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Blog - Why Instapaper Will Never Be Booted From the iTunes App Store
Creator of the popular reading app Marco Armenti on how he's managed to avoid angering the New York Times - so far.
Publicity-wise,
nothing could have been better for bestselling iPad newsreader...
Blog - DOE Releases Raw Data on Oil Spill
A new webpage provides numbers on how much oil is being recovered, and schematics of the technology involved....
Blog - Human Networks And Causality Cones
Studying the interactions between people in ever increasing detail reveals entirely new patterns of human behaviour--and poses challenges for network science
The study of networks has changed the way we think about our world and the way that societies organise themselves within it. In particular, the discovery that many real world networks can be thought as small worlds, in which most nodes...
MONDAY 7. JUNE 2010
Blog - And now the power forecast...
A new mathematical technique for measuring how close power grids are to catastrophic failure could help prevent outages in future
In the afternoon of 14 August 2003, a massive power fluctuation rippled through the grid supplying power to the north eastern US and Canada. The fluctuation caused more than 500 generators throughout the region to shut down leaving some 55 million people without power....
Blog - Introducing the Electromagnetic Bazooka
A technique borrowed from acoustics could lead to a super-powerful amplifier of microwave radiation.
Non-nuclear electromagnetic pulses (EMPs), featured in movies like Goldeneye and The Matrix, are the stuff of electrical engineers' nightmares. Imagine a conventional explosive that sends out a shockwave of electromagnetic radiation so powerful that it short circuits computers, stops cars dead...
SATURDAY 5. JUNE 2010
Blog - Past 'n' Finished
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week:
FRIDAY 4. JUNE 2010
Blog - Why A Good A Memory Is Bad For You
The counterintuitive finding that too good a memory makes foragers inefficient reveals a glimpse of the forces that govern the evolution of intelligence
In recent years, a small revolution has occurred in the study of animal foraging patterns. Various new ways have emerged to track and record the movement of animals over relatively long periods and computer scientists have developed models that do...
Blog - BP Installs Spill Containment Scheme Number 4
A riser cap is capturing a fraction of the leak as BP seeks to optimize an imperfect seal....
THURSDAY 3. JUNE 2010
Blog - The Evolution of Computer Science
Computing the energy levels of a helium atom in 1958 was significantly harder than it is today. But a comparison of then and now methods reveals some counter intuitive anomalies about the impact of computer science.
In 1958, Chaim Pekeris completed a landmark project in computer science. As a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Technology in Israel, he become fascinated with the relatively new...
WEDNESDAY 2. JUNE 2010
Blog - Econophysicist Accurately Forecasts Gold Price Collapse
The first results from the Financial Bubble Experiment will have huge implications for econophysics
There are good reasons to think that stock markets are fundamentally unpredictable. Many econophysicists believe for example, that the data from these markets bear a startling resemblance to other data from seemingly unconnected phenomena, such as the size of earthquakes, forest fires and...
Blog - How iTunes Genius Really Works
An Apple engineer discloses how the company's premier recommendation engine parses millions of iTunes libraries.
Ever since the feature debuted in 2008, there's been a lot of...
TUESDAY 1. JUNE 2010
Blog - How to Entangle Humans (contd)
An experiment in which humans will 'see' entanglement is pressing ahead
We've looked before at the...
Blog - Microrobotics Competition Shows Impressive Feats
The world's elite microrobots break the world record in the two-milimeter dash and self-assemble like Voltron.
At...
Video - Surveillance Camera Says What it Sees
A prototype computer vision system generates a live text description of what’s happening in a feed from a surveillance camera. This could ease video searching and analysis....
MONDAY 31. MAY 2010
Blog - The Kilogram and the Kitchen Sink
Physicists can't make up their minds how heavy a kilogram should be. Perhaps they should allow a new generation of scientists to help
In 1983, physicists at the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures decided to redefine the metre. For a century until then, the metre had been the distance between two points on a bar of platinum and iridium measured at the melting point of ice....
SATURDAY 29. MAY 2010
Blog - Caves 'n' potholes
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week:
FRIDAY 28. MAY 2010
Blog - Why Shrek Has No Hair: The Challenges of Virtual Hairstyling
New system uses haptics to allow designers to comb hair just like they would in real life
Imagine
that you had to design a virtual hairstyle by painstakingly defining the
position and shape of every single hair on a character's head. It sounds like a
joke, but modeling hair in this way - with a heaping helping of
post-processing for added realism - remains the industry standard for...
Blog - Graphene Nanopores Solve DNA Sequencing Problem
Passing a strand of DNA through a hole in a sheet of graphene finally solves one of the biggest problems with a revolutionary new genome sequencing technique called nanopore translocation
There's little doubt that it will be possible to sequence any individual's genome quickly and cheaply within the next few years. But that's not to say there aren't significant technology...
Blog - Another Customer for Commercial Crew Transportation
Bigelow Aerospace is developing inflatable modules, but needs vehicles to get them to space....
Blog - What's Next for E Ink
The company's latest prototypes show crisper, brighter color, and are being combined with flexible backplanes.
On the floor of the exhibit hall at the Society for Information Display conference in Seattle this week were many amazing technologies. One of the things that impressed me the most was...
Video - E Ink’s E-Paper Prototypes
At the Display Week conference in Seattle, the company E Ink demonstrated its latest electronic display paper prototypes. The devices show crisper, brighter color, and are being combined with flexible backplanes from new owner PVI....
Blog - Android-Powered Sensors Monitors Vital Signs and More
Adding sensors to smartphones turns them into always-on recorders of medically significant information.
In
science fiction films from Aliens to Avatar, commanders back at the base station always know when soldiers of the
future get taken out by hostiles--because their vital signs are being
monitored in real time. Doing that with present-day technology is a challenge,
not least because...
THURSDAY 27. MAY 2010
Blog - Fruit Flies Genetically Engineered to Smell Light
Blue light is perceived as the odor of bananas, marzipan or glue.
Blog - Expanding Open-Source Robotics
Eleven teams will share their work as they teach robots real-world skills.
Robotics company
Blog - Space Adventures to Develop Suborbital Vehicles
The company announced a partnership that returns it to its suborbital roots and into a competitive market....