Technology

AT&T has announced that they will end their unlimited mobile data plan next week. It doesn’t sound like the result will be bad, though: the outgoing unlimited plan is $30 per month. The new plans are $15 per month for 200 megabytes, and $25 per month ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Jun 5 2010 - 8:58pm

Jabulani- Will The 2010 World Cup Soccer Ball Bend Even More Than The 2006 One?

Players, most loudly in Brazil, are not happy with the Jabulani ball in use for World Cup 2010 and have made no secret about it recently- despite it being in use for months. There hasn't been this much controversy over a World Cup ball since... wel ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2010 - 8:19pm

The World Cup Will Be Really Digital

The 2010 World Cup will be watched online by nearly a third of British football fans, according to a survey released today by PC World. They questioned over 3,000 Brits in the run up to the World Cup following a surge in sales of its wireless networking a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2010 - 8:10am

Live Streaming "Rise Of The Citizen-Scientist"

Can't make it to the H+ Summit because you're in South Africa for the World Cup? The folks at the H+ "Rise of the Citizen-Scientist" summit have it covered. Take Scientific Blogging Featured Author Andrea Kuszewski's enhancing in ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 12 2010 - 10:51am

Manipulating Time With a Little Magic and Creativity

Known for their music videos that defy tradition and push the limits of imaginative filming, OK Go has a new one- "End Love", directed by Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther. Here's what Jeff had to say about it: "Eric Gunther and I direct ...

Blog Post - Andrea Kuszewski - Jun 15 2010 - 11:51am

The 2010 H+ Summit: Conference 2.0

Last weekend, Boston was taken over by the Transhumanists, for the gathering of the 2010 Humanity Plus (H+) Summit at Harvard University. The H+ Summit was two glorious days of information loading, idea sharing, and networking among scientists, techno-geek ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Nov 8 2010 - 1:13am

Workaround for Halting Problem

Let's assume that we do not have a DoesHalt(program) function, but DoesHalt() function inside runtime of program, which is able to signal true or false. It is also able to hang. At first, the case that DoesHalt() will stop the program when called, con ...

Blog Post - Helium Väli - Jun 24 2010 - 5:04pm

Common case solution for a halting problem

We have studied constraints to programs, but we can use constraints to programmers instead. Let's assume the following constraint: Programmer must always figure out, for his specific algorithm, how much memory it is going to maximally take. Programmer ...

Blog Post - Helium Väli - Jun 24 2010 - 3:59pm

Science 2.0: Can I Share Your Lab?

Remote access... for lab equipment? Labshare Australia wants to create a shared network of remote laboratories. Yep, with costs going up- and science and hospitals are two of very few industries where competition drives costs up, because if Lab X has ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 26 2010 - 12:20pm

Topological identity of computer programs in relation to halting problem

I introduce the term "topological identity of computer programs" and show it in relation to halting problem and similar problems- what we need to detect in code to suspect it? I think that considering topological identicalness, we have one more w ...

Blog Post - Helium Väli - Jun 27 2010 - 6:49pm