Watch out, Google. A recently published patent application reveals that Sony’s head mounted display glasses are progressing down the evolutionary path rather nicely. What once amounted to just wide-eyed concepts, this latest patent filing, a continuation patent filed on November 14, 2012, shows....
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Watch out, Google. A recently published patent application reveals that Sony’s head mounted display glasses are progressing down the evolutionary path rather nicely. What once amounted to just wide-eyed concepts, this latest patent filing, a continuation patent filed on November 14, 2012, shows....
Google’s self-driving car project is probably one of the most audacious experiments the company has embarked upon. Today, Google announced another milestone for this project: its fleet of about a dozen autonomous cars has now driven 300,000 miles without a single accident under computer....
At least Facebook didn’t break anything, but the extra feeds and search box it recently launched have yet to drastically improve my experience. The homepage redesign is pretty, but I keep forgetting the Photos and Music feeds exist since they’re buried in the sidebar. And Graph Search is....
An 18th Century automaton that could beat human chess opponents seemingly marked the arrival of artificial intelligence. But what turned out to be an elaborate hoax had its own sense of genius, says Adam Gopnik.
Lately I've been thinking a lot about the Turk. That sounds, I know,....
Six European data protection agencies are contemplating legal action over Google's privacy policy.
The threat comes as a four-month deadline to change the policy expires with Google making "no change" to the policy.
Google's perceived failure to act is being looked in to....
Georgia high school teacher DaNita Wilson was arrested Tuesday after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) launched an inquiry into her conduct.
The married, 32-year-old math teacher is accused of having sex with seven students, according to multiple reports. Wilson is facing at....
Why such a fuss about extinction?
by redbull (#2) 86 days ago (http://www.bbc.co.uk)
What is wrong with extinction? I realise this question is the conservation equivalent of a landmine - or an elephant trap. And that it is likely to ruffle a lot of fur.
But I ask because I am merely wondering whether we sometimes forget a grim reality of the story of life on Earth -....
The Face Of A 'Computer' From 1946
by redbull (#2) 136 days ago (http://www.huffingtonpost.com)
Eleanor Kolchin was once a computer.
When she accepted her first full-time job in 1946, “computers” were people, not machines: As a programmer at Columbia University's Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory , Kolchin helped astronomers make sense of the universe by operating....
A former waitress who swapped her £6-per-hour job to become a £650-per-appearance Duchess of Cambridge lookalike has "become pregnant" to maintain accuracy.
Heidi Agan, 32, now has a "bump made in various sizes", she said.
The single mother-of-two from Corby,....
Facebook's newest e-commerce idea: A gift card users can buy for each other that can be spent at retailers and restaurants including Target, Jamba Juice and Olive Garden.
The company is building on the gifts service it introduced last fall. That lets people send chocolate, flowers....
Facebook is showing your content to far less people than they used to, says Nick Bilton at the NY Times, pointing out that while his subscribers have soared, the number of likes per post has declined rapidly. Josh Constine writes his thoughts here.
Bilton’s theory is that Facebook....
Bilton’s theory is that Facebook....
Eye drops designed to lower cholesterol may be able to prevent one of the most common forms of blindness, according to US researchers.
They showed how high cholesterol levels could affect the immune system and lead to macular degeneration.
Tests on mice and humans,....
Skyfall up for Producers Guild of America Awards
by redbull (#2) 166 days ago (http://www.bbc.co.uk)
Skyfall has become the first James Bond film to be nominated for the top prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards.
Star-studded musical Les Miserables and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln are also on the list of 10 shortlisted films.
The Producers Guild of America (PGA)....
An investigation is under way after two explosions near the finishing line of the Boston Marathon left three people dead and more than 100 injured.
The FBI has taken over co-ordination of what it described as a "potential terrorist inquiry".
Boston police say officers....
BBC News - Does confidence really breed success?
by redbull (#2) 166 days ago (http://www.bbc.co.uk)
Research suggests that more and more American university students think they are something special. High self-esteem is generally regarded as a good thing - but could too much of it actually make you less successful?
About nine million young people have filled out the American....
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