Overworked and much in demand, IT support staff can’t be in two places at once. But software designed to watch and learn as they carry out common tasks could soon help–by automatically performing the same jobs across different computers. The new software system, called KarDo, was developed by researchers at MIT. It can automatically configure [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km
a, A birds-eye view of the 16-km free-space quantum teleportation experiment. Charlie sends photon 1 to Alice for BSM. Classical information, including the results of the BSM and the signal for time synchronization, is sent through the free-space channel with photon 2, to Bob, before decoding and triggering of the corresponding unitary transformation. b, Sketch [...]
Do More with Google Latitude and Your Location Using the New Latitude API
Location, location, location. In case you haven’t noticed, we’re really excited about all the ways location can make mobile apps and websites more useful. With Google Latitude, we created a simple way for you to own your location and let you easily share it with whomever you like, display it wherever you like, and even [...]
Droopy: A Tiny Web Server That Makes Receiving Files a Snap
Droopy is a mini web server that’s designed to make it easy for you to receive files on your computer — and is especially useful for those times when a less-than-tech-savvy client wants to send you a large file. Instead of them trying to send the file over IM or FTP, or using a service [...]
New text-only Facebook mobile site designed for speed
Facebook is launching a new mobile site designed to be a speedier and cheaper option to its main mobile site. The new site, at http://0.facebook.com, has no photos or graphics, only text, so it loads faster, and the more than 50 mobile carriers partnering with Facebook will not charge users any data fees when visiting [...]
Car hackers can kill brakes, engine, and more
University researchers have taken a close look at the computer systems used to run today’s cars and discovered new ways to hack into them, sometimes with frightening results. In a paper set to be presented at a security conference in Oakland, California, next week, the security researchers say that by connecting to a standard diagnostic [...]
Smarten up and prepare for modern life with Modern Warfare, Resident Evil
Study focus on shoot-to-kill games Games “improved quick-thinking” The 10 best videogame weapons VIOLENT videogames like Call of Duty and Resident Evil can make you smarter, new research suggests. The Sun reported the study said shoot-to-kill videogames improved quick-thinking and made players more able to cope with the demands of modern life. It refutes claims [...]
Facebook May Not Be Skynet, but It Is Getting Smarter, and That’s Bad for Google
Remember the computer network in “The Terminator” that progressively got so smart it became sentient and attempted to annihilate the human race? That network was called Skynet, and its goal was to remove the possibility of human error and slowness of reaction time to guarantee fast, efficient response to enemy attack. Wednesday, at F8, the [...]
Your fastest Internet in the world is found in Berkeley, CA
If you want the fastest average broadband speed in the world, don’t move to Japan. Instead, buckle up your Birkenstocks and pile into the VW Bus, because it’s time for a road trip to Berkeley, California, home of the fastest average Internet speeds on earth. This nugget of data comes courtesy of the most recent [...]
Slow motion weapon: Phantom Flex camera shoots full HD at 2,800 frames per second
High-speed photography specialist Vision Research has unleashed its next-gen video camera – the Phantom Flex. The unit is billed as the world’s most flexible digital cinema camera and it’s no idle boast – the specs speak for themselves. Packing a four mega-pixel color CMOS sensor, the Phantom Flex captures a maximum resolution of 2560×1600 shooting at [...]