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The Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2012
via io9.com “We watched a cyborg compete at the Olympic Games, and marveled at the news that NASA was actually working on a faster-than-light warp drive. It was also a year that featured the planet’s first superstorm, the development of an artific…
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Hacked terminals capable of causing pacemaker deaths – Hackers – SC Magazine Australia – Secure Business Intelligence
???The worst case scenario that I can think of, which is 100 percent possible with these devices, would be to load a compromised firmware update onto a programmer and ??? the compromised programmer would then infect the next pacemaker or ICD and then …
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Oxford Nanopore introduces DNA ???strand sequencing??? on the high-throughput GridION??? platform and presents MinION???, a sequencer the size of a USB memory stick
EMBARGO: Friday 17 February, noon EST/5pm UK Oxford Nanopore introduces DNA ???strand sequencing??? on the high-throughput GridION??? platform and presents MinION???, a sequencer the size of a USB memory stick – New generation of sequencing technology use…
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The Summers’ Tale
via roughtype.com “But this idea that knowledge can be separated from facts – that we can know without knowing – really needs to be challenged before it gains any further currency. It’s wonderful beyond words that we humans can look things up, whe…
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Siri Meets Eliza | jordanmechner.com
Siri Meets Eliza Since I got my iPhone 4S, I’ve been intrigued, fascinated and alarmed by Siri’s fast-growing capabilities. I thought it would make sense to introduce her to my psychotherapist, Eliza. ELIZA was one of the first (and longest) BASIC programs I typed into my then brand-new 16K Apple II in 1979. Originally created […]
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Siri Meets Eliza | jordanmechner.com
Siri Meets Eliza Since I got my iPhone 4S, I’ve been intrigued, fascinated and alarmed by Siri’s fast-growing capabilities. I thought it would make sense to introduce her to my psychotherapist, Eliza. ELIZA was one of the first (and longest) BASIC programs I typed into my then brand-new 16K Apple II in 1979. Originally created […]