Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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If you talk to enough people at the Finnish mobile start... point it occurs to you that the company it most resemble...
Sailfish, Jolla insists, will become a legitimate altern ...
“China… is the most dynamic smartphone market—it†...
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If you were expecting some kind warning when computers f... than us, then think again.
There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing ...
In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking ...
Their weapon of choice - the algorithm.

If you’ve used the internet, you’ve probably had the... unwanted emails or intrusive popup adverts. You might ha... virus attack or been the victim of online fraud.
Increasingly the internet is being targeted by criminals ...
This is why the governm

ifttt: The startup with the crazy name aims to automate ...
Have you ever wished that you could call in status updat ...

Illuminating cities with sustainable smart lighting systems
Lights that switch off automatically when streets are em ...
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... a city-lighting system that's both sustainable and fun.

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Add this to the list of terrifying robots we hope to nev ...

Imagine 3D printing on such a large scale, using a concr... that could “print” a house in as little as 20 hours.... material can withstand over three times the PSI force of... walls. There can even be larger versions, with multiple ... for use in

Imagine being able to navigate the streets just by recei... your footwear. Or feeling a tingle in your yoga tights i... position needs improvement.
And what if you could feel the things you're touching as ...
This is the science of haptics, the intersec

Imagining A “Post-PC” World

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In 1733 a Russian commander, disgusted with the debilita... rampant among his troops, buried a soldier alive as a de... nostalgia.

In 1936 refereeing was not a universal practice at the w... scientific journals. It was not even a universal practic... Review. Einstein’s previous submission to that journal... Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paper, was not sent out fo...
So Einstein

In 1945, Dr. Vannevar Bush published "As We May Think", ...
In that article, he described an automated desk called a ...
Sadly, Vannevar Bush's memex was far beyond what the ana ...
Until Now!
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In 1954, Darrell Huff wrote a neat little book called Ho... Statistics, a how-to guide for marketers to mislead and ... into believing just about anything with the right graphi... well-placed stat. Computationally speaking, we’ve come... 1954, but i

In 2005, the artificial intelligence researcher at the M... Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab set out to under...
"We wanted to understand how minds work and how they dev ...
It was a big task and one that years of research by scie ...
But now, Pr

In 2007 in my lab at Berkeley, Tamar Kushnir and I disco... preschoolers can use probabilities to learn how things w... lets them imagine new possibilities. We put a yellow blo...
Then we gave the children the blocks and asked them to l ...
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In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Int... number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks ... number of connected devices and gizmos, ranging from tel... machines. Folks at Cisco have put together this infograp... the growth

In 2018, a study analysed 14 million tweets over a ten-month period in 2016 and 2017. It found bots on social media were significantly involved in disseminating articles from unreliable sources. Accounts with high numbers of followers were ...

In a candid conversation with Frank Rich last fall, Chri... people don’t even know. If poor people knew how rich r... there would be riots in the streets.” The findings of ... published over the last several years inPerspectives on ... Science, su

In a lab in southern California scientists are curing th... incurable with little more than a mirror, and changing o... the brain in the process.
In mid-November the team at the University of California ...
That study is in its very early stages, but si

In a letter to the Sunday Times, a group of economists h... government to "set out a detailed plan to reduce the str... deficit more quickly than set out in the 2009 pre-budget... raises one of my gripes - that the notion of a structura... is unhelpfu

In a medical emergency, seconds count. But if the doctor... another part of the hospital or even another part of tow... seconds can stretch dangerously. If only the doctor coul... at once, then countless lives could be saved. This is on...
The idea of

In a new report, Simon Roberts outlines why poor househo...
The poorest fifth of the population have already signifi ...
So why is it they are carrying more of the burden of cut ...
Based on detailed analysis of the Government's own figur ...
So lower in

In a new set of experiments published in Science, howeve... found that the raven’s ability to plan ahead goes much... simply catching food.
The first experiment trained the birds to use a tool to ...

In a paper presented recently at the WWW2010 conference ... group of researchers from Yahoo pointed out that before ... construct an accurate picture of a social network, resea... a better job of defining what it takes for two people to... Should two

In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,...
In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ...
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ...
Game Features
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In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delus... Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery mak... Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors... code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers ... implied lic

In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... ‘trapped’ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. I think we’ve all... traps at some point in our lives; being too busy to be a...
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