Y’know who digs your smartphone? Medical researchers, that’s who.
Nature explores the impact of our little pocket computers on the way medical research is done: Smartphone apps developed by academics, pharmaceutical companies and technology […]
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Google can beat a human at go.
The Japanese strategy game, Nature reports, is the latest battlefield on which artificial intelligence has defeated human experts: The best human players of chess, draughts […]
It’s a little reading robot for the whole wide internet.
New Scientist looks at the AI that’s been assigned the unenviable task of reading every scientific paper online and finding the important ones: Semantic Scholar, […]
DIY Internet: How Orca Island, WA, became their own provider.
Ars Technica has an inspirational story of some folks who decided they could do a better job than their “professional” ISP: Around that time, CenturyLink […]
What social media app has the biggest political influence right now? Not Facebook. Not Twitter.
According to Quartz, in the African country of Tanzania at least,
Science Art: Scheutz mechanical calculator (Zeichnung der Difference Engine No.1 aus dem Jahr 1853), 1867.
Click to embiggen Now, after that brief, regrettable interruption in service, a tribute to the computer. This illustration is from The Elements of Natural Philosophy; […]
Forget your passwords; use your brainwaves.
Science Daily takes security to a whole other level with a new system that relies on your brain’s responses to words as security instead of […]
The DNA hard drive.
New Scientist marvels at the ability of DNA to store information, with a realization that glassed-in genes could safely store information for millennia: Just 1 […]
A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.
Fusion has the details on the growing community of DNA uploaders: Members of openSNP upload their genes along with things like their sex, age, eye […]
Self-programming computers (little fake brains) fuel new start-up.
You know it’s real when there’s money involved. Well, real-ish. New Scientist has more on the Google acquisition of DeepMind Technologies and their Neural Turing […]
Schizophrenia: many diseases in one
Daily Beast looks over Washington University research that’s found that the singular diagnosis of schizophrenia is actually a compound disease, caused by eight different genetic […]
Triathlete uses internet to defeat her rare genetic disease
The Atlantic gives hope to the new generation of WebMD obsessives with a fascinating tale of an athlete who used the internet to figure out […]
Gödel music composition to debut at Gödel Prize celebration.
Nature has more on the suitably self-recursive premiere of a uniquely mathematical piece of music: The piece, “The Hilbert Heartbreak Hotel” by Danish composer Niels […]
Old phones are listening.
Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on how old smart phones are being used to listen for disrupted sleep patterns, illegal loggers, gunshots, breeding […]
Science Art: “Misirlou” on hard and floppy drives, by Argalnath
Argalnath makes music from hard drives and floppy drives. Like a DJ, Argalnath spins.