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.”
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
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:
… Read the rest “DARPA wants Prophecy.”They’re hosting
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.”
BBC dives into the future of computing, when we replace cold, hard silicon with a strong brew of liquid thinking machines:
… Read the rest “Wetware upgrade.”What distinguishes the current project is that it will make use
DiscoveryNews says what I was just thinking. I mean, they’ve got a machine that can do that:
… Read the rest “On the tip of my tongue….”The first “words” detected from the subject’s brain were three vowel
Wired featured a wonderful piece of homemade cybernetics (and one that could subtly changing the world) – the homemade book scanner:
… Read the rest “DIY book scanner”For nearly two years, Daniel Reetz dreamed of
The DaniWeb IT forum offers proof that, for at least one skilled professional, prostitution is a better way to pay the bills than programming:
… Read the rest “A job better than programming…”Dr Magnanti is a developmental neurotoxicology
New Scientist challenges a team of professional electronic snoops, who prove that strangers can learn more than you think from your phone:
… Read the rest “The spy in your pocket.”I’ve just walked into a windowless room
Scientists are not just getting into creating music, InsideScience informs me. They’ve also figured out the magic of finance:
… Read the rest “The physics of finance: Or, the puppetmasters revealed.”A pair of physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute
BBC News reveals the latest tactic in the war to make live electronica performances a little more of the moment: Have the musicians write their sound-making code on the fly:
… Read the rest “Scientists make music #2: Live coding.”Live coding has
…but this new memory technology Neatorama’s talking about will be here to stay:
… Read the rest “Gibraltar may crumble…”Berkeley… researcher Alex Zettl and colleagues created a physical memory cell composed
The sober, respectable Financial Times isn’t really the publication one would expect to be covering OH EM GEE THE ROBOT THINKS IT THINKS! kind of breakthroughs, but that’s… Read the rest “AI baby step: Robot masters scientific method.”
Technology Review closes in on an interesting application for spooky biometric computer systems – using Big Brother security software to identify penguins:
… Read the rest “PENGUIN: ACQUIRED.”The software involved–originally
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