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5 talks that are all about lyingThe average person lies once or twice a day. And as Cornell psychology professor Jeff Hancock shares in today’s fascinating talk, given at TEDxWinnipeg, the anonymity and ambiguity of technology give us a whole new arsenal of ways to fib. He and his team have identified three new types of... Continue Reading →
Parallella: A Supercomputer For EveryoneMaking parallel computing easy to use has been described as "a problem as hard as any that computer science has faced". With such a big challenge ahead, we need to make sure that every programmer has access to cheap and open parallel hardware and development tools. Inspired by great hardware communities... Continue Reading →
DEVICE GETS POWERED BY YOUR EAROur ears contain an elaborate system of chambers that convert mechanical energy into an electrochemical signal, much like a battery. Without those signals, we'd be unable to balance or hear. Now a new wireless microdevice can actually run on that scant energy. The technique could provide an inexhaustible power source... Continue Reading →
Nigerian Teenage Girls Create Urine-Powered Electrical Generator Four Nigeria-based 14- and 15-year-old girls Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin and Bello Eniola created a urine-powered generator. Unveiled at the Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, the device is able to provide six hours of electricity with one liter of urine. Urine is first put into an electrolytic cell to separate out the... Continue Reading →
Nobel Prize Winning Economist Eric Maskin: In Highly Innovative Industries, It May Be Better To Scrap PatentsWe've talked in the past about how Nobel Prize winning economist Eric Maskin has done researchquestioning the value of patents in software and in other industries. So it's not surprising -- though still fantastic -- that he's responded to the... Continue Reading →
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