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Blog - Facebook Opens Up
Letting users download all their data is a positive move--but it could help Google build a rival.
Facebook has built up a formidable store of data on its five hundred million users, including billions of status updates, comments, photos and videos. Now the company is...
Blog - How Molecular Frisbees Could Encourage Nuclear Proliferation
A new technique for controlling the trajectories of spinning molecules could have major international implications
Anybody who has played with a frisbee will have an intuitive idea of how the angle at which you throw them determines the path they take....
Blog - Who'll Tune in to Google TV?
One of the first compatible device, Logitech's Revue, will cost $299--a price tag that may deter early adopters.
Ever since Google announced its much-rumored...
Blog - A Look Inside Google's New Image Format
Can Google's WebP image format really speed up the whole Web?...
WEDNESDAY 6. OCTOBER 2010
Blog - Patients Who Have Your Ailment Also Had...
Why your doctor may eventually be replaced by a recommendation engine....
Blog - How Globalisation is Bad for the World Economy
Evolutionary theory predicts that globalisation should increase the risk of recession and slow recovery rates, a phenomenon borne out by real data, say econophysicists...
Blog - Locaccino Shows How How Facebook Places Should Work
Researchers create a privacy-protecting location-based service that already works with Facebook.
In August, Facebook rolled out Facebook Places, its entrant into the...
TUESDAY 5. OCTOBER 2010
Blog - Where's All the Free Wi-Fi We Were Promised?
Municipal WiFi was supposed to bridge the digital divide. Here's why it failed....
Blog - Alice, Bob and Carla: Quantum Love Triangle Revealed
The relationship between the quantum world's most famous couple is thrown into question by the revelations of a quantum mistress
There's gossip afoot in the quantum world. For decades, Alice and Bob have served the quantum community to the highest standards of dedication and loyalty. In countless experiments, the pair have lent their formidable observing prowess to the proceedings,...
MONDAY 4. OCTOBER 2010
Blog - A Sneak Preview of Google TV
Will users embrace a TV experience that relies on a keyboard in your living room?...
Blog - Why Microsoft Is Playing Hardball with Motorola
Microsoft appears determined to show handset makers that Android isn't free....
Blog - The Post-Singularity Future Of Astronomy
Astronomy could be the first discipline in which the rate of discovery by machines outpaces humans' ability to interpret it
"In twenty years time, it is likely that most astronomers will never go near a cutting-edge telescope," says Ray Norris at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Epping, Australia. So begins a fascinating discussion about the future of...
SATURDAY 2. OCTOBER 2010
Blog - Lost 'n' Found
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FRIDAY 1. OCTOBER 2010
Blog - Lost Rover Found on Moon With Retroreflector Still Intact
The Russian Lunokhod-1 rover, lost for over 30 years, is surprisingly well-preserved, say astronomers who have worked out its position to within a few centimetres
On 17 November 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 17 mission touched down on the surface of the Moon. The lander carried a huge rover the size of a small car, called Lunokhod-1, which trundled off into lunar landscape. Over the next...
THURSDAY 30. SEPTEMBER 2010
Blog - Web Search That Talks
A startup unveils a tool that generates a slick video for any topic you search for.
Ever wished for a search engine that could talk?...
Blog - Physicists Convert Information Into Energy
The first demonstration of an information-heat engine could revolutionise the way nanomachines get their power
Here's a fascinating piece of work. Build a tiny staircase and place a small polystyrene bead on the bottom step (a staircase is fairly straightforward to construct using electric fields)....
Blog - The Browser Gets Fragmented
Browser manufacturers are finally really competing with each other. But is that good for users?...
WEDNESDAY 29. SEPTEMBER 2010
Blog - Twitter's Credibility Problem
Research shows that users have little trust in the information they get from Twitter....
Blog - A Robot Chair Makes You Sit Up Straight
After suffering back problems, a professor taught his chair to correct his posture.
Blog - How To Build A Warp Drive Using Metamaterials
A "warp drive" built using metamaterials could reach a quarter light speed, suggests a new analysis...
TUESDAY 28. SEPTEMBER 2010
Blog - What Twitter Learns from All Those Tweets
The company's head of analytics explains how Twitter mines the data users produce.
Twitter messages might be limited to 140 characters each, but all those characters can add up. In fact, they add up to 12 terabytes of data every day....
Blog - The Hot New Thing in Biometric Security is... Ears
Ears don't change shape, grow hair or wear disguises. They are the perfect means of identification....
Blog - Time Likely To End Within Earth's Lifespan, Say Physicists
There is a 50 per cent chance that time will end within the next 3.7 billion years, according to a new model of the universe
Look out into space and the signs are plain to see. The universe began in a Big Bang event some 13 billion years ago and has been expanding ever since. And the best evidence from the distance reaches of the cosmos is that this expansion is accelerating....
MONDAY 27. SEPTEMBER 2010
Blog - First Observation of Hawking Radiation
Hawking predicted it in 1974. Now physicists say they've seen it for the first time...
SATURDAY 25. SEPTEMBER 2010
Blog - Grabit 'n' Run
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