When a happy birthday wish on Facebook turns into a request for donations
As if you needed another way for technology to feed guilt.
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Intelligent camera automatically detects roadside bombs
Roadside bombs are sneaky and effective killers. They are easy to manufacture and hide, making it the weapon of choice for insurgents and terrorists across the world. Finding and disabling these lethal devices is very difficult. ...
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A new memristor-based neural network inspired by the notion of associative memory
Classical conditioning is a psychological process through which animals or humans pair desired or unpleasant stimuli (e.g., food or a painful experiences) with a seemingly neutral stimulus (e.g., the sound of a bell, the ...
Engineering
Bridge protection during catastrophic earthquakes
More than 1 million people have died in the 1800 magnitude 5+ earthquakes recorded worldwide since 2000.
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Intel Introduces cryogenic control chip 'Horse Ridge' to enable control of multiple quantum bits
Intel has announced the development of a cryogenic control chip it calls "Horse Ridge." The chip is can control multiple qubits in a quantum computer. In its announcement, Intel claims that development of the chip represents ...
Security
Unlawful metadata access is easy when we're flogging a dead law
After watching this year's media raids and the prosecution of lawyers and whistleblowers, it's not hard to see why Australians wonder about excessive police power and dwindling journalistic freedom.
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MIT CSAIL: Revealing hidden video from shadows
A team of researchers showed they can recover a video of motion taking place in a hidden scene by observing changes in illumination in a nearby visible region. They looked at the indirect effect on shadows and shading in ...
Business
Nissan faces $22 million fine for misreporting Ghosn pay
Nissan should be fined $22 million for filing documents that under-reported the compensation of former chief Carlos Ghosn, Japanese regulators recommended Tuesday, with troubled the firm saying it would not dispute the penalty.
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Google celebrates the beloved Mexican card game Lotería with an interactive Doodle
Google has added another interactive game to its search page.
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Your data has been sold to websites like MyLife and WhitePages. Here's how to remove it
If you think your privacy is at risk when it comes to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, they're nothing compared to the "people search engines." We're talking WhitePages, MyLife.com, BeenVerified and the like.
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