Disrupted Slumber: Can We Really Hack Sleep?
Polyphasic sleep isn’t new. Some say that Leonardo da Vinci, the ultimate hacker, invented it. Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon and Thomas Edison were all said to be polyphasic sleepers. Buckminster Fuller wished that national leaders would embrace it; he was certain it would have shortened World War II.
August 5, 2014 at 10:31AM
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In supersecret cyberwar game, civilian-sector techies pummel active-duty cyberwarriors
“They were pretty much obliterated,” said one Capitol Hill staffer who attended the exercise. “The active-duty team didn’t even know how they’d been attacked.”
August 5, 2014 at 9:01AM
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IBM’s Watson Groomed as C-Suite Advisor
Researchers at IBM are testing a version of Watson designed to listen and contribute to business meetings.
August 5, 2014 at 7:34AM
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The Army’s 3D-Printed Food Will Give Soldiers Personalized Meals
Three-dimensional printing is changing the way the Army treats injuries and builds bombs, and now the technology is poised to revolutionize how soldiers are fed. 3D printing will allow the Army to print food on demand, from pasta to pizza, and tailor its nutritional content to an individual soldier’s needs.
August 5, 2014 at 7:34AM
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A Peek Into Life in ‘Silicon Forest,’ Russia’s Hot New Startup Scene
The town of Akademgorodok, nestled among birch and conifers 3,400 kilometers east of Moscow, is becoming a hub for 21st century Russian innovation and entrepreneurship.
August 5, 2014 at 4:39AM
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Pitch deck: How Snapchat is selling itself to marketers
Snapchat is making the rounds, meeting brands and agencies to give them a how-to on their platform in a bid to get more companies on board. And somebody leaked their pitch deck.
August 5, 2014 at 3:39AM
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Extracting audio from visual information
Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass.
August 4, 2014 at 9:51PM
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All The Science Experiments You Wish You Could Do At Home, But Couldn’t
Assuming you’re not an advanced chemist of some sort, you probably don’t have access to the dangerous and cool chemicals that make science fun. Luckily for you there’s a Vine account that lets you enjoy the magic of chemistry from the safety of your mobile phone.
August 4, 2014 at 8:16PM
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What’s a Girl Gotta Do to Get a Charge in This Town?
The bartenders I’ve spoken to recently acknowledge that electricity-beggars — and our occasional bad behavior and temper tantrums — won’t be going away, so they’re trying to figure out better ways of dealing with us.
August 4, 2014 at 7:55PM
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NASA Confirms the “Impossible” – Propellant-free Microwave Thruster for Spacecraft Works!
Designs for a device called a microwave thruster, which could power spacecrafts without the need for propellant, have been proposed since 2006. But now a NASA team might have actually built one.
August 4, 2014 at 7:00PM
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