Digital ants are one of the top “ten technologies that have the power to change our lives”.
Computer experst have been so inspired by how ants protect their colony when it is threatened they are currently testing a program which they say could offer foolproof protection against computer virus attacks.
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There are simple solutions to problems with your tech gadgets.
Does the battery life on you phone only last a few hours? Do you really need a computer password logon? Do you have Wi-Fi dead spots in your house? Or maybe the screen on your smartphone is cracked! Tech gadgets are only fun until they annoy the heck out of you. Here are some solutions to make your annoying gadgets behave.
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Since the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare, double entendres have been making us laugh. B ut computers haven’t had the capability to tell jokes until now. Two computer scientists at the University of Washington, Chloé Kiddon and Yuriy Brun, have developed a system for recognizing a particular type of double entendre – the “that’s what she said” joke. The double entendre are seemingly innocent sentences that can be transformed into lewd utterances by appending just four short words.
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BRC Designs’s “Binary Low Table” is made out of computer junk; it’s a lovely piece of furniture, but it looks like it’d be prone to snagging and tearing clothes and exposed skin (and it’d be a major pain to dust!)…
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The fully-working cycle, which is made of nylon, is the result of an extraordinary project and is as strong as steel and aluminium but weighs 65 per cent less.
This bicycle is the first in the world to be created simply by printing it out on a computer, using groundbreaking new technology.
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Facebook is the new frontier for fraud.
Forget those phishing emails that attempt to get your credit card or bank sign-in information. When crooks want to know how to get into your bank account, they post a message on Facebook. These messages appear so innocuous and so appropriate in the Facebook setting that you are likely to not only get conned, but pass on the scam.
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The future of gaming is more than 60 years old.
Back in the 1950s, researchers started playing around with a technology that would allow them to store data in a form of memory that had no moving parts. While the new tech was destined to be faster and more reliable than the giant discs used in today’s popular hard drives, it was also more expensive.
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Study: Three-fifths of people eat their evening meal in front of their computer.
Rise in Britons swapping TV dinners for PC dinners, according to a survey showing how many people eat while using the computer. The study found three-fifths of people had settled down to eat their evening meal in front of a laptop or desktop.
Barbara Barclay of Tobii Technology, Inc. demonstrates a prototype laptop that tracks and can be controlled by the eye movements.
Ever wish your eyes were lasers? A laptop prototype brings that wish closer to reality. It tracks your gaze and figures out where you’re looking on the screen. That means, among other things, that you can play a game where you burn up incoming asteroids with a laser that hits where you look.
People tend to replace their phones much more often than they do their computers.
Smart phones such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone are outselling personal computers for the first time ever, according to a report by research group IDC that was released Monday.
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World’s first hack-free software can protect systems from failure or attack.
Scientists have developed what they claim is the world’s first hack-free software which can protect systems from failure or malicious attacks .
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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