Slack is quietly, unintentionally killing IRC
Slack, the messaging tool for business that’s changing the way people talk at work, is gaining traction in areas that even the company itself didn’t anticipate: it’s quietly killing Internet Relay Chat.
March 25, 2015 at 09:56AM
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The Military Now Has Robotic Ghost Ships
How do you keep track of increasingly stealthy Russian, Chinese and Iranian submarines? If you’re the US military, you build a robotic ghost ship to follow them around the high seas.
March 25, 2015 at 08:54AM
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Spacecraft Traveling Close to Light Speed Should Be Visible With Current Technology, Say Engineers
Interstellar travel may be the stuff of science fiction but it’s straightforward to calculate that it should be possible given the ability to travel at a significant fraction of the speed of light. These kinds of speeds may even be achievable with near future technologies and the tax dollars to make them work.
March 25, 2015 at 07:25AM
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Now Algorithms Are Deciding Whom To Hire, Based On Voice
If you’re trying out for a job in sales, the person who judges your pitch may not be a person — it could be a computer.
March 25, 2015 at 05:21AM
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The Fukushima Cleanup Wasted Half a Billion Dollars on Bad Technology
The cleanup of Fukushima’s leaking nuclear plant has been long, expensive, and plagued with problems.
March 24, 2015 at 08:06PM
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Amazon says the FAA is so slow, the delivery drone it approved is already obsolete
“While the FAA was considering our applications for testing, we innovated so rapidly that the [drone] approved last week by the FAA has become obsolete. We don’t test it anymore. We’ve moved on to more advanced designs that we already are testing abroad,” said Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president for Global Public Policy.
March 24, 2015 at 07:36PM
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Tsarnaev juror selection questionnaire screened for computer scientists
Why the Tsarnaev juror questionnaire screened for computer scientists.
March 24, 2015 at 02:20PM
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Disabled Artist Uses Tracking Software To Draw With His Eyes
Artist Graham Fink worked with a programmer to develop software for an eye-tracker that would allow him to draw simply by looking at the screen.
March 24, 2015 at 01:04PM
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Computers learn to fall for optical illusions
Computers are learning to recognize objects with near-human ability. Optical illusions that can fool computers open up new avenues for research in computer vision — and raise concerns about security.
March 24, 2015 at 11:37AM
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Throwing My Broken Laptop in the Oven Baked It Back to Life
Every couple months I pull out my old gaming laptop from college: a busted-ass Dell m1210 that’s had its motherboard replaced four times under warranty because Nvidia couldn’t get its shit together. It never works right. I’ve had enough. I’m sticking this sucker in the oven.
March 24, 2015 at 11:20AM
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