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Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist and the author of The Vision Revolution, discusses Google's augmented-reality glasses.
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Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist and the author of The Vision Revolution, discusses Google's augmented-reality glasses.
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Norman Priebatsch, who disappeared on Sunday while hiking, had recently founded a company working on a novel solution for tinnitus. Norman Priebatsch, who fell into a crevasse while hiking in New Hampshire last weekend and is presumed dead at 67, was known for founding or heading...
The age of the digital magazine is here. There’s something of a running gag in the startup world, where everything is an “X for Y.” The joke site
An app brings the sketchbook experience to tablets. Let’s begin with a video.
THURSDAY 5. APRIL 2012
The Royal Canadian Mint has invented a new, digital currency called
IBM rolled out a free iPad app on Thursday that offers a digital version of a 50-foot-long math timeline that was designed by Charles and Ray Eames as part of an IBM-sponsored math exhibit at the 1964 World's Fair....
It's hard to believe but nobody has properly calculated how much a social gaming company should be worth. Until now Last November, a couple of econophysicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich took a close look at the share price of Facebook, the social networking company that is valued at anywhere between $65 billion and $100 billion....
Historian of technology George Dyson discusses the remarkable story that inspired his latest book, Turing’s Cathedral.
WEDNESDAY 4. APRIL 2012
Amazon showed device makers that they don't need Google to succeed. Google's Android device makers aren't happy. They're tired of making commodity devices that are merely vehicles for Google's Android OS, each indistinguishable from the other because of Google's rules about how Android can be implemented on them in order for them to qualify as "compatible."...
A video released by Google today confirms rumors that the company has been working on glasses that display maps, incoming messages, and other information in your field of view. ...
Will ephemeral plastic solar cells make ubiquitous sensor networks a reality? When you think about how to power a distributed network of environmental sensors, the kind we'll want to have in order to...
Tesla and new fuel-economy standards have already jump-started battery-powered vehicles. Last night Fisker Automotive, maker of the luxury Karma electric vehicle, unveiled its new car, the Atlantic, which was previously known as Project Nina. The car, which is expected to cost about half as much as the Karma—or around $50,000--is meant to make the company mass-market automaker....
Facebook and Twitter are available in other languages. But only 15 percent of their privacy policies have been fully translated. The world is increasingly talking about privacy these days. But when people try to read the actual privacy policies of major social networking sites – they often must do so in English....
Security analysts reveal the inner workings of China's efforts to block the Tor anonymity network--and how to get around this censorship The Tor Project is a free network run by volunteers that hides users locations and usage from surveillance and traffic analysis. Essentially, it provides online anonymity to anybody who wants it. ...
Reports of death can be exaggerated. But in this case...? Is Research in Motion, makers of the iconic BlackBerry, dead--or sick unto death? Some observers are calling it....
Could this mean better days for electric vehicles? After months of bad news, GM finally has a reason to be optimistic about its Chevrolet Volt. It delivered 2,289 Volts last month, the most it’s sold in a month since the vehicle became available a little over a year ago. March sales were more than double what they were in February, and close to the rate needed for GM to accommodate its...
Technology Review is interviewing Neal Stephenson -- here's your chance to suggest a question.
TUESDAY 3. APRIL 2012
Computer scientists have analysed thousands of memorable movie quotes to work out why we remember certain phrases and not others "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." ...
MONDAY 2. APRIL 2012
What's to stop kids from pirating LEGO sets as readily as they pirate music? Let's assume for a minute that 3D printing
A twins study sparks debate over the usefulness of medical genome sequencing. On the steep slope of plummeting DNA sequencing costs rides the suggestion that whole-genome sequencing will soon be a part of the clinical experience for most patients. But...
Nobody knows which sequencing technology is fastest because there has never been a fair way to compare the rate at which they extract information from DNA. Until now One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science is Claude Shannon, an engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories during its hey day in the mid 20th century. Shannon's most enduring contribution to science is information...
Designer microbes regulate their own pathways to optimize fuel production, boosting yields threefold. Give bacteria a bit of self-awareness and they can be smarter about producing biofuel. ...
FRIDAY 30. MARCH 2012
The smaller tracking devices become, the more applications they find. The coolest thing about RFID chips -- those ultra-cheap, ultra-tiny devices allow remote tracking, even without batteries -- is that these qualities make them suitable for types of research that would otherwise be impossible. Or at least challenging....