Technology

CYBER EUROPE 2010- A Successful 'Cyber Stress Test' For Europe

BERLIN, BRUSSELS and HERAKLION, Greece, November 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/-- The interim findings and recommendations of EU Member States participants of the 1st Pan-European Cyber Security Exercise indicate that 'CYBER EUROPE 2010' was a useful � ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Nov 10 2010 - 4:12pm

This Robot Runs On Coffee And Balloons

Many robot designs are understandably human-looking- they infrequently have legs, since a realistic gait that passes for human is difficult (though see RunBot- Mountaineering Robot and The Science Of A Bionic Woman for the latest) but a torso, a head and a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2010 - 1:02pm

Predicting The Internet, A How-to

The best way to discover whether someone is full of crap or not is to look at their past predictions.  If you're digital media expert Jim Griffin and you put your rep publically on the line predicting internet video in 2002, you're probably on th ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 12 2010 - 10:48pm

A Semantic Web Way To Analyze Raw Government Data

Want to kill about 8,000 hours of your life?   Go to data.gov and start looking around.  In the interest of transparency (well, sometimes- see Recovery Accountability and Transparency meeting not open to the public), the Obama Administration has posted ov ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2010 - 6:25pm

Humanity + @ Caltech: Speaker/Organizer Contact Info

The Humanity + @ Caltech conference kicked off this morning in Pasadena with a dynamic group of speakers, discussing how humanity is being defined by technology, media, and by us, the active participants. People were inquiring about Twitter handles and web ...

Blog Post - Andrea Kuszewski - Dec 5 2010 - 6:12pm

Elsevier Puts Science Books On Google EBooks

NEW YORK, December 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/-- Elsevier announced today that it is participating in the recently launched Google eBooks store by including a large selection of Elsevier's eBook titles.  Google eBooks covers more than three million ebook ti ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Dec 9 2010 - 4:00pm

Choose Your Own Adventure- But For Movies, In Real Time

When I was a lad, a fellow named Edward Packard came up with the Choose Your Own Adventure series, books where you read until an action point and you had to make a decision- your decision determined the plot of the book from there on out by sending you to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 13 2010 - 7:07pm

Security of auto ignition systems

New Scientist tells us that the encryption between electronic key fobs and car ignition systems has been cracked in many cases. The reason is that most car manufacturers are using weak and/or home-grown encryption: A device fitted within the key fob of a ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Dec 15 2010 - 4:00am

Security of auto control systems

While we’re on the joint subject of cars and security, I should dredge up this item that I’ve had hanging about for a few months. It’s from Ars Technica, and reports that researchers have hacked into the control systems of cars because those systems are o ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Dec 17 2010 - 5:30am

Google Books Ngram Viewer

Google is claiming that it has scanned 10% of the books ever published. Google Ngram Viewer is a tool to see how often the phrases have occurred in the world's books over the years.  Users can graph the occurrence of phrases up to five words in length ...

Blog Post - Vikki Cvichiee - Dec 18 2010 - 11:51am