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 →Hardware that tracks your head, eyes and hands will make the follow up to Second Life very different to the pioneering virtual world. The founder of once-popular virtual world…
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Continue Reading →Glass apps will require people to create new content filters. Maybe that’s just a losing battle. Would you want your daily horoscope beamed to your right eye? That’s the vision…
Continue Reading →Otherfab’s Kickstarter project offers an easy way to make custom circuit boards at home.
Continue Reading →Here’s the smartphone technology that alerts a doctor when patients are headed for trouble. At the Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, nurses can see into the lives…
Continue Reading →The mental fuzziness induced by cancer treatment could be eased by cognitive exercises performed online, say researchers. Cancer survivors sometimes suffer from a condition known as “chemo fog”—a cognitive impairment…
Continue Reading →Prototype spots swelling and bleeding in a pilot study—but the novel technique employed is relatively unproven. A helmet that sends a magnetic field through the wearer’s head might someday offer…
Continue Reading →A so-called metal-organic framework could offer a better way to get at the vast uranium resource dissolved in the ocean. A new material could potentially be used to…
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 →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 →Micro-display LED tech could light up the next generation of face-wearable gadgets. A tiny head-mounted display, like the one in Google Glass , will only be useful if…
Continue Reading →The same researchers previously mapped racist Tweets about President Obama. In both cases there’s reason to be a little skeptical.
Continue Reading →We’ve hit 400 ppm of carbon dioxide, but we won’t know what that means for decades. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Scripps Institution of Oceanography say that the carbon…
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 clip-on camera that snaps a picture every 30 seconds.
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…
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