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 aliens in the… Read the rest “Faster computers will find aliens.”
Digital Trends looks up in awe at the lumbering, prehistoric majesty of the mighty Argentinasaurus (virtual, 2.0 edition) taking its first steps:
… Read the rest “World’s biggest dinosaur walks again.”When a group of scientists claimed the
ZDnet shines on the newest bright idea to promise to change the way we internet… a Chinese project using lightbulbs to transmit information wirelessly:
… Read the rest “Bright wireless.”Four computers under a one-watt
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 the quark-detection equipment … Read the rest “Science Art: Beetle (ASIC) by Sven Loechner”
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 using atom-thin… Read the rest “Graphene makes *different* computer chips.”
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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 of the city:
… Read the rest “Hipster heat maps and yuppie data visualizations”Of all the data goldmines
The Guardian reveals a genuine government plot to infiltrate social networks with Fakey McFake IDs:
… Read the rest “Sock-puppet G-men keeping tabs on the Twitter.”A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command
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:
… Read the rest “Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.”“To help enable the campaign,
Science Daily isn’t talking about fiberoptics. They’re looking at the latest breakthroughs that take the “electrons” out of “electronics” … Read the rest “Computing with light.”
Wired (via CNN) is sizing up the new guy on the mound – a mechanical brain designed to outsmart pitchers:
… Read the rest “Forget chess-playing computers. Here’s a baseball robot.”Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and the
And, Wired says, about as thick, too. But this chip can still do everything a GPS can do… without the satellites:
… Read the rest “Military navigator half as big as the engraving on the back of a penny.”At the University of Michigan on Wednesday, researchers for Darpa
New Scientist adds up the arguments over bitcoins, the computer-generated form of money. We’re now seeing plans to regulate the imaginary currency:
… Read the rest “Real money. Virtual currency. Hard rules.”Virtual currencies are to be
New York Times has a pretty good profile of what could be the next big breakthrough in computing – the chips that understand “maybe”:
… Read the rest “Lockheed Martin’s quantum computer steps into the limelight.”[A] powerful new type of computer
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