Technology

Two-faced security

A few weeks ago, I got a text message on my mobile. It said it was from my credit card company (and it had the right one). It said they had to talk with me urgently about my account, and I should call a given phone number as soon as possible. In other wor ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jul 14 2009 - 11:45am

How Blogging Has Changed The Pattern Of The Mainstream News Cycle

Cornell computer scientists say they have tracked and analyzed the "news cycle", the way stories rise and fall in popularity, and found a consistent pattern as stories rose into prominence and then fell off after a few days, with a 'heartbea ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2009 - 6:16pm

Australia's Top Models Certainly Know How To Compute

Australia's top models are going to be on the main stage in Cairns this week but don't get too excited.   They're only here to show new ways to understand climate change, improve air safety and enhance agricultural sustainability- the small ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2009 - 1:06pm

Robots Invade The US Senate

Cars that drive themselves?   Being cut up by some remote hand that never touches you?  It's not a Stephen King novel, it's the latest in robotics and it's coming to a Senate floor near you. Last week the National Science Foundation (NSF) pr ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2009 - 5:21pm

Can The Wii Replace Real Exercise For Kids?

Nintendo is trying to sell you something so they will claim in marketing that Wii 'active' video games are good exercise for kids, but are they really? Yes, says a new study in the journal Pediatrics, though only if they are the kind of kids who ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:55pm

MemeTracker: The "genetics" Of News Cycle Chatter

Q: Which phrase, more than any other, surged in utilzation in the news during the final months of the U.S. presidential campaign? A: Obama's "lipstick on a pig" quip For the first time, the Web has been used to track and attempt to measure  ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 16 2009 - 2:52pm

Take Your Own Apollo 11 Flight (In A Video Game, Anyway)

Games2Win, an online game company, today announced the launch of Apollo 11: Mission to the Moon, which recreates the historic mission to the moon, without the mind-numbing terror of knowing you were sitting on top of a mess o' solid rocket fuel prote ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 17 2009 - 1:32pm

Say Hello To E.T.- SentForever Wants You To Talk Into Space

SentForever are letting people transmit free messages into deep space through their Web site to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. So you can send a message to extraterrestrials at the speed of light, some 670 million miles per h ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2009 - 1:52pm

Twitter for dead people

Who doesn't need a little more widsom in their daily lives? Well, now you can have it, thanks to a real-time Twitter-like search engine that "looks to organize and share information and 'wisdom' currently on the web." ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 20 2009 - 12:26pm

Vanish: This Article Will Self-Destruct In 5... 4... 3... 2...

When we were kids, you could do stupid things and, if you absolutely needed them to be left behind, you moved away and never spoke to your old friends again.   Now stupid things end up on YouTube.  Forever. What if you don't want your college-era rant ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2009 - 10:55am