Mind-Reading Infrared Device Knows If You Want a Milkshake | 80beats | Discover Magazine. In a new experiment, researchers didn’t have to ask their test subjects whether they’d prefer coffee or tea; instead, they just read their minds. With a nifty bit of technical wizardry, researchers beamed near-infrared light at the volunteers’ foreheads while asking [...]
What the data miners are digging up about you – New Scientist by Amanda Gefter and Tom Simonite. In today’s technological world we leave electronic traces wherever we go, whether shopping online or on the high street, at work or at play. That data is the raw material for a new industry of number crunchers [...]
Protesters, unseen, aim a laser at a riot policeman during clashes in Athens at the weekend. By Daily Mail Reporter. Protesters in Athens targeted police officers with lasers yesterday as riots sparked by the police killing of a 15-year-old boy continued into a second week. Although the intensity of protests has tailed off in recent [...]
Israeli “Auto Kill Zone” Towers Locked and Loaded. By Noah Shachtman. On the U.S.-Mexico border, the American government has been trying, with limited success, to set up a string of sensor-laden sentry towers, which would watch out for illicit incursions. In Israel, they’ve got their own set of border towers. But the Sabras’ model comes [...]
Researchers have demonstrated that speech sounds and voices (such as those in the audio waves depicted above) can be identified by means of a unique ‘neural fingerprint’ in the listener’s brain. (Credit: iStockphoto) Neuroimaging Of Brain Shows Who Spoke To A Person And What Was Said
US fires up crowd-roasting microwave gun. ‘Less than lethal’ Silent Guardian unveiled By Lester Haines The US military has finally rolled out its Silent Guardian – a 95GHz millimetre wave “active denial system” designed to “repel individuals or crowds without causing injury”. The weapon – mounted atop a Humvee – reportedly has a range of [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 100,000 dollars each on Wednesday to scientists in 22 countries including funding for a Japanese proposal to turn mosquitos into “flying syringes” delivering vaccines. The charitable foundation created by the founder of software giant Microsoft said in a statement that the grants were designed to [...]
‘Tying the room together’: DARPA’s Project Gandalf. In the 1998 Coen brothers cult film The Big Lebowski, southern California slacker Jeffrey Lebowski aka “The Dude,” bemoans the desecration of his living room rug by criminals out to collect a debt in a hilariously absurd case of mistaken identity. After the thugs urinate on his prized possession, [...]
Earlier this week, Wired posted a Halloween story which showed how to “Make the Ultimate Haunted House“. Now for me, fake blood and smoke doesn’t really qualify for the ‘Ultimate’ banner. If you want to move beyond the kid’s stuff you have to try something a little crazier than that, and perhaps do something like [...]
Computer crash hinders Texas Attorney General’s Medicaid fraud case. Thursday, October 23, 2008. By EMILY RAMSHAW and ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News. Read entire expose here: Computer crash hinders Texas Attorney General’s Medicaid fraud case | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News AUSTIN – A massive computer [...]