Technology

Yesterday, I complained about the new Kindle’s handling of PDF files, which, despite my complaints, is better than what the earlier software does. ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Sep 16 2010 - 7:00am

Kindle And Security

Last week, I talked about Amazon’s email-in service, which lets you send documents to your Kindle by email. The nicest part of it for me is the PDF conversion feature, but you can, in general, sent any personal documents you like, with or without conversi ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 23 2010 - 5:04pm

NeuFlow- Supercomputer Can 'See' Well Enough To Navigate Roads

Human vision is very advanced. While a human child can look at a cartoon picture of a chicken and know that's a chicken, computers cannot. We can also recognize cars, people, trees and lampposts instantaneously on a busy street without much thought ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2010 - 6:19pm

With Great Technology Comes Great Responsibility

The spread of mass panic through Short Message Service (SMS) and text on phones and services like Twitter is unnecessary and people need to learn to look at information with a more critical eye. People in general are too quick to pass on information wit ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2010 - 4:14pm

Video game fans rally around fallen developer's widow

Think science is a close community? Indeed it is, but video game aficionados are not as shallow as they are portrayed either. Relic Entertainment developer Brian Wood, aged 33, was driving his Subaru Outback with his pregnant wife in the passenger seat w ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 18 2010 - 10:08am

BUMP: Bad Use For A Mobile Phone

The La Jolla, California-based company BUMP launched earlier this week with an eponymous web service that uses license plates as a means to connect with drivers around you. As reported by Technology Review and Popular Science, users can "claim" ...

Article - Lauren Rugani - Sep 20 2010 - 12:17am

HDCP Master Key Cracking

It’s managed to stay out of the general press, mostly — probably because it’s geeky, it’s hard to explain what it really means, and it’s not likely to affect anything any time soon — but the tech press has been covering the cracking of the HDCP master key ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 27 2010 - 11:56am

Notes On Optimizing Home Networks

I have a few notes on home networks, which notes come from recent experience with some network setup issues. Encryption: How to secure one’s network — or whether not to — continues to be a point of debate. I favour some of the arguments for being a “good ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 28 2010 - 1:34pm

Video Game Playing Improves Cortical Network (In Men)

It may seem like a waste of time that young people play video games for hours on end but, at least for some, it may help them in surgery one day. A new study says reorganization of the brain's cortical network in young men with significant experien ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2010 - 12:49pm

Forbes Jumps Into The Blogging Network Business

In the wake of the Pepsigate scandal at Scienceblogs.com and the departure of some two dozen bloggers, a variety of companies decided to capitalize on the disarray and start their own blogging networks- PLoS started a blog network for outside contributors, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 28 2010 - 12:12pm