Engineering The Ultimate Robotic Fish
When Professor Maurizio Porfiri looks at fish, he sees more than just a bunch of aquatic animals – he sees an animal that could someday replace the rat as the key to better studying and understanding human and animal behaviors in laboratory research. But fish can be unpredictable, which is why Porfiri has dedicated his life’s work to building the ultimate robotic fish.
April 21, 2015 at 11:18AM
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I Used Mini’s Augmented Reality Goggles And Now I Need A Pair
Yes, I look like a complete tool — more so than normal. And that’s just one of the many issues with faceputers. But for those of us that buy cars to drive and not as overpriced fashion statements, Mini’s augmented reality goggles are the fighter jet-style, head-up display of our dreams.
April 21, 2015 at 07:24AM
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The Science of Happiness on Social Media
Tuesday is the saddest day of the week on Twitter. I can tell you that because I’m looking at The Hedonometer, a digital graph created by data scientists to track happiness on the social network. Since 2009, The Hedonometer has been analyzing millions of tweets around the globe to calculate the average happiness levels. And those tweets have produced some very surprising results.
April 21, 2015 at 06:29AM
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What Do Those Symbols on the iPhone Mean?
Stare at the back of your iPhone long enough and you may begin to question the significance behind that peculiar row of symbols appearing near the bottom. What do they mean? Is it a secret Apple language that will eventually replace our alphabet? The truth is out there. And significantly less sinister. Here’s what you’re really looking at.
April 21, 2015 at 06:29AM
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Mini’s Working on Augmented Reality Driving Goggles
Steampunk enthusiasts and Morgan owners aside, driving goggles are a thing of the past, rendered obsolete by the advent of the windshield.Yet Mini sees a bright future in which we all wear goggles … as head-up displays.
April 20, 2015 at 10:01PM
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New Research Shows How to Identify Online Trolls
A new algorithm can predict Internet irritants with 80% accuracy.
April 20, 2015 at 08:56PM
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Baltimore Police say Stingray phone tracking use exceeds 25,000 instances
The Baltimore Police Department’s use of a controversial cellphone surveillance tool is far higher than previously disclosed, a detective testified, claiming that the agency has used the device more than 25,000 times with court orders — as well as an unknown number of times without one.
April 20, 2015 at 08:01PM
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Why Is 301 Used In YouTube For View Count?
Because the Internet is run by bots.
April 20, 2015 at 08:00PM
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These shoes grow five sizes to keep up with the kids who wear them
American charity worker Kenton Lee and his team invented sandals that match the pace of children’s growth via a system of buckles, buttons and pegs, which expand the shoes in length by up to five sizes.
April 20, 2015 at 04:49PM
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Computers Can Now Read Your Lips (And Put Words In Your Mouth)
Experiments at Disney’s Research Hub have yielded a program that is able to break down the visual elements of speech (visemes) and use them to generate hundreds of possible speech sequences (phonemes) that perfectly synchronize with the video. This work explores the natural ambiguity in visual speech and offers insight for automatic speech recognition and the importance of language modeling.
April 20, 2015 at 01:57PM
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