Computers are good at storage and speed, but brains maintain the efficiency lead
The 21 gram keychain computer
"The tiny PC enables what its inventor calls 'Any Screen Computing,' the ability to turn any TV, laptop, phone, tablet, or set-top box into a dumb terminal for its Android operating system." Similar prototype from another inventor. Other than biological hardware (an actual implanted thumbdrive), this seems like the most portable computing possible. But are these devices too late to the party? After all, the concept relies on generic input and output devices becoming as ubiquitous and available as...well, mobile phones. Which, as phones come to feature HDMI-out, as well as USB keyboard input, are pretty much this. But not all content creators are on board.
Breakthrough chip mimics human brain function
The day that computers outsmart their human overlords may yet lie in the distant future, but a new computer chip that mimics the basis of learning and memory in the brain is a critical step towards that moment.
Facebook Enters The Phone Wars
They are reportedly working on a phone in cooperation with HTC that has true social media integration and will probably run a customized version of Android - much like the Kindle Fire.
Google Music v iTunes Match v Amazon Cloud Player.
Google has officially launched its (U.S. only) "Google Music" service, which aims to do for the Android market what iTunes and the recently unveiled (U.S. only) iTunes Match service does for Apple. All three services allow you to upload thousands of songs to the "Cloud". This music store showdown could revolutionise the way people collect, store and listen to music - or not.
Hublot painstakingly recreates a mysterious, 2,100-year-old clockwork relic - but why?
Misconceptions in AI: Or why Watson can’t talk to Siri
"So Watson can’t take dictation, and Siri can’t play Jeopardy. Understanding why shows how far we have to go when it comes to true artificial intelligence and those fears of the robots taking over."
Occupy Flash
The movement to rid the world of the Flash Player plugin
Stanford has announced new online courses for January 2012. Like the three courses currently running (1,2,3), these courses are free, open to the general public, and have no required textbook: CS 101, Cryptography, Design & Analysis of Algorithms I, Game Theory, Human-Computer Interaction, The Lean Launchpad, Natural Language Processing, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Software Engineering for Software as a Service, Technology Entrepreneurship
Stop Internet Piracy Act Has Huge Online Backlash
The act, which is designed to curb foreign policy but would cripple the Internet as we know it, is being officially protested by AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo and Zynga - and also protested by a huge grassroots movement, which may be turning the tide of the bill in Congress
Wolfram Alpha launches the coolest flight tracker ever
Have you ever wanted to know where the planes flying overhead were going? If so, you finally have a way to find out.
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