Kill the Phone Call
The phone call isn’t dead. Despite what many a journalist/blogger/paranoid internet commenter might have you believe, smartphones can indeed still dial out. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s not in the process of dying. And if you have even a shred of decency about you, you’ll help take it out back Old-Yeller-style and put everyone out of their misery. Friends, it’s time to kill the phone call.
November 12, 2014 at 12:53PM
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The Promised Land
Hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, a man-made object was flung at a comet Wednesday — and now it’s sticking to the rock as it hurtles through space.
November 12, 2014 at 10:17AM
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Microsoft fixes ’19-year-old’ bug with emergency patch
The vulnerability — dubbed WinShock by some — has been graded as 9.3 out of a possible 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), a measure of severity in computer security.
November 12, 2014 at 07:34AM
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The Cyborg Medicine of Tomorrow Is Inside the Veteran of Today
As a result of military-funded programs, vets are becoming the research platform for cybernetic technologies that are decades beyond commercial state of the art and that could one day elevate humanity beyond its natural biological limitations.
November 12, 2014 at 02:57AM
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Technology To Automate A Third Of U.K. Jobs Over Next 20 Years, Says Deloitte
A new study has quantified the rate of destruction for the UK jobs market over the next 20 years — predicting that around one-third of existing jobs across the UK are under high risk of replacement via automation over this time period.
November 12, 2014 at 01:57AM
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LIVINGSTON, the Computer that Writes Folk Music, Is Too Good to Be Real
The apparent musical proficiency of LIVINGSTON, the artificially intelligent songwriter in question, raises many questions about authenticity in art, the role of technology in facilitating cultural development, and how we perceive our relationship with increasingly intelligent machines, however limited that intelligence may be.
November 12, 2014 at 12:54AM
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Google needs space; rents NASA airfield
Google has signed a deal to rent NASA’s historic Moffett Federal Airfield for a minimum of 60 years, as it looks to expand its research in space exploration and robotics.
November 11, 2014 at 10:00PM
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This Device Diagnoses Hundreds of Diseases Using a Single Drop of Blood
Known as rHEALTH, the technology was developed over the course of seven years with grants from NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It gets into the deep diagnostics of biomarkers and other internal indicators that can serve as an early warning sign of a serious ailment.
November 11, 2014 at 10:00PM
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Amazon Echo & Narcissus: A Love Story
“Alexa, could you bring me a towel?” he called out from the bathroom. “I’m not equipped to hand you fabric or paper for drying or wiping.” “How dare you question my authority!” Narcissus turned the faucet off and glanced at the tub now full with water. He gasped at his reflection staring back at him.“Wait a minute. Why, you are even more gorgeous than the person in the river! Pleased to meet you, Alexa!”
November 11, 2014 at 09:26PM
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Tristan Walker: The Visible Man
A bold entrepreneur with a radical startup. An African-American. In tech, those two phrases usually don’t go together. Enter Tristan Walker.
November 11, 2014 at 09:26PM
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