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May 23 | News
Some
37 cameras shot 132 musicians running through the score of Gustav
Holst's "The Planets” on the specially-blacked out stage at Watford
Colosseum, just outside London, early this year. That footage has been
used by a London museum to put the conductor's baton in visitors' hands,
allowing guests to direct a virtual orchestra using 3D motion sensors.
May 21 | News
Popular firewall technology designed to boost security on cellular networks can backfire, unwittingly revealing data that could help a hacker break into Facebook and Twitter accounts, a new study from the University of Michigan shows. The researchers also developed an Android app that tells phone users when they're on a vulnerable network.
May 21 | News
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) allow people in multiple, rapidly moving
vehicles to communicate with each other—such as in military or
emergency-response situations. Researchers from North Carolina State
University have devised a
method to improve the quality and efficiency of data transmission in
these
networks.
May 18 | News
The
search engine giant has spent the past two years poring through online
encyclopedia Wikipedia, the CIA Factbook and other sources to expand a
database of 12 million items that it picked up as part of its 2010
acquisition of Metaweb. On Wednesday it used this massive database to
launch a new feature that provides a summary of vital information
alongside main search results.
May 18 | News
The
U.S. government has been pushing doctors to e-prescribe, in part
because it can be safer for patients. Now, more than a third of the
nation's prescriptions now are electronic, and starting this year,
holdouts will start to see cuts in their Medicare payments.
May 17 | News
Not
long after a partially paralyzed man in Switzerland used his mind to
remotely control a small robot, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15
years used only her thoughts to direct a robotic arm to pick up a bottle
of coffee and bring it to her lips But will the experimental
brain-controlled technology ever help paralyzed people in everyday life?
May 17 | News
Technology is helping
communication companies merge telephone, television, and Internet
services, but
a push to deregulate may leave some customers on the wrong side of the
digital
divide during this convergence, according to a Penn State University
telecommunications
researcher.
May 16 | News
Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
May 10 | News
After
spending nearly five months conducting experiments in one spot, the
NASA rover moved for the first time this week, rolling off the rock
outcrop where it hunkered down for the Martian winter. Engineers will
check its power supply before directing it north to study dust and
bedrock.
May 9 | News
The
organization behind a major expansion of Internet address suffixes is
offering full refunds to companies and organizations affected by a
weeks-long delay in taking proposals.
