Technology

We're always trying to keep the 'footprint' of the site pretty small while maintaining as much functionality as possible. You've all seen 'new' versions of lots of sites that seem to add a bunch of whiz-bang stuff that deve ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 10 2009 - 8:06pm

New LED Polarization Technique Makes Them Less Annoying, Say Researchers

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute say their new polarization-matched type of light emitting diode (LED) has significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2009 - 2:10pm

Video Games- Blood Actually Does Not Help The Bottom Line (It Isn't Hurting Teens Either)

Take heart, parents. If your teenager is brandishing a virtual shotgun in their new video game, you're not raising the next Columbine kid. If they're enjoying themselves, it's because of the healthy pleasure of mastering a challenge rat ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2009 - 1:53am

Girls Do Better Than Boys With New Technology- Study

A new report, co-authored by a University of Hertfordshire academic, which will be launched this Thursday (22 January), has revealed that girls are more likely to have new technologies at home than boys and it is mothers rather than fathers who assist them ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2009 - 11:01am

Robot Assistant Passes Test In Gallbladder Surgery

The cast of "House" won't need to find new jobs any time soon but using a robotic assistant to remove a patient's gallbladder by key-hole surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) was as safe as working with a human assistant, a Cochrane R ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2009 - 7:28pm

Technology: Making us stressed out natural-born cyborgs

Are we " "natural-born cyborgs", as Carl Zimmer argues? We tend to think of the mind as separated from the world; we imagine information trickling into our senses and reaching our isolated minds, which then turn that information into a detai ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 21 2009 - 4:14pm

Physician Tech Tools Of The Trade- Wikipedia, Social Networking

Manhattan Research, a global healthcare and pharmaceutical market research company, today announced the release of Taking the Pulse(R) Europe v8.0, its European physician study and strategic advisory service. It offers in-depth market data and analysis of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2009 - 5:50pm

Polish, Italian Languages Closer To Getting A Babel Fish

European researchers say they have developed the most advanced spontaneous language understanding (SLU) system ever devised for both Polish and Italian languages. That's because it is also the first one, according to the Luna project behind the work. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2009 - 6:17pm

Cryptography- Not Just For Spies Any More

Cryptography isn't just for spies anymore- it's absolutely everywhere around us. Every time we use an ATM or buy something online we are sending data that we hope isn't intercepted on its way, because that would mean our finances were at ris ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Jan 27 2009 - 1:47pm

The Great Tinkertoy Computer: Tic-Tac-Toe Domination

The term “computer” was first used by Sir Thomas Browne in 1646 AD, or 329 BB (Before Bill) according to the Gatesian calendar. Coincidentally (perhaps?), the year zero of the Gatesian calendar, or 1975 AD, corresponds to Daniel Hillis and Brian Silverman’ ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jun 12 2011 - 11:18pm