Technology

DIY Prosthetics: How An Athlete Who Wanted To Ski Again Built A New Kind Of Knee

When Brian Bartlett was 24 he was hit by a car from behind so hard it ripped his right leg off instantly. It all happened so fast. He doesn’t like to talk about it. “You really can’t understand,” he told me. “There’s just no way to…until you have an injur ...

Article - Mosaic Science - May 28 2015 - 8:00am

Programmatic Marketing: Sometimes It Actually Is Rocket Science

If you have gone to a new web page and seen an advertisement based on things you looked at in your browser history, you have likely been impressed or creeped out. You can thank MIT for a lot of this “programmatic marketing”- and rocket science. It is also ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2015 - 10:10am

Mexican Team Develops Cosmic Ray Detector For The Large Hadron Collider

A multidisciplinary team from Mexico created ACORDE, a full cosmic ray detector, and Sergio Vergara Lemon, researcher at the University of Puebla says it is the first Mexican cosmic ray detector. ALICE is one of five experiments installed in the Large Hadr ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2015 - 5:07pm

Gaming on Windows 10 Build 10122, The Good, The Bad and The Malfunctioning. (UPDATE 10130 same issues)

W indows 10 build 10122 marks the arrival of something like a first beta Build of Windows 10.  (Build 10130 has a bit more polish, new icons, but has the same issues as 10122.) As such, one can now start to ask the question how will my favorite games fare ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 30 2015 - 7:36am

Gamify Your Life: Social Media Metrics Let You Get A Quantified Digital Version Of Yourself

Earlier this month, LinkedIn announced an update to its users’ already-teeming profile view. The social network now lets you track and chart who’s viewed your posts, complete with a “performance summary” and a colorful demographic breakdown. ...

Article - The Conversation - May 31 2015 - 9:28am

The Legacy Of Texan Surgeons And Artificial Hearts

Haskell Karp was 37 when he suffered his first heart attack, and over the next ten years he suffered a variety of related problems. By 1969 even the slightest effort, like combing his hair or brushing his teeth, would bring on chest pain or extreme shortn ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Jun 2 2015 - 8:30am

Data Glasses That Make You Look Less Like A Dork

Google Glass gave the idea of data glasses an uphill cultural hill to climb- rather than being a must-have accessory, they became a source of derision. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2015 - 10:30am

Global Sanitation Fund Reports Major Sanitation Advances For 7 Million People In 13 Countries

The Global Sanitation Fund's latest Progress Report details how support for nationally-led programs has helped 7 million people in over 20,500 communities become open-defecation free, improved toilets for 4.2 million people and seen eight million peo ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2015 - 10:28pm

Brainprint: Our Reactions To Terms Could Replace Passwords

Passwords have to be complicated in order to keep them from being stolen but our reactions to words are subjective- and those could lead to the best security of all. In a new study, researchers from Binghamton University observed the brain signals of 45 vo ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2015 - 4:42pm

Hybrid-Electric Street Sweepers

Unless you are a wealthy elite, an electric car is not a viable option because gasoline still rules when it comes to energy density, meaning electric has a more limited range, and solar energy is not close to replacing fossil fuels yet so the environment i ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2015 - 2:28pm