Amazing Databases: OKCupid's OKTrends
For the past two years, the four Harvard graduates behind the dating site OkCupid have been studying user data for insight into human behavior and sharing the results…
View ArticleThe World's Most Amazing Databases: Sloan Digital Sky Survey Database
In 1998, astronomers using the 2.5-meter Sloan telescope at New Mexico’s Apache Point Observatory began scanning the sky and loading the images they captured into the freely…
View ArticleThe World's Most Amazing Databases: The International Panel on Climate...
Before the International Panel on Climate Change launched its Data Distribution Centre (DDC) in 1998, researchers who needed climate-change projections had to get them from the handful of scientists...
View ArticleAnd Yet... And Yet...
I should perhaps begin by saying that I am as big a fan of the Net and the Web and the whole expanding “information universe” as anyone you are likely to meet. I find myself online all the time,...
View ArticleHome 3-D Viewing Equipment Is Getting Smaller and Smaller and Smaller
3-D TV is still experiencing some growing pains, in large part because of its reliance on bulky, uncomfortable and expensive active-shutter glasses. That's now changing. A new wave of 3-D sets are...
View ArticleCell-Connected Security Devices Let You Keep an Eye on Your Home From Anywhere
As telephone landlines become obsolete, so do the hardwired security systems that rely on them. Cellular modems and Wi-Fi receivers are now so affordable that manufacturers…
View ArticleYou Built What?! A Remote-Controlled Hacker Drone
Richard Perkins and Mike Tassey both worked in information technology in the U.S. Air Force before decamping to various cybersecurity consulting roles in and around the…
View ArticleFYI: Can Humans Trigger Earthquakes?
Yes. We drill into the earth to mine for gas, oil and minerals and construct massive dams and, as a result, have caused at least 200 quakes of more than 4.5 magnitude in the…
View ArticleGray Matter: The Fire Bird
Oil and water don't mix: it's an old saying, but it's never more true than when you're talking about a pot of hot cooking oil and the moisture condensed on the surface of a…
View ArticleThe Goods: November 2011's Hottest Gadgets
Every month we search far and wide to bring you a dozen of the best new ideas in gear. These gadgets are the first, the best and the latest. Check out the gallery below to get the first look at what...
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