computer science
The first church of file-sharing: Kopimism.
The Swedes *really* like their torrents. They revere them. It’s not just entertainment any more – file-sharing is a religion. Literally.
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The professional prophet of Intel.
Scientific American interviews Brian David Johnson, Intel’s “future caster,” who combines science fiction with software and hardware design to predict what’s… Read the rest “The professional prophet of Intel.”
Who owns your face? (biometrics, meet property rights)
The Future Perfect blog chases down what it might mean once we use our faces online:
… Read the rest “Who owns your face? (biometrics, meet property rights)”One of the reoccurring conversations in the US that I coming back to is near-time facial recognition in
Photon machines
Science Daily points the way for the next information revolution. Not using electrons, but light itself:
… Read the rest “Photon machines”The merging of two technologies under development — plasmonics and nanophotonics
Spies turn to Twitomancy
That’s the use of Twitter for divination purposes. And, Nature says, is now an official field of government intelligence research:
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A memorial algorithm
Scientific American reveals the moving mathematics behind the layout of the 9/11 memorial:
… Read the rest “A memorial algorithm”The planners of the memorial, which will be dedicated this weekend where the Twin Towers once
Google vs. Nonsense
In my day job, I’m not a scientist – I’m a writer. So it pleases me immensely to see this New York Times piece on the innovative ways Google is waging war on “content… Read the rest “Google vs. Nonsense”
War games.
DVice.com fulfills that long-held suspicion (in some circles) about videogames and military recruiting with a report on new games actually produced by the Pentagon:
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Robot lawyers.
It’s not news when more factory workers get laid off because their jobs have been automated. But New York Times seems to agree that when computers replace lawyers’ jobs, it’s… Read the rest “Robot lawyers.”
Tron’s (real) cultural legacy.
No, it’s not the concept of living computer programs zooming around circuits on motorcycles made of light. It’s the way, motherboard.tv reveals, a rather clever designer… Read the rest “Tron’s (real) cultural legacy.”
Anti-climate-change-denier bots.
I suppose it’d be shorter to call ’em debate-bots, but Popular Science has the skinny on a new breed of online entity programmed to tirelessly refute the same tired claims: … Read the rest “Anti-climate-change-denier bots.”
Street View: Antarctica
Dude! I *know* that… uh… ice cliff…. Guardian takes a look at Google Street View’s mission to the southernmost continent:
… Read the rest “Street View: Antarctica”Brian McClendon, vice-president
DARPA wants Prophecy.
Wired’s Danger Room sees all, knows all, and reveals all – including the Pentagon’s plan to predict biological attacks by knowing all possible outcomes:
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Computers get the joke.
PopSci releases the terrifying news that computers can decode our humor now. We can’t tell jokes over their little silicon heads any more – they’ve got an algorithm … Read the rest “Computers get the joke.”