Now, Superman knows where exactly he came from.
A noted astrophysicist claimed to have determined actual location of Superman’s fictional home planet — Krypton.
Thursday, November 08, 2012
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Naps help nocturnal humans
According to a growing body of research, napping is a smart thing to do. It can help refresh the mind, make you more creative, boost your intelligence,
and even help you live a longer, healthier life. It's slowly gaining
acceptance as part of a healthy lifestyle, even in some corporate
offices. Read on as we share the science behind the need to nap, and a
scientist-approved method for taking the ideal snooze.
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
HP's Bradley on 'post-PC': "people are trying to be dramatic"
If there's one over-used buzzword currently making the rounds in the
technology industry, it's 'post-PC world' - or the notion that desktops
and laptops are a dying breed. Todd Bradley, executive vice president of
HP's printing and personal systems group, thinks this is a nonsensical notion - and he's right.
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Monkeys Made Smarter With Prosthetic Device
Scientists have successfully restored and, in some cases, enhanced decision-making ability in brain-damaged monkeys on cocaine by connecting a prosthetic device to their brains. 'In the study,
the scientists trained five monkeys to match multiple images on a
computer screen until they were correct 70 to 75 percent of the time.
First, an image appeared on the screen, which the animals were trained
to select using a hand-controlled cursor. The screen then went blank for
up to two minutes, followed by the reappearance of two to eight images,
including the initial one, on the same screen. When the monkeys
correctly chose the image they were shown first, the electronic
prosthetic device recorded the pattern of neural pulses associated with
their decision by employing a multi-input multi-output nonlinear (MIMO)
mathematical model, developed by researchers at the University of
Southern California. In the next phase of the study, a drug known to
disrupt cognitive activity, cocaine, was administered to the animals to
simulate brain injury. When the animals repeated the image-selection
task, their decision-making ability decreased 13 percent from normal.
However, during these "drug sessions," the MIMO prosthesis detected when
the animals were likely to choose the wrong image and played back the
previously recorded "correct" neural patterns for the task. According to
the study findings, the MIMO device was exceedingly effective in
restoring the cocaine-impaired decision-making ability to an improved
level of 10 percent above normal, even when the drug was still present
and active.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
NASA's pioneering astronauts: Where are they now?
As space exploration has become more common and the number of astronauts
has risen past 300, many names have faded into the background. But some
will forever be associated with the golden age of space exploration.
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Nikola Tesla gets some of the recognition he deserves
The thing about Nikola Tesla is that those who know enough about him to
care at all tend to care very, very much. Thanks to that devotion, and
attempts to publicize the plight of Tesla’s Long Island laboratory,
Wardenclyffe, real progress toward saving the site is finally being
made.
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install, Not Very Securely
I've been very impressed by how fast, well-designed, functional and
capable this latest iteration of Windows is. However, my tinkering
around from a security/privacy perspective has left me concerned.
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Apple v. Samsung verdict is in: $1 billion loss for Samsung
A jury of seven men and two women has just read the Apple v. Samsung
verdict to a packed courtroom—and it was all bad news for Samsung. The
Korean electronics giant has been found to infringe all of Apple's
utility patents and all but one of the four design patents asserted, and
was ordered to pay $1.05 billion in damages to Apple.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
US To Drive 3,000 Wi-Fi Linked Vehicles In Massive Crash Avoidance Trial
The US Department of Transportation said it will run a massive road test of cars, trucks and buses linked together via WiFi equipment in what the agency says will be the largest test of automated crash avoidance technology to date.
Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs
Microsoft has never really
acknowledged or supported those among us who choose to build their own
PCs. Windows licensing is usually offered in three forms: full retail
product license, retail upgrade license, and OEM license. If you want to
build your own machine at the moment, Microsoft expects you to buy a
full retail copy of Windows, and states clearly that using the OEM
licensed version is prohibited by individuals. The price difference made
the OEM version the one to get, though.
With Windows 8 that all changes
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
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Anticipating the Free PC: Microsoft as a Services Company
AT&T in its prime was a services company: You got the telephones for
free and paid a monthly fee for services that covered the cost of the
hardware. Because the hardware was a cost center, it didn’t change very
often and was designed to last for decades. Outside of cable companies,
this was a very different world back then but the trend pendulum swings
and it is starting to swing back to services. And while we are calling
it “the cloud” this time and it is far more than just phones, the result
could be that hardware is free and we are back to a monthly charge for
access.
Monday, June 04, 2012
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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Researcher publishes specs for real Linux-powered Star Trek tricorder
The Star Trek tricorder has become a reality, thanks to the hobby project of a cognitive science researcher. Dr. Peter Jansen has developed a handheld mobile computing device that has a number of sophisticated embedded sensors. The device is modeled after the distinctive design of the 24th-century tricorder.
He began working on the project in 2007 and aims to make it easy for others to reproduce his designs. He has made complete schematics for two of his four models available under the terms of the TAPR non-commercial hardware license. The underlying source code of the device's software environment is available under the GPL. In a blog post about the project, Jansen explained that he hopes his project will encourage scientific curiosity and help people better understand the world.
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He began working on the project in 2007 and aims to make it easy for others to reproduce his designs. He has made complete schematics for two of his four models available under the terms of the TAPR non-commercial hardware license. The underlying source code of the device's software environment is available under the GPL. In a blog post about the project, Jansen explained that he hopes his project will encourage scientific curiosity and help people better understand the world.
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