Some online sites let you use any old five-character strong as your password for as long as you like. Others force you to pick a new password every six months and it has to match a complicated...
Privacy continues to be an important topic surrounding social media systems. A big part of the problem is that virtually all of us have a difficult time thinking about what information about us...
The number of citations a paper receives is generally thought to be a good and relatively objective measure of its significance and impact. Researchers naturally are interested in knowing how to...
Using a combination of mathematical tricks, good programming and 35 CPU-years on Google’s servers, a group of researchers have proved that every position of Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves...
Seen on the Web: “Swoogle is an alien from outer space send out to spy on the modnation circuit. He got five faces so he can watch them from all angles without turning his head. However only his...
Washington Technology, which describes itself as “the online authority for government contractors and partners”), has an article by Carlos A. Soto on 5 technologies that will change the market....
Google Chrome has been showing me a malware warning page today as I try to visit normally trusted and benign sites. I got this one just now as I tried to got to Planet RDF. Warning: Visiting...
The W3C has published a second working draft of EmotionML, or the emotion markup language, Here’s how it’s described. As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology...
This week’s New Yorker magazine has an article by Anthony Gottlieb on different voting systems, including range voting. WIN OR LOSE: No voting system is flawless. But some are less democratic...