Technology

No, that Geek is not me, it's John Siracusa exhaustively reviewing (literally- the review is 23 pages long) Mac OS X 10.6 for Ars Technica: A major operating system upgrade with "no new features" must play by a different set of rules. Every ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Sep 9 2009 - 9:12pm

The Next Communication Technology

What major communication technology will come next? ...

Blog Post - Eric Bock Hyde - Sep 11 2009 - 3:15am

Mendeley (And Other Free Software)

Some time ago, I posted about my search for a new reference management program for Windows that would be the rough equivalent of Papers for Mac (which is the rough equivalent of iTunes for PDFs). I played around with Zotero, but I prefer something standalo ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Sep 11 2009 - 12:19pm

Developing Science 2.0: New Editor Features

Hi there, I'm Patrick and I'm one of the principal developers on ScientificBlogging.com- that means if the site mysteriously crashed, I likely did it. This column is around to help introduce / discuss new features, and talk about what Science 2. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Adair - Sep 11 2009 - 5:48pm

United States, Private Military Firms, and Technology: July 2009

Private military firms and the Department of Defense are the United States military technology complex. Here's a look at virtual modeling and simulation environment, cybersecurity, and robotics contracts between US DoD and private military firms in J ...

Blog Post - Eric Bock Hyde - Sep 14 2009 - 1:05pm

Microblogging Sustainability When The Top 5 Twitter Posts Are...

Microbloggers are having trouble being interesting, a new study says. So they write more often, just to have something to say. The top 5 most frequent postings on microblogging sites like Twitter, Jaiku and Mobile Facebook are “working,” “home,” “work, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2009 - 10:00pm

Wild Musical Inventions From Berlin Hackday

As much as our 'Project Calliope' satellite is a science project, it's also a music experiment. We are, after all, flying scientific instruments on a picosatellite specifically to make music. So it's worth pointing out another group t ...

Article - Project Calliope - Sep 21 2009 - 2:21pm

Smart Houses And Contextual Patterns

A few years ago, I was spending a good bit of my time on context-based services. User context — also called “presence” — is information, which changes over time, about the current state of a user or other thing (it could be a car, say, or a sensor, or a c ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 24 2009 - 3:24pm

Unlocking Oxygen Trapped Inside Luna's Soil

The moon has no has no atmosphere like Earth's but oxygen which can be used for people, growing food, creating water and even burning rocket fuel is trapped in its soil. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2009 - 12:50pm

How Would Darwin Use E-mail? In A Circadian Cycle, It Seems

You may feel like you're not in the same league as Albert Einstein or Charles Darwin (note: statistically, you are not) but you probably share one thing if you are reading this article; patterns of correspondence. A new Northwestern University study ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2009 - 5:11pm