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Category Archives: Factoid
Culturomics Analyzes Online News Worldwide
Kalev Leetaru describes a summary of the emerging field of Culturomics. It gives priority to analyzing the context and tone ofthe imperfect information available to people at the time we take social action, especially as news media capture a snapshot of the real–time … Continue reading
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Wearable Electronic Smart Clothing
Jin-Woo Han and M. Meyyappan, scientists at the Center for Nanotechnology at NASA Ames Research Center have developed a new flexible memory fabric woven together from interlocking strands of copper and copper-oxide wires. It may soon enable smart fabrics and wearable … Continue reading
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Understanding and Indexing Sounds
Audio engineers at Imagine Research announced their developoment of MediaMined(TM) for understanding and indexing sound. “It acts as a virtual studio engineer,” said Imagine Research’s founder and CEO Jay LeBoeuf. “If your software detects male vocals,” LeBoeuf adds, “then it would … Continue reading
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Batteries with 10x More Capacity and 10x Faster Charge
Using Si nanoparticles in Li-ion rechargable batteries. such as those in cellphones and iPods, results up to 10 times more capacity and 10 times faster charge than current batteries. “We have found a way to extend a new lithium-ion battery’s charge life by 10 times,” … Continue reading
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EduTone Buys Global Grid for Learning
California based EduTone is purchasing Global Grid for Learning (GGfL), Cambridge University Press’ UK-based content aggregation business. GGfL’s library contains over one million digital multimedia resources on-demand on-line through commonly used learning platforms for anywhere, anytime teaching and learning. EduTone … Continue reading
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Artificial Neural Network from DNA
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have created an artificial neural network (a “tiny brain”) from double-stranded DNA molecules with loose ends. These strands interact with biochemical inputs to the loose ends. Outputs serve as both ‘yes’ or ‘no’ … Continue reading
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Peak Internet Comes into View
By assuming that the rate of increase in use of the Internet continues to follow a logistic curve, we were able to estimate when adoption would hit 50 per cent (see graph). In a logistic curve, this always corresponds to … Continue reading
$7M Competition to Improve the Personal Genome Machine
Ion Torrent announced a $7 million competition to increase the performance of their Personal Genome Machine (PGMTM) sequencer. The threshold for winning is to produce results 2X better than the best internal Ion Torrent record at the time of submission: … Continue reading
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Flying Robots
OK, flyboy, enjoy your mandatory aircrew sleep time – you’ve slept yourself right out of a job Lewis Page reports that the ATUAS K-MAX (an autonomous robotic helicopter) in trials earlier this year, has shifted 3,000lb of cargo across 150 … Continue reading
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Promise, Tell the Truth
‘When conducting forensic interviews with child and adolescent witnesses, police officers, social workers, and lawyers could use the honesty-promoting technique of promising to tell the truth,’ the researchers said. ‘In turn, the likelihood of obtaining truthful statements may increase.’ Evans … Continue reading
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