Nature reports on the algorithm researchers have devised to find (or recreate) the ancestors of modern languages:
… Read the rest ““Bituqen” is Proto-Polynesian for “star.” A computer figured that out.”Statistician Alexandre Bouchard-Côté of the University of British
An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python.
From the Center for Image in Science and Art, University of Lisbon.
Smithsonian magazine is comparing computer pioneer Jaron Lanier – one of the people who, indirectly, made what you’re reading (and the way you’re reading it) possible… Read the rest “The guy who invented virtual reality – he thinks there’s something wrong with the internet.”
ITProPortal.com reports on a heightened state of alert in the halls of the government offices in charge of the very biggest missiles there are… because somebody just stole a kinda… Read the rest “NASA beefs up security after laptop theft.”
Laboratory Equipment explores “brain fitness programs” and the way computer games can boost seniors’ memory and alertness:
… Read the rest “Not quite video games for elderly brains, but almost.”The [UCLA] team studied 59 participants
Gigaom strolls into a safer future, thanks to car-sensing apps that can help smartphones save lives:
… Read the rest “Smartphones save lives?”Although both cars and smartphones are filled with sensors, the solution GM is testing
The Register pays respects to an unsung hero of computer freedom:
… Read the rest “RIP Andre Hedrick. If you are reading this, you owe him a little something.”CPRM is widely used today as the encryption scheme for SD cards. But by the summer of 2001, and thanks largely to Andre’s
The aptly named ExtremeTech BLOWS THE LID off connection speeds with the HEAD-SPINNING news that American and Israeli researchers have sent 2.5 terabits of data per second through the … Read the rest “Ultimate wireless. In A VORTEX.”
Science News examines one system for making music – by taking noise and using thumbs-up or thumbs-down votes to refine it:
… Read the rest “Musical selection. (Or how to evolve a hit.)”Inspired in part by long-running experiments probing the
MIT’s Technology Review is not a publication ordinarily given to hyperbole. So it’s a little distracting when their web desk declares that Facebook is heading for an implosion… Read the rest “MIT: Facebook is about to kill the Internet. (Seriously?)”
New Scientist has a knack for bringing weird science to life. In this case, electronic germ-based computers:
… Read the rest “Magnetic bacteria make lively hard drives.”Hard drives are usually made by “sputtering”, in which clouds
PhysOrg says that porn is safer than religion… at least when it comes to online viruses:
… Read the rest “Holy viruses! (On your computer.)”Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number
New Scientist discusses the future of the academy, in which teachers have been replaced by essay-grading robots:
… Read the rest “Robots make the grade on essay questions.”Grading software from nine manufacturers, which together cover 97 per
New Scientist blogs about the ultimate Rube Goldberg cybernetic machine – a computer that uses living crabs for processors:
… Read the rest “Crab chips for a living computer.”Yukio-Pegio Gunji of Kobe University in Japan and colleagues
The Chronicle of Higher Education is watching closely as a tenured Stanford professor leaves his secure job to teach at an online startup:
… Read the rest “The new U: Take the red pill”Sebastian Thrun, a professor of computer science
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