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Tracking the Human Network

The Really Smart Phone

Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease—even our political views.

April 26th 2011 Ubiquitous Computing


Biology Likes Technology

Nerve-Electronic Hybrid Could Meld Mind and Machine

Nerve-cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining toward the sun.

March 23rd 2011 Biology, Hardware


Eliza Understands!

* = me, > = Eliza

* How are you?
> Would you prefer if I were not ?
* What do you mean?
> Oh…  mean?
* Yes.
> Are you Sure?
* I don’t understand.
> Do you wish to be able to understand?
* Yes.
> I understand.

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March 21st 2011 Artificial Intelligence, Humor