Technology

Breakthrough: New Microchip Allows For Portable DNA Testing At Crime Scenes

Researchers in Hong Kong have miniaturized technology needed to perform the versatile polymerase chain reaction (PCR) — widely used in criminal investigations, disease diagnosis, and a range of other key applications. Published in Analytical Chemistry, the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2008 - 12:13pm

Is User-Generated Networking The Foundation Of Web 3.0?

The World Wide Web offered a way to use computers to bring people together but the ".com" era turned it into a cash machine and it became a way to do advertising and push information out to people. Web 2.0 took that back with user-generated conte ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2008 - 3:12pm

DNA As An Artificial Nose

Electrochemical DNA biosensors are a growing field and a new study published in PLoS Biology shows that the next generation in odor detection technology could involve artifical noses based on DNA. The study demonstrates a previously unreported property of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2008 - 7:31pm

Computer Vision Still Not That Great

Has substantial progress been made in computers that can see like humans? Not as much as thought, according to MIT researchers. They say recent results are misleading because the tests being used are stacked in favor of computers. Computer vision is import ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2008 - 12:30am

Hello Oscar: Stanford Scientist Gets Some Academy Awards Respect

The rushing floodwaters in Evan Almighty, the heaving seas of the latter two Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the dragon's flaming breath in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire all featured computer-generated fluids in spectacular action. The scien ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2008 - 3:00am

QTRAX V.2 Beta Launches- Service Sees 61,000 Unique Users Per Hour

NEW YORK, January 28 /PRNewswire/-- QTRAX (www.QTRAX.com), the world's first free and legal peer-to-peer music service announced that at today's V.2 Beta launch, its ground-breaking service had approximately 61,000 unique users per hour (between ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2008 - 11:02am

'Virtual Physiological Human' Takes People Out Of Drug Testing

The combined supercomputing power of the UK and US ‘national grids’ has enabled UCL (University College London) scientists to simulate the efficacy of an HIV drug in blocking a key protein used by the lethal virus. The method – an early example of the Virt ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2008 - 10:19am

IOpener 'Virtual Competition' Start-Up Will Let You Challenge Real Drivers During A Formula One Race

The billions of dollars spent each year on the space program sometimes translate into practical real world improvements; if you don't know the value of Tang (1) and pens that write upside-down (2), you have just never tried them. It's no differen ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2008 - 9:49pm

Patient, Diagnose Thyself- With Smart Holograms

Patients with diabetes or high blood pressure could benefit from the development of new "smart" holograms which can detect changes in, among other things, glucose levels and make self-diagnosis much simpler, cheaper and more reliable, write Chris ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2008 - 7:22pm

Cybersex Inspires New Technologies, Sort Of- Or Not

Computers are increasingly being used by those seeking sexual thrills and this use is helping inspire new and innovative technologies, according to a cybersex expert from University of Portsmouth. Dr. Trudy Barber is delivering a lecture on the subject at ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2008 - 12:52pm