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Head-mounted cameras reveal actions without showing the identity of the filmmaker. Now a new type of software can identify these filmmakers.
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Head-mounted cameras reveal actions without showing the identity of the filmmaker. Now a new type of software can identify these filmmakers.
Stretchy, conductive films made of novel nanobuds could bring touch sensors to more surfaces.Transparent films containing carbon nanobuds—molecular tubes of carbon with ball-like appendages—could turn just about any surface, regardless of its shape, into a touch sensor.
SATURDAY 6. DECEMBER 2014
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server.You Can Beat the Market: Estimating the Return on Investment for National Hockey League (NHL) Team Scouting using a Draft Value Pick Chart for the NHL
FRIDAY 5. DECEMBER 2014
Diamonds are a physicist’s best friend–when it comes to measuring the tiniest magnetic fields.
Antivirus companies had tracked the sophisticated—and likely U.S.-backed—Regin malware for years. But they kept what they learned to themselves.Last week we learned about a striking piece of malware called Regin that has been infecting computer networks worldwide since 2008. It’s more sophisticated than any known criminal malware, and everyone believes a government is behind it. No country...
A computer mouse that wraps around your finger is nice for a while, but it’s much too awkward.When I first heard about the Mycestro, a little computer mouse you wear on your index finger and control by wagging your digits like a symphony conductor, I laughed. It seemed very awkward.
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There’s a bitter fight over the patents for CRISPR, a breakthrough new form of DNA editing.
THURSDAY 4. DECEMBER 2014
A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.Amazon Reveals the Robots at the Heart of Its Epic Cyber Monday Operation Santa’s real workshop is full of robot helpers. —Will Knight, news and analysis...
A startup called Gyroscope wants to build you a personal website that’s automatically updated with your own data.In the spring, Web designer Anand Sharma saw his doctor for an annual physical and became worried upon learning he had a low level of vitamin D. To fix this, he committed to running more often—an easy way to soak up sunshine—as well as something a little more drastic: monitoring...
To reflect on the “political implications of the Internet” today is both arrogant and futile. What we call the Internet—computers and routers but also smartphones and the Internet of Things—is invading our existence. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; properly designed and governed, it could actually be a healthy development for democracy. But once the Internet is everywhere, a question...
WEDNESDAY 3. DECEMBER 2014
Millions of batteries discarded with computers have more than enough life to power home lighting for one year, researchers in India say.Many of the estimated 50 million lithium-ion laptop batteries discarded every year could provide electricity storage sufficient to light homes in poor countries, researchers at IBM say.
Sentiment analysis is booming for blogs and tweets but more or less ignored when it comes to pictures. That looks set to change.
Inexpensive oil could increase the pressure to reduce mandates for biofuels.The plunge in oil prices, accelerated by a recent OPEC decision to maintain production targets, will deal a new blow to efforts to commercialize advanced biofuels such as ethanol made from woody plant waste, or diesel made from plant oils. Lower oil prices may also help strengthen the case for scaling back the federal...
TUESDAY 2. DECEMBER 2014
The man behind a startup acquired by Google for $628 million plans to build a revolutionary new artificial intelligence.Demis Hassabis started playing chess at age 4, and soon blossomed into a child prodigy. At age 8, success on the chessboard led him to ponder two questions that have obsessed him ever since: first, how does the brain learn to master complex tasks; and second, could computers ever...
MONDAY 1. DECEMBER 2014
Google engineers have trained a machine learning algorithm to write picture captions using the same techniques it developed for language translation.
A new material that requires no electricity uses the universe as a heat sink—even when the sun is shining.A material that simultaneously reflects light and radiates heat at frequencies that vent it through the Earth’s atmosphere could one day help cool buildings on hot days. The material cools itself to a temperature below the ambient air, and has been tested on a rooftop at Stanford...
People shop mostly on their desktop computers—but they live on their smartphones. For marketers, effectively reaching their target audiences requires making a connection between those two worlds.
With new “inks” containing semiconductors, researchers have been able to print LEDs for the first time.A 3-D printer can already make a prototype or spare part out of metal or polymer. Researchers at Princeton University have now taken an important step toward expanding the technology’s potential by developing a way to print functioning electronic circuitry out of semiconductors and other...
SATURDAY 29. NOVEMBER 2014
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server.Acoustic Scene Classification
FRIDAY 28. NOVEMBER 2014
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A startup wants to make it easier for people with epilepsy to detect seizures and let others know when they need help.A new wristband from a startup called Empatica is built for people with epilepsy—it hopes to detect their seizures and alert family when they’re in the throes of one—but it could also appeal to people who simply want a sleek-looking gadget for logging activities and...
THURSDAY 27. NOVEMBER 2014
A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.Google Doesn’t Need a New Mission Explaining moon shots and Nest: how organizing large amount of data remains Google’s unifying objective. —Nanette Byrnes, senior editor, Business...
Startup Keyssa wants to replace cords and connectors with speedy wireless transfer technology.A startup called Keyssa has developed technology to wirelessly transfer large amounts of data, like movies and music collections, from one gadget to another in seconds, rather than the minutes (or longer) it can take with a USB drive or over...
Years after his death, the former Apple CEO still wins more patents than most.What is Steve Jobs’s legacy? Here’s one measure: since his death in 2011 from pancreatic cancer, the former Apple CEO has won 141 patents. That’s more than most inventors win during their lifetimes.