The new U: Take the red pill
The Chronicle of Higher Education is watching closely as a tenured Stanford professor leaves his secure job to teach at an online startup: Sebastian Thrun, […]
computer science
SOPA and PIPA and TEMPORARY BLACKOUT
SOPA and PIPA probably seem like good ideas at first glance, but they aren’t. They really aren’t.
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. BBC News: The Church […]
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 happening next: How can […]
Who owns your face? (biometrics, meet property rights)
The Future Perfect blog chases down what it might mean once we use our faces online: One of the reoccurring conversations in the US that […]
Photon machines
Science Daily points the way for the next information revolution. Not using electrons, but light itself: The merging of two technologies under development — plasmonics […]
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: The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects […]
A memorial algorithm
Scientific American reveals the moving mathematics behind the layout of the 9/11 memorial: The planners of the memorial, which will be dedicated this weekend where […]
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 […]
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: ACTUV […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Street View: Antarctica
Dude! I *know* that… uh… ice cliff…. Guardian takes a look at Google Street View’s mission to the southernmost continent: Brian McClendon, vice-president of engineering […]
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: They’re […]