Technology
- … Hermes’ Dirty Little Trick
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Hermes is the son of Zeus. He is the messenger. He wears winged sandals, a winged hat,and a magic wand. He is the fastest of the gods. He is the god of thieves and he is the god of commerce. Even when he steals, he does it so gracefully. He is the guide f ...
Article - Zeynep Altinay - Mar 11 2012 - 11:03am
- Marvel Augmented Reality At SXSW Interactive
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AUSTIN, Texas, March 12, 2012-- Yesterday, at the SXSW Interactive Festival, Marvel Entertainment unveiled Marvel AR, the first augmented reality app from a comic book company. As part of the recently announced Marvel ReEvolution, which brings the world o ...
Article - Newswire - Mar 12 2012 - 8:35pm
- Design for a national secure identity system
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The fatal flaw of all biometric (or cognitive) identity validation is that once its signature is stolen it is unusable for that individual again. Hence, the system eventually makes it more difficult to verify identities, particularly valuable identities, ...
Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Mar 12 2012 - 1:42pm
- First Trailer For The Walking Dead Video Game Released
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SAN RAFAEL, California, March 20, 2012- Telltale Games and Robert Kirkman, the Eisner Award-winning creator/writer of The Walking Dead for Skybound/Image, has released the first trailer for their upcoming game, The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead is set i ...
Article - Newswire - Sep 7 2012 - 9:08am
- Double Precautionary Principle Danger: A Robot Built With Nanotubes
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Here is a precautionary principle two-for-one special. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 23 2012 - 1:25pm
- Graphene: 'Wonder' Material May Revolutionize DNA Sequencing
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In the era of Big Science, it is often assumed that cutting-edge research can't be done cheaply. Yet even now a piece of tape can lead to a Nobel prize. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov got one that way, for their discovery of graphene, a type ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2012 - 7:49pm
- What Do You Meme?
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“And then I was like FUUUUUU”. This is how stories end nowadays. I dare to make a claim about the flow of stories because I believe the ontology of stories follows a predictable and stable pattern and it is this: I present to you a situation in which I wa ...
Article - Samuel Tettner - Mar 28 2012 - 2:20pm
- Why The WikiLeaks Model Of Radical Transparency Failed
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After WikiLeaks released classified and sensitive government documents, predictions of the scale and significance of their impact were overstated. The desire/hope of proponents that the WikiLeaks disclosures of 2010 meant conventional mechanisms for contro ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2012 - 9:00pm
- Elsevier Launches Peer Review Report Transparency Pilot Program
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Will review reports published with articles enhance peer review quality? ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2012 - 1:00pm
- Robotic Hands Get Delicate
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Robots don't understand subtlety- what is effortless to a human, like pouring juice into a cup, is a challenge for a machine. While one hand holds the glass bottle firmly, the other one must gently grasp the cup. Researchers at Saarland University tog ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2012 - 1:00am
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