Technology

Who Is Stalking You On Facebook? Who Is Your Biggest Fan?

Facebook has always been plagued with privacy issues, such as revealing to third parties personal information which may be used to sell you goods and services.  While to some, this may seem like an invasion, I like it when people try to sell me things, and ...

Article - Ed Chen - Feb 14 2011 - 2:38pm

The Internet is falling!

[I’m re-posting this, because the original, from Saturday, seems to have disappeared.] ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 9 2011 - 4:00pm

No Higher Consciousness

Many of those involved with transhumanism desire to accelerate the development of some sort of ‘higher consciousness’. Although the topic is mostly approached with the most serious input of the persons’ specific fields, for example cutting edge fascinating ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 2 2011 - 5:49am

And visions of greengage plums dance in my head

A week or so ago, New Scientist told us about some new research technology by Toshiba, a system that recognizes fruits and veg at the self-checkout station: Its system, developed by Susumu Kubota and his team at Toshiba’s research centre in Kawasaki, Japa ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 15 2011 - 6:04pm

"Elementary, My Dear Watson"

OK, by now everyone's familiar with "Watson", the IBM Jeopardy machine with all the hype and drama associated with Artificial Intelligence and what it means for the future of humanity.  Is it HAL or Skynet?  Not by any definition. So what� ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Feb 16 2011 - 4:19pm

I'll take "Intelligent Machines" for 800, Alex

The following segments were written one per day, as I watched the three days of IBM’s Watson computer play Jeopardy!. I’ll post my notes here now, for the three or four people who haven’t already seen more analyses than they care to think about. The first ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 23 2011 - 1:47pm

Lolcats vs CompSci

Ran into this ironic juxtaposition of 2 webcomics, released at nearly the same time.  Which to share?  They negate each other. vs Alex ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Feb 18 2011 - 2:09pm

IP blocklists, email, and IPv6

Engineers in the Internet Engineering Task Force, in the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, and elsewhere have been debating how to handle e-mail-server blocklists in an IPv6 network. Let’s take a look at the problem here. ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 28 2011 - 11:39am

URL shorteners

If you’re a Twitter user, you’ve likely used one or another of the URL shorteners out there. Even if you’re not, you may have run across a shortened URL. The first shortener I encountered, several years ago, was tinyurl.com, but there plenty of them, incl ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Mar 2 2011 - 1:17pm

Are You a Science Blogger?

Blogging has been around since the late 1990s and email (effectively) for a decade prior to that- both are now on the wane, according to recent claims (email by social media and blogging by...social media again) and while it's true I wouldn't sta ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 7 2011 - 1:36pm