Technology

To Halt The Rise Of The Machines, Think About Fuzzy Logic

Amid all the dire warnings that machines run by artificial intelligence (AI) will one day take over from humans we need to think more about how we program them in the first place. The technology may be too far off to seriously entertain these worries – fo ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 9 2015 - 3:20pm

ResearchKit- Apple Goes Open Source For Medical Apps

Apple has found a new use for their iPhone- medicine. People had already created lots of apps, of course, but ResearchKit, due out next month, is the first Apple framework to make it easier.  The framework allows new ways to create apps to track movement, ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2015 - 3:50pm

Back To BASIC For Synthetic DNA Design

A new system called BASIC could give synthetic biology a boost by creating artificial DNA that is faster, more accurate and more flexible than existing methods.  To engineer new organisms, scientists build artificial genes from individual molecules and the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2015 - 1:58pm

CRISPR/Cas9 Labeling System Makes A GPS For The Genome

A new app for finding and mapping chromosomal loci uses multicolored versions of CRISPR/Cas9. The labeling system, developed by  the University of Massachusetts Medical School, could be a key to understanding the spatial and temporal regulation of gene exp ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2015 - 4:45pm

Carbon Nitride and Salmon Sperm

Two things that have caught my attention recently. The first concerns trapping solar energy.  One way to do this is to convert it directly into electricity with a solar panel, but one with much wider application would be to split water into oxygen and hydr ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Mar 13 2015 - 7:42am

Can Journalism Be Saved From The Internet?

Last week, prominent tech site Gigaom ceased operations with the terse note “Gigaom recently became unable to pay its creditors in full at this time”. Started in 2006 by Om Malik, the site had raised about $40 million over that period to create a technolo ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 16 2015 - 8:00am

How Millennials Get News

When "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart announced he was leaving the program, corporate journalism declared that Millennials without faux news would have no news at all. In reality, Millennials barely watched it, the steady viewers were older and ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2015 - 10:16am

Cyber CSI: The Challenges Of Digital Forensics

Forensics is changing in the digital age, and the legal system is still catching up when it comes to properly employing digital evidence. Broadly speaking, digital evidence is information found on a wide range of electronic devices that is useful in court ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 17 2015 - 9:01am

53 Days and Counting With Windows 10 Build 9926. UPDATED

Windows 10 build 9926 has been with us for 53 days, or almost two months.  While faster releases would be nice for those of us who don't mind bugs, it gives us an idea that Microsoft is going to release something that looks 99.9% like this build in th ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 19 2015 - 2:29am

Privacy Paradox: Teens Don't Perceive Social Media Risk The Way Adults Do

For every parent who ever wondered what the heck their teens were thinking when they posted risky information or pictures on social media, a team scholars suggests that they do not think like most adults do.  In the analysis, the IT authors report that the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2015 - 1:48pm