffodil bloom like the way a hibiscus bloom does or make clouds that are c ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2018 - 8:57am

Toward A Temperature Stable, Cost-Effective Vaccine Platform

Vaccines are the most effective way to prevent and eradicate infectious diseases but many vaccines have to be manufactured in cell culture or eggs, which is expensive, and most vaccines must be kept refrigerated during the transport ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2018 - 12:28pm

To Make Better Translation Algorithms, Look To The Bible

Medicine uses Latin because it is a 'dead' language- the meanings of the words will not change over time. But if you want to modernize translations to different languages, an ancient book may help: The Bible. Tools to translate text between langu ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2018 - 12:00pm

Experiment: EpiPen Still Works After Being Frozen

Though anaphylaxis is rare, you are more likely to be murdered this Thanksgiving than die from a food allergy, companies and schools are increasingly buying epinephrine auto-injectors (EpiPens), which has led to shortages (government approval policies make ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2018 - 9:57am