Technology

Elizabeth Taylor Polythene?

I have an issue with the ladies of Hollywood. As a scientist, I find diamond a most useful material, and the way these glitterate use these stones for personal adornment does, I think, only serve to grossly inflate their price.    Diamond is famous for tw ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 23 2010 - 7:12pm

Consumers Know It's Spam But Click On It Anyway

Consumers continue to click on spam despite awareness of how bots and viruses spread through risky email behavior, according to the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). Their findings were based on a survey it released today covering North America a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2010 - 11:51pm

WikiLeaks: The Price of Freedom of Information

"Wikileaks.org was founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and technologists from the United States, China, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Its Web site became operational in early 2007. The advisory board for Wikileak ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 24 2010 - 11:23pm

Where 2.0 2010- For all people involved in Location-Aware Technologies and Intelligent Transport Systems

Where 2.0 Conference at San Jose Marriott, San Jose, California Tuesday, March 30- Thursday, April 1  by O'Reilly Media, Inc The first Web 2.0 innovations helped us make new connections on a global scale. The rise of location-aware tools, linked with ...

Blog Post - Henry Cox - Mar 25 2010 - 7:42pm

Play Pong With Your Eyes- Researchers Introduce Hands Free Gaming Technology

University students have developed a computer game that is operated by eye movements, which could allow people with severe physical disabilities to become 'gamers' for the first time. The technology behind the game may one day be adapted to creat ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2010 - 11:46am

Twitter Shortens Tweet Length to 20 Characters

Already well-known for its short character length limits, in a press conference scheduled for later today, Twitter will announce that it will severely shorten its allowable “tweets”. “I’m frankly amazed at all the crap people fit into their tweets,” said J ...

Blog Post - Mark Changizi - Apr 1 2010 - 10:30am

Scientists Investigate Spray-On Transistor Manufacturing

Silicon is the basic material for most microprocessors and memory chips. But for a long time the electronics industry has been pursuing novel organic materials to create semiconductor products—materials that perhaps could not be packed as densely as state- ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:06pm

First Working Artificial Intelligence (AI) Unveiled

Today computer science research has crossed a major threshold in producing a system that can be considered to display true intelligence. The system is purported to possess the ability to engage in conversations and even invoke creative use of language to e ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Apr 1 2010 - 4:07pm

Engineers Turn Noise Into Vision With Stochastic Resonance

Princeton Electrical Engineers have developed a new technique for revealing images of hidden objects. The method, a new type of stochastic resonance, relies on the ability to clarify an image using rays of light that would typically make the image unrecogn ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2011 - 10:02am

You got a coupon?

The New York Times “Bits” blog carried an item a few weeks ago about electronic coupons, sent to your mobile device at appropriate times: How many times have you heard the prediction that one day, businesses like coffee shops will send us coupons on our m ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Apr 12 2010 - 6:04am