Technology

Online Video Games- Soon With No Lag, By Modifying Game Elements In Real Time

"Lag" is a common term for the latency in human-computer interactions caused by various factors related to the environment and performance of the devices, networks, and data processing. There is no question it impacts the user's performance, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2019 - 1:00pm

Racist Speech On Twitter Predicts Real-Life Hate Crimes

Cities with a higher incidence of racist tweets showed more actual hate crimes related to race, ethnicity, and national origin, according to an analysis of the location and linguistic features of 532 million tweets published between 2011 and 2016. A machin ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2019 - 3:00pm

Is Your Cell Phone More Powerful Than NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer?

Many people who are old enough to have experienced the first moon landing will vividly remember what it was like watching Neil Armstrong utter his famous quote: That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”. Half a century later, the event ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 5 2019 - 5:00am

Autonomous Vehicles: Which Driving Style Will You Prefer?

Automated automobiles are coming, the question is how they will behave. Not how they will perform, anything is guaranteed to be safer than millions of distracted individuals and ATM machines have shown what accuracy will look like, but how they will behave ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2019 - 11:06am

Recreated Video Shows What Neil Armstrong Saw During The Apollo 11 Tranquility Base Lunar Landing

As the Apollo 11 Lunar Module approached the moon's surface for the first manned landing, commander Neil Armstrong switched off the auto-targeting feature of the LM's computer and flew the spacecraft manually. A new video, created at Arizona Stat ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2019 - 1:57pm

How To Choose A Secure Password.

C hoosing a good but memorable password is hard. Here are some tips on how you can do it.  The best practice is to have a password manager, other than your web browser, and use it.  Do not use obvious personal information as part of a password.  ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 18 2019 - 8:42am

Teamscience.net Hopes To Get Scientists To Collaborate Better- And It Seems To Work

As government control of science funding increased, and government spent billions convincing young scholars that only government-funded academia was a fulfilling science career, competition grew at a rapid pace. And collaboration declined. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2019 - 1:22pm

Artificial Cells Sense And Respond To Their Environment

Responding to chemical changes is a crucial function of biological cells. For example, cells can respond to chemicals by creating certain proteins, boosting energy production, or self-destructing. Chemicals are also used by cells to communicate with each o ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2019 - 3:37pm

Telepathic Gaming: Co-Op With Friends Using Only Your Minds

Telepathic communication might be one step closer to reality thanks to new research from the University of Washington. A team created a method that allows three people to work together to solve a problem using only their minds. In BrainNet, three people p ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2019 - 7:00am

Graphene-Lined Clothing To Prevent Mosquito Bites

Some mosquito species, such as Aedes aegypti, have been able to weave their way through evolutionary time despite having no ecological value, basically being just delivery mechanisms for things like Dengue fever, the most common vector-borne disease in the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 27 2019 - 1:18pm