Quantum computers can work.
Laboratory Equipment points the way for the next big breakthrough in thinking machines: Many quantum algorithms require that particles’ spins be “entangled,” meaning that they’re […]
cybernetics
The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.
Laboratory Equipment reveals how computers can now ID you by watching you walk: he National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a walking gait recognition system […]
The robot knows itself.
Machines, BBC reports, are one step closer to personhood, thanks to Yale researchers inventing Nico, a robot who knows himself: “It is a spatial reasoning […]
Grandad’s got a better password than you, kiddo.
In all likelihood, that is. New Scientist doesn’t actually *know* your password, of course. But they know that if you’re over 55, you’re more likely […]
Science Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.
Image from Wikimedia Commons. These symbols show steps in various chemical processes – the things you can do to change substances. Well, the things chemical […]
The Twitter trenches
Time reveals more of the Pentagon’s social media warfare research: The new Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program was submitted under the Defense Advanced […]
10 red balloons.
That’s what DARPA launched to test new ways to use the internet – and social media specifically, the Guardian says – to solve problems rapidly […]
My Bionic Eye.
BBC News tells the story of a blind man whose life has been changed by his bionic eye: Ron, who has not revealed his surname, […]
Help us speak science.
Nature’s Nascent blog has a call for volunteers to help evaluate abstracts and comments on PLoS ONE, the Public Library of Science: I agree with […]
The Olympic Computer.
The New York Times shares an interesting theory about the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient clockwork computer recovered from the Mediterranean. Instead of being some kind […]
Twitch of a (bionic) whisker.
New Scientist senses the tiniest air currents by a synthetic whisker: The design consists of an artificial hair deposited on a silicon substrate and connected […]
Robot chef!
New Scientist is living in The Jetsons: “If you want to interpret and understand everyday activities using vision data, it’s very complicated, error-prone, and resource […]