Currently viewing the tag: "lists"

An Australian team unveils the fundamental building block of a scalable quantum computer that could be embedded in today’s silicon chips Back in the late 90s, a physicist in Australia…

Continue Reading

Can cultural factors be more important than censorship in shaping Chinese surfing habits? Two researchers argue that a new study of the way global websites cluster together supports this idea…

Continue Reading

Can cultural factors be more important than censorship in shaping Chinese surfing habits? Two researchers argue that a new study of the way global websites cluster together supports this idea…

Continue Reading

A techie’s San Francisco home has its own Twitter feed. Will yours be next? At first glance, you’d never guess there’s anything unusual about Tom Coates’s San Francisco home. Nestled…

Continue Reading

Otherfab’s Kickstarter project offers an easy way to make custom circuit boards at home.  

Continue Reading

Building solar and wind projects in the wrong place is wasting billions of dollars in Europe. Siemens says it would make sense to build solar power plants in sunny countries…

Continue Reading

The mental fuzziness induced by cancer treatment could be eased by cognitive exercises performed online, say researchers. Long-term cancer survivors who use a brain-training program for 12 weeks are…

Continue Reading

With dozens of new features, Google’s social network is becoming more like a photo service and a news site. Despite the 190 million people that Google says use its social network…

Continue Reading

Breaking its own restrictions, Google will show developers how to build any kind of app for Google Glass. Google has set plenty of restrictions on the functionality of apps for…

Continue Reading

A new line of research examines what happens in an office where the positions of the cubicles and walls—even the coffee pot—are all determined by data. Can we use data…

Continue Reading

An International Energy Agency report says investments in oil technology will lead to a worldwide supply boom. High oil prices were supposed to make biofuels and other oil alternatives more…

Continue Reading

Making it easier for people to rent their own cars could lead to growth in car sharing. With peer-to-peer car sharing, it is getting easier and easier to…

Continue Reading

Analysing the footage from camera pills is a time-consuming task for medical professionals. Now computer scientists are attempting to automate the process

Continue Reading

Researchers use phone records to build a mobility model of the Los Angeles and New York City regions with new privacy guarantees. Researchers at AT&T, Rutgers University, Princeton, and Loyola…

Continue Reading

Apps that proactively help people with their lives represent a significant departure from earlier approaches to software. A new type of mobile app is departing from a long-standing practice…

Continue Reading

The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server The MASTER-II Network of Robotic Optical Telescopes. First Results

Continue Reading

Researchers attach “viral hitmen” to surfaces to demonstrate a possible antibacterial defense for catheters and other medical devices. Medical implants like catheters and pacemakers can be a hotspot for bacteria…

Continue Reading

In new study, Facebook’s science team says the company killed automatic sharing on “Offers” because the science said active sharing works better.

Continue Reading

A startup believes people will want a photographic record of their lives, taken at 30-second intervals. “We want to provide people with a perfect photographic memory,” says Martin Källström…

Continue Reading

A month after the release of Home, Facebook is working to answer criticisms with improvements. Facebook Home —an app for Android smartphones that provides users with a constant stream of…

Continue Reading

Looking for something?

Use the form below to search the site:


Still not finding what you're looking for? Drop a comment on a post or contact us so we can take care of it!

Set your Twitter account name in your settings to use the TwitterBar Section.