Technology

I’ve talked about cloud computing before in these pages. It’s a model of networking that in some ways brings us back to the monolithic data center, but in other ways makes that data center distributed, rather than central. A data cloud, an application clo ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Apr 27 2011 - 9:08pm

SETI Shut Down- Aliens Who Sent Radio Signals 400 Years Before Radio Was Invented Will Be Disappointed

Citing a lack of revenue, the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California has shut down the Allen Telescope Array of radio dishes that have been scanning the skies for signals from extraterrestrial life for decades. And that's the problem, isn't ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 4 2012 - 2:39pm

Tablets, Computers, Science. We Have Failed- Up To Now

I have once before put down some thoughts about computing devices and the situation for scientific use of computer technology, hoping to get some response and start some fruitful discussion. It remained with the hopes, some comments appeared there, but not ...

Article - Ladislav Kocbach - Apr 28 2011 - 12:45pm

Who is Stalking you on Facebook? Who is your biggest Fan? (Updated Methods).

Facebook has always been plagued with privacy issues, such as revealing to third parties personal information which may be used to sell you goods and services. Recently it was denounced by the founder of wikileaks for being a platform for domestic and for ...

Blog Post - Ed Chen - May 15 2011 - 4:20pm

Did You Make Out With Your iPhone Today?

Mobile Make Out is is an iPhone app that claims to make it possible to make out with someone you are not supposed to be making out with and totally not be called unfaithful by your wife or girlfriend. Why didn't the iPhone exist when Bill Clinton w ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 9 2011 - 2:44pm

Stretchable Sensors!

Is someone sitting in the passenger seat of the car? If so, are they leaning forward and can be damage by the airbag? Did a person enter the danger zone in front of an industrial machine? Debuting at the Sensor+Test trade fair in Nuremberg from June ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2011 - 5:43pm

Beetlebutt for a Fire Engine?

There is always a degree of sadness in reading the obituary of a great scientist. Today, following up Bombardier Beetles, I came across this one: Thomas Eisner dies at 81; entomologist who studied insect chemistry ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - May 14 2011 - 10:16am

Horus Help Us- Diagnosing Heart Disease From 1580 B.C.

Whole body computerized tomography (CT) scanning has helped diagnose the earliest confirmed case of coronary artery disease in history. The Egyptian princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon, who lived in Thebes (Luxor) between 1580 and 1550 B.C., lived on a diet rich ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2011 - 11:05am

MindGenius Version 4 Now Released

GLASGOW, Scotland, May 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- MindGenius Ltd has now released Version 4 of its popular mind mapping software, MindGenius. MindGenius 4 boasts new ways to brainstorm and present ideas and information, and adds improved analysis, task and p ...

Article - Newswire - May 27 2011 - 1:47pm

Hello...?

Hello. Well, I guess that’s a fairly appropriate word to begin my first blog post. However, it’s a specific type of ‘hello’, the careful, tentative kind that is uttered by a young child that enters a dark room after the inner battle between his (or her, n ...

Blog Post - Gunnar De Winter - May 29 2011 - 8:00pm