Slime logic. Who needs silicon chips?
Science Daily has a lively take on computing, with new circuits made of living slime molds: Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, Bristol, […]
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Faster computers will find aliens.
If you never thought cosmic loneliness was a computing problem, think again. In Popular Mechanics, SETI leader Seth Shostak says Moore’s Law means we’ll find […]
World’s biggest dinosaur walks again.
Digital Trends looks up in awe at the lumbering, prehistoric majesty of the mighty Argentinasaurus (virtual, 2.0 edition) taking its first steps: When a group […]
Bright wireless.
ZDnet shines on the newest bright idea to promise to change the way we internet… a Chinese project using lightbulbs to transmit information wirelessly: Four […]
Science Art: Beetle (ASIC) by Sven Loechner
The Beetle (ASIC) is a chip designed for the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator designed to recreate the Big Bang. It’s part of […]
Graphene makes *different* computer chips.
University of California, Riverside, researchers have made a very small breakthrough in the way computers work… one that might lead to big changes soon. They’re […]
SONG: Better angels.
SONG: “Better Angels” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media,” The Guardian, […]
Hipster heat maps and yuppie data visualizations
Slate brings psychogeography a step closer to the mainstream, highlighting software that uses word frequency to show what kinds of people are in what parts […]
Sock-puppet G-men keeping tabs on the Twitter.
The Guardian reveals a genuine government plot to infiltrate social networks with Fakey McFake IDs: A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United […]
Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.
The Telegraph reports on (or, at least, repeats Wired‘s reporting on) the dirigibles spreading the World Wide Web to places no internet has gone before: […]
Computing with light.
Science Daily isn’t talking about fiberoptics. They’re looking at the latest breakthroughs that take the “electrons” out of “electronics” by using photons to process information: […]
Forget chess-playing computers. Here’s a baseball robot.
Wired (via CNN) is sizing up the new guy on the mound – a mechanical brain designed to outsmart pitchers: Researchers at the University of […]
Military navigator half as big as the engraving on the back of a penny.
And, Wired says, about as thick, too. But this chip can still do everything a GPS can do… without the satellites: At the University of […]
Real money. Virtual currency. Hard rules.
New Scientist adds up the arguments over bitcoins, the computer-generated form of money. We’re now seeing plans to regulate the imaginary currency: Virtual currencies are […]
Lockheed Martin’s quantum computer steps into the limelight.
New York Times has a pretty good profile of what could be the next big breakthrough in computing – the chips that understand “maybe”: [A] […]