The Listening Machine converts 500 people’s tweets into music
Composer Peter Gregson turns the words of hundreds into music.
Feds considering allowing DVD-encryption cracking
The U.S. Copyright Office heard requests for loopholes in its rules this week.
Justice Dept. defends public’s constitutional ‘right to record’ cops
The DoJ sent a letter to the attorneys for the Baltimore Police Department.
Cambrian shutter of doom becomes sucker of worms
The mouth of this segmented invertebrate has been a puzzle for many researchers.
Pro rugby club enlists IBM to predict when players will be injured
How do you measure fatigue if you can’t directly measure it?
Rare-earth mining rises again in United States
A company called Molycorp is reopening a mine in California.
Disney researchers put gesture recognition in door knobs, chairs, fish tanks
Imagine a door that locks when you pinch the knob. Or a smartphone that can be silenced by a hand gesture. Or a chair that...
MI6 codebreaker attended U.S. security conference just before his death
A top British codebreaker who died a mysterious death in his flat two years ago had just returned from a computer...
Firefox 13 beta turns on the SPDY, tabs on demand
With Firefox 12 out the door, Mozilla is turning its efforts to polishing up Firefox 13, due out six weeks from now. If you don’t want...
Thinking in foreign language makes decisions more rational
To judge a risk more clearly, it may help to consider it in a foreign language.
A series of experiments on more...
